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ABB has reinforced its commitment to smart energy innovation with the launch of its new Software Developer Portal, designed to enable the development of new data-driven energy strategies for buildings.
The portal will make it easier for ABB customers to integrate data and analytics from ABB Ability Electrical Distribution Control System into their operations – and for external developers to develop custom applications that meet the specialist needs of different sectors.
The Software Developer Portal provides a secure way for developers, analytic companies and trusted partners to use power data from ABB’s smart hardware in new and innovative ways. The Portal provides an Application Programming Interface (API) and a Software Development Kit (SDK). ABB’s API enables different software packages to work together for customers. The new SDK allows approved developers to create new applications for ABB’s digital platform, which they will be able to promote and monetize in the ABB Marketplace.
Facilities use the ABB Ability Electrical Distribution Control System, a cloud-based Energy Management solution, to manage microgrids and to improve energy management, cost allocation and carbon emissions. The API and SDK will enable higher levels of customization, sector-specific algorithms and more advanced functions that will help unlock additional value for customers.
The Software Developer Portal provides a secure process for third party solutions to be developed, tested, certified and published on the ABB Ability EDCS Platform and to offer these applications on the ABB Ability Marketplace. The API layer will enable authorized third-party solutions to access ABB Ability data in a secure way, providing additional features and capabilities.
Developers will be able to adapt existing solutions that use the data acquired by the EDCS Platform to offer customers new services. These external applications will only be able to access data when customers explicitly grant them access.
Platform-hosted extensions could include:
- widgets providing alternative ways to present key data
- analytics to forecast energy consumption for specific loads for the next 24 hours
- specific routines for complex conditions.
External data sources could also be integrated. Weather forecasts, for example, could help improve microgrid management strategies.