By introducing Digital Platform Providers (DPPs) from the ICT domain, business development and governmental institutions, start-ups and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) as well as additional financers and funders, the Joint Programming Platform ERA-Net SES is creating a strong innovation eco-system building bridges along the entire innovation chain.
DPPs often display a layered architecture with highly standardized interfaces between the layers allowing for the implementation of a variety of services on many levels (see Figure). Some provide a comprehensive platform cov-ering 4-5 layers, while others offer more specific solutions, e.g. domain specific enablers and some generic ena-blers which must be combined with elements of other DPPs.
Figure: Layers of platform architectures
Current Digital Platform Providers
We are pleased to introduce the following Digital Platform Providers. Click on a logo for more information.
Partner
Name and Mission
Category
Area
4Cast GmbH & Co. KG4cast is a renewable power forecasting platform for operators or energy traders using machine learning methodology and meteorological data.
EU
About 4Cast GmbH & Co. KG
4Cast is a dedicated renewable power forecasting platform which farm operators or energy traders use to predict power output for different energy plants, specified locations or varying altitudes. 4Cast uses bespoke machine learning methodology in conjunction with meteorological data banks, weather forecasts from multiple sources and historical power generation data. The methodology is applied to the production data to learn the optimal model and provide forecasts tailored for the client’s specific needs. Any user from anywhere in the world can use this platform for accurate forecasts up to 96 hours and minute-by-minute resolution.
Accurate forecasting increases the value of renewable energy! Energy sources that can be scheduled are more valuable both to the grid and the plant.
About the Offering
We offer open source software for (real-time) simulation of power systems, advanced automation services such as state estimation and AI based load forecasting and a multi-agent system to develop new distributed automation services.
Center DenmarkCenter Denmark unifies reseach results from the country''s four major technical universities on the digitalization of energy systems and makes it accessible to industry and other interested parties
Denmark
About Center Denmark
Center Denmark (CD) is an independent and non-profit national research center established by the four major technical universities in Denmark, the Danish TSO, 3 DSOs etc.. Its aim is to unify and embed research results within the field of digitalization of energy systems and put data intelligence at the disposal of the industry for commercial use.
CD currently facilitates and hosts technological research output from Danish research and innovation projects of university partners. It aims to broaden its scope to the European level. CD makes technological solutions accessible to interested parties or projects for future use after the end of project lifespans. It also plays a key role in bringing industry and academia together.
About the Offering
We can assist any interested client in selecting the most suitable solution in their digital journey transformation towards the green transition. As one of the primary energy data hubs in Denmark, we provide our analysis and software solutions based on data from many sources which are not publicly available.
Real-world studies are our main strength enabling us to access real-time data from multiple levels (TSO, DSO) of the energy sector. We aggregate the data, provide in-depth analysis and share it with policymakers and other clients.
Our international partners can also use our cloud infrastructure and data-lake to deploy and integrate their tools/solutions and access real data. The data is from living labs across Denmark which in some cases also cover real-time data. We are also able to bring together European partners with Danish partners from academics & industries in mutually beneficial collaborations.
CGICGI is among the largest IT and business consulting firms in the world. It has been delivering end-to-end services and strategic IT solutions to the energy and utility sector for over 40 years
Belgium / Netherlands
About CGI
Our 77.500 consultants and professionals work side-by-side with clients in 10 industries in more than 400 locations across the globe. CGI delivers end-to-end services and solutions including strategic IT and business consulting, systems integration, intellectual property, and
managed (IT and business) process services. CGI has worked within the energy and utility sector for more than 40 years and today, energy and utility accounts for 20% of its total business.
About the Offering
CGI’s Open Innovation Platform provides a Secure data & IoT platform to organizations for:
(a) collecting all types of data from all sorts of sources (e.g. Meters, EV charging stations)
(b) interface with other data sources, such as other project databases or external data like municipality databases, to enrich the database and provide additional analytical value
(c) enabling data insights
(d) creating innovative applications/services
(e) extracting value from ecosystems
Our methodology: We help to implement an agile innovation process to continuously innovate and create data insights.
