Make more of the power already there.
Software-Defined Electricity corrects power factor, harmonics, phase balance and neutral current in real time, in parallel with the network, so existing equipment delivers more capacity, runs cooler and lasts longer.
Installed capacity
Non-working current steals electrical capacity. Recover that headroom before buying new infrastructure.
Operational optimization
Sub-cycle correction protects equipment and sharpens process control. Better power quality produces a better end product.
Zero downside
Corrects phase balance, harmonics and power factor together. There is nothing to lose but the power already lost.
Technology Impact
Distortion touches every stage of electrical work: how power is made, how it travels and how machines run. Software-Defined Electricity (SDE) corrects the waveform at all three.
All electrical equipment pays for one defect. IEEE 1459 is explicit: only part of a load’s current does work; the rest circulates, creates heat and wears machines down. For a century, each symptom has had its own analog device, which holds under steady conditions, aggravates the next symptom, draws power and needs maintenance. Meters that average over seconds report a number that looks fine. The damage happens inside a single cycle.
Electric Optimization
Waste that does not happen: the efficiency case, the Power Quality Rating and the measured results.
Harmonics (THD)
Where distortion comes from, what it destroys, and how the equipment compares under the standards.
Standards Compliance
IEEE 519, SEMI F47, the ride-through rules, and the auditable record that proves them.
How SDE Works
Conventional equipment reacts to voltage symptoms seconds after disturbances occur. Software-Defined Electricity measures the entire AC waveform at nanosecond resolution across all three phases. It corrects current within the active cycle. Because harmonics, phase balance, power factor and impedance share one waveform, single-point digital correction restores working power in real time.
Measure
The full waveform, continuously. Not an average after an alarm. This sampling rate and precision is unique to SDE. Matching it requires custom rigs built for particle physics laboratories.
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- Full three-phase voltage and current waveforms.
- Continuous 24-bit resolution.
- Real-time nanosecond sampling.
Model
A live model of the loads calculates the correction needed at this instant. It processes over 1 TB of equivalent data per minute. It vectorizes the measurements to understand and adapt to the connected system.
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- Live multi-parameter load model.
- Instantaneous circuit rebalancing calculations.
- Zero over-correction or under-correction.
Correct
Corrective current lands multiple times within a cycle, before the disturbance can spread. It delivers the fastest, most efficient response in the industry.
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- Parallel connection through a breaker at the distribution panel.
- Continuous sub-cycle response.
- Single correction for harmonics, power factor, balance and impedance.
Who it serves
Software-Defined Electricity serves any facility where electricity is an input to the work, not a utility in the background. The fit is strongest where the loads are large and nonlinear. It matters most where the operator owns the electrical infrastructure, where an outage is a mission risk and where distorted power already costs penalties, failures or downtime.
Industrial & Manufacturing
Motors, drives and breakers absorb every disturbance until they fail early. Correcting at the load stops that wear before it starts. The largest measured gains are on inductive loads.
Water & Wastewater
Treatment plants run large pumps continuously on thin margins. Clean current lowers the energy per gallon. It also removes the power factor penalty that pump networks pay every month.
Data Centers & Compute
Compute loads are the most nonlinear on the grid. The ride-through rules now arrive faster than the electrical fixes. Correction within the cycle keeps racks running through a disturbance. It also reduces the heat they generate.
Defense & Critical Infrastructure
Where downtime is a mission risk, the evidence matters more than the claim. An independently funded and verified trial put SDE performance on the public record.
Maritime
Ships run ungrounded networks with high capacitance and heavy interference. Shore assumptions do not hold at sea, and the correction has to travel with the vessel.
Microgrids & Storage
Grid transitions and charge cycles destabilize small networks. We put correction and conversion in one stage, so the microgrid stays stable through the transition.
Blackstart
Restarting a network from nothing is the hardest case. Inrush, resonance and unbalance arrive together, with no stiff grid to absorb them. Correction within the cycle holds the waveform while generation and load come back in sequence.
Electricity is universal
These are the sectors with measured results and field data behind them. The correction works the same wherever power flows. An industry not listed here is not excluded.
Enough from us. Here is what everyone else found.
Verified numbers
“A 77% reduction in power consumption.”
MOD Defence Innovation Unit trial, reported by Berenice Healey, Army Technology / Brite Innovation Review, 2021
Renewables, batteries and right-sized infrastructure
“Seamless integration for electric vehicles, microgrids, renewables and transactive energy.”
Berenice Healey, Army Technology / Brite Innovation Review
Independent verdicts
“The product is not vaporware. It exists, and it works.”
David Roberts, Vox
Verified numbers
“Uncontrolled electricity … ranges from 20 to 40 percent. VectorQ gets the number up to about 98 percent.”
David Roberts, Vox, on 3DFS’s power quality rating
How it works
“Installation is non-intrusive, with no interruption in power, and it takes about a half-hour.”
David Roberts, Vox
Renewables, batteries and right-sized infrastructure
“Theoretically, SDE could ensure that 100 percent of the energy generated by those sources reaches end users.”
David Roberts, Vox, on wind and solar
The big picture
“A weapon against climate change at least as potent as renewable energy itself.”
Vox
The big picture
“Unfathomable before you’ve heard it, kind of obvious afterward.”
David Roberts, Vox
The big picture
“We could learn more about electricity … in the next 10 years than we have in the past 100.”
David Roberts, Vox
Resilience, cybersecurity, predictive maintenance
“You’ll even know when your server or lightbulb is about to fail, because its digital fingerprint will change.”
Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics
Verified numbers
“Initial tests suggest it could reduce energy draw by at least 25% … savings of £50.9M every year.”
UK National AI Strategy, HM Government, presented to Parliament, September 2021
How it works
“3DFS’ software performs hyper-specific, real-time analysis of electricity in action.”
