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Schneider Electric announced that its artificial intelligence-powered Home Energy Management feature is now live on its Wiser Home app. Wiser Home is Schneider Electric’s home energy management solution that provides energy monitoring, control, and optimization. Schneider Electric’s new feature is providing AI-optimized energy management of two of the larger power loads in the home, water heaters and electric vehicle chargers, via a single app, The new feature, developed internally by Schneider Electric, helps to better optimize energy bills through automated load management and predictive energy consumption scheduling that is better tailored to users’ lifestyles.
As a predictive algorithm, the AI-powered feature learns from user habit data and preferences, real-time weather forecasts, tariff data, power contract limits and solar production capability to help optimize energy saving by shifting two of the larger power loads in the home. The feature is based on proprietary technology developed internally by Schneider Electric. All user data is kept and managed by Schneider Electric with no external data transfers so users can be better assured that their data is secure.
The feature can help to determine and anticipate the most cost-effective periods to power EV chargers or heat water tanks due to its weather forecasting and dynamic tariff capabilities. It can align EV charging and water heating with more cost-effective periods while considering daily needs, for example, travel times and distances or the daily number of showers for household members, to make sure the EV and hot water is ready to use when it is needed.
The new feature particularly benefits households with solar panels. The AI algorithm learns from solar energy production and utilizes weather data to estimate solar production availability and takes this into account when planning how to shift loads throughout the day, including which loads run while energy is being produced.
This new feature is available to Wiser Home users in Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, and Austria who have the Wiser Hub, Schneider Electric PowerTag energy sensors, a Schneider Electric EV charger (EV Link Home Smart, Schneider Electric Charge or EV Socket) and Power micromodule (water heater controller) installed. Schneider Electric will continue to invest in this technology, launching it as a premium feature next year covering larger loads in the home to help home energy use be as efficient as possible.