Additional features:
- Re-usable models & algorithms to accelerate innovation
- API based solutions enabling collaboration in ecosystems
- Security & Privacy by design
Energenius SrlEnergenius is an innovative small-scale start-up that offers a unique offer of energy consultancy by combining hardware market products for energy monitoring systems and advanced software solutions
Italy
About Energenius Srl
Energenius Srl is an innovative small-scale Italian start-up. It integrates hardware market products for energy monitoring systems. It offers added value through advanced energy consumptions analysis, carried out directly by its experts and advanced software solutions.
This combination of systems integration and energy consultancy in one unique offer has ensured a clear positioning on the energy market.
Energenius is constantly improving its portfolio, focusing on the automation of energy analysis that do not require human intervention: algorithms, data analytics, and Artificial Intelligence on a distributed infrastructure, allowing the pre-processing and data storage where they are produced, in order to increase efficiency, effectiveness and resilience.
About the Offering
Energenius Srl offers integrated systems to foster energy efficiency, mainly focused on industrial and tertiary areas, but also considering other applications.
Besides Energy monitoring projects, energy audits, and building commissioning, the innovative core product of Energenius is "Genius Energy Manager (GEM) - Analytics". GEM-Analytics is a software platform that includes Artificial Intelligence algorithms performing automated energy analytics, based on data collected by sensors and installed in customers'' buildings. The platform operates on top of a distributed computing infrastructure (based on Fog Computing) and includes other modules for specific applications, data requests and plants to be monitored. It is tailored to the specific needs of each customer, with different modules to be applied according to building features and meeting specific analysis requests.
EnerIT Innovation Ltd.EnerIT is an innovative Hungarian-Austrian company with its own novel IoT Smart Energy Portfolio for managing energy consumption and subsequently reducing costs and increasing environmental awareness
Hungary
About EnerIT Innovation Ltd.
EnerIT Innovation Kft. is an innovative and continuously developing Hungarian-Austrian company. It helps to reduce energy costs and promotes an environmentally conscious approach by controlling and regulating energy consumption.
EnerIt was founded by Austrian and Hungarian experts with decades of experience in the field, such as
- Coordination of several domestic and international Energy and ICT projects resp. participation in them,
- Development of various energy and ICT technologies and solutions,
- Numerous studies in the field of resource conservation and energy efficiency.
EnerIT has developed its own novel IoT Smart Energy Portfolio implying
a) IoT Smart Energy DEVICES & SENSORS,
b) IoT Platform
c) Visualization.
About the Offering
EnerIT IoT Smart Energy is an internationally competitive complex energy management system that includes EnerIT''s unique in-house developed IoT metering, surveillance and controlling devices, the EnerIT IoT Platform including data visualization and related various EnerIT IoT sensors (e.g. temperature, humidity, CO2). The system enables real-time monitoring of a company''''s energy systems - primarily electricity, or even natural gas, water, heat consumption - and various comfort characteristics, even at the equipment / activity level.
EnerIT devices are able to transmit data directly on several communication methods (GSM, NB-IOT, LoRa, Ethernet, WiFi, PLC) without additional data concentrators and to collect and send data in real time via the energy management platform. Processing, sending alerts and intervening, if necessary, are based on the data.
Based on the database, complex energy analyses can be performed.
Engineering DSS GmbHEngineering DSS designs, develops, and manages innovative digital solutions for modernizing today''s world with a focus on smart energy and utilities. It is also an experienced partner in R&D projects
Germany
About Engineering DSS GmbH
With around 12,000 professionals in 65 locations worldwide, the Engineering Group designs, develops, and manages innovative digital solutions. Engineering DSS in Germany, has a strong focus on smart Energy & Utilities, smart Government & E-Health solutions and helps to modernize the world in which we live and work. With significant investments in R&D, Engineering plays a leading role in research by coordinating national and international projects thanks to its team of 450 researchers and data scientists and a network of academic partners and universities throughout Europe. In Germany, we also have a strong focus on innovative co-creation and R&D projects in the energy and mobility sector.
