A brief overview of the AMEE platform and AMEEconnect API, presented at Over The Air 2011 by James Smith

1. Green your Apps
James Smith
Platform Evangelist, AMEE
Over The Air 2011

2. AMEE
Cloud Platform
Environmental Intelligence
Computable Standards

3. Emission Methodologies
Simple cases: A*B
The minority!
Many are much more complex
100s of lines of algorithm
>20 inputs
Combinations of required values

4. Why use AMEE?
Not everyone should have to be an expert
Making standards accessible without domain knowledge
Trusted implementation
Automated updating
Auditable

5. AMEE services
AMEEdiscover
AMEEconnect
AMEEapps

6. AMEEdiscover
Human-readable view of AMEE data
Searchable & Accessible
Fully referenced and documented

7. AMEEconnect
Access Content (emissions factors)
Perform Calculations
Store Data

8. Technologies
RESTful API
HTTP Standards
XML & JSON encodings

9. Choosing Categories
AMEEdiscover
Search
Browse by tag
Browse by standard
Comprehensive documentation
Calculator
Code generation

10. Workflow
Create Profile
One for each entity (user, etc)
POST to /profiles

11. Workflow
Select Data Item
Drilldown request to identify exact calculation
GET to /data/{category_path}/drill

12. Workflow
Create Profile Items
For each item of consumption
One-off or time series
POST to /profiles/{uid}/{category_path}
Each category has different parameters
energyConsumption=100&
energyConsumptionUnit=kWh

14. Example
Interactive HTTP using ihsh
http://github.com/AMEE/ihsh

15. SDKs
Java PHP
Ruby Python
Code generation in AMEEdiscover

19. Example
Generated code using SDK
http://discover.amee.com

20. AMEEapps
SaaS applications
Simple to complex
Dual purpose:
1. Complete off-the-shelf apps
2. Example applications (open source)

21. AMEEappkit
Our own internal toolset
Open Source (BSD 3-Clause)
Interlocking components for building complete webapps
Built on Rails 3

22. AMEEappkit
Data Abstraction DB storage
Analytics Classification
Authentication UI

23. Example
AMEEappkit demo
http://github.com/AMEE/hoofprinter

24. Fin
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