Distributed Computing for Intelligent Buildings in Communities: The Caravels Approach

This repository has the Deployment Runbook used in CARAVELS solution, a distributed computing environment for intelligent communities, published in: Silva, R., Gomes, L., & Vale, Z. (2024). Caravels: A Decentralized Container-Based Infrastructure for Sustainable Human-Centric Intelligent Energy Communities. The 19th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications SOCO 2024 (SOCO 2024), Springer, Cham, 2024, pp. 241–250. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-75013-7_23 To read more about CARAVELS, please refer to: Rafael Silva. (2025). Distributed Intelligent Management of Citizen Communities. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/30449 Silva, R., Costa, R., Gomes, L., & Vale, Z. (2025). CARAVELS: A Case Study Using Peer-to-Peer Transaction, Voluntary Demand Response, and Energy Storage Optimization. International Conference on the European Energy Market, EEM. https://doi.org/10.1109/EEM64765.2025.11050157 A full guide can be found in 'deployment-runbook.md' file. If you face any issues, please do not hesitate to contact the authors.