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description: "Finally, a flexible, scalable, economical and secure software platform to operate the Internet of Things!"
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Inexpensive, small-scale computers—such as the Raspberry Pi—can have VOLTTRON™ installed as a controller.
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### About VOLTTRON™
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VOLTTRON™, developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and available as an open-source tool, provides an environment where data and devices connect seamlessly and securely to make decisions based on user needs and preferences.
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Business, research and academic communities agree that VOLTTRON™ is an important and versatile resource for improving building system performance and creating a more flexible and reliable power grid. But the technology’s adaptability has significantly expanded its potential beyond buildings and the grid; users are applying the platform in ways not originally envisioned.
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VOLTTRON™ is open source and publicly available from GitHub, and its ongoing development benefits from a highly collaborative approach. The U.S. Department of Energy views the technology as a central component of buildings-grid integration, and provides funding support. Updates and other advances are carried out by a PNNL research team working in concert with an active nationwide community of users.

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‎content/highlights/AddsValue.md

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### Developer Friendly
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VOLTTRON™, in field tests and actual applications, adds value by reducing implementation, integration and application development costs, which allows users to devote resources to other needs. Value also comes in results. In power grid- and buildings-related deployments, the platform has delivered energy efficiency improvements.
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### VOLTTRON™ value-adding features include:
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* Built-in security, which likely will reduce platform maintenance costs over time
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* Quality results at lower costs—It is open source and runs on low-priced commodity boards ($35 or less), greatly enabling low-cost implementation and maintenance
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* Affordable application development
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* Interoperability, connecting devices, protocols, and other platforms
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* Availability of ongoing engagement and technical assistance provided by the VOLTTRON™ development team—The team holds regular “Office Hours” meetings with users to discuss new features and plans, collaborate and answer questions.

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The VOLTTRON™ software is open source and available to users at no cost. It was designed for small computing devices, such as Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone Black, and the platform itself uses minimal resources. This greatly reduces hardware costs for its deployment.
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Users have found that other characteristics—such as VOLTTRON™’s security, interoperability between different devices, portability and flexibility, and easy application development—underscore the software’s cost-effectiveness and versatility. Reduced implementation costs and cycle time lead to productive solution development.

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VOLTTRON™ was created as an overarching integration platform to bring together vendors, users and developers, enable rapid application development and testing, and support modern control strategies.
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The platform is a cost and time saver. It is flexible, not linking applications to a specific language; interoperable across vendors and applications; and facilitates easy application development and scale-up.
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These characteristics allow developers to work with devices, external resources, and each other over a common interface without worrying about underlying details, which enhances application development.

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A successful platform must work across vendors and protocols and provide capabilities to simplify these interactions. VOLTTRON™, open and flexible by design, enables applications written by different organizations to easily and securely talk with both each other and devices being controlled.
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Platform capabilities enable communication with a variety of devices through standard (Modbus, BACnet, etc.) or custom protocols. Also, VOLTTRON™ design eases integration of legacy systems by hiding complexities of device interactions. If the device can be made to interact, it can participate in the platform.
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Virginia Tech, in using and testing the platform in its Building Energy Management Open-Source Software (BEMOSS), concluded that VOLTTRON™ is interoperable between devices from different manufacturers, a significant benefit in the field.

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VOLTTRON™ software, platform services, and agents are open source and employ a Berkeley Software Distribution-style license, allowing the free distribution and development of the software. The license supports organizations developing proprietary solutions on top of the open-source code.
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The platform’s open-source status helps reduce operation, installation, programming and overall integration costs. Further, VOLTTRON™’s active community of users meets on a regular basis to discuss the technology and contribute improvements and solutions, which helps ensure VOLTTRON™’s ongoing usefulness and value. Learn more about this aspect of VOLTTRON™.
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A separately licensed platform plugin provides additional capabilities to the platform for large-scale, real-world deployments.

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VOLTTRON™ is versatile. Designed initially to improve power grid operations, this technology enables decision-making and solutions for any need that requires collection, management and analysis of data streams. Just use your imagination!
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VOLTTRON™ is:
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* Secure
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* Functional, supporting energy, operational and financial transactions between network entities
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* Scalable
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* Interoperable
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* Sophisticated yet simple—providing a readily useful environment for quick, cost-effective solution development.
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Beyond grid and buildings, potential uses extend to improved interoperability between utility systems and proprietary home energy technologies; cybersecurity applications; data management; product tracking; energy efficiency in non-building disciplines, such as irrigation management; and more.
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The VOLTTRON™ platform—and by extension, its users—continues to benefit from the U.S. Department of Energy’s ongoing development funding and support. DOE wants to optimize the platform for buildings-grid integration and transactive energy, but the agency also is supportive of alternate uses—and full realization—of the technology’s potential.

