Sense Launches Grid-Edge Analytics to Enhance Utility Grid Management

Sense introduces advanced grid-edge analytics services leveraging waveform-based technology to provide utilities with detailed insights into behind-the-meter energy activities, improving grid planning and reliability.
Nov. 18, 2025
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Sense has introduced a set of grid-edge analytics services aimed at helping electric utilities better understand what is happening on the distribution system, particularly behind the meter. The new “Load Visibility Solution” is designed to detect major household energy uses—ranging from rooftop solar to EV charging—and to translate those signals into data that can inform grid planning, forecasting, and operations.

The services run on the latest generation of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI 2.0) and rely on the company’s waveform-based analytics platform, WaveformAI. Because the capabilities are embedded in smart meters, Sense says utilities do not need additional hardware beyond standard meter upgrades.

Mike Phillips, the company’s CEO, said improved visibility at the home level allows utilities to “target investments where the grid is most vulnerable, respond faster to emerging issues, and design smarter programs that reflect how homes are using and generating energy.”

Three Services for Different Grid Needs

The Load Visibility Solution includes three optional components that utilities can deploy individually or together:

  • Home Analytics, an extension of the consumer-facing Sense Home app, provides information on household energy use by breaking down consumption into categories such as heating, cooling, and laundry. It can also identify heat pumps.

  • Solar Analytics detects and measures behind-the-meter solar production.

  • EV Analytics, first announced in June 2025, identifies Level 1 and Level 2 electric vehicle charging events.

Together, these tools are intended to help utilities map activity at the transformer and feeder level, offering a more detailed view of how distributed resources affect local grid conditions.

Potential Operational Benefits

Sense says the data could help utilities:

  • Better target grid capacity upgrades and avoid over- or under-building.

  • Improve forecasting for both load and behind-the-meter solar, potentially reducing financial risk tied to power purchasing.

  • Address reliability concerns by managing overload and voltage issues before they escalate.

  • Refine customer programs, including demand-side initiatives and time-of-use rate design.

  • Pinpoint interventions at specific transformers or feeders to reduce customer impacts.

Looking ahead, Sense plans to add features such as real-time DER generation and consumption data, early indicators of grid congestion, and enhanced detection of stress on individual transformers.

Home Analytics and EV Analytics are currently available for Landis+Gyr Revelo meters, with more services and meter integrations expected in 2026.