Adapter Overview

The Weather Data adapter is responsible for pulling real-time and future forecast weather data for use by the DMS power flow analysis. This adapter is written in Python and needs Python3 to run. It only imports the data with a timestamp in the future. Any data with a timestamp prior to the current time is ignored by the adapter. The weather data is used within the DMS applications for two purposes.

1. To drive the load forecast used by the power flow analysis. The weather data will be used to set which load profile is used by the real-time and forecast power flow solutions.

2. The weather data will be archived in the NMS PF_DERMS_FORECAST_HISTORY database table such that it can be used by the Profile Adapter to determine a historical weather conditions for a particular weather zone. The Profile Adapter needs the historical data such that provided load profiles can be adjusted properly by the adapter depending on the recorded temperature.