portable-app-framework is a Python package that provides a toolkit for developing, scaling and maintaining energy management and information systems (EMIS) applications using an ontology-based approach. Key contributions include an interoperable layer based on Brick schema, the formalization of application constraints pertaining metadata and data requirements, and a field demonstration. The framework allows for querying metadata models, fetching data, preprocessing, and analyzing data, thereby offering a modular and flexible workflow for application development.
Here are just a few of the things that portable-app-framework does.
You can use the CLI to to create, manage and update applications
> portable-app-framework -h
usage: portable-app-framework [-h] {new,update} ...
Utils CLI for the afdd framework.
positional arguments:
{new,update}
new Create a new application folder from template.
update Update README of an application.
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
A python class that helps to create a portable application. Once you created a new application in your project you can set up and run an application with the following lines of code
import pandas as pd
import brickschema
from portable_app_framework import Application
app = Application(
metadata=brickschema.Graph(),
app_name='app_name'
)
qualify_result = app.qualify() # True/False
fetch_result = app.fetch() # Dict of mapped variables
df = pd.DataFrame() # get df according to your logic
df_preprocess = app.preprocess(df)
final_result = app.analyze(df_preprocess)The source code is currently hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/RobertoChiosa/portable-app-framework and the list of changes for each release can be found in the CHANGELOG.
The portable-app-framework package requires Python >= 3.9. The main dependencies are reported in
the requirements.txt and in the setup.py file.
You can install the package in different ways depending on the level of usage you want to have.
- From source
- From PyPI
You can install the package from source by cloning the repository and running the following command:
git clone https://github.com/RobertoChiosa/portable-app-framework.git
cd portable-app-framework
pip install .You can install the stable version from PyPI with the following command:
pip install pfb-toolkitAll contributions, bug reports, bug fixes, documentation improvements, enhancements, and ideas are welcome.
Most development discussions take place on GitHub in this repo, via the GitHub issue tracker.
If you are simply looking to start working with the portable_app_framework codebase, navigate to
the GitHub "issues" tab and start looking through
interesting issues.
Or maybe through using portable_app_framework you have an idea of your own or are looking for something in the
documentation and
thinking ‘this can be improved’...you can do something about it!
The present repository has been released under MIT LICENSE
Work on portable-app-framework started in 2021 as an internal project at BAEDA Lab to deploy energy management and
information systems application in a most reliable way instead of solving implementation issues from scratch every time.
We found that the framework enabled faster deployment of such solutions thanks to the builtin methods that allowed the
analyst to skip ripetitive data integration tasks. Moreover allowed non analyst expert of metadata schema to exploit the
power of such tools. So we decided to create this package to share our experience with the scientific community and not
only.
To cite the package in publications use:
@article{CHIOSA2024114802,
title = {A portable application framework for energy management and information systems (EMIS) solutions using Brick semantic schema},
journal = {Energy and Buildings},
volume = {323},
pages = {114802},
year = {2024},
issn = {0378-7788},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2024.114802},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378778824009186},
author = {Roberto Chiosa and Marco Savino Piscitelli and Marco Pritoni and Alfonso Capozzoli},
keywords = {Energy management and information systems, Portable application, Brick metadata schema, Anomaly detection, Machine learning},
abstract = {This paper introduces a portable framework for developing, scaling and maintaining energy management and information systems (EMIS) applications using an ontology-based approach. Key contributions include an interoperable layer based on Brick schema, the formalization of application constraints pertaining metadata and data requirements, and a field demonstration. The framework allows for querying metadata models, fetching data, preprocessing, and analyzing data, thereby offering a modular and flexible workflow for application development. Its effectiveness is demonstrated through a case study involving the development and implementation of a data-driven anomaly detection tool for the photovoltaic systems installed at the Politecnico di Torino, Italy. During eight months of testing, the framework was used to tackle practical challenges including: (i) developing a machine learning-based anomaly detection pipeline, (ii) replacing data-driven models during operation, (iii) optimizing model deployment and retraining, (iv) handling critical changes in variable naming conventions and sensor availability (v) extending the pipeline from one system to additional ones.}
}