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Genesis of an IoT platform for the smart grid State of the art and challenges. Sebastien Alegret - GreenCom Networks Co founder / CTO June 2016 GreenCom Networks - 2016 GreenCom's genetic code combines Telcos and Utilities GreenCom Networks

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Genesis of an IoT platform for the smart grid State of the art and challenges.

Sebastien Alegret - GreenCom Networks Co founder / CTO June 2016

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GreenCom's genetic code combines Telcos and Utilities GreenCom Networks : a German-French Startup

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Our World, our vision

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Energy Supply

  • Central convential power generation
  • Central system management
  • Consumers or End Points

Energy Management

  • Central

and distributed power generation based on conventional and renewable sources

  • Central

and distributed system management

  • Customers and Prosumers

Old1World New1World

Paradigm Shift

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ENERGY&INFORMATION&BROKERAGE&PLATFORM Distribution (4.5m/nodes)/ Power/Generation (100k/nodes) Transmission (60k/nodes) Home/Office/ Devices (40bn/nodes)

Photovoltaic Heat Pump Micro CHP Electric Vehicle Storage Appliances

Network Control Center

Cleantech and Communication Technology lead to a Paradigm Shift in the resources being used

Paradigm Shift

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GreenCom Today: An IoT platform provider for the utility industry enabling new customer-driven business models

What we do

White-label SaaS platform provider Enabling management of demand, supply and storage capacity within Virtual Power Plants for utilities and ESCOs "Activating" utilities' and ESCO's customers through "Customer Engagement" applications Enabling business models of the future for our utility and ESCO customers Providing IoT Service aggregation for energy component manufacturers

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Challenges

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#1 : Connect the things

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Internet of Big Objects ;-)

CHP Storages Heat Pumps PV Inverters EV Charging Stations Smart Meters

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#2 : Survive protocol fragmentation

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A lot of protocols and alliances

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#3 : Survive platform fragmentation

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IoT Landscape…. and we’re not even mentioned ;-)

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IoT will only become a reality if objects cooperate.

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Who said I’m a geek…

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Who said I’m a geek…

API API API API API App

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Who said I’m a geek…

"samples": [{"air_temperature_celsius": “18.7", "capture_ts": "2014-04-13T06:30:00Z", "par_umole_m2s": "xxx", "vwc_percent": "20"}] { "dashboard_data": { "time_utc": 1460709133, "Temperature": 11.3, "temp_trend": "up" } }

One API to rule them all ? One ontology to rule them all ?

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Ontologies.

Domain Number of ontologies Smart Home ~50 Smart Energy ~10 Weather ~10 IoT ~20 Sensors ~20 Measurement ~5

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How to shape an IoT platform in such an ecosystem

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What do we need?

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  • Time Series Storage / Management
  • Metadata Storage / Management
  • Event processing capabilities
  • Scalability
  • Multi-tenancy
  • Replication / Data center awareness (data safety)
  • Performance
  • Security
  • Speed of development (ability to quickly create and deploy new connectors and

energy related services)

  • Agility
  • Low TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)

What do we need ?

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Microservices architecture

Today at GreenCom Networks: 100+ services

  • making heavy use of RESTful interfaces
  • carrying JSON representation
  • over HTTP / HTTPs

in a wide variety of languages and frameworks

Speed / Agility

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NoSQL Database

  • Cassandra: open source NoSQL distributed database

management system (brings high availability with no single point of failure; scales horizontally). Originally developed by

Facebook. Time Series / Metadata management

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distributed messaging system + computation framework Apache Kafka

  • Kafka: open source message broker (brings a unified, high-throughput, low-

latency platform for handling real-time data feeds). Originally developed by LinkedIn

  • Storm: open source distributed computation framework (brings real time

stream processing capabilities through a data transformation pipeline). Originally developed by BackType/Twitter

Event ingestion / processing

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cluster manager + containers

  • Mesos: open source cluster manager (brings resource sharing capabilities

in a highly distributed environment) .Originally developed at the University of California, Berkeley. Used by Twitter, Airbnb, Apple

  • Docker: operating-system-level virtualization on Linux

Scalability / TCO / and much more

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NoSQL Database Message Broker Cluster Manager Stream Processing Computing Framework

GreenCom Networks' Platform

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GreenCom Networks' Platform

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Energy Management as a Service

Thank You