Design of microgrid web services for microgrid applications

In general, Open Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) provide advantage that general Web programmer who doesn't have expertise on a specific domain can develop and maintain domain specific applications. Open APIs also enable rich mashups through composition of open APIs of various domains. This paper presents design of open APIs for microgrid, in order to enable easy and various microgrid application development and maintenance. We design microgrid open APIs in Web services, namely RESTful, considered as a popular and simple mechanism. We experiment and revise these APIs through some example applications which use the APIs.