From Smart Homes to Smart Grids
summary
Company builds a virtual power plant that aggregates >300,000 household assets across seven countries, steers them with local fallback logic and ML forecasts, and captures market signals to shift load into cheap or negative-price periods. Heartbeat AI makes 4.8 million optimizations per day, controls 500 MW of flexibility, integrates installs from 70 companies, offers individual dynamic tariffs, and uses on-device execution plus backend trading so homes both save money and sell aggregated flexibility into grid markets.
AI-written summary · about
chapters (13)
- 0:00Smart home energy vision
- 1:31Renewable energy and prices
- 3:14Home electrification platform
- 4:16Digitalizing with AI and IoT
- 5:19Optimizing devices with Heartbeat AI
- 7:04AI energy management complexity
- 9:10Balancing preferences and automation
- 10:34Energy markets integration
- 11:57Optimizing all devices together
- 13:43Visualizing savings with pricing
- 15:08Shifting loads to cut costs
- 16:35Personalized electricity pricing
- 16:58Explaining AI decisions
related talks
21mUnleashing renewables: How we supercharge energy assets with software
30mOutsmarting the energy grid with AI
31mAI-supported transformation of the urban infrastructure
46mDigitizing energy management for a sustainable future with Iberdrola
11mData Science and Smart Systems: Creating the Digital Brain
38mPower Management in the home
26mDriving towards a cleaner future through data
11mIt's getting hot in here