Are EV detection and charge control issues ultimately going to require Sense to interface with ISO15118 comms or will Sense sit behind an obfuscation layer and have to resort to always-less-than-perfect native detection models?
The charge throttling aspects of V2G also go way beyond household detection.
Sense DCM of charging is an obvious solution to the detection issues. It obviates the need to spend a lot of time and effort trying to build disaggregation models. Yes, Sense’s core advantage is its installation simplicity. DCMs and extra hardware certainly complicate things, but I would argue that when you add expensive + complex + fail-prone (including human fails) + watt-hungry devices to a household you are already breaking that simplicity to the point where another Sense or some extra cables is easy and cheap and highly value-added.
The question I have for Sense is: At what point do you decide that absolute ground-truth data is necessary for big-ticket devices like EVs, battery charging, and HVAC to enable the true power of what Sense can offer … which is more and more about load shifting to accommodate a renewables-based grid, let alone the optimization of a solar-based, battery-charged household.
There is a danger that the Sense game plan results in needing to become a do-everything domestic robot.
Sense … Sense Solar … Sense Flex … SensEV? (even if it’s only the Flex sensors that look like little tires)