VOLTTRON™ documentation!¶
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VOLTTRON™ is an open-source platform for distributed sensing and control. The platform is an open source tool for performing simulations, improving building system performance, and creating a more flexible and reliable power grid.
Features¶
- a secure message bus allowing connectivity between modules on individual platforms and between platform instances in large scale deployments
- a flexible agent framework allowing users to adapt the platform to their unique use-cases
- a configurable driver framework for collecting data from and sending control signals to buildings and devices
- automatic data capture and retrieval through our historian framework
- an extensible web framework allowing users and services to securely connect to the platform from anywhere
VOLTTRON™ is open source and publicly available from GitHub. The project is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and receives ongoing updates from a team of core developers at PNNL. The VOLTTRON team encourages and appreciates community involvement including issues and pull requests on Github, meetings at our bi-weekly office-hours and on Slack. To be invited to office-hours or slack, please send the team an email.