volttron-economizer-rcx 2.1.0

Economizer Agent helps in the re-tuning process and addresses some of the issues associated with RCx. RCx is known to save energy consumption , but the process used is not cost-effective. Economizer Agent and it's diagnostics allow continuous re-tuning and problem identification which can lower the costs of RCx

Economizer RCx Agent

Economizer Agent helps in the re-tuning process and addresses some of the issues associated with RCx. RCx is known to save energy consumption , but the process used is not cost-effective. Economizer Agent and it's diagnostics allow continuous re-tuning and problem identification which can lower the costs of RCx

Requirements

• python >= 3.10
• volttron >= 10.0

Documentation

More detailed documentation can be found on ReadTheDocs. The RST source of the documentation for this agent is located in the "docs" directory of this repository.

Installation

Before installing, VOLTTRON should be installed and running. Its virtual environment should be active. Information on how to install of the VOLTTRON platform can be found here.

Install and start the Economizer RCx Agent (assuming the vip identity "economizer.ahu1").

   vctl config store economizer.ahu1 config <path/to/config/file>
   vctl install volttron-economizer-rcx --vip-identity economizer.ahu1 --tag economizer --start

View the status of the installed agent

vctl status

Development

Please see the following for contributing guidelines contributing.

Please see the following helpful guide about developing modular VOLTTRON agents