Digiwatt, the app that uses artificial intelligence to monitor (and reduce) energy consumption

Digiwatt is a tool for measuring the energy consumption of your home or business.Because the energy transition depends on awareness.

• Artificial intelligence allows you to monitor your home's electricity consumption.
• Digiwatt tracks it through a device, and then communicates the results via app.
• Suggestions on how to reduce energy-intensive activities allow you to cut kWh on your bill.

There's been a lot of talk about it lately, but theartificial intelligence He's been with us for a long time already.Exploiting it for virtuous purposes is not always obvious, but there is a startup that does just this. Digiwatt it's an app – and a device – that understands, thanks to artificial intelligence, how much our home appliances consume.In this way, we consumers have the opportunity to reduce consumption, doing good for the environment and your wallet.

Born from an idea of Veos Digital, a startup that develops software solutions based on artificial intelligence algorithms for the world of energy, manufacturing and commerce, Digiwatt has rightfully entered the galaxy of LifeGate Way, the LifeGate network that puts the protagonists of sustainable innovation in contact with each other.It was also selected for Cloud for impact, the acceleration program in collaboration with OVHcloud.There energy transition, in fact, also passes through more conscious consumption, as well as renewable:Knowing your impact is an advantage in an increasingly decentralized energy scenario and in this Digiwatt offers itself as a useful ally.

How Digiwatt works

Digiwatt is an innovative proposal composed of two parts:a device (one smart meters) and an application that can be consulted from smartphones and computers.The device it is positioned inside the home electrical panel, in a very simple way, and allows you to understand precisely how much energy is consumed in the home.In fact, once connected to Wi-Fi, the sensor sends data to a cloud where the algorithms are able to identify the consumption pattern of each specific household appliance.

Consequentially, the app returns a detailed analysis of consumption:the estimated cost, the instantaneous consumption, the performance profile (because the profiles of the community users are then compared) and, naturally, the consumption divided by appliance.A precise way to monitor your habits.

What is the point of being more aware of your consumption

Oven, air conditioner, refrigerator:discover how much an appliance actually consumes it is a way to be more aware of your consumption and act accordingly.Digiwatt, in fact, offers numerous suggestions on how to reduce energy-intensive activities, arriving at cut the kWh on your bill.

Furthermore, the system can be integrated with inverter and battery manufacturers who provide production data relating to photovoltaic panels and storage systems.This data becomes particularly useful for those who intend become part of energy communities, where they exist, as the app is able to have precise and real-time control over home consumption to maximize local self-consumption and the incentives provided by the GSE, the energy services manager.

An app that automatically turns off devices on standby

Digiwatt is aimed not only at home users, but also at companies.The app, in fact, is able not only to disaggregate consumption but also to automatically arrange the switching on and off of PCs or household appliances if they remain involuntarily switched on.“One of the highest cost items in our bills is linked to standby devices which account for around 20 percent of the total,” he explains Simone Geravini, CEO of Veos Digital.In the United States they call it vampire energy and it ended up costing approx 20 billion dollars a year.A huge amount and an insane energy expenditure for a behavior that can easily be avoided.