Canvass is an open-source, smart grid research toolbox by Sayonsom Chanda, developed while at Washington State University. The best use case for Canvass is developing new algorithms, simulating new kind of attacks, and observing their impacts on the power system. This toolkit is for academic and research purposes, and penetration testing of critical power grid infrastructure.

Why another Power Grid Software?

Very few power system analysis tools are inter-disciplinary in nature. In the age of smart grids, performing co-simulations of cyber physical power systems are not only necessary, they are required. Yet, performing such simulations require elaborate setups and two different sets of modeling. Canvass can fulfill that gap, better than any other open source toolkit available in the market today (2017).

What can you do with Canvass?

1. Steady-state Power Flow
2. Cyber Attack Simulation for Smart Grid
3. Optimal Power Flow
4. Fault Calculations
5. State Estimation
6. Predict future load demands using recurrent neural networks.
7. Graph Theory Topology Analysis

How to use Canvass?

A PDF Documentation is coming soon.

Watch a 5-minute quickstart

Coolest Features

There is actually an ukraine mode, in which you can simulate the Ukraine power system attack on the power system model you have.

How can you build your own modules?

If you are cool with Python, you will start building smart things very easily.

Become a Canvass Developer today.

"The Smart Grid needs smart people and smart tools."

Smart Grid is one of the fastest growing career choices you can make. You will not only give new life to the aging grid, but you will actually help change the industry that lies at the heart of every other industry in the twenty-first century.

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Ethical Issues

Please use this software for penetration testing, white-hat purposes for improvement of the power grid. No Canvass developer can be held responsible for misuse of this academic and research toolbox. Use discretion. Be good.

Citation

Please cite the corresponding paper S.Chanda, "Canvass: An open-source smart grid co-simulation toolbox", Tech. Report, 2017. Download the BibTeX file from here.

Acknowledgments

Canvass depends on the following fantastic open source tools:

1. Mininet
2. Pandapower
3. PyPower
4. NetworkX

These tools may have additional requirements - please email us for more details.

License

The software is published under MIT License, AS IS and WITHOUT ANY IMPLICIT or EXPRESS warranties. This software is only for legal, ethical, education and research use. User discretion is mandatory. Please conform to legal requirements and check with local cyber security laws before proceeding.

Contact and Support

There are many ways you can reach the Canvass core developers.

1. Sayonsom (lead developer of Canvass) is always available via email at "[email protected]"

2. Canvass has a Gitter Community for you to join: gitter.im/smartgrid-canvass/

3. Submit a Pull Request on Github