Energy management use case

SmartCore can become a local AI energy assistant for homes and small businesses.

The energy management showcase demonstrates how SmartCore could later coordinate PV, home battery, electric vehicle, heat pump, buffer storage, household load, grid import/export, and dynamic tariffs through semi-autonomous agent workflows.

Local Energy Agent

Advisory optimization, human confirmation, and local device positioning before production integrations.

Strategy: use PV surplus first, preserve evening battery reserve, then use cheap tariff windows for backup charging.

Autonomy: advisory only. Real control would require compatible hardware, APIs, safety rules, and explicit approval.

PV surplus orchestration

Detect when local solar production can cover household load, battery charging, EV charging, or buffer preheat recommendations.

Battery and reserve planning

Prepare human-approved strategies for evening peaks, backup reserve levels, and dynamic tariff windows.

Heat pump and buffer timing

Coordinate comfort and cost goals by recommending preheat windows when PV or cheap tariff periods are available.

EV charging intent

Prioritize EV charging by departure time, target state of charge, PV surplus, and fallback tariff windows.

Agent workflows for semi-autonomous optimization

SmartCore uses the same workflow positioning as the control panel: collect context, generate recommendations, require review, and prepare future controlled actions.

Future workflows can balance cost, self-consumption, comfort, departure deadlines, and safety constraints while keeping sensitive home and business context local.

The current demo is intentionally mock-based: static values, simple cards, no heavy charts, no real energy calculations, and no external APIs.

Future integration and safety requirements

Real automation must be implemented conservatively and with clear user control.

Compatible inverter, battery, wallbox, heat pump, meter, tariff, or building-control APIs.
Explicit safety rules, installer constraints, audit logs, and user confirmation before any real action.
Local policy controls for autonomy level, override behavior, privacy, credentials, and fallback modes.
No background automation, real AI calls, smart meter access, or device commands are implemented in this mock showcase.

Presentation-ready mock, not a live controller.

SmartCore Energy OS shows the product direction for a local AI device and personal intelligence hub. It does not connect to a smart meter, inverter, wallbox, heat pump, tariff provider, Home Assistant, or any automation system yet.