To get there, we are building the Internet of Energy

Have you ever watched a movie like Star Wars and wondered what our world would be like if there were thousands of droids all working together to make it a better place? We think about this every day, and we want to create it. So we’ve built a platform that takes ordinary devices like your air-conditioner, home-battery or solar panels, and makes them really smart (like a droid). 

When our devices are smart, they can work together to make much more effective use of the energy available. For example, sometimes your energy provider wants you to turn off your air conditioner when there isn’t enough power in the grid. Wouldn’t it be awesome if they could tell your air conditioner directly, and pay you for doing so? With RedGrid, they can. Now we can have a grid that actually rewards people for taking actions that benefit their pocket and the planet. 

We call this platform the Internet of Energy.

As you would have seen in Star Wars, droids come in all shapes and sizes. But even though R2D2 speaks in beeps and C3PO has the vocabulary of British royalty, they can still talk to each other and work together. The same needs to happen with our energy. Our devices need to be able to work together across brands and device types. So we’ve made the platform device and brand agnostic. We can get users started with Internet of Energy connected smart-plugs from our device partners.

Together we can align the incentives of industry, people & planet

Join a network that can scale, FAST

According to Intel, there are over 200bn devices set to enter our grid in the coming years. That’s a lot of data. The amount of chatter between these devices will be enough to overwhelm existing systems such as blockchain and centralised architectures, and it’s only going to get worse. As a company that is creating a network for all the devices in our grid, we knew we had to get creative in building an architecture that is scalable and secure.

And we found the answer in nature.

Honeybees and programming are generally not thought of in the same sentence. But the way honeybees behave is exactly the architecture needed to build a scalable energy grid. Think of the individual bee. It comes into life with a role and an ability to interact and communicate with other bees. It never needs to go to the centralised queen for orders, instead, it just wakes up and gets going. Our devices need to be like bees. 

We have designed our platform so that each device has its own ‘DNA’ and a brain. It has an understanding of its core role and how to interact with the devices and actors around it. It doesn’t put strain on a central source of orders or information, instead, it stores its own information. Accountability is kept in a dynamic mesh of trust. By looking to nature for inspiration, we are able to capture the benefits of a decentralised system, without the previous limitations. We would love for you to join us in growing the Internet of Energy.

The Team