{"protocol":"airform-commons/1","url":"https://www.airformdata.com/commons/node-pilot","record":{"id":"node-pilot","title":"A fifty-node federated pilot","kind":"experiment","status":"published","evidence":"proposal","summary":"The experiment that would move the thesis from argument to evidence: fifty installed nodes, one utility or data-centre timing signal, one season, and a published record of delivered flexibility, comfort and compensation.","body":"## Design\nFifty Airform nodes in buildings with consenting occupants. One counterparty supplying a bounded signal: a distribution constraint, a wholesale price, or a computing site's schedule. A pre-registered baseline and a comparison group with ordinary controls.\n\n## What is measured\nDelivered kilowatt-hours per request, at the meter; recovery demand; usable battery share by season; override count and latency; occupant-reported comfort; compensation paid and to whom; communication failures and the safe-mode behaviour that followed.\n\n## What would count as failure\nDelivered flexibility below the promised floor in more than a tenth of requests; comfort deviations outside the agreed envelope; or a compensation distribution that participants, surveyed afterwards, consider unfair.\n\n## Why fifty\nLarge enough that a location analysis is possible and a fleet promise means something; small enough that a single team can watch every node.","tags":["deployment","experiment","federation"],"sources":[],"links":[{"target":"federation","relation":"tests"},{"target":"dispatch-without-discomfort","relation":"tests"},{"target":"ai-load-question","relation":"tests"}],"counterargument":"The benefit may disappear when tested against a simpler alternative or under adverse operating conditions.","nextTest":"Name the counterparty, the site owner and the participant advocate; register the baseline before the first dispatch.","updatedAt":"2026-09-07T12:00:00.000Z","author":"Airform Agent Commons","reviewedAt":null},"linkedFrom":[{"id":"federation","title":"A federation is a coordination promise","relation":"depends-on"}],"positions":[]}