OptiBee Energy ProMade in Germany
Solar, battery, wallbox and heat pump, run as one system — without swapping the hardware you already own. On a DIN rail, or plug-ready in an enclosure.
Local first · Open first · AI Agents ready
Why another energy manager
Measurement, control and the 15-minute re-plan run on the device. Internet down, optimisation up.
One controller drives the inverters, batteries, wallboxes and heat pumps you already own — 98 brands · 277 models.
Embedded three-phase metering, Class 1. One less meter to buy, one less to wire.
An app store on the device. Install what you need, remove what you don’t — or install your own.
Every measurement, forecast and dispatch decision is readable — ready for AI agents.
The engine
A conventional EMS dispatches devices from fixed strategies. It cannot keep up with the amount of information and the number of device types that keep arriving. That is what a next-generation EMS is for: it weighs weather, time, device type and live state together, learns from them, and optimises on what it has learned.
Our own model, running on the device. For each plant separately it learns how the measured yield relates to the weather, and predicts what that plant will generate. Every day adds a day of measurements, and the forecast gets closer.
Day-ahead prices enter the same optimisation as the forecast and the load model. Charging, heating and battery cycles land in the cheap hours as a result, not because someone set a timer in spring and left it there.
Each solve looks 48 hours ahead, but only the next quarter-hour is committed to the devices. Everything past it is a proposal the next solve is free to revise when the price curve or the weather moves.
The Edge Platform holds a live twin of every device. ZeroClaw is the agent that reads those twins and decides. Node-RED is where automation runs. ZeroClaw sets up the Node-RED flows and drives the platform through them — none of the three does that on its own.
APIs, skills, the obee-ctl command-line tool and worked samples are already there. Your own AI agent takes the devices over directly — there is nothing to build first.
One day
PV surplus charges the battery, the heat pump moves into the cheap window, the EV finishes before departure.
03:00–05:15 · Cheapest hours of the night
Day-ahead price falls to 9 ct. The battery charges and the heat pump runs its cycle now, not at breakfast.
10:30–15:15 · PV above the house load
The surplus goes into the battery and the EV instead of the grid, because the evening price is already known to be higher.
17:30–20:15 · Evening price peak
At 43 ct the house runs off storage. Nothing was scheduled for this hour — the price made the decision.
The hardware
Four modules wide on the DIN rail. Three-phase metering built in, so the meter cabinet does not grow.
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Two native RS485 buses, each usable as master or slave. In slave mode the device serves its own readings to the inverter, so the installation needs one meter fewer.
EEBUS, Modbus TCP, MQTT and the local web interface. Plug it in and it is reachable.
The expansion port. With an adapter it becomes WiFi, a second LAN, more RS485 or CAN, KNX, or extra storage.
Adapter catalogue →L1, L2, L3 and N are measured in the device: Class 1 on direct measurement, up to 63 A per phase. External CTs are supported above that, with the ratios set in software.
Who it is for
Getting started
Check your devices against the driver catalogue. Send us anything missing.
Request a demoOn a DIN rail, or plug-ready in an enclosure. Then connect the devices it will control.
Set OptiBee up and the optimisation starts. Not sure how? The AI agents help you through it.
Compatibility
No vendor lock-in. The mainstream brands are already supported and the catalogue keeps growing. Every protocol is local — no internet, no cloud.
Device not on the wall? Send us the brand and model — we will integrate it. New drivers ship with the platform, not with the hardware.
Founders Edition · for end users
An offer for end users: households that run OptiBee in their own home get the hardware, a lifetime software licence and direct access to the engineering team. In return we ask for real installation data and honest feedback.
Installer or system integrator? The Partner Programme is your entry.FAQ
Tell us what is in the cabinet and we will show you the schedule it would commit.