Leading Battery Storage Company Uses AWS-Powered AI ROC Agent to Transform Mission-Critical Support Operations

Industry: Energy

THE CHALLENGE

Scaling 24/7 ROC Support Without Increasing Risk or Headcount

As a leading battery storage company expanded its managed energy portfolio, its Remote Operations Center (ROC) faced mounting operational pressure. Operators were responsible for monitoring dozens of battery storage sites while managing a high volume of open support cases—each requiring deep context across Salesforce, emails, vendor documentation, operational data, and internal notes.

Key issues included:

  • High Cognitive Load: Operators had to reconstruct context across multiple systems for every ticket.
  • Inconsistent “Best Next Action”: After initial troubleshooting, escalation and next steps were slow and varied by operator.
  • Manual Shift Handoffs: 12-hour shifts required rapid ramp-up; handoffs were informal and error-prone.
  • Heavy Manual Monitoring: Nightly checks across ~85 sites increased fatigue and the chance of missed signals.
  • Limited Transparency: Customers had lower visibility into actions taken, impacting trust and perceived value.

The Hidden Pain Points

  • SLA Risk & Support Cost Growth: Increasing case volume and battery storage assets raised the risk of delayed escalation and SLA breaches.
  • Scaling Constraint: Operational strain limited the company’s ability to expand lifecycle services and partner programs while maintaining quality.
  • Customer Confidence: Limited visibility into support actions reduced perceived value—even when ROC effort was high.

ZetaMinusOne’s Solution

ZetaMinusOne partnered with a leading battery storage company to design and implement an AI-powered Remote Operations Center (ROC) Agent that augments operators with intelligent, context-aware assistance. The solution builds on an initial Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) proof of concept created by AWS and takes it to production with a secure, scalable, cloud-native architecture on AWS.

Core Features of the Solution

1. AI ROC Agent – Phase 1 (Ticket Assistant)
Operators ask natural-language questions about active Salesforce cases and receive context-rich answers grounded in historical records.

2. Relevant Precedent Retrieval (RAG)
AI ROC Agent retrieves similar past tickets, dispatch records, and conversations to help operators quickly compare patterns and actions taken.

3. Case Summaries & Rapid Ramp-Up
The agent generates concise summaries of case history and key actions, improving shift handoffs and reducing time to understand “what happened.”

4. Production-Grade Security & Delivery
Web access is delivered via CloudFront with WAF protection and Cognito-based authentication for secure ROC and internal stakeholder access.

Key Technical Features

Serverless, Event-Driven Ingestion

Scheduled ingestion of Salesforce support data using Amazon EventBridge and AWS Lambda, writing normalized structured content to Amazon S3.

Orchestrated Indexing Pipeline

AWS Step Functions coordinates validation, transformation, embedding generation, and indexing, ensuring reliability and repeatability.

Vector Search + Hybrid Metadata

Amazon OpenSearch Service stores vector embeddings for semantic similarity search, while Amazon DynamoDB stores case metadata (case ID, site, owner, timestamps) to enable filtering and hybrid retrieval.

RAG Inference on Amazon Bedrock

At query time, relevant context is retrieved and assembled into a system-prompted context window, then sent to a selected foundation model on Amazon Bedrock for concise, grounded answers.

THE IMPACT

Faster Resolution, Higher Throughput, and a Scalable AI Foundation

The AI ROC Agent improved operational efficiency and support quality by reducing time spent searching for context, accelerating decision-making, and establishing a scalable platform for future AI capabilities across the leading battery storage company’s operations.

Results at a Glance

~40% MTTR reduction for targeted moderately complex tickets
(from ~4–6 hours to ~2.5 hours).
25%+ increase in operator throughput
(from ~4 to 5+ complex tickets per 12-hour shift).
~$1,110 estimated monthly AWS cost (production + non-production)
with ~40% lower operational burden compared to self-managed approaches.
Foundation for future AI, including operational data assistance (Phase 2)
and next-best-action capabilities (Phase 3)

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