Three things,
- Welcome to the Community and thanks for your first post.
- Justin isn’t the Sense Community Manager - @JuliaAtSense is the newish manager.
- You are right, Sense might have been able to build a generic “slow ramp” detector for things like EVs, but there are a few reasons that that might not work.
- First off, realize that EVs and other “slow ramp” devices are currently spotted using Sense’s native detection which looks for short (1/2 second) on and off transitions. EV ramps tend to take seconds to minutes to reach full power.
- A generic slow-ramp detector works well if you have only one slow-ramp device in your house. But once you have two or more, you have to start dealing with discriminating between them on both the on and off sides. It’s no good to detect the generic ons/offs without being able to match them up, which means building a more sophisticated fingerprint or signature for each on and off. That eventually requires them to be able to tell the difference between ramps for a 4000W EV charge vs a ramps for 4000W heat pump.
- I’m guessing that Sense is revamping their framework so they can essentially use the same approach for slow-ramps as they do for the 1/2 second native detections, but I don’t know for sure.