About the Offering
We are focusing on new digital business models and co-creation initiatives for local districts, public administration as well as local utilities.
As an ERA-Net Digital Platform Provider, we can help our customers to reuse existing best practices and innovations on a trusted reliant platform architecture for modern energy and mobility services.
Therefore, we follow the approach of Open Source, Open Access & Open Data that allows customers to work with individual fitting platform systems.
FlexShape ApsFlexShape develops software tools to get the best value from available energy flexibility while making processes simple and easy to setup and operate
Denmark
About FlexShape Aps
FlexShape offers a relevant IT platform and a number of software tools to facilitate smart energy systems under the ERA-Net JPP SES. The FlexShape technology is based on the award-winning FlexOffer concept, developed in a number of EU and Danish research projects.
About the Offering
FlexShape offers a set of tools to utilize available energy flexibility. These include smart energy forecasting, aggregation, optimization and trading based on Big Data, IoT, Machine learning/AI, and blockchain.
- Aggregator-as-a-Service: A solution for aggregators and prosumers that supports easy and scalable aggregation and management of flexible loads.
- Solar Predictor: A solution for individual Photovoltaic (PV) producers and system integrators looking for easy-to-use tool for predicting PV supply.
- Battery MPC Controller: A tool for optimizing physical systems using Model-Predictive-Control (MPC) techniques.
- Energy Planner: A recommendation and automation engine, primarily targeting residential users that helps users to use green energy.
- Flexibility Market: A blockchain-based implementation of a flexibility market on top of Hyperledger SawTooth.
Gantner InstrumentsGantner Instruments monitors and controls data with fast edge devices for various energy applications - be it PV, EV, battery energy storage, wind or thermal power. By doing so, Gantner enables advanced smart energy services.
Germany
About Gantner Instruments
Gantner Instruments is a global leader in the development of high precision measurement and control systems. Founded in 1982, Gantner excels in delivering products and services in the fields of electrical, mechanical and thermal measurement. We always prioritize flexibility, usability and
accessibility. Our test automation and performance monitoring solutions can be found in many applications around the world, particularly in the automotive, aerospace, civil engineering, and energy industries.
Gantner Instruments monitors and controls data from various Energy applications.
We are active in Photovoltaic (>6GW under control, in 40+ countries), EV (testing), Battery energy storage (testing and monitoring), Thermal power plants (monitoring), Wind (testing, monitoring).
Our Edge hardware and scalable data backend is the key enabler for more services in the smart
energy area. As data rates are increasing and distributed and synchronized control will be the new normal we establish our technology also in this area.
We offer a modular and adaptive technology stack which is segregated and integrated.
Development concepts focus on robust, cyber secured and responsive modules.
Our real-time DAQ and edge computing devices are advantages on which we can build effective and fast growing services.
About the Offering
Gantner Instruments monitors and controls data from various Energy applications providing monitoring/control from Edge to cloud.
Our Edge and DAQ hardware offers flexible and fast edge computing, open architecture and universal interfaces combined with easy connectivity. This makes it a perfect match to control smart grid loads and generation assets as it allows better and faster utilization of event based and continuous data streams.
Integrated connectivity for future prove asset & smart grid management.
Customers can develop and implement their own control app on the edge or in the cloud. Controls can be sent directly via the APIs.
Code and run it directly on the platform (e.g. Python Jupiter Lab) for ML and AI. It''s easy to integrate the package into your Software stack and solution.
The platform will prevent any double ICT investment and cost.
Greenbird Integration TechnologyGreenbird provides Utilihive, the Operating System for the Platformed Digital Utility and the Energy Cloud. Utilihive is used by utilities around the world serving more than 50 million consumers
Norway
About Greenbird Integration Technology
Greenbird - a VC backed B2B SaaS - software as a service - provides Utilihive.
