nYOI Energy Arbiter
Decides locally. Keeps the data home.
A sub-10 W ARM64 edge appliance running ANEMOD’s energy arbitration engine. It reads and actuates residential PV, batteries, EV chargers and HVAC in real time — sovereign, offline-capable and secure by design.
Appliance from ~€800 per unit · optional SLA subscription · integration services
The nYOI Energy Arbiter brings energy intelligence to the place where the data is produced: the household, the building, the local energy community. Instead of streaming raw load curves to a cloud EMS, the appliance ingests asset telemetry over Modbus and MQTT-TLS, harmonizes it to open semantic models (SAREF4ENER, IEC 61968/61970 CIM) and runs ANEMOD’s arbitration engine on-device with sub-100 ms inference and sub-1 s actuation.
Decisions balance three objectives the prosumer can weight — bill savings, comfort, grid-friendliness — under hard safety limits on battery, comfort and export. Appliances can join a federated learning loop so that policies improve across homes while raw data never leaves the site.
The hardware platform is a ruggedized, low-power ARM64 node with tri-band Wi-Fi 6E, 5G, dual gigabit Ethernet and PoE, operating from −40 °C to +85 °C. Three nodes have been in continuous service on ANEMOD’s RAI-6Green edge testbed since Q1 2026.
| Function | Real-time arbitration of PV / battery / EV / HVAC · sub-100 ms inference · sub-1 s actuation |
|---|---|
| Compute | NXP i.MX8M Mini · 4× ARM Cortex-A53 @ 1.6 GHz (aarch64) · hardware AES / SHA |
| Memory / storage | 1 GB DDR4 · 8 GB eMMC · 32 GB micro-SD (persistent data) |
| Power | ~8 W typical (sub-10 W envelope) · PoE or DC 8–60 V · optional 120 Wh battery |
| Connectivity | 2× GbE · tri-band Wi-Fi 6E · 5G modem · GPS · Bluetooth |
| Interfaces | Modbus · MQTT-TLS · NGSI-LD / REST · containerized services (Docker) |
| Data models | SAREF4ENER · IEC 61968 / 61970 CIM · Open API Gateway compatible |
| Security | mTLS · signed firmware · attribute-based access control · NIS2 / IEC 62443 aligned |
| Environment | −40 °C to +85 °C · 85 × 105 × 45 mm · 480 g |
- Proprietary arbitration engine and production calibration
- Bi-directional data connector for residential assets (open source, Apache 2.0)
- Federated reinforcement-learning arbitration with a safety shield
- Edge-coordinated flexibility marketplace client for LECs and aggregators
