Solutions · Residential
Comfort without consumption guilt.
A house is now a generator, a battery, a load, and a market participant — sometimes simultaneously. Ipnops Grid coordinates the panel, the heat pump, the EV charger, the rooftop solar, and the home battery as one continuously-optimised system, without asking the homeowner to be a grid engineer.
bill savings · always-on loads scheduled
15-20%
median annual VPP earnings · Sunrun 2025
$78
energy device class · 2026
Matter 1.4
EV V2G + Plug & Charge native
OCPP 2.1
Use cases
What the platform actually does, here.
Smart panel + battery orchestration
SPAN, Schneider Square D Energy Center, Lumin — the platform speaks all three over their respective APIs (eBus, EcoStruxure, MQTT). Loads are rescheduled, the battery is charged from cheap-period or solar-surplus power, the EV charger throttles around the home draw, and the panel does load-shedding if the upstream grid gets tight. UL 3141-certified panels can act as Power Control Systems under the 2026 NEC.
Heat-pump model-predictive control
Pre-heat or pre-cool against tomorrow's price curve. Documented MPC deployments in 2026 cut electricity costs ~40% on heat-pump-dominated homes by shifting operation to off-peak windows, with Grid Support Coefficient improvements of ~13%. Tenant comfort stays inside ±0.5°C of setpoint.
VPP enrollment
When the homeowner consents, the platform enrolls the house in a Virtual Power Plant — Sunrun, Tesla, Octopus, or a regional aggregator — and bids the home battery, smart thermostat, and water heater into capacity, ancillary services, and demand-response markets. Sunrun's 217,000-customer VPP earned ~$78 / household in 2025; the platform tracks earnings transparently.
EV smart charging + V2G
OCPP 2.1 with ISO 15118-20 Plug & Charge. The car authenticates itself; the platform schedules charging against tariff and solar; if the charger and vehicle support V2G, the car becomes a ~70 kWh dispatchable battery. The homeowner sets a minimum SoC and a departure time — the platform does the rest.
Outage ride-through
When the upstream grid drops, the platform commands the home battery's grid-forming inverter to island the panel, sheds non-critical loads (pool pump, dryer), keeps the heat pump and refrigerator alive, and re-syncs cleanly when the grid returns. Critical-circuit detection at the panel level means the homeowner doesn't have to choose what stays on.
Multi-unit residential
Apartment buildings get aggregated whole-building meters plus per-unit smart-panel data. The platform allocates shared solar and battery capacity by EV-style apportionment, runs a building-wide DR program, and produces per-tenant energy reports. Co-op and HOA boards get a single dashboard to track building-wide decarbonization against disclosure obligations.
How a deployment runs
From install to autonomous in 7 days.
- 01
Day 0: connect the smart panel, battery, EV charger, and solar inverter via Matter, eBus, MQTT, or vendor-specific APIs. The platform discovers the asset graph automatically.
- 02
Day 1-3: the platform observes baseline load, generation, and household routine. No actions taken; the homeowner sees a daily report.
- 03
Day 4: the platform proposes an initial schedule (load shifting, battery cycling, pre-conditioning). Homeowner approves; comfort bounds set.
- 04
Day 5-7: autonomous operation begins inside the policy envelope. Daily reports + occasional 'we're about to do X — confirm?' prompts during the first week.
- 05
Ongoing: VPP and DR enrollments are surfaced as opt-ins with transparent expected earnings. Customer always retains override and unenrollment.
Models active in this configuration
- TimesFM 2.5
- MPC building energy
- GridSim
- Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite