Written by Summer Fowler

Smart Optimal Solutions (SOS) and ecoREAL Solutions are pleased to announce a collaborative partnership that brings the two companies’ consulting services together. The partnership is guided by a shared vision, the companies call the Soul of Sustainability: Planet, People, Prosperity.

The partnership also deepens collaboration on Green Canary Software, that streamlines complex certifications like LEEDv5 with a focus on its new embodied carbon and life cycle assessment (LCA) development, and includes collaboration with Karuna, a smart-building and smart-city platform for measurement and operational data.

The Soul of Sustainability

The Soul of Sustainability is not a new company or organization. It is the concept and shared vision behind the work ecoREAL and SOS do together. It rests on the belief that a project succeeds only when it serves all three with sustainability and equity:

Planet – Regenerative solutions, that lower carbon, with cleaner energy, and healthier materials in every building and community.
People – Resilient communities, healthy indoor environments for all, safer streets, and equitable access to green work for small, minority- and women-owned firms (Summer is past Chair of OAME)
Prosperity – Lower operating costs, captured incentives, and infrastructure that pays communities back over time. The NRG Token featured in the SOS Signal platform could democratize the funding of this vision!

What the Partnership Brings Together

Combined consulting services – ecoREAL’s LEED, WELL, net-zero, carbon, and ESG consulting joins SOS’s renewable energy and smart city expertise, offered to clients as one coordinated team.
Green Canary Software – The two companies will collaborate further on Green Canary, the platform that turns contractor submittals into LEED. AIA Pledge and other complex documentation reports with a click of a button, and has tracked materials on more than $1 billion of projects.
Embodied carbon and LCA – New Green Canary development will help project teams measure and reduce the carbon in their building materials, using the product data the platform already collects.
Powered by Karuna – Karuna adds a global development team with real-world experience. Karuna also built MENARABENA, a construction-material gateway that guides manufacturers through testing and certification for the Malaysian market and gives contractors and developers a traceable record for each product. Like Green Canary, it organizes product certification and documentation across the supply chain, a natural point of synergy between the two. Together it can be a unifying global solution to the complex sustainable material industry.

How the Pieces Fit Together

Each partner and platform has a distinct role, from early strategy through verified results:

ecoREAL provides sustainable-building expertise and certification strategy.
Green Canary streamlines certification, documentation, compliance, and building-performance workflows.
Karuna brings a development team and expertise in material management and smart-city infrastructure platforms.
SOS Signal
- NRG Engine validates and reconciles environmental and performance data.
- NRG Exchange, where appropriate, would provide future market access for qualifying RECs, carbon credits, energy-efficiency attributes, or other recognized environmental instruments.

SOS Innovations That Turn Energy Savings into Carbon Reductions

SOS brings proven energy-efficiency and renewable energy technologies to the partnership. Every kilowatt-hour saved or generated on site can be correlated to a reduction in carbon emissions, which ecoREAL can then document for certification, incentives, and carbon reporting. SOS already commits to telling clients how much energy their infrastructure will produce or save, which gives that carbon accounting a measured starting point.

Smart Hybrid Streetlights – The Agamine solar pole, exclusive to SOS in North America, has a 360° photovoltaic surface and runs on-grid, off-grid, or both, and it can carry sensors, cameras, and connectivity.
Solar Energy Systems – Clean power generated where it is used, cutting energy costs and reliance on the grid.
LED Lighting – High-efficiency lighting for warehouses, factories, and commercial buildings that SOS reports can cut lighting energy use by up to 80%.
EV Charging – Charging infrastructure for developments, organizations, and cities that supports the shift to clean transportation.
SOS Signal™ – An intelligence platform that manages buildings and facilities today, with energy management and city-scale connection in development.
Smart Solutions Consulting – Site assessments that identify incentives, lower operating costs, and help owners earn value from carbon and renewable energy credits.

Together with Green Canary’s embodied carbon and LCA work, this gives clients a view of both sides of a building’s footprint: the carbon in its materials and the carbon from its operation.

