Building and civic-facility agent
In buildings and civic facilities, comfort and compliance are hard floors. The harness freezes temperature, illuminance and time-of-use rules as non-negotiable constraints; the model gives itemised strategies and retrofit narrative inside the feasible set, outputting executable setpoint advice or BA template parameters that the system checks before control or work orders.
Under time-of-use tariffs, comfort and indoor-environment standards, optimise HVAC, lighting and power time-of-use strategies; output executable setpoints or control sequences and estimate daily/weekly kWh savings and Scope 2 abatement.
Normalise energy and carbon intensity by floor area, format and climate zone; find abnormal branches and retrofit candidates (heat-pump substitution, VFDs, group control) and produce a list roughly ranked by abatement cost for budget decisions.
Operating loop
From connection alignment to review versions, every step can be checked, trailed and approved.
Itemised data hygiene
Pull lighting, HVAC, power items and outdoor weather; rule-detect abnormal readings and drop untrustworthy intervals so later optimisation sits on clean input.
Load comfort and tariff constraints
Inject indoor-environment standards, occupancy windows and time-of-use tariffs. The harness encodes comfort bands as optimisation bounds; the model may not suggest out-of-band setpoints.
Load shape and benchmarking
Normalise by floor area, format and climate zone; find peaks and idle run; call stats and simple clustering to list abnormal branches for the model to explain.
Control-strategy draft
Generate temperature setpoints, lighting groups and schedule advice; each item carries applicable hours and expected savings magnitude (as a range), avoiding false precision.
Hardware and procedure checks
Confirm BA points exist in the ledger and are not maintenance-locked; procedure bans (e.g. cooling in winter) intercept immediately and feed the model a rewrite.
Approve and dispatch
After property/energy-owner approval, strategies dispatch as templates or APIs. Low-confidence or large cross-zone advice requires explicit human tick confirmation.
Effect write-back
Compare post-implementation item curves to baseline and write back to the harness indicator store — a traceable before/after for later retrofit ranking and budget talks.
Typical tool capabilities
Callable inside the allow-list
Guardrail points
Bounds the model cannot override
- Temperature, humidity and illuminance comfort bands cannot be broken
- No setpoint change while equipment is in maintenance/lock
- Control commands only via authorised points and templates
- Sensitive zones (e.g. OR-class) live in a separate strategy domain
- Action trails and role-permission checks
Other domain agents
One harness control plane, scene-specific guardrails
Put the agent inside a governable loop
A demo covers tool bounds, approval gates and how to assemble it privately.