Know Your Power NeedBefore You Book.
The Power Estimator is how we size every event today — and we're building it into a tool Event Managers and Production teams will be able to use directly, to plan and budget power before a single diesel generator gets booked. Here's a walkthrough of how it works, end to end.
Event Setup
It starts with the essentials: venue, city, event type, indoor or outdoor, event dates, show run-time per day, and setup day and hours. If the venue offers house power, that's captured too — it nets against the estimate later. This becomes the foundation everything downstream is sized against.
- • Venue, dates, show hours, and setup time in one form
- • Indoor/outdoor and house-power inputs that affect sizing
- • Drives which city-specific DG and BESS rate card applies
Load Builder
Next, the equipment list. Search SmartBatt's catalogue — hundreds of items with peak wattage already on file, sound to LED walls to broadcast gear — or upload a spreadsheet gear list and let the system extract and match items automatically. Anything custom can be added by hand, including LED walls sized straight from width, height, and pixel pitch.
- • Searchable equipment catalogue with peak-wattage data built in
- • Upload a gear list spreadsheet — auto-extracted and matched
- • Custom items and dimension-based LED wall sizing supported
Power Analysis
With the equipment list built, the system computes total peak power draw and recommends DG sizing to match — including splitting equipment across separate generators when combined load crosses the threshold where that's standard practice, to avoid interference between circuits. A full circuit-by-circuit breakdown backs up every number.
- • Peak power computed from real manufacturer/OEM ratings
- • DG sizing recommendation, with automatic circuit segregation
- • Circuit-by-circuit breakdown, not just a single total
Cost & Carbon
This is where it gets concrete: a side-by-side comparison of what a diesel generator would cost for this exact equipment list versus a SmartBatt BESS setup — savings percentage and CO2 avoided on site, calculated specifically for that event, not a generic estimate.
- • Diesel generator vs. SmartBatt BESS, priced for this event
- • Clear savings percentage the Event Manager can take to their budget
- • CO2 avoided on site, for sustainability reporting
Report
One click turns the whole estimate into a clean, branded report — event details, the full equipment list, and the cost and carbon comparison — that an Event Manager can save, print, or forward to their own stakeholders for sign-off.
- • Branded, print-ready report generated in one click
- • Full record of event details, equipment, and comparison
- • Easy to forward for internal budget approval
Where It's Headed
Getting Smarter With Every Event
Every deployment we run feeds real, minute-by-minute power data back into the same system that builds these estimates. That's the foundation we're building on: as that reference library of real events grows, the goal is an estimator that can predict power need for a new event by learning from similar ones we've already powered — tightening the gap between estimate and reality, and needing less manual input to get there.
Growing Actuals Library
Every completed deployment's real peak and average load feeds back in, building a larger reference set of what events like yours actually draw.
Sharper Estimates Over Time
As the reference data grows, estimates get calibrated closer to reality — less padding, less over-provisioning of diesel capacity just to be safe.
Self-Serve for Event Teams
The long-term goal: Event Managers and Production teams build their own estimate directly, without waiting on a call with our team.
Want First Access?
We're opening the Power Estimator up to a small group of Event Managers and Production teams before a wider release. Tell us about your upcoming event and we'll walk you through it directly.