What do cleaning soap, ice-cream and good power have in frequent? There’s an app for that!
Octopus buyer Kim Bauters is a civil engineer and pc science PhD, working part-time as a senior researcher on the College of Bristol. He develops apps with a concentrate on synthetic intelligence (AI) that assist make on a regular basis life simpler – like Cleaning soap Genie, which is designed to help in the event you fancy making your personal cleaning soap, and Gelato, which is able to make it easier to whip up the right batch of ice cream.
Now, Kim’s turned his app-making eye in the direction of Agile Octopus with OctopusWatch, an app that helps good power prospects take advantage of our cutting-edge time-of-use tariff…
Kim got here to Octopus for the excessive customary of customer support and low costs – and shortly found our modern good tariffs like Agile Octopus. As (I’m positive he gained’t thoughts me saying), a little bit of a tech geek, he was fairly intrigued by the potential for customising and gamifying power utilizing our open API.
OctopusWatch applies its AI know-how in numerous methods; serving to the consumer discover the most affordable occasions, updating the app with the newest charges, and preserving each knowledge and battery use at an absolute minimal. Another concepts are additionally being toyed with: for instance, may the app roughly predict the charges of tomorrow earlier than they’re recognized, or may it inform us how inexperienced the electrical energy grid is true now based mostly on the present costs?
We LOVE early adopters who tinker round on the bleeding fringe of good power, developing with good methods to maximise the greenest, least expensive power accessible within the UK. We totally encourage this sort of creativity – we need to decarbonise the power system by way of tech, and it’ll take a collective effort and plenty of vivid concepts to do it. That’s why we make hundreds of rows of historic pricing knowledge accessible (and private power consumption knowledge in half-hourly blocks) to prospects who need to ‘have a look below the hood’ and construct their very own good dwelling hacks and integrations.
What’s subsequent for Kim?
Kim’s additionally exploring thermostat management and is especially eager on digitising room Thermostatic Radiator Valves (TRVs), having made his personal TRVs and thermostat controls. Be careful for the e-book launch and open-source designs and also you’ll quickly be capable of create your personal optimised heating!
