VOLTTRON 2016

Technical Report · Tue Jun 28 04:00:00 EDT 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1406827· OSTI ID:1406827

Akyol, Bora A. ^[1]; Allwardt, Craig H. ^[1]; Beech, Zachary W. ^[1]; Chapman, Joseph B. ^[1]; Haack, Jereme N. ^[1]; Katipamula, Srinivas ^[1]; Lutes, Robert G. ^[1]; Monson, Kyle E. ^[1]

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

VOLTTRON is a flexible, reliable, and scalable platform for distributed control and sensing. VOLTTRON serves in four primary roles: •A reference platform for researchers to quickly develop control applications for transactive energy. •A reference platform with flexible data store support for energy analytics applications either in academia or in commercial enterprise. •A platform from which commercial enterprise can develop products without license issues and easily integrate into their product line. •An accelerator to drive industry adoption of transactive energy and advanced building energy analytics. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Building Technologies Office, developed and maintains VOLTTRON as an open-source community project. VOLTTRON source code includes agent execution software; agents that perform critical services that enable and enhance VOLTTRON functionality; and numerous agents that utilize the platform to perform a specific function (fault detection, demand response, etc.). The platform supports energy, operational, and financial transactions between networked entities (equipment, organizations, buildings, grid, etc.) and enhance the control infrastructure of existing buildings through the use of open-source device communication, control protocols, and integrated analytics.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 1406827
• Report Number(s): PNNL--25499; BT0304030
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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