Polysun Inside: A Universal Platform for Commercial Software and Research Applications
Abstract
The simulation tool Polysun has been extended with a software interface that allows other software to connect to the Polysun simulation kernel. As a result, on one hand, commercial software can extend its functionality and offer complex solar thermal simulation to new application areas and to a new range of users. On the other hand, the innovative software interface allows for a broad range of research applications, some of which are presented in this paper. Recently, the new software interface has also been prepared for the usage in the highly customizable Polysun Online web service applications. It has long been recognized that it is a challenge to bring both solar energy into architectural design and in particular to enhance solar design in the early planning stage. With Polysun Inside now integrated into Lesosai, DDS-CAD, BKI Energieplaner, plan4solar and other tools .