D. Lars Dolder, Chatham News + Record
The moment people saw it work
“I remember the moment and I get goosebumps.”
Michael Heuberger, CEO, Freudenberg IT (Americas)
The moment people saw it work
“There’s a big market out there for relief.”
Michael Heuberger, Freudenberg IT
The moment people saw it work
“Wow, if it works, this would be awesome!”
Mike Gaffney, Navis Energy Management Systems
The big picture
“Can An ‘OS For Electricity’ Double the Efficiency of the Grid?”
Slashdot, posted by BeauHD
Verified numbers
“The success of this first phase has allowed for the planning of a second stage, which will consist of applied trials within the MOD estate as well as independent academic assessment.”
UK Ministry of Defence, Sanctuary 2020
Renewables, batteries and right-sized infrastructure
“Increases the efficiency of electricity generated by any renewable source.”
Wired, Spring 2022
How it works
“SDE uses AI to synchronise power generation in real time with grid and load conditions.”
Berenice Healey, Army Technology / Brite Innovation Review
Independent verdicts
“Its claims are testable and it is eager to have them tested.”
David Roberts, Vox
How it works
“An ‘operating system’ for power could double the efficiency of the grid.”
David Roberts
Resilience, cybersecurity, predictive maintenance
“SDE infuses digital intelligence into the electricity system itself, making it self-monitoring and self-correcting.”
Vox
Renewables, batteries and right-sized infrastructure
“A 100 kW load can be supplied with a 100 kW generator. Electricity infrastructure can be correctly sized.”
David Roberts, Vox
The big picture
“Finding a huge new source of zero-carbon power.”
David Roberts, Vox
The big picture
“Anywhere electricity flows, it can be digitally measured and synchronized.”
David Roberts, Vox
Verified numbers
“Ninety-five percent efficiency, or three times the current performance.”
Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics
Renewables, batteries and right-sized infrastructure
“A battery can be charged to its exact needs, increasing its lifetime by 250 percent.”
Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics
Resilience, cybersecurity, predictive maintenance
“‘Motor number one is on the way out’ … you’ll see that probably before a vibration analysis, or anything else will pick it up.”
Lt Cdr Jonathan Parker, UK Ministry of Defence, Army Technology
How it works
“The software uses an intricate series of algorithms to predict future inefficiency and preemptively correct the signal, synchronizing the electrical waves and virtually eliminating energy loss.”
D. Lars Dolder, Chatham News + Record
The moment people saw it work
“Hey, dude, it looks like it’s working!”
Michael Heuberger, Freudenberg IT
Independent verdicts
“Everything in my gut, from everything I’ve learned and seen, says this is going to work.”
Mike Gaffney, senior engineer, Navis Energy Management Systems
Renewables, batteries and right-sized infrastructure
“We can increase both the reliability and the energy efficiency of the ship.”
Mike Gaffney, Navis Energy Management Systems, on Navy vessels
Verified numbers
“Typical mixed load efficiency gains of 25% … inductive load efficiency gains of up to 77%.”
UK Ministry of Defence, Sanctuary Awards 2020, results verified by Underwriters Laboratories
Verified numbers
“The team recently submitted a bid to the Defence Innovation Fund Round Nine for monies to fund the second stage, which has now been approved.”
UK Ministry of Defence, Sanctuary 2020
Resilience, cybersecurity, predictive maintenance
“Eliminating the risk of electrical fires and minimising loss.”
Berenice Healey, Army Technology / Brite Innovation Review
Independent verdicts
“It is real, and it’s a big deal.”
David Roberts, Vox
Verified numbers
“Power consumption dropped by 20 percent, server temperature dropped by 20 degrees.”
David Roberts, Vox, on the Freudenberg IT data-center install
How it works
“It measures 26 separate parameters, in 24-bit resolution, in real time.”
David Roberts, Vox
Resilience, cybersecurity, predictive maintenance
“If this technology did nothing else but detect and prevent cyber attacks, it would be a big deal.”
David Roberts, Vox
The big picture
“Could potentially double the energy efficiency of the electricity system.”
David Roberts, Vox
The big picture
“It’s an idea whose time has come.”
David Roberts, Vox
The big picture
“A kind of ‘Intel Inside’ for power quality.”
David Roberts, Vox
How it works
“Software that can sample 295 million data points per second — 50,000 times faster than any measuring technology currently used.”
Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics
The big picture
“These guys think digitized electricity is inevitable.”
Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics
Independent verdicts
“Its technology, software-defined electricity, has demonstrated the ability to radically improve energy transmission and retention.”
D. Lars Dolder, Chatham News + Record
The big picture
“Pittsboro company’s technology could save energy costs as well as military lives.”
Max Diamond, Raleigh News & Observer
The moment people saw it work
“The use cases are endless. They’re freaking endless. It’s amazing.”
Michael Heuberger, Freudenberg IT
Independent verdicts
“I hooked up my meters, they turned it on and off, and sure enough, it worked.”
Mike Gaffney, certified power quality professional
Resilience, cybersecurity, predictive maintenance
“Software-defined electricity can directly be used to increase cyber resilience.”
Wired (WIRED Brand Lab for Deloitte), citing Sharon Chand, Deloitte Risk and Financial Advisory
Verified numbers
“It could result in £44M of energy savings per year, assuming only 20% efficiency gains across the estate. This would also equate to greenhouse gas emissions reductions of 112,107 tonnes of CO2 equivalent.”
UK Ministry of Defence, Sanctuary 2020
The big picture
“The overall impact to the MOD could be considerable, as SDE can be applied to every activity that the Department is involved with.”
UK Ministry of Defence, Sanctuary 2020
