Futurehome Charge - Smart charging (Power Manager)

Note: For Charge to be optimised based on energy prices, it must be connected to the internet. This can be done directly through WiFi or the Smarthub via Zigbee.

Set up Charge in Power Manager

Energy threshold

This is the part of Power Manager that ensures that you won’t go to the next step in the Norwegian grid tariff model.

1. On the app dashboard, click the energy tile.
2. Click the lightning icon in the upper right corner.
3. Activate Power Manager and click “Energy threshold”.
4. Set your desired limit for Energy threshold.
5. Select Charge in the list.

This allows Futurehome to pause the charging for 10 minutes at a time to ensure you do not exceed the set energy threshold.

Spot price

We get the spot prices from NordPool every day. We then divide the day into 2, cheap and expensive hours. If you want Charge to optimise on spot price, you can follow these steps:

1. In the Power Manager screen, click “Energy price area”.
2. Activate Charge on that list.

Dynamic load balancing

Since the charger is a relatively big load, it could lead to the risk of tripping your household’s main breaker. With a Futurehome HAN sensor and a charger, we can control this by tuning down the charging speed, to keep the simultaneous usage below the breakers rating. In simpler terms, if the total consumption approaches the maximum of what the household can handle, we will slow down the charger. This is to avoid a “black out”.

1. In the Power Manager screen, click “Dynamic load balancing”.
2. Set the main breaker’s capacity.
3. Activate the charger.