Utilihive is the Domain specific iPaaS, purpose-built for the Digital Utilities driving the Digital Transformation and empowering the Smart Grid, Smart City and Industrial IoT.
Utilihive empowers the concept of an Energy Data Mesh and provides the «Data Foundation» for data driven energy services.
With Utilihive, the data integration and data provisioning challenges are minimized. Modern, unified energy data services, APIs, are exposed to foster data-driven digital innovation for utilities.
About the Offering
Utilihive is a domain specific iPaas providing preconfigured data integration and data management capabilities, purpose-built for utilities.
Utilihive provides connectivity to metering and IoT systems and most of the commonly used utility application thus, simplifying data integration / system integration challenges.
Utilihive provides a data lake optimized for energy use cases. It propagates the concept of the «Energy Data Mesh» or a distributed data lake architecture to enable grid edge and OT analytics, as well.
Utilihive is a cloud native platform and can be operated in a public or private cloud or bare metal scenario.
Utilihive is used to handle the entire metering infrastructure in Taiwan, Kuwait City, Germany, Austria, Belgium, India and several utilities in Scandinavia.
GreenCom Networks AGGreenCom Networks is a German-French software-as-a-service company offering a white label Energy IoT Platform to utilities, energy service companies and manufacturers of energy-relevant devices
Germany
About GreenCom Networks AG
Our energy information brokerage platform (eibp) enables energy providers to launch disruptive digital business models while leveraging the increasing share of distributed energy assets and end consumers’ demand for innovative services.
About the Offering
GreenCom’s energy information brokerage platform (eibp) is an end-to-end solution supporting companies’ transition toward digital energy. This end-to-end solution is leveraged and the eibp''''s potential further unlocked by leveraging the whole end-to-end solution from asset implementation and management to data processing or customer apps and services.
Grid SingularityGrid Singularity is a Berlin-based technology company engineering d3a.io, open source software that simulates and operates custom energy exchanges, creating local marketplaces.
Germany
About Grid Singularity
Our mission is to act as an enabler of new, green energy business models. We perceive ourselves as a team of creative researchers and social entrepreneurs. Open source software and promotion of tolerance and diversity are at the core of our beliefs.
About the Offering
Grid Singularity is a Berlin-based technology company engineering d3a.io, open source software that simulates and operates custom energy exchanges, creating local marketplaces. Our mission is to act as an enabler of new, green energy business models, fostering virtual collaboration and knowledge sharing via our Canary Test Network. We perceive ourselves as a team of creative researchers and social entrepreneurs. Open source software and promotion of tolerance, diversity and care for the environment are at the core of our beliefs.
GridData GmbHGridData provides services and solutions to DSOs for the digital distribution grid and is a renowned partner in the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
Germany
About GridData GmbH
GridData GmbH (GD) provides services and solutions to DSOs for the digital distribution grid: (1) Design and analysis of the ICT solution to securely and reliably connect grid-related data sources for offline and online use by the DSO, (2) Development and implementation of algorithms to automatically process large amounts of grid-related data for purposes of maintenance, grid data analytics, grid fault localization, grid planning and grid control.
GD combines competences in energy technology, information and communication technologies, design and analysis of resilient and secure systems, and development and implementation of customized software solutions. Its technical approach has been acknowledged by Horizon 2020, leading to the multinational project Net2DG, technically coordinated by GD.
About the Offering
Connecting Electricity Data - GridData solutions enable DSOs to implement the next step of digitization. With growing distributed generation and changing to new consumption behaviour the GridData strategy creates value out of data.
The core GridData solution merges existing data of GIS, Asset Management Systems and field measurements (e.g. station metering system, smart meter, inverter, storage systems, etc.), and represent the data in a user-friendly manner. Data from various subsystems are intelligently interlinked and evaluated automatically.
GridData applications enable customers to actively use the data. This includes identification of grid efficiency metrics, automatic fault detection and localization, process management via alarming and predictive maintenance, but also active control of network elements using matched algorithms to optimize load flows and the full utilization of network capacity for renewable integration.
