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Karman turns existing hardware into software-defined AI infrastructure

The Karman platform turns existing hardware into software-defined AI infrastructure.

Real-time decisions, rapid and reliable outcomes.

Karman Outcomes

Karman leverages a combination of on-chip and cloud-based software to unlock robust data currently trapped at every endpoint on the electric grid. The Karman platform connects these millions of end points — from meters to EV chargers and solar panels — and activates them to monitor and react to changing grid conditions.

Karman is an open, software-defined AI platform designed for grid operations. It is built on a custom NVIDIA module, which has 100 times more processing power than other market solutions, and becomes more valuable over time as new AI models are developed and more applications are added.

Karman Outcomes

Deploying Karman

Karman delivers actionable data and data insights. When added to existing meters and other edge devices, the Karman platform provides real-time visibility, identifies and manages distributed energy resources, enhances resiliency, and offsets the need for future infrastructure investments.

Meter Deployment

AI Meter Adapter

Early stage deployments use an industry-standard meter adapter that complements new and existing meters and installs in minutes.

Meter Deployment

AI Smart Meter

Aclara will be the first company to embed Karman into a smart meter, offering a seamless AI solution to utilities.

Meter Deployment

Grid Devices

Additional Karman-embedded devices will be coming soon.

Karman Toolkit

Our platform offers utility data scientists enhanced capabilities via Karman Toolkit, a lightweight and flexible code sharing repository for application development

Benefits

Resiliency

In the face of extreme weather events, utilities grapple with managing power generation, transmission, and distribution, often leading to rolling and unexpected outages. Karman detects, classifies, and predicts grid anomalies using high-resolution waveform data and AI algorithms. Karman provides real-time data and the ability to manage loads locally and automatically to improve the flexibility and reliability of the system. Karman enables utilities to provide more reliable service to their customers and minimize equipment loss by reshaping outage prevention and recovery.

Benefits

Resiliency

In the face of extreme weather events, utilities grapple with managing power generation, transmission, and distribution, often leading to rolling and unexpected outages. Karman detects, classifies, and predicts grid anomalies using high-resolution waveform data and AI algorithms. Karman provides real-time data and the ability to manage loads locally and automatically to improve the flexibility and reliability of the system. Karman enables utilities to provide more reliable service to their customers and minimize equipment loss by reshaping outage prevention and recovery.

Benefits

Real-Time Visibility

Real-Time Visibility

Karman makes grid edge data easily accessible to various utility decision-makers so they can better understand conditions in real-time, make more informed investment decisions, and better serve customers. The platform provides real-time visibility to every endpoint on the electric system, including mapping which loads are connected to the same secondary transformer. This meter-to-transformer mapping provides utilities with a last mile view of their system and serves as a foundation to real-time, dynamic hosting capacity.

Benefits

Real-Time Visibility

Karman makes grid edge data easily accessible to various utility decision-makers so they can better understand conditions in real-time, make more informed investment decisions, and better serve customers. The platform provides real-time visibility to every endpoint on the electric system, including mapping which loads are connected to the same secondary transformer. This meter-to-transformer mapping provides utilities with a last mile view of their system and serves as a foundation to real-time, dynamic hosting capacity.

Real-Time Visibility

Benefits

EV Integration

The impacts of EVs on charging infrastructure and utility assets are not yet well understood by utilities or EV charging infrastructure owners. Karman enables a real-time understanding of EV power quality that will help utilities and EV infrastructure owners better plan investments and optimize charging. This will serve as a foundation to optimizing EV costs for utilities, charging infrastructure owners, and customers, and leveraging EVs for system resiliency and reliability.

Benefits

EV Integration

The impacts of EVs on charging infrastructure and utility assets are not yet well understood by utilities or EV charging infrastructure owners. Karman enables a real-time understanding of EV power quality that will help utilities and EV infrastructure owners better plan investments and optimize charging. This will serve as a foundation to optimizing EV costs for utilities, charging infrastructure owners, and customers, and leveraging EVs for system resiliency and reliability.

Benefits

Solar Integration

Solar Integration

Currently, utility analyses about how many distributed energy resources can be safely interconnected to a distribution grid at a given location without threatening reliable, stable, and efficient grid operations are based on static worst-case scenarios which can result in underutilized distribution capacity. Karman delivers real-time dynamic hosting capacity analysis that enhances planning processes for utilities, reduces interconnection times, and increases overall hosting capacity, enabling more clean energy.

Benefits

Solar Integration

Currently, utility analyses about how many distributed energy resources can be safely interconnected to a distribution grid at a given location without threatening reliable, stable, and efficient grid operations are based on static worst-case scenarios which can result in underutilized distribution capacity. Karman delivers real-time dynamic hosting capacity analysis that enhances planning processes for utilities, reduces interconnection times, and increases overall hosting capacity, enabling more clean energy.

Solar Integration

Benefits

Demand Flexibility

Demand Flexibility

For distributed energy resources (DERs) to operate seamlessly as part of the distribution electric grid and provide full grid value, utilities need to be able to communicate with and manage these devices in real-time. Currently, there are different communications protocols for different types of DERs, making coordinated communication and management a costly challenge. Karman provides a communications gateway to multiple DERs, serving as the foundation for a highly effective virtual power plant (VPP) that can coordinate multiple devices and services.

