Grid4C

What is Grid4C?

Grid4C makes AI and machine learning software that gets more value out of smart meter and IoT data. It serves energy providers, their customers and the grid, with models that run at the grid edge. Its site says Bidgely acquired Grid4C.

Key capabilities of Grid4C

• Predictive Home Advisor: Detects, diagnoses and predicts appliance faults and inefficiencies, with bill budgeting and thermostat optimization.
• Predictive Operational Analytics: Granular load forecasting and prediction of meter and grid asset malfunctions.
• Theft protection: Helps protect against energy theft.
• DER dispatch optimization: Optimizes distributed energy resource dispatch.
• Predictive Customer Analytics: Predicts response to marketing and efficiency offers and forecasts churn.
• Rate plan design: Supports rate plan design with customer forecasts.

How Grid4C works

The software ingests smart meter and IoT readings, builds models for each household or asset, and produces predictions that utilities use for alerts, forecasts and offers. Models can run at the grid edge, close to the data. Delivery is through data science as a service subscriptions.

Who uses Grid4C?

Regulated utilities, retail energy providers and third-party solution providers use Grid4C. Operations teams use the load and asset predictions, and customer programs teams use the churn and offer-response models.

Grid4C pricing

Grid4C does not publish prices. The site mentions data science as a service subscriptions and asks visitors to request a demo, so pricing is quote-based.

Grid4C alternatives

C3 AI offers a broad enterprise AI application platform with energy and utility applications. Urbint applies AI to risk prediction for utility field operations and infrastructure safety. Sisense is a general analytics and dashboard platform and is not specific to energy data.