Green Button, JavaScript and PHP

Outline

  • About me

  • What's Green Button?

  • How to implement this standard in PHP and JavaScript?

  • Green Button libraries Introduction

About me

  • Peter

  • GitHub

  • Active open source contributor

  • An software engineer

    • ​DevOps

    • Back-end

  • 3+ years for PHP development

  • PHP 5.3 → PHP 7+

  • No framework→Slim→Laravel

  • Working for ITRI currently

  • Smart Grid technology

What's Green Button?

  •  It is an industry-led effort that responds to a 2012 White House call-to-action to provide utility customers.
  • A easy and secure access to their energy usage information in a consumer-friendly and computer-friendly format
    • electricity
    • natural gas
    • water usage
  •  Using atom+xml based
    • Atom Feed

How to implement this standard in PHP and JavaScript?

It's hard.

But don't be worried.

npm i green-button-data-converter

green-button-converter

var DataWriter = require('green-button-data-converter').DataWriter
var options = {
  'interval_duration': 86400,
  'time_period_duration': 3600,
  'start_date': '2019-07-18 17:00:00',
  'interval_readings': [
    {date: '1563440400', mwh: 912},
  ],
  'power_of_ten_multiplier': 0,
  'uom': 72,
}

var dataWriter = new DataWriter(options)
console.log(dataWriter.output(true))

php-green-button

<?php

use Carbon\Carbon;
use Lee\Green\Button\CustomerDataWriter;

$carbon = Carbon::now(self::$timezone);
$dateTimeString = $carbon->format('Y-m-d\TH:i:s\Z');
$options = [
    'title' => 'Green Button Customer Feed',
    'account_id' => 'Peter',
    'meter_form_number' => 'TD17234599',
    'end_device_serial_number' => '99123456',
];
$customerDataWriter = new CustomerDataWriter($options);
$customerDataWriter->setPublishedDateTime($dateTimeString);
$customerDataWriter->setUpdatedDateTime($dateTimeString);

$result = $customerDataWriter->createCustomerAccountData();
composer require lee/php-green-button

TODO

Energy Usage Point Generator

References

  • Green Button References

    • http://dmdvalidator.greenbuttonalliance.org
    • http://dev.greenbuttonalliance.org/library.html
    • https://green-button.github.io/build

  • Libraries

    • https://github.com/peter279k/green-button-converter

    • https://github.com/peter279k/php-green-button

Thanks!