Run your heat as a flexible asset.
norbert is an edge control layer that learns each thermal process and works out how much it can safely flex, moment to moment. Then it shifts power-to-heat and thermal storage to follow cheap, clean electricity, with no hit to output.
The control layer between your heat and the grid.
norbert runs on your plant's OT network. It learns each thermal process, works out how far it can safely flex and dispatches power-to-heat and thermal storage against live prices and grid signals. Hardware-agnostic, and built to keep running when the link to the cloud does not.
Flexibility envelope
We learn each thermal process and compute, moment to moment, how far it can move without hurting output. That safe envelope is what everything else bids against.
Thermal dispatch
Heat is not lithium. We optimise charge and discharge for heat loss, temperature-dependent limits and multi-temperature output, all tied to your production schedule.
Process coupling
Decisions sit next to the process, so we modulate an e-boiler or furnace in the moment instead of waiting on a cloud round-trip.
Price and curtailment forecasting
We forecast spot prices, renewable output and curtailment, then move your heat into the cheapest, cleanest hours before they arrive.
Hardware-agnostic
One operating layer across thermal-battery and power-to-heat systems, so you are never locked to a single hardware vendor.
Offline-safe and OT-sovereign
Control keeps running if the network drops, and your process data never has to leave the site.
The decision has to happen on site.
Flexing a live thermal process is not a dashboard problem. The hard part is deciding, in the moment, how much it can move, and that has to be solved on the plant for three reasons cloud aggregators handle badly.
Latency
Modulate an e-boiler or furnace in the moment. There is no cloud round-trip in the control path.
Connectivity
Industrial links drop. norbert keeps controlling locally and never hands your process to the network.
Data sovereignty
Process data stays on your OT network. We send decisions out, not your operations.
Find the safe flex. Then move the heat.
norbert learns what each process and store can do, draws the envelope of safe moves, and dispatches power-to-heat and storage inside it. It follows prices and curtailment so your heat lands in the cheapest, cleanest hours, never at the cost of output.
Flexibility envelope
norbert learns each process and computes how far it can move without hurting output. The operating point then rides inside that safe band, high when power is cheap and low when it is dear.
Thermal dispatch
Stored heat charges through the low-price windows and discharges when the spot price spikes, so the same heat demand is met on cheaper, cleaner electricity.
Sense
Meter every process and store on your OT network, and learn how each one behaves.
Forecast
Predict prices, curtailment and heat demand over the horizon, and the safe flex you have to play with.
Dispatch
Move power-to-heat and storage inside the envelope, in real time, and prove the savings.
Flexible heat, measured from day one.
Representative results from industrial sites running norbert. Your figures depend on process, tariff and storage, so we model them before any commitment.