Distributed Energy
The Energy Mashup Lab (The Lab) is developing open source software for agents that will enable systems that use, produce, or store energy to self-assemble into microgrids. These microgrids can be standalone or grid-attached. If grid-attached, they present a single market or OpenADR interface to the grid, and that interface reveals only the net market position of the microgrid.
The microgrid is operated by a micromarket, trading in availability over time. The Lab uses ...
After nearly two years of work, The Energy Mashup Lab is creaking into public operation. Since Dave Cohen and I initially sketched out its activities in the Fall of 2013, we have been putting the pieces together. William Cox joined us in 2014. Our goal is open source software agents for self-assembling microgrids...
Every once in a while you run into something that just does not fit into any categories. The world welcomes a better mousetrap, but won’t even consider a mouse dispatcher that sends the mice outside to mow the lawn. We all want things that fit the categories we know. It is hard for a new category to make our purchasing lists.
For the last year, I have been talking to a company that manages energy based on math. The founder created new math to understand how dolphins process...
I feel I must be one of the last people to discover the open source Robotic Operating Systems (ROS). ROS is more of a framework than an operating system. The framework could be atop any operating system. In practice, for now, it is on Linux. (There are some interesting DotNet / Mono extensions, but those appear incomplete). ROS is providing the base for open source robotics, and the effect of robotics on all our lives will expand because of it.