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VILLASnode

Used in distributed- and co-simulation scenarios and developed for the field of power grid simulation at the EON Energy Research Center in Aachen.
https://github.com/villasframework/node

Category: Energy Systems
Sub Category: Grid Management and Microgrid

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co-simulation real-time simulation villas

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Open-Source Real-time Multi-protocol Gateway

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VILLASnode

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This is VILLASnode, a gateway for processing and forwarding simulation data between real-time simulators.
VILLASnode is a client/server application to connect simulation equipment and software such as:

  • OPAL-RT RT-LAB,
  • RTDS GTFPGA cards,
  • RTDS GTWIF cards,
  • Simulink,
  • LabView,
  • and FPGA models

by using protocols such as:

  • IEEE 802.2 Ethernet / IP / UDP,
  • ZeroMQ & nanomsg,
  • MQTT & AMQP
  • WebSockets
  • Shared Memory
  • Files
  • IEC 61850 Sampled Values / GOOSE
  • Analog/Digital IO via Comedi drivers
  • Infiniband (ibverbs)

It's designed with a focus on very low latency to achieve real-time exchange of simulation data.
VILLASnode is used in distributed- and co-simulation scenarios and developed for the field of power grid simulation at the EON Energy Research Center in Aachen, Germany.

Documentation

User documentation is available here: https://villas.fein-aachen.org/docs/

Contributing

All contributions are welcome!
If you want to contribute to VILLASnode, please visit the contribution guidelines in our documentation.

License

VILLASnode is licensed on a per-file basis under multiple open-source licenses.
Each source file contains an SPDX license identifier and copyright attribution in accordance with the REUSE Software guidelines.
For attribution, please refer to the SPDX headers in each file.
The Apache 2.0 license covers most of the codebase and is preferred for new contributions.
License compliance is automatically checked in CI, including validation of licenses in the LICENSES/ directory.

We kindly ask all academic publications employing components of VILLASframework to cite the following paper:

  • S. Vogel, N. Eiling, M. Pitz, A. Bach, M. Stevic, and P. A. Monti, “VILLASnode: An Open-Source Real-time Multi-protocol Gateway,” Journal of Open Source Software, vol. 10, no. 112, p. 8401, Aug. 2025, doi: 10.21105/joss.08401.

More publications using, or about VILLASnode can be found in the documentation.

For other licensing options please consult Prof. Antonello Monti.

  • SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014-2025 The VILLASframework Authors
  • SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

Contact

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Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems (ACS)
EON Energy Research Center (EONERC)
RWTH University Aachen, Germany

Citation (CITATION.cff)

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 OPAL-RT Germany GmbH
# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
cff-version: "1.2.0"
authors:
- family-names: Vogel
  given-names: Steffen
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3384-6750"
- family-names: Eiling
  given-names: Niklas
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7011-9846"
- family-names: Pitz
  given-names: Manuel
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6252-2029"
- family-names: Bach
  given-names: Alexandra
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7385-4642"
- family-names: Stevic
  given-names: Marija
- family-names: Monti
  given-names: Prof. Antonello
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1914-9801"
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.16917994
message: If you use this software, please cite our article in the
  Journal of Open Source Software.
preferred-citation:
  authors:
  - family-names: Vogel
    given-names: Steffen
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3384-6750"
  - family-names: Eiling
    given-names: Niklas
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  - family-names: Pitz
    given-names: Manuel
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6252-2029"
  - family-names: Bach
    given-names: Alexandra
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7385-4642"
  - family-names: Stevic
    given-names: Marija
  - family-names: Monti
    given-names: Prof. Antonello
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1914-9801"
  date-published: 2025-08-29
  doi: 10.21105/joss.08401
  issn: 2475-9066
  issue: 112
  journal: Journal of Open Source Software
  publisher:
    name: Open Journals
  start: 8401
  title: "VILLASnode: An Open-Source Real-time Multi-protocol Gateway"
  type: article
  url: "https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.08401"
  volume: 10
title: "VILLASnode: An Open-Source Real-time Multi-protocol Gateway"

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Python support for the VILLASnode simulation-data gateway

  • Homepage: https://villas.fein-aachen.org
  • Documentation: https://villas-node.readthedocs.io/
  • Licenses: apache-2.0
  • Latest release: 1.1.0 (published 8 months ago)
  • Last Synced: 2026-08-13T13:41:09.598Z (1 day ago)
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