EnerGyan

EnerGyan (pronounced /eːnər ɡiːˈɑːn/) is an energy education and research platform developed for high school, undergraduate and graduate students with focus on energy. It was designed and developed at UW-Madison. It also serves as a research platform for scientists, energy engineers and researchers pursing advanced studies in power system, electronics, IoT, cyber-physical systems, and energy system etc.

EnerGyan in one sentence

It’s a programmable electricity grid-in-a-box.

EnerGyan in one picture

Why EnerGyan?

Contents:

• Contact
• Frequently Asked Questions
  • Where can EnerGyan be used?
  • What can you learn/teach with EnerGyan?
  • How do students program EnerGyan?
  • What can EnerGyan do?
  • How can you teach with EnerGyan?
  • Who’s the audience for this?
  • Is it just software-based education?
• EnerGyan
  • EnerGyan Features
  • Nomenclature
  • What does EnerGyan DC contain?
  • What does EnerGyan AC contain?
• Developing Apps with EnerGyan
  • What is an app?
  • Where should you run your app?
  • Before you start
    • Make sure you are authorized to access EnerGyan
    • Accessing EnerGyan
    • Making sure EnerGyan is running
  • Connect EnerGyan to your network
  • Connecting to EnerGyan
  • Communicating with EnerGyan
    • Python
    • JavaScript
    • Java
  • Running the app on EnerGyan
    • Connect to EnerGyan
    • Navigating to the EnerGyan toolkit
    • Running the app (on EnerGyan)
  • Running the app on your computer
    • Downloading the EnerGyan ToolKit
    • Fork the repository
    • Clone the fork you created
    • Navigate to the development tool kit directory
    • Understanding development tool kit directory structure
    • Creating your first app
    • Sample apps included
    • Running a sample app
    • Stopping your app
    • Creating a pull request
  • Skeleton app
    • Importing Modules
    • Defining a trigger function
    • Creating a new Client
    • Defining multiple Clients
    • Subscribing to updates
    • Understanding response data from server
  • API
    • API general format
    • How to use the API
    • Sample request
    • Sample response
    • EnerGyan DC Systems
    • EnerGyan AC Systems
  • Modules
    • hemSuperClient.py
    • hemEmail.py
    • hemParsingData.py
  • Tutorials
    • Understanding the HEM data dump
    • Extracting/copying data from HEM data dump
  • KnowledgeBase
    • Integrating other devices with EnerGyan
• Troubleshooting
• EnerHack 2018
  • EnerGyan team assignment
  • EnerGyan Hardware
    • DC1
    • DC2
    • DC3
    • DC4
    • DC5
    • DC6
    • AC1
    • AC2
  • Other hardware
  • Misc