NeoShift: fewer costly peaks, from the equipment you have

NeoShift is a demand optimization service from NeoTechX, a Canadian company based in Victoria, BC. NeoShift coordinates HVAC, heating and mechanical loads a facility already has so they stop peaking together, which is designed to lower the demand charge on the electricity bill. Plans are prepared in the cloud and executed on site by NeoCore Edge Runtime. NeoShift is in pilot.

No. The assessment and recommendation steps are read-only: NeoTechX reads data and reports, and sends no commands. NeoShift automates only after the facility team has seen the evidence and signed off a written plan listing which equipment may be adjusted, within which limits, and how each asset returns to normal.

The customer signs a written plan listing the equipment NeoShift may adjust, the setpoints and ranges it may write, the limits it must respect and how each asset returns to normal if anything fails. Supervised step tests on one asset at a time, with the customer's operator present, come first, so the plan rests on measured responses.

The Free Demand Assessment has no software fee. After the assessment, NeoShift can run on a shared-savings basis: a share of the measured savings, indicatively 30% to 40%, agreed per site against a baseline defined with the customer. If there are no savings, there is no shared-savings fee. Site hardware such as a meter is quoted separately.

No. NeoShift coordinates the loads a facility already has, using the buffers already there, such as the thermal mass of a building, a cold store or an ice slab, or the volume of a reservoir. No new plant is needed for the assessment.

NeoShift plans are executed on site by NeoCore, which keeps working if the internet connection is lost. NeoCore is not wired in series with any control path, and every setpoint it writes is designed to expire or be reverted, so that if NeoCore stops, equipment returns to its own control.