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Users can scale to meet their needs. From horizontal platform-to-platform workloads, or vertical device-to-cloud configurations, VOLTTRON™ provides the necessary scaling flexibility. The technology supports use of small computing boards monitoring several sensors, or it can operate from a server to handle heavy-duty, intensive jobs.

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From the beginning, VOLTTRON™ developers actively collaborated with cyber security experts and built security into the technology, rather than “bolting it on” later. The commitment has continued, with developers regularly upgrading features in response to emerging requirements and VOLTTRON™ user feedback.
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The platform applies a threat-model approach for determining software threats and vulnerabilities and how to reasonably reduce the attack surface and/or harm from a compromise. Through established mitigation strategies, VOLTTRON™ addresses a range of possible attack avenues and risks.

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summary: VOLTTRON™ capabilities improve control and operation of building devices and systems, leading to enhanced performance and energy efficiency.
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**It’s a solution to build on!**
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VOLTTRON™ enables secure, efficient management of a wide range of building-related functions, including heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems, electric vehicles, distributed energy resources, or even whole building loads. Building owners, management firms, energy services vendors and others are applying this versatile technology to maximize building performance and energy-efficient operations.
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With VOLTTRON™, data, devices and decisions connect seamlessly and securely based on user needs and preferences.
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**The Case for VOLTTRON™ in Buildings**
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Homes and buildings use a lot of energy, often inefficiently. The federal government estimates that structures account for approximately 40 percent of the nation’s total primary energy consumption. Many buildings are designed to support efficiency features that reduce energy consumption for heating, lighting, hot water and other functions. However, these features often are not fully deployed. VOLTTRON™ addresses this deficiency and helps make buildings more efficient while ensuring overall functionality and minimizing impacts at the service level.
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**The Answer for Improved Performance and Efficiency**
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The VOLTTRON™ software platform and associated V-agent applications perform monitoring, data collection and analysis in devices and building systems, producing actionable information that streamlines control and implementation of energy- and cost-saving measures.

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Description: Whether it involves control of thermostats, lighting, hot water or other functions, VOLTTRON™ is a secure solution that can help turn today’s house into tomorrow’s connected home, enabling features that result in improved energy efficiency, cost savings and convenience.
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summary: Whether it involves control of thermostats, lighting, hot water or other functions, VOLTTRON™ is a secure solution that can help turn today’s house into tomorrow’s connected home, enabling features that result in improved energy efficiency, cost savings and convenience.
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Connecting the power system and utilities with the functions that improve home livability, VOLTTRON™ plays a key role in helping to manage wiser, more efficient use of energy resources.
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**Bringing home the savings!** Connected home devices—such as smart appliances and security systems—are projected to grow their market share significantly to reach $490 billion in 2019. However, many smart technologies lack connections to their community and the power grid.
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Truly connected smart homes should not only benefit their occupants, they should also benefit the community as a whole by helping strengthen the grid and by building a more resilient and reliable utility network. VOLTTRON™ makes this possible.
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### Efficiency, Savings, Comfort
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As with commercial buildings, residential homes can benefit from VOLTTRON™’s secure capabilities. Whether it involves control of thermostats, lighting, hot water or other functions, VOLTTRON™ enables features that result in improved energy efficiency, cost savings and convenience. And the best part is that utilities don't have to worry about smart devices. VOLTTRON™ does that for them, serving as a single, central point-of-contact for homes.
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With VOLTTRON™, data, devices and decisions connect seamlessly and securely based on user needs and preferences.

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Description: VOLTTRON™ offers a cost-effective method for gathering, analyzing and managing data from any type of device.
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VOLTTRON™, with Modbus and BACnet implementations, enables gathering and dispositioning of data.
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**VOLTTRON™ provides a secure way to examine data, reveal useful information and deliver solutions.** This technology can readily retrieve data from devices and coordinate analysis, offering analytics firms and other potential users unique opportunities to add value.
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With VOLTTRON™, data, devices and decisions connect seamlessly and securely based on user needs and preferences.
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**Rivers of Data**
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Devices of all kinds are producing vast amounts of data every minute of the day, but often the data is not effectively mined for information that could lead to improved knowledge, better processes and, perhaps, more profitable outcomes. VOLTTRON™ offers capabilities for any type of device from which there’s a reason to collect and use data, and includes Modbus and BACnet implementations. The open-source, proprietary aspects of VOLTTRON™ help make it cost-effective.
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**A Versatile, Safe Data Tool**
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The VOLTTRON™ software platform and associated V-agent applications collect data and either analyze it locally or push to the cloud for storage and subsequent analysis. This technology’s strong security foundation helps ensure that data is protected from external threats.

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