Benefits

Demand Flexibility

For distributed energy resources (DERs) to operate seamlessly as part of the distribution electric grid and provide full grid value, utilities need to be able to communicate with and manage these devices in real-time. Currently, there are different communications protocols for different types of DERs, making coordinated communication and management a costly challenge. Karman provides a communications gateway to multiple DERs, serving as the foundation for a highly effective virtual power plant (VPP) that can coordinate multiple devices and services.

Demand Flexibility

Benefits

Resiliency

In the face of extreme weather events, utilities grapple with managing power generation, transmission, and distribution, often leading to rolling and unexpected outages. Karman detects, classifies, and predicts grid anomalies using high-resolution waveform data and AI algorithms. Karman provides real-time data and the ability to manage loads locally and automatically to improve the flexibility and reliability of the system. Karman enables utilities to provide more reliable service to their customers and minimize equipment loss by reshaping outage prevention and recovery.

Benefits

Resiliency

In the face of extreme weather events, utilities grapple with managing power generation, transmission, and distribution, often leading to rolling and unexpected outages. Karman detects, classifies, and predicts grid anomalies using high-resolution waveform data and AI algorithms. Karman provides real-time data and the ability to manage loads locally and automatically to improve the flexibility and reliability of the system. Karman enables utilities to provide more reliable service to their customers and minimize equipment loss by reshaping outage prevention and recovery.

Benefits

Real-Time Visibility

Real-Time Visibility

Karman makes grid edge data easily accessible to various utility decision-makers so they can better understand conditions in real-time, make more informed investment decisions, and better serve customers. The platform provides real-time visibility to every endpoint on the electric system, including mapping which loads are connected to the same secondary transformer. This meter-to-transformer mapping provides utilities with a last mile view of their system and serves as a foundation to real-time, dynamic hosting capacity.

Benefits

Real-Time Visibility

Karman makes grid edge data easily accessible to various utility decision-makers so they can better understand conditions in real-time, make more informed investment decisions, and better serve customers. The platform provides real-time visibility to every endpoint on the electric system, including mapping which loads are connected to the same secondary transformer. This meter-to-transformer mapping provides utilities with a last mile view of their system and serves as a foundation to real-time, dynamic hosting capacity.

Real-Time Visibility

Benefits

EV Integration

The impacts of EVs on charging infrastructure and utility assets are not yet well understood by utilities or EV charging infrastructure owners. Karman enables a real-time understanding of EV power quality that will help utilities and EV infrastructure owners better plan investments and optimize charging. This will serve as a foundation to optimizing EV costs for utilities, charging infrastructure owners, and customers, and leveraging EVs for system resiliency and reliability.

Benefits

EV Integration

The impacts of EVs on charging infrastructure and utility assets are not yet well understood by utilities or EV charging infrastructure owners. Karman enables a real-time understanding of EV power quality that will help utilities and EV infrastructure owners better plan investments and optimize charging. This will serve as a foundation to optimizing EV costs for utilities, charging infrastructure owners, and customers, and leveraging EVs for system resiliency and reliability.

Benefits

Solar Integration

Solar Integration

Currently, utility analyses about how many distributed energy resources can be safely interconnected to a distribution grid at a given location without threatening reliable, stable, and efficient grid operations are based on static worst-case scenarios which can result in underutilized distribution capacity. Karman delivers real-time dynamic hosting capacity analysis that enhances planning processes for utilities, reduces interconnection times, and increases overall hosting capacity, enabling more clean energy.

Benefits

Solar Integration

Currently, utility analyses about how many distributed energy resources can be safely interconnected to a distribution grid at a given location without threatening reliable, stable, and efficient grid operations are based on static worst-case scenarios which can result in underutilized distribution capacity. Karman delivers real-time dynamic hosting capacity analysis that enhances planning processes for utilities, reduces interconnection times, and increases overall hosting capacity, enabling more clean energy.

Solar Integration

Benefits

Demand Flexibility

Demand Flexibility

For distributed energy resources (DERs) to operate seamlessly as part of the distribution electric grid and provide full grid value, utilities need to be able to communicate with and manage these devices in real-time. Currently, there are different communications protocols for different types of DERs, making coordinated communication and management a costly challenge. Karman provides a communications gateway to multiple DERs, serving as the foundation for a highly effective virtual power plant (VPP) that can coordinate multiple devices and services.

Benefits

Demand Flexibility

For distributed energy resources (DERs) to operate seamlessly as part of the distribution electric grid and provide full grid value, utilities need to be able to communicate with and manage these devices in real-time. Currently, there are different communications protocols for different types of DERs, making coordinated communication and management a costly challenge. Karman provides a communications gateway to multiple DERs, serving as the foundation for a highly effective virtual power plant (VPP) that can coordinate multiple devices and services.

Demand Flexibility

Benefits

Resiliency

In the face of extreme weather events, utilities grapple with managing power generation, transmission, and distribution, often leading to rolling and unexpected outages. Karman detects, classifies, and predicts grid anomalies using high-resolution waveform data and AI algorithms. Karman provides real-time data and the ability to manage loads locally and automatically to improve the flexibility and reliability of the system. Karman enables utilities to provide more reliable service to their customers and minimize equipment loss by reshaping outage prevention and recovery.

Benefits

Resiliency

In the face of extreme weather events, utilities grapple with managing power generation, transmission, and distribution, often leading to rolling and unexpected outages. Karman detects, classifies, and predicts grid anomalies using high-resolution waveform data and AI algorithms. Karman provides real-time data and the ability to manage loads locally and automatically to improve the flexibility and reliability of the system. Karman enables utilities to provide more reliable service to their customers and minimize equipment loss by reshaping outage prevention and recovery.