they're using voltron in different ways. for example, university of washington is looking at using it in terms of the incorporation of solar technologies into their campus. washington state in terms of the corporation of large scale stationary storage as we heard earlier. they're each doing independent study. what we're now getting funding from, the washington state clean energy fund is to bring that together into a single regional demonstration of the power of transactive energy where we can collaboratively manage our loads in realtime in response to signals we're getting from the grid. we're doing that in the northwest. we've now been partnering with colleagues in ohio, the university of toledo and at case western university where they're also looking at this with respect to the incorporation of renewables and stationary storage. and they're doing their own demonstration and are plans in the future to link that to the power of transactive control in a larger scale. and right here in washington, d.c., we've already deployed

voltron. an innovation we've come up with really combining some of the technologies we have today for controlling appliances and technologies. from building to campus to regional scale and infusing it with intelligence. so, what is this device? a combination of the real smarts. running on a lightweight comp e computing platform, such as raspberry pie and made available through u open source, so our partners can download it through the website and use anytime a variety of different plaixs. one of the things we're able to do is partner with different people to explore the ways vol tron can be used. we're also partnering with people to adopt this technology. what can it do for us? >> hopefully move the slide forward. what we have here is we can use that technology to within your building to control appliances or devices. here, we're just showing an hvac unit you might see in your supermarket. to control that, a series within the building, a buildingist itself, so you know have a smart building an

they're using voltron in different ways. for example, university of washington is looking at using it in terms of the incorporation of solar technologies into their campus. washington state in terms of the corporation of large scale stationary storage as we heard earlier. they're each doing independent study. what we're now getting funding from, the washington state clean energy fund is to bring that together into a single regional demonstration of the power of transactive energy where we can collaboratively manage our loads in realtime in response to signals we're getting from the grid. we're doing that in the northwest. we've now been partnering with colleagues in ohio, the university of toledo and at case western university where they're also looking at this with respect to the incorporation of renewables and stationary storage. and they're doing their own demonstration and are plans in the future to link that to the power of transactive control in a larger scale. and right here in washington, d.c., we've already deployed

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and the invention we're coming up with here, very simple, but something we're calling voltron. a device smaller than a deck of cards and it's an innovation we've come up with combining some of the technologies we already have today for controlling appliances and technologies being able to do that from builting to campus to regional scale and infusing it with intelligence. so what is this device? it's a combination of the algorithms we just heard about, the real smarts, running on a very lightweight computing platform such as raspberry pie and made available through open source through so our partners can download it from the volttron.org web site and use it for a variety of applications. we're eager to partner with people to explore the ways volttron can be used and we run an annual competition in partnership with d.o.e. to do this. we're partnering with people to adopt this technology. what can do it for us? hopefully it can move the slide forward. what we have here is we can use that technology within your building to control appliances or devices. here we're just showing an