Gridless API

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Inspiration

Helping refugee settlements and Hospitals/Health Infrastructure in South Sudan to:

make the best their solar panel electricity generation
minimize storage costs
estimate energy needs and plan accordingly during emergency situations

Help the expansion of Renewables with Collective Self-Consumption schemes by:

make the best their solar panel electricity generation (no income loss for producer)
minimize storage costs
minimize electricity send back to the grid during peak production times

What it does

Provide forecasts for electricity generation and consumption a) through an API b) through a web app (for sites with no IT manager)

How I built it

Generation forecast: calling Solcast API Consumption forecast: 1- get user input through our endpoint 2- API grabs data from API and uploads the forecast FrontEnd: Data collection: a) Case A - User has data: directly from API b) Case B - User has no data: we provide the microcontroller script to read sensor data and post to API (user buys the hardware)

Challenges I ran into

Time management Reach a common understanding of the project's scope took some time Cross-functional team: sometimes hard to understand what others are doing, at what stage they are etc...

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Built a transversal project with API infrastructure, machine learning, edge device control Built a prototype that anyone can use regardless of their IT skills Created a solution for a problem we really wanted to solve Met very cool people