This microservice was necessary for me to graduate in the Master's Degree in Engineering of Computer and Telematics. If interested, check MSC Eduardo Almeida to know more!
The Renewable Energy Community Platform consists in a microservices API to enable and enhance Peer-to-Peer energy Transactions between Prosumers and consumers of a community.
The market microservice acts as a computing algorithm, by processing all the electricity measurements from the meters microservice at a predefined rate and employing a market algorithm to create energy matches between community members and allocate the remaining energy to the public grid.
Why building a REC Platform using microservices:
- The project was developed together with other devs
- Changes in one particular module forced to shutdown/reboot the whole API.
- This is part of a research program, therefore multiple experimental ideas, frameworks, and scripts were used.
To make the API work, these are the core features of the Market:
The Market microservice requires Meters microservice to be operational.
Other microservices links:
There is a secure communication between this microservice and the Transactions one, therefore ensure that a '.pem' certificate is stored in market/secrets. The Meters microservice requires a MongoDB database to store the data. Update the info on market_config.init.
The all microservices structure is supposed to be deployed using Docker Swarm. Below are the steps to achieve it correctly.
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Create a network that hosts all the stack
docker network create --driver=overlay --attachable RECNetwork
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Run every Dockerfile to create its image
docker build -t <img_name>:<version>
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Deploy the whole Docker stack
docker stack deploy -c docker-compose.yml RECNetwork
For more info check REC Platform - Gateway
Eduardo Almeida - eapsa@ua.pt
Project Link: https://github.com/eapsa/REC-Platform-Market.git