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- .. _dev_why:
- Why FlexMeasures adds value for software developers
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- FlexMeasures is designed to help with three basic needs of developers in the energy flexibility domain:
- I need help with integrating real-time data and continuously computing new data
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- FlexMeasures is designed to make decisions based on data in an automated way. Data pipelining and dedicated machine learning tooling is crucial.
- - API/CLI functionality to read in time series data
- - Extensions for integrating 3rd party data, e.g. from `ENTSO-E <https://github.com/SeitaBV/flexmeasures-entsoe>`_ or `OpenWeatherMap <https://github.com/SeitaBV/flexmeasures-openweathermap>`_
- - Forecasting for the upcoming hours
- - Schedule optimization for flexible assets
- - Reporters to combine time series data and create KPIs
- It's hard to correctly model data with different sources, resolutions, horizons and even uncertainties
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- Much developer time is spent correcting data and treating it correctly, so that you know you are computing on the right knowledge.
- FlexMeasures is built on the `timely-beliefs framework <https://github.com/SeitaBV/timely-beliefs>`_, so we model this real-world aspect accurately:
- - Expected data properties are explicit (e.g. unit, time resolution)
- - Incoming data is converted to fitting unit and time resolution automatically
- - FlexMeasures also stores who thought that something happened (or that it will happen), and when they thought so
- - Uncertainty can be modelled (useful for forecasting)
- I want to build new features quickly, not spend days solving basic problems
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- Building customer-facing apps & services is where developers make impact. We make their work easy.
- - FlexMeasures has well-documented API endpoints and CLI commands to interact with its model and data
- - You can extend it easily with your own logic by writing plugins
- - A backend UI shows you your assets in maps and your data in plots. There is also support for plots to be available per API, for integration in your own frontend
- - Multi-tenancy ― model multiple accounts on one server. Data is only seen/editable by authorized users in the right account
- For more on FlexMeasures, head right over to :ref:`getting_started`.
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