Senior Design Team SD36 • Making Microgrids Plug and Play

Project Overview

Everyone needs electricity. Microgrid pallets provide a mobile, modular power solution that can be applied to many use cases. Choice use cases are natural disaster relief, tactical deployment for military operations, or replacing gasoline powered generators. Currently, connecting these pallets is time consuming and requires technical expertise specific to these devices.

The goal of our project is to simplify the connection and configuration of pallets so that minimal to no training at all is required to use them. An extension of the project is to allow communication from the pallets to any connected electric grid and provide additional services.

Team Members

Andrew Frank

API Research/Network Engineer

Christian Pinta

API Research/Developer

Austin Thoreson

Systems Designer

Ben Eder

Software Developer

Saketh Jonnadula

Software Developer


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Design Documents (CPRE 491)

Team Contract
Design Doc 1 - User Needs
Design Doc 2 - Requirements
Design Doc 3 - Project Plan
Design Doc 4 - Design Contextualization and Exploration
Design Doc 5 - Proposed Design
Design Doc 6 - Testing
Final Design Document

Design Documents (CPRE 492)

Final Design Document
Project Presentation
Final Poster

Demo Video