Open Source

This page covers the governance of our open source project, a well as the goals.

The Bacon Method

Mission Statement

The project aims to provide open source industrial grade control and monitoring to HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning) and plumbing in general, with a defined targets of

• saving carbon
• increasing efficiency
• reducing running costs
• increasing reliability

Method Statement

• Establish working systems, in the field, to prove the technology at all points in a heat network (the largest of all plumbing systems), running both services and equipment control [DONE]
• Create a general purpose industrial grade IO board to connect IoT control platforms to HVAC equipment, capable of working with both a Raspberry Pi and an ESP32 [Almost Done]
• Field trials to work out gremlins in the architecture, hardware and software. Debugging.
• Establish an initial community of users who are actively saving carbon and money using the system. [Field Trials]
• Grow the community to include others that with to replicate the savings made in field trials.
• Extend the community to include experts from the open software community who can help drive the project
• Create a central point of performance data sharing, where the results (and code) from energy saving projects can be shared, and where live performance dashboards can be seen. Show, tell, boast, embarrass,
• Create industry wide collaboration on standard control functions, that can then feed into official CIBSE guidance.