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

Nicolas giving the tutorial at FOSDEM 2024

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:

You can get the slides here.

The app built in this tutorial
The app being built in the tutorial

 

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.

See also the FOSDEM page for this talk.

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