Every household running MESH is given a website to input user preferences. In a sense, this website works very similar to how a router configuration page works on a private home network. Through a user interface on this website, every household is able to set permissions, view finalized schedules, and monitor their energy consumption. Using these tools, MESH users can deter high energy waste by pinpointing high-impact areas. The primary goal of the user interface is to be highly customizable by providing a wide range of features that can be modified without sacrificing simplicity.

Once MESH receives the constraints and preferences of the users in a household, it will run a constraint optimization solver to find possible schedules for the smart devices in the house that satisfy all the users' requirements. Among these possible schedules, it will take real-time pricing of energy into account and chooses the schedule that results in low energy costs for the users in the household.

Given the schedule and corresponding predicted power consumption of each household, using a state-of-the-art distributed constraint optimization engine, MESH will coordinate with agents in other households to find a coordinated schedule that satisfies everyone's preferences and minimizes the energy costs for everyone.

Finally, the coordinated optimized schedule of operations for each household can be viewed and modified if necessary on the same website, where preferences are entered.