FOSDEM 2024: a hands-on integration tutorial (video)

At FOSDEM 2024, there was an energy devroom again (2nd time). As we talked about using FlexMeasures in an open vehicle-to-grid (V2G) stack last time, we wanted to be a bit more hands-on this time. After all, FOSDEM is a developer conference.

So we designed a quick 15-minute tutorial which gives you a tour of how to integrate with FlexMeasures if you were to build your own smart heating startup (and use FlexMeasures as a smart backend). The video is right here, enjoy:

We covered these steps:

• create a new customer account with the relevant asset models for this use case (via a new API endpoint, e.g. called from your CRM)
• feed local measurements (e.g. temperature) regularly into your FlexMeasures server, using the FlexMeasures Python client
• get the latest price and weather forecast data from third-party-APIs (regularly via cron jobs), using existing FlexMeasures plugins
• call the FlexMeasures scheduler to compute when to draw green & cheap electricity for heating (via the FlexMeasures API) which you can put to use in the building
• define a cost reporter and let it run (regularly via cron jobs)
• configure a FlexMeasures dashboard to show the relevant data in one place

A lot for 15 minutes, and we didn't even touch all possibilities. A big thank you to the volunteer staff at FOSDEM, who made sure you can re-watch this now.

If you have questions about these presented topics, do make sure to contact us.