What This Means for Our Clients and Communities

Sustainability goals and the infrastructure that meets them are too often handled by separate teams on separate timelines. This partnership closes that gap. Together, ecoREAL and SOS will:

Offer a clearer path to net zero – Pairing certification and carbon planning with the clean energy and smart systems needed to reach the target.
Make embodied carbon measurable – Giving owners and project teams LCA and product carbon data as codes, public buyers, and LEED v5 begin to require it.
Simplify documentation and compliance – Using Green Canary to track materials, certifications, and reporting from submittal to closeout, with no manual entry.
Bring sustainability into decisions early – Setting goals in pre-design, where they cost the least and deliver the most.
Help projects capture available funding – Identifying utility, state, and local incentives before design decisions lock in.
Reach more communities – Serving cities, developers, property owners, and communities that need practical, cost-effective solutions. Everyone deserves a healthy sustainable environment to live, work and learn in.

Leadership on the Partnership

“Our clients want sustainability that is real, measurable, and achievable. Working alongside Smart Optimal Solutions lets us connect the plan to the infrastructure that delivers it. The Soul of Sustainability is the vision we share: planet, people, and prosperity.” – Summer Fowler, Founder & CEO, ecoREAL Solutions and Green Canary Software

“True sustainability requires more than ambitious goals; it demands interconnected infrastructure and the exact data to validate its impact. By pairing SOS’s physical ecosystem—commercial solar arrays, EV charging networks, and IoT-enabled smart streetlights—with ecoREAL’s rigorous certification tracking and Green Canary software, we are eliminating the gap between planning and execution. This partnership empowers municipalities and commercial developers to deploy turn-key smart city solutions, capture vital federal and state incentives, and deliver measurable economic and environmental outcomes. We aren’t just talking about the ‘Soul of Sustainability’—we are building the physical and digital framework to prove it.” – Patrice Tsague, CEO, Smart Optimal Solutions (SOS) America

About ecoREAL Solutions & Green Canary Software

ecoREAL Solutions is a full-service sustainability consultancy based in Portland, Oregon. Founded by Summer Fowler in 2009, it is a certified woman-owned business (Oregon D/WBE #6977). ecoREAL helps public agencies, developers, and project teams with LEED and WELL certification, Path to Net Zero, ESG and GRESB reporting, carbon and Scope 1–3 inventories, net-zero planning, and incentives. The CEO, Summer has been a passionate advocate for Sustainability with Social Equity for over 20 years starting with a global architecture firm that worked on Oregon First Living Building in 2007 the June Key Delta House, and the first LEED Neighborhood Development in Dubai. She took that experience add created tools and education to ensure any project can achieve sustainable well building goals, which has a proven track record.

About Green Canary Software

Green Canary is ecoREAL’s cloud-based platform for sustainable material tracking by integrating with the owners specs to the submittals providing simple tools for the boots on the ground to standardize documentation from their supply chain. It integrates with every phase to vet specifications against third party standards, turns submittals into validated reports, including the LEED calculators, and red-flags emissions violations automatically for every product before a product is approved avoiding costly change orders and RFI’s. It also optimizes results , while reducing costs. Green Canary has been used on more than $1 billion of projects, including the LEED Platinum Walmart Home Office Campus, Ritz-Carlton in Portland and Multnomah County’s Central Courthouse, East County Library and others.

About Smart Optimal Solutions (SOS)

Smart Optimal Solutions delivers renewable energy and smart city solutions for the communities that need them most. SOS designs, supplies, and installs end-to-end smart infrastructure, including clean energy, intelligent networks, and real-time community data, for cities, developers, property owners, and communities across North America and Africa. Its Technology Innovation Centers in Vancouver, Washington and Orlando, Florida showcase smart streetlights, solar, LED lighting, EV charging, and smart city software.

Contact ecoReal & Green Canary:

Summer Fowler, summer@ecorealsolutions.com, www.ecorealsolutions.com and GreenCanarySoftware.com

Contact Smart Optimal Solutions:

Phone: +1 (503) 208-6587

Written by Summer Fowler, Founder & CEO, ecoREAL Solutions and Green Canary Software