VOLTTRON Lite: Integration Platform for the Transactional Network

Technical Report · Thu Oct 31 04:00:00 EDT 2013

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1108150· OSTI ID:1108150

Haack, Jereme N. ^[1]; Katipamula, Srinivas ^[1]; Akyol, Bora A. ^[1]; Lutes, Robert G. ^[1]

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1. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

In FY13, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) with funding from the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Building Technologies Office (BTO) designed, prototyped and tested a transactional network platform. The platform is intended to support energy, operational and financial transactions between any networked entities (equipment, organizations, buildings, grid, etc.). Initially, in FY13, the concept demonstrated transactions between packaged rooftop units (RTUs) and the electric grid using applications or “agents” that reside on the platform, on the equipment, on local building controller or in the Cloud. This document describes the core of the transactional network platform, the Volttron Lite™ software and associated services hosted on the platform. Future enhancements are also discussed. The appendix of the document provides examples of how to use the various services hosted on the platform.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 1108150
• Report Number(s): PNNL--22935; BT0302000
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English