Cloud IoT Management
Break down the walls of home energy
Chorus enables smart energy
from garage to grid
Chorus allows households and businesses to partner in an energy marketplace.
The platform hosts proprietary apps and services that offer a 360-degree approach to optimized home energy management – from configuration to dispatch.
Chorus to Application Communication
External APIs
(Rest, Sockets)
Standard APIs
(CSIP)
Data
Historical / Forecast / Status Data
Unstructured and accessible in BI tools
Content Services and Apps
Customer Input
Control Commands
Start and Stop Charging, Reboot, Load Management, etc
Device Management
Provisioning Device Status, Remote Monitoring and Software Update
Smart Connected Devices
Electric
Vehicles
Smart EV
Chargers
Smart Water
Heaters
Smart
Thermostats
Smart
Appliances
Smart
Inverters
Smart
Meters
Home Energy
Station
Chorus is device agnostic, securely bringing everything from stationary batteries to heat pumps into the new energy economy.
The power of Chorus
Manage 1,000,000,000+ datapoints
Real-time telemetry and instantaneous API calls
Unlimited simultaneous transactions
Brawn meets brains: How technical aggregators can leverage Chorus
Transaction Services
- Connect - Fully encrypted data exchange between commercial aggregator and dcbel
- Validate - Verify homeowner’s participation in aggregator program
- Command - Activate and deactivate energy export based on program parameters
- Measurement - Net energy metering
- Reporting - Generate data related to contracted activity
Proactive Energy Management
Any Chorus-connected DER can harness the power of dcbel’s real-time proactive energy management, which reduces costs and emissions by up to 40%.
Solar Forecast
Solar PV Generation Forecasting Model
Any solar panel, any location, any weather – Chorus maximizes household solar energy usage based on a rolling forecast of the installation’s expected generation.
Home Load Forecast
Chorus learns a home’s unique energy consumption patterns and generates a granular load forecast to secure all required energy at the best available price and carbon footprint.
Home Simulator - Digital Twin
Utilities, commercial aggregators and other stakeholders can simulate a mass onboarding of solar, storage and bidirectional EV energy to validate their financial models, with variable grid pricing and optimization factored in.
Residential Energy Asset Services
IoT Management
The power of Chorus is not limited to network-connected energy resources. energy resources – it can bring analog devices into the next-generation energy marketplace as well. Enable remote management, diagnostics, firmware updates, alert monitoring and other intelligence using our platform.
Battery Degradation
Chorus minimizes home battery degradation using a comprehensive battery specifications database. Model-specific factors like discharge curve and rated capacity are factored in real time to compute the true cost of discharging, so that Chorus will only send commands when the benefits outweigh the costs.
Chorus is trusted by leading energy providers worldwide
The highest commitment to security in an evolving landscape
The safest possible data exchange powered by Microsoft Azure
TLS encryption, Oauth2.0 authentication and certificate management
Constantly monitored and bolstered to thwart cyberattacks
Role management allows for multi-tiered control while respecting customer privacy
Leverage the latest protocols
Compliant with FERC 2222, IEEE 2030.5 and OpenADR
The highest commitment to security in an evolving landscape
The safest possible data exchange powered by Microsoft Azure
TLS encryption, Oauth2.0 authentication and certificate management
Constantly monitored and bolstered to thwart cyberattacks
Role management allows for multi-tiered control while respecting customer privacy
Leverage the latest protocols
Compliant with FERC 2222, IEEE 2030.5 and OpenADR
Ready to serve California
Chorus is certified to the Common Smart Inverter Profile (CSIP)/IEEE 2030.5 standard, a foundational set of protocols mandatory for renewable home energy devices installed in California. These rules guarantee consistent communication and secure interoperable connections between bidirectional hardware and smart grids.
Looking to participate in the energy market?
Chorus connects future-minded companies with customers looking for renewable energy that’s reliable and affordable.
Energy service aggregators, VPP providers, OEMs, utility companies and other organizations can adopt Chorus and join the most advanced DER ecosystem the world has ever seen.
