AI Freedom

AI Freedom is an umbrella setting in myCoreAI that lets the optimizer pursue energy savings more aggressively by relaxing how strictly configured comfort bounds and schedules are enforced. Enabling it activates two underlying behaviors together: learned reference comfort bounds, and a guaranteed setback during unoccupied hours.

What it does

• Indoor climate baseline. myCoreAI replaces static min/max comfort bounds with learned reference bounds derived from the building's actual performance. Office hours retain bounds close to the configured limits; non-office hours widen them further. See Indoor climate baseline.
• Comfort schedule. AI Freedom enables Automatic Comfort Schedule (ACS) with a guaranteed setback. During unoccupied periods, myCoreAI widens comfort bounds by at least 0.5 °C.

How it works

Value	Effect
Off	myCoreAI stays within configured static bounds and schedules.
On	Both underlying behaviors activate together.

In customer-facing terms, treat AI Freedom as on/off: any value above zero activates it fully, with no partial levels. Each underlying feature can also be enabled independently of AI Freedom. The umbrella turns both on at once.

Scope

AI Freedom relies on enough history for the learned reference bounds to be meaningful. Reasonable to enable when:

• The building has been monitored for several months and behavior is stable.
• Occupancy patterns are predictable enough for a learned schedule to be trustworthy.
• Energy savings are prioritized over the tightest possible comfort bounds.

Reasonable to leave off (or turn off) when:

• The building is new to myCoreAI or has just been renovated.
• Comfort complaints are still being root-caused.
• The building is in a commissioning or validation period that requires predictable, configuration-driven behavior.

Worked example

An office building with stable occupancy enables AI Freedom after six months of monitoring. myCoreAI replaces the configured 21–23 °C comfort bounds with learned reference bounds: 21.2–22.8 °C during weekday office hours, and 19.5–24.5 °C overnight and weekends. During unoccupied periods, the guaranteed 0.5 °C setback ensures the optimizer can coast on stored thermal mass rather than holding daytime setpoints. Heating energy drops without daytime comfort complaints.

Interaction with other settings

AI Freedom changes which comfort bounds myCoreAI uses and guarantees a minimum unoccupied-hours setback. It does not override:

• Hard guardrails and crash protections.
• Maximum rate-of-change limits on heating circuits.
• Other building-specific limits unrelated to comfort min/max.

When a comfort complaint arrives with AI Freedom on, the first diagnostic step is to compare the learned reference bounds against the configured comfort bounds and check whether the learned bounds are wider than intended.