ACE IoT Solutions, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) and several utilities are working on a project demonstrating the value and viability of open source home energy management systems. The project, funded by the Department of Energy’s Grid Modernization Initiative, serves to highlight the critical role of CTA-2045, an open communications standard for appliances such as electric water heaters. In this post, we examine the CTA-2045 standard, a workhorse enabling the smart, grid-integrated home of the future.

Grafana, an open source analytics and monitoring solution, has accepted ACE IoT’s React-powered SVG Panel plugin. The free plugin is available on Grafana’s website and on GitHub and is already being used by a wastewater treatment plant and by off-grid solar energy facilities to provide compelling visualizations of real-time operations data.

Cybersecurity researchers from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have recently published a Threat Profile of ACE IoT Solutions’ commercial deployment of the Eclipse VOLTTRON platform. The Threat Profile, published by PNNL’s Secure Software Central (SSC) Team, provides ACE IoT and our customers with a clear understanding of potential threats against ACE IoT’s Cloud Platform and an independent assessment of ACE IoT’s approaches to mitigating security threats.