ecoControl is a prototype that demonstrates how heterogeneous energy systems can be optimized in residential buildings. For this reason, ecoControl provides basic settings, a unifying programming interface as well as suitable forecasts. It makes it possible to develop and execute optimization algorithms which can be based on those forecasts. ecoControl currently supports the following energy systems: cogeneration units, peak load boilers and heat storages. Since it is released under the MIT license, it can easily be extended to support more energy systems by anyone who can write Python code.

If you are running Debian 7.6 or Ubuntu 14.04, you can execute the following line in your terminal. This will run the autoinstaller which will install all requirements and ecoControl automatically. The user must have sudo rights, but should not be root.

$ curl -sL https://raw.github.com/SEC-i/ecoControl/master/autoinstaller.sh | bash

Install pip, npm and bower:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install python-pip npm
$ sudo npm install -g bower

Install PostgreSQL 9.3 or later:

$ sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.3 postgresql-contrib-9.3

If this command fails, you may want to check how PostgreSQL can be installed on your system.

Download and unzip ecoControl:

$ wget -O ecoControl.zip https://github.com/SEC-i/ecoControl/archive/master.zip
$ unzip ecoControl.zip
$ cd ecoControl-master/

Install all Python dependencies and download all Javascript dependencies:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ bower install

Set up database and tables for ecoControl:

$ sudo -u postgres psql -c "CREATE ROLE ecocontrol LOGIN PASSWORD 'sec-i';"
$ sudo -u postgres createdb --owner=ecocontrol ecocontrol
$ python manage.py syncdb

You should change the default password 'sec-i' for security purposes. Don't forget to also change the password in the settings.py file.

Start a lightweight development web server on the local machine:

$ python manage.py runserver

Open http://localhost:8000/ in your browser and start ecoControl.

If you want to deploy ecoControl and use it in production, please read the development section in the documentation.

A documentation is available at: https://ecocontrol.readthedocs.io/

If you are interested in supporting this project, feel free to join the Smart Energy Control Initiative.

ecoControl was developed by Eva-Maria Herbst, Fabian Maschler, Fabio Niephaus, Max Reimann and Julia Steier during a bachelor's project at Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam. They were supported by Carsten Witt as well as by Tim Felgentreff, Jens Lincke and Marcel Taeumel from the Software Architecture Group led by Prof. Hirschfeld.

ecoControl is open-source and licensed under the MIT license.