VOLTTRON™: An agent platform for integrating electric vehicles and Smart Grid

Author

Haack, J. ; Akyol, B. ; Tenney, Nathan ; Carpenter, Bryan ; Pratt, Richard ; Carroll, T.

Author_Institution

Pacific Northwest Nat. Lab., Richland, WA, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

2-6 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

81

Lastpage

86

Abstract

The VOLTTRON™ platform provides a secure environment for the deployment of intelligent applications in the Smart Grid. The platform´s design is based on the needs of control applications running on small form factor devices, namely security and resource guarantees. Services such as resource discovery, secure agent mobility, and interacting with smart and legacy devices are provided by the platform to ease the development of control applications and accelerate their deployment. VOLTTRON has been demonstrated in several different domains that influenced and enhanced its capabilities. This paper will discuss the features of VOLTTRON and highlight its usage to coordinate electric vehicle charging with home energy usage.

Keywords

electric vehicles; power system analysis computing; smart power grids; software agents; VOLTTRON; agent platform; electric vehicle charging; resource discovery; secure agent mobility; small form factor devices; smart grid; Buildings; Electric vehicles; Home appliances; Quality of service; Smart grids; Water heating; power system analysis computing; software agents;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Connected Vehicles and Expo (ICCVE), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCVE.2013.6799774

Filename

6799774