Growing and supporting renewable energy through a truly collaborative open-source initiative is the objective of LF Energy. LF Energy is a nonprofit, vendor-neutral initiative from The Linux Foundation with an action plan to modernize electrical systems worldwide through open frameworks, reference architectures, and a support ecosystem of complementary projects.
LF Energy takes care of reusable components, open APIs, and interfaces through projects to adopt in platforms based on open-source code libraries. Systems integrators, vendors, developers, and end-users can solve complex and interconnected problems with secure and flexible open-source software.
When developing energy systems, cybersecurity, interoperability, control, optimization, virtualization of network functions, and digital management of distributed energy resources (DER) can all represent development challenges.
The objective of an open-source energy system is to reduce total costs by reducing development costs and facilitating the interconnection between systems.
System integrators can deliver to the market in faster way with scalable and modular plug-and-play components. Ideally, solutions can be implemented much faster, and be adapted dynamically to evolving business models.
5G runs on open source. 60 percent of all automobiles on the planet ship with open source. The cloud is completely foundational. All of that software is open source. So there is no question about the value and the security of open source. It is far more secure than a proprietary software.
Meeting the needs of billions of distributed and connected energy devices will require some sort of digital capability to enable communication between these devices. 5G and open source can become great mediators.
Reference- Economic Times, PCQuest, Science Direct