Rapid deployment of capacity and energy management systems

An accelerated energy transition calls for an efficient development of innovative energy and grid capacity management algorithms. Field tests often play a vital role in evaluating the performance of new approaches before mass rollout, but often require extensive engineering efforts. To speed up even demanding field trials, this work presents a rapid deployment methodology and its implementation. Based on several core principles that target efficient engineering and demonstration, a rapid deployment architecture is derived. The architecture is then implemented in the AIT Rapid Deployment Platform (AIT RDP) and applied in various projects. It is demonstrated that via a combination of broadly available and mature software components as well as few custom modules that bridge needed functionality, a wide range of application scenarios can be covered with minimum efforts. Although ambitious prototypes often need to be integrated in complex environments using a multitude of different communication patterns and protocols, a large share of interface logic can be reused among installations. Hence, development efforts can be considerably reduced leaving more resources for the innovative algorithms under test.