Automate your
load control.
Augos measures your site every minute and switches load at the breaker on the rules you set. It sheds to hold your peak below the limit, and shifts work out of the expensive peak window into cheaper hours. The platform decides, the contactors act, and your team stays free to run the plant.
You have the potential to cut energy cost, but not the tools to act.
You have breakers that could shed or shift on demand, tariff, schedule or a loadshedding signal. Without automation they just run, and the cost lands on the bill before anyone notices.
The peak sets the bill
Your demand charge is fixed by your highest half-hour. One coincident spike, and it's set for the whole month.
Load runs at the wrong time
Shiftable work runs straight through the expensive peak window, or overnight when nobody needs it, because nothing retimes it.
Events catch you out
Loadshedding hits, or a site condition changes, and the right load only switches if someone remembers to do it.
Manual control can't keep up
No one can watch demand, tariffs and conditions every minute and switch breakers in time. So most of the time, nothing does.
Shave the peak,
shift the load.
Augos measures load every minute and does two jobs. It sheds non-critical load to hold the peak below your limit, and it shifts shiftable work out of the expensive peak window into cheaper hours. The platform decides on the rules you set, and contactors on the breakers do the switching.
Live demand
Load measured every minute against your notified limit, so the forming peak is visible while there's still time to act on it.
Automated control
As demand approaches the limit, the platform sheds or retimes load by switching contactors on the breakers, with no one needed on the floor.
Shift, don't just shed
Shiftable load is moved out of the expensive peak window, not just dropped, so the work still runs, on cheaper energy.
The rules are yours
Switch on time of use, demand, schedule, weather or telemetry, or loadshedding times. You set the rules, the platform runs them, and critical load is ring-fenced.
The half-hour that sets the month
Your steps to automated load control.
A short path from blind to in-control, with no one needed on the floor to throw switches when it counts.
Install the meter
Nova metering at your supply, capturing demand at 1-minute resolution against your notified limit.
Map the opportunity
Identify which circuits can shed or shift, for how long, and which are critical and never touched.
Fit the control equipment
Contactors are fitted to the breakers you want to control, wired back to the platform so it can switch them automatically.
Set and tune the rules
You set the switching rules, on time of use, demand, schedule or a loadshedding signal, test them against live load, and adjust as your operation changes. From there it runs automatically, every billing cycle.
What Augos load control delivers.
01Lower demand charges
Holding the monthly peak below your limit cuts the maximum-demand charge on every bill, the largest controllable line on most industrial accounts.
02No more NMD breaches
Load is shed before demand crosses the notified maximum, so you stop triggering penalties that otherwise persist for months.
03Cheaper energy by timing
Shiftable load is retimed out of the peak window automatically, running the same work on standard or off-peak rates.
04Hands-off operation
No one watches a screen or runs to a panel. The rules you set run themselves, every day.
05Critical load protected
You ring-fence what can never be switched. Shedding only ever touches the circuits you've cleared.
06A defensible record
Every shed, shift and avoided breach is logged against measured demand, so the saving is auditable, not assumed.
Fixed metering, switching scoped to your site.
You need metering to measure demand, and contactors on the breakers you want to control. The metering is the same Nova hardware, and the control work is scoped to your site.
Metering hardware
CTs and installation materials may be required to complete the hardware install.
Switching equipment
The switching hardware is sized to your site: the load on each circuit, the breakers you want to control, and how they're wired. So the equipment and its monthly fee are quoted once we've scoped it with you.
Switching hardware and its monthly fee are quoted on the circuits and load to be managed
You also get the whole suite.
Load control is a service, scoped and priced on its own. But every Augos site also gets the full Energy Intelligence suite, included: a dozen reports and tools running on the same calibrated meter and tariff engine, ready whenever you need them.
The Nova Smart Meter in detail.
For the technically minded. Every figure on this page traces back to the Augos Nova, a billing-accuracy meter, independently calibrated and traceable to national standards.
Common questions.
We already shed load manually, why automate it?
Manual shedding depends on someone noticing the peak and being free to act. Automated control watches every half-hour and switches in under a minute, including the peaks that form while your team is busy with something else.
What is the difference between shedding and shifting load?
Shedding drops non-critical load for a short spell to hold the peak below your limit, which cuts the demand charge. Shifting moves work that can run at any time, such as pumping, milling or heating, out of the expensive peak window into cheaper standard or off-peak hours, so the same work costs less. Augos does both, on the rules you set.
Will shedding load interrupt production?
Only on the circuits you clear. Critical load is ring-fenced and never switched. Shiftable and non-critical load is shed briefly or retimed, sized so your output is protected.
What is the difference between this and power factor correction?
Power factor correction fixes reactive power. Demand control acts on real load, shedding or retiming it to hold the peak. Many sites need both, and both run on the same meter.
How fast does it react to a forming peak?
Demand is measured every minute. When it approaches your notified limit, the platform switches the contactor on the chosen breaker within a minute, before the half-hour closes.
What is NMD, and why does one spike matter?
Notified maximum demand is the level you have contracted with your supplier. Exceed it and the penalty can inflate your charges for up to twelve months, long after the spike. Holding the peak below it avoids that entirely.
Do you supply the control hardware, or just the software?
Both. We fit contactors to the breakers you choose and wire them back to the platform, which makes the switching decisions on the rules you set, or we work alongside your own contractor if you prefer.
What does the demand control work cost?
The Nova metering is a fixed once-off plus a monthly fee per point. The switching equipment, the contactors and control gear, is sized to your site's load and infrastructure, so the equipment and its monthly fee are quoted once we've scoped it with you.
Shave and shift, automatically.
Book a demo and we'll show you how Augos shaves your peak and shifts load into cheaper hours.