Publications
This Threat Profile provides critical information for making threat-based decisions to increase security at a reasonable cost and to reduce risk. Readers can use the Threat Profile to decide...
This report reviews approaches for the deployment of the VOLTTRON™ building control
platform. It focuses on the competing priorities of scalability, repeatability, and simplicity by
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This document describes ZeroMQ (ZMQ) and RabbitMQ (RMQ) as used in VOLTTRON™ and discusses the most appropriate message bus choice for a specific VOLTTRON™ deployment use case.
Provides a foundation for a thorough understanding of possible threats as well as mitigations that have been implemented, or can be implemented. This Threat Profile focuses on open network...
Establishes security requirements, justifies security measures, and yields actionable controls for VOLTTRON™ deployments; aids in communicating risk to decision makers, development teams.
This report describes the Secure Software Central (SSC) offerings in general and the specific offerings applied to VOLTTRON™.
This Community Security Report outlines the process for developing a Threat Profile, discusses results of the campus deployment Threat Profile, and describes preliminary Threat Findings for two...
Establishes security requirements, justifies security measures, and yields actionable controls for VOLTTRON™ deployments; aids in communicating risk to decision makers, development teams.
VOLTTRON™ enables rapid authoring and secure deployment of autonomous software agents for distributed sensing and controls. It is designed to be as secure as possible to meet desired security...
Throughout Fiscal Years (FY) 2016 and early 2017, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory investigated the effects of scaling on VOLTTRON™ and its components...
This resource serves as a user guide for the deployment of the...
VOLTTRON™ is an open source distributed control and sensing software platform. Cost effective, scalable and secure, this technology improves the control of heating, ventilation and air...
This document details the development and testing of market-based transactive controls for commercial building heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems. These controls are intended to...
Renewable energy resources such as wind and solar power have a high degree of uncertainty. Large-scale integration of these variable generation sources into the grid is a big challenge for power...
This report describes how the intelligent load control (ILC) algorithm can be implemented to achieve peak demand reduction while minimizing impacts on occupant comfort. The algorithm was designed...
Descriptions of how VOLTTRON™ can be used to enable improved control of building operations and energy efficiency.
A summary of VOLTTRON™'s cutting-edge security features.
Descriptions of how VOLTTRON™ can be used to improve integration of distributed energy resources and stabilize power grid operations.
Provides a basic description of VOLTTRON™ capabilities, examines initial deployment activities and provides a best practice technology adoption guide for use by entities serving the small- and...
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...
VOLTTRON™, developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, is a distributed control and sensing software platform.
Given the distributed nature of the power grid—with millions of components operating independently and without context of their environments—centralized control is difficult and cost orohibitive...
Buildings consume 40% of the total energy in the U.S. and over 70% of the nation’s total electricity today. Concerted efforts on both federal and state level have contributed to the flattening of...
VOLTTRON™ platform enables the deployment of intelligent sensors and controllers in the smart grid and provides a stable, secure and flexible framework that expands the sensing and control...