On of the topics of the European Green Deal is "electrification" with the reinforced focus on renewable energies and decentralized citizen's energy communities.
Enabling local energy communities and supporting future micro-grid services revolutionizes the European energy sector - provided the business entrance barriers of the respective digital transformations are low to zero.
Open source energy management platforms like OpenEMS, supported by the OpenEMS Association e.V., are important building blocks to enable local prosumers to monitor and control energy consumption and generation.
OpenEMS is a low barrier energy management platform for small & midsize companies, and even private households with a mix of renewable energy sources, heat-pumps, vehicle charging stations and more.
For many of those prosumers, however, introducing an efficient energy management solution is just one angle of a 360° IoT-based transformation: Think of a farmer, who digitizes his business and, besides energy management, needs digital plant, soil and irrigation management. Or a hotel owner, who also wants to implement environmental monitoring and other smart building measures.
OpenEMS ships with all the prerequisites for avoiding digital silos. Being completely open sourced and backed by OSGI, makes it easy to integrate this great platform with IoT frameworks that cover a wider range of verticals, from smart agriculture to smart city to energy and industry.
FIWARE is an excellent example of such a framework. It is a curated open source IoT framework, made to accelerate the implementation of smart solutions, with a 360° view on a wide variety of IoT use cases.
We are proud to announce, that we have complemented OpenEMS with a secure connection to the FIWARE Context Broker. Component and channel readings can now be published as NGSIv2 compliant entities and contribute to a broad range FIWARE-enabled information management (from smart agri-tech to smart city to smart energy to smart industry).