Founded in 2024, Domopti offers an intelligent ecosystem that coordinates photovoltaic panels, batteries, heat pumps and electric vehicles, eliminating waste.
Planning the charging of an electric car, coordinating domestic battery storage, running the heat pump and operating household appliances at exactly the hour when energy costs the least or when photovoltaic production reaches its peak. What, until recently, seemed like a difficult challenge to manage for households and businesses now has an integrated and fully automated solution: artificial intelligence is being put to work in the service of the energy transition, to reduce waste and cut utility bills.
Domopti is the company founded in 2024 as a spin-off of the Politecnico di Milano to transform the way businesses and homes manage electrical energy, making it a more accessible and intelligent resource. Behind it lie around ten years of advanced academic research, conducted within two leading laboratories of the Milan university: the forecasting models for photovoltaic production developed by SolarTechLab since 2013, and the management logic for complex energy systems, refined by MG2Lab since 2022. The technological core of Domopti is called Optim-On and is an integrated system for energy monitoring, optimisation and automation. The device, based on sophisticated artificial intelligence algorithms, acts as an energy conductor for an apartment or a business.
Through a local unit connected to both devices and cloud services, the software is able to process a plurality of data in real time: from weather forecasts to hourly grid tariffs, through to user habits and preferences. Based on these variables, Domopti's technology determines the optimal operating profiles for each connected component: from storage systems to electric vehicle charging stations, through to heat pumps, air conditioners and household appliances. The measured results confirm the robustness of the model: in the case studies and validation tests carried out during the first installations, the system recorded economic savings of up to 33 per cent and reductions in electric vehicle charging costs of close to 28 per cent, compared to traditional passive management systems.
Although it has only two years of activity behind it, Domopti already counts 13 installations in total (eight active and five in the activation phase) distributed across the national territory. The majority address the needs of the residential sector, with ten systems in the provinces of Milano, Bolzano, Novara, Piacenza, Brescia and Chieti; but the technology is beginning to expand into the commercial and industrial sphere as well, reaching a strategic sector such as large-scale retail distribution. For commercial and industrial organisations, the platform offers advantages that go beyond a direct reduction in energy costs: through tailored solutions, it enables the precise calculation of performance indicators that are fundamental to corporate sustainability certifications.
