Will Bosch make energy manager the central power hub for smart homes?

Bosch aims to make Energy Manager the central power hub for smart homes. Martin Weiss and his team are now working on a way to use solar power to recharge electric cars in the home garage. (assuming a four-person household with a 6-kWp PV system and 8-kWh battery storage).

How does Bosch manage energy needs?

Energy needs also fluctuate: depending on the weather, the natural light, and the time of day, energy consumption needs rise and fall. To balance these fluctuations out, Bosch has developed software solutions that make it possible to draw power from different, decentralized, and primarily renewable sources of energy and manage them centrally.

What is Bosch energy manager?

Home energy-management system: the Bosch Energy Manager controls the flow of locally produced solar power. “Our goal is to enable private households to use more of the solar power they generate themselves. That’s why we developed the software.” Energy Manager was shoehorned into the palm-sized Bosch Smart Home Controller.

How does Bosch's virtual power plant work?

To balance these fluctuations out, Bosch has developed software solutions that make it possible to draw power from different, decentralized, and primarily renewable sources of energy and manage them centrally. This creates a virtual power plant that makes energy available whenever it is needed.

How will Bosch transform the Voralberg region's power supply?

To make this vision reality, Bosch is currently helping to overhaul the Voralberg region’s power supply. In the future, a virtual power plant will replace the large power plants that currently transport power directly to the region's consumers.

How does smart home energy management work?

Smart-home energy management: Only after the smart home’s own energy consumers are supplied with solar power is the surplus fed into the public grid. The Energy Manager app keeps users up to date with how energy is being distributed in the building, as well as with the overall system status.