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Welcome to the VOLTTRON™ wiki.

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This wiki documents the latest release of VOLTTRON™ 3.0. The documentation for previous versions can be found at:

• VOLTTRON 1.x Wiki
• VOLTTRON 2.x Wiki

For differences between v2.x and v3.x, please see [VOLTTRON 2.x to 3.x migration](2.x to 3.x Migration)

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VOLTTRON is an open source agent development and deployment platform designed to enable researchers to interact with devices and appliances without having to write drivers themselves. Please explore our project and if you have any questions please email volttron@pnnl.gov. More information about VOLTTRON can be found at: http://transactionalnetwork.pnnl.gov/

The main features of the VOLTTRON platform are:

• Open, flexible and modular software platform
• Ease of application development
• Interoperable across vendors and applications
• Isolates power and control system complexities from developers
• Object oriented, modern software development environment
• Language agnostic. Does not tie the applications to a specific language such as Java
• Broad device and control systems protocols support built-in
• ModBUS, BACNet, and others
• Multiple types of controllers and sensors
• Low CPU, memory and storage footprint requirements
• Supports non-Intel CPUs

New to VOLTTRON?

Please note, the User Guide is in the process of being updated to reflect the changes for VOLTTRON 3.0. Additionally, see the QuickStart page.

If you are new to VOLTTRON, please take a look at the VOLTTRON User's Guide for instructions on how to get started. This guide will walk you through getting the code, configuration, and running an example agent application.

Contributor Documentation

VOLTTRON welcomes contributions back to the project. These can be committed to the contrib/ directory. Documentation for the contributed code can be found here: Contributed Code Documentation

VOLTTRON Based Applications

Applications can be built upon VOLTTRON by extended its capabilities. An example of this is the BeMOSS system developed by Virginia Tech. This application adds auto-discovery capability for several devices as well as a user interface for controlling those devices. These features build on the core of VOLTTRON.

Reference Material

Initial paper. Presented at ASME 2011

ATES 2012 Paper

AAMAS 2013 Demo

Grid and Vehicles paper

VOLTTRON Overview Video