Energy & Utilities
Arcadian Digital is a Melbourne technology company that provides energy software development for Australian distribution networks and utilities: secure, high-availability platforms that remain active during outages. For CitiPower Powercor, Arcadian Digital built an outage map and website on a headless WordPress and ReactJS architecture designed for around 10 million requests per hour.
Traffic spikes during outages, exactly when the site has to stay live. Critical infrastructure expects tight access control, including a CMS that can only be reached from inside the network. Outage, CRM and content systems often sit apart, so staff re-key information between them. And content teams need to publish quickly without waiting for a developer.
What has changed is how little infrastructure a high-traffic site now needs. Static generation, serverless hosting and a headless CMS let a site absorb outage-day load at low infrastructure cost, while editors update content without needing a developer. The same integration approach now supports AI integrations.
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How We Can Help Energy & Utilities
Arcadian Digital builds high-availability web platforms that handle extreme load. For CitiPower Powercor, we created a headless WordPress CMS with a ReactJS front end, Gatsby static generation, and AWS serverless architecture. Load testing proved the build supports over 4,000 active users with response times under two seconds. The system features a custom outage map updating continuously from internal servers, backed by custom AWS infrastructure.
We also build secure web platforms for critical infrastructure. For CitiPower Powercor, we restricted CMS access exclusively to an internal VPN and resolved OWASP Top 10 security risks, including injection and access control flaws. This foundation powers our cybersecurity and digital trust services.
To eliminate manual data entry, we integrate outage, CRM, and content systems. For United Energy, we built a headless Craft CMS using ReactJS and Gatsby, connected to Salesforce and their outage management system to feed live grid data to the outage map. For Beon Energy Solutions, we developed a filterable interactive project map that internal teams update without developers. These projects showcase web application development applied to live operational data.
Web Application Development Melbourne
We design and build custom web applications, client portals and internal platforms for Australian businesses that have outgrown spreadsheets and off-the-shelf tools. One in-house team handles the strategy, the build and the cloud infrastructure underneath it, so nothing gets lost between vendors.
DevOps & Cloud Services
Arcadian Digital delivers DevOps for Melbourne businesses that can’t afford downtime, architecting, automating, and running cost-efficient cloud infrastructure on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure, with CI/CD pipelines built to scale.
Cybersecurity Solutions & Digital Trust
Protect applications, infrastructure, and data to maintain seamless operations and enhance trust across digital platforms.
Web Development Melbourne
We build websites and online stores engineered to convert and easy enough for your own team to run, not just launched and left. Whether you’re replacing a templated website that’s outgrown you or retiring a fragile old site before it costs you a campaign, this is a site built to perform under pressure, without needing a developer to keep it that way.
IoT Integrations
Connect devices and systems seamlessly with IoT solutions that improve efficiency, automate processes, and enable real-time data insights for smarter business operations.
Data Pipeline Development
Develop off-the-shelf and custom data pipelines and ETLs to streamline operations and enable real-time business intelligence.
AI Integrations & Machine Learning
Integrate AI and ML technology to automate processes, personalise customer experiences, and improve decision-making using off-the-shelf and custom solutions.
Related Work
United Energy
United Energy needed a secure, scalable website capable of handling high traffic during outages while providing a seamless user experience. By leveraging Craft CMS with a headless setup using ReactJS and Gatsby, we delivered a flexible, easy-to-manage platform integrated with Salesforce and their power outage system, reducing internal workload and enhancing customer accessibility.
CitiPower Powercor
CitiPower Powercor needed a secure, scalable website capable of handling peak traffic during outages while remaining accessible only through an internal VPN. We developed a headless WordPress CMS with a ReactJS front end, leveraging Gatsby for static site generation and AWS serverless architecture—delivering lightning-fast performance, enhanced security, and the ability to handle millions of requests per hour.
Beon Energy Solutions
Beon needed a digital platform that reflected their leadership in renewable energy and made it easier for users to explore their extensive project portfolio. We delivered a modern website featuring an interactive project map with advanced filters and smooth AJAX transitions, enabling users to discover projects effortlessly while allowing their team to update content dynamically.