For utilities & program managers

Every Cynact site is a behind-the-meter DER endpoint

Cynact is a vendor-neutral, multi-protocol edge platform. That neutrality makes it useful for utility innovation teams: a single node speaks to the lights, HVAC, water heat, batteries, solar, and EVs across a building — with the local control needed for fast, reliable program participation.

Some of what's below ships today; the OpenADR / IEEE 2030.5 / DER integrations are on our roadmap. We label each capability honestly.

Today

Behind-the-meter DER endpoint

Every Cynact site speaks to its loads in real time — HVAC, lighting, water heating, EV chargers (roadmap), batteries (roadmap), and solar (roadmap) — through a single edge node with sub-5 ms control.

Today

kW shed & load shifting

Pre-cool, pre-heat, dim, defer, and resume across the building stack on a schedule, on a price signal, or on a manual dispatch. Local control means events execute even if the WAN drops mid-event.

Today

Measurement & verification (M&V)

Whole-building and circuit-level telemetry stored with the originating event. Baselines, settlement-ready CSV/JSON exports, and per-site dashboards for utility program managers.

Roadmap

OpenADR 2.0b VEN

Native Virtual End Node implementation for direct enrollment in OpenADR 2.0b programs. Currently mocked end-to-end against a test VTN.

Roadmap

IEEE 2030.5 (CSIP)

Common Smart Inverter Profile readiness for California Rule 21 and similar interconnection requirements as solar/battery integrations ship.

Roadmap

Solar (SunSpec Modbus)

SunSpec Modbus for inverter telemetry and curtailment. Targeted alongside battery integration.

Roadmap

Battery integration

Home and commercial battery dispatch, state-of-charge telemetry, and economic optimization against time-of-use and dynamic price signals.

Roadmap

EV chargers (OCPP 2.0.1)

Managed charging for residential and small-fleet sites. Smart-charging schedules, demand response participation, and per-session billing exports.

Where Cynact fits in a program portfolio

Residential aggregation

Recruit homes into a virtual power plant via the same edge node that runs their lights and HVAC. One install, two value streams.

Small commercial

5K–50K sq ft buildings — the Missing Middle — that traditional BMS vendors don't reach but are large enough to matter to a DR program.

Utility innovation pilots

Multi-protocol, vendor-neutral edge nodes simplify pilots that need to span heterogeneous device populations across a service territory.

Why local-first matters for demand response

Cloud-only platforms drop events when the WAN flakes. Cynact runs the control loop on a local edge node, so a dispatch executes even if the cloud is unreachable mid-event. Settlement data is queued and replayed when connectivity returns. The result: higher event-completion rates, cleaner M&V data, and less customer friction.

Piloting a grid program?

We'd like to hear about your program structure, target population, and integration constraints.

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