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
Keywords
co-simulation real-time simulation villas
Keywords from Contributors
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Repository metadata
Open-Source Real-time Multi-protocol Gateway
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/villasframework/node
- Owner: VILLASframework
- License: apache-2.0
- Created: 2022-12-02T09:11:02.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2026-10-05T14:55:52.000Z (17 days ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-10-18T00:26:41.925Z (4 days ago)
- Topics: co-simulation, real-time, simulation, villas
- Language: C++
- Homepage: https://villas.fein-aachen.org/
- Size: 36.8 MB
- Stars: 22
- Watchers: 6
- Forks: 23
- Open Issues: 73
- Releases: 8
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE
- Citation: CITATION.cff
- Codeowners: CODEOWNERS
README.md
VILLASnode
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/
Related Projects
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
- Steffen Vogel post@steffenvogel.de
- Niklas Eiling niklas@eil.ing
- Felix Wege fwege@eonerc.rwth-aachen.de
- Alexandra Bach alexandra.bach@eonerc.rwth-aachen.de
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:
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- family-names: Vogel
given-names: Steffen
orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3384-6750"
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- family-names: Pitz
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- family-names: Bach
given-names: Alexandra
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- family-names: Stevic
given-names: Marija
- family-names: Monti
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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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- Name: VILLASframework
- Login: VILLASframework
- Email:
- Kind: organization
- Description: VILLASframework is a toolset for local and geographically distributed real-time co-simulation.
- Website: https://fein-aachen.org/projects/villas-framework/
- Location: Aachen, Germany
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- Issues event: 27
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- Pull request event: 205
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- Delete event: 27
- Discussion event: 1
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- Issues event: 10
- Pull request event: 19
- Pull request review comment event: 13
- Pull request review event: 9
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Last synced: 1 day ago
Total Commits: 6,508
Total Committers: 41
Avg Commits per committer: 158.732
Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.251
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Committers in past year: 11
Avg Commits per committer in past year: 24.091
Development Distribution Score (DDS) in past year: 0.468
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| Philipp Jungkamp | p****p@r****e | 154 |
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Last synced: 1 day ago
Total issues: 707
Total pull requests: 472
Average time to close issues: almost 3 years
Average time to close pull requests: 19 days
Total issue authors: 14
Total pull request authors: 24
Average comments per issue: 3.33
Average comments per pull request: 1.42
Merged pull request: 370
Bot issues: 0
Bot pull requests: 8
Past year issues: 14
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Package metadata
- Total packages: 3
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Total downloads:
- pypi: 108 last-month
- Total dependent packages: 0 (may contain duplicates)
- Total dependent repositories: 3 (may contain duplicates)
- Total versions: 86
- Total maintainers: 3
proxy.golang.org: github.com/villasframework/node
- Homepage:
- Documentation: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/villasframework/node#section-documentation
- Licenses: apache-2.0
- Latest release: v1.3.2 (published about 1 month ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-10-20T23:04:44.283Z (1 day ago)
- Versions: 38
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pypi.org: villas-node
Python support for the VILLASnode simulation-data gateway
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- Documentation: https://villas-node.readthedocs.io/
- Licenses: apache-2.0
- Latest release: 1.1.0 (published 11 months ago)
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- Average: 15.277%
- Downloads: 26.801%
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