Infinity Group Sp. z o.o.Infinity Group is a leading technology agency specialized in clients'' business improvement through optimized digital performance in diverse fields such as finance, telco, energy and entertainment
Poland
About Infinity Group Sp. z o.o.
Infinity Group is a technology agency with a deep understanding of clients'' needs and strong business background, on the digital market since 2006. Currently, Infinity Group is a team of almost 120 digital experts specializing in clients'' business improvement through optimized digital performance, online channel development, e-commerce projects and large-scale web applications, dedicated systems and integrations, web portals and advanced websites.
Infinity Group is the digital partner for leading brands in various industries like finance, telco, energy or entertainment. The clients portfolio includes: Vue Cinemas (brands: Multikino, Cinemaxx, The Space), Canal+ , Netia, SSAB, Castorama, Alior Bank, BNP Paribas, Bayer Crop Science, Citibank, Generali, Tauron, PKN Orlen.
About the Offering
We have been part of the digital world from the very beginning of our existence. It''s our natural environment, our world. We understand the relationship between brand and customer. So we are able to transform needs into specific and effective solutions in digital.
We have all that is needed, to propose technology solutions to you, which really improve incomes and reduce costs. We offer a full scope of services including business and IT consulting, digital products design (UX/UI/graphic design), applications development and integrations, web analytics and BI, CVM&optimization, quality assurance, content development and hosting solutions. We deliver and optimize web portals and advanced websites, e-commerce solutions, dedicated systems and integrations. We implement our projects based on leading solutions such as Sitecore, Kentico, Umbraco, Exact and our own solutions.
Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Science and Technology from Valahia University of TargovisteICSTM-UVT is located in a facility built as a living lab, currently expanding towards a NetZero Campus integrat-ing generation of renewable energy and a building automation and control system (BACS)
Romania
About Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Science and Technology from Valahia University of Targoviste
ICSTM-UVT is an independent professional organization, apolitical and non-governmental, with UVT juridical dependence. Its aim is to bring together scientists with experts from different fields in national and international research and development projects and enter partnerships with different possible beneficiaries.
ICSTM is hosted in a new facility built especialy for its use and purpose. The building is a result of a project funded by the European Structural Fund. (More details on the projects site: http://916.icstm.ro)
ICSTM brings together 17 departments and operates in a 7250 m2 building. The institute has 35 laboratory spaces endowed with state-of-the-art research equipment operating since 2015.
About the Offering
Campus site with building level or blocks of buildings'' living lab.
Integration of renewable generation with storage in a multi-vector approach for energy islands. Co-creation and development eco-system for intelligent building operations, energy management and decarbonization.
logarithmo GmbH & Co.KGlogarithmo is a digital platform provider for the development and provision of data-driven services for the ener-gy sector. It can quickly reveal whether energy processes optimization is beneficial
Germany
About logarithmo GmbH & Co.KG
Data analysts use a special development software framework to transfer clients'' ideas quickly and efficiently into a productive web application or API.
Whether the idea is optimizing existing processes or an entirely new business smart energy idea, the logarithmo platform allows for implementing any prototype within a very short time. It is provided as a web application or web service and gives a quick idea of whether the idea will achieve the expected benefits.
About the Offering
logarithmo is a digital platform provider for the development and provision of data-driven services for the energy sector and manufacturing industries. The platform incorporates a rapid development platform and dedicated software frameworks for the energy sector, e.g. for big data analytics for metering data, anomaly detection, optimization and forecasting. Data analysts use our specially developed software framework with which we transfer your idea quickly and efficiently into a productive application.
Whether your idea is the optimization of existing processes or an entirely new business idea, we discuss your ideas with you and implement a prototype within a very short time which you can call up as a web application or as a web service. This allows you to develop new data-driven solutions with 80% less effort and time!
Lumenaza GmbHLumenaza develops software to connect producers and consumers of green distributed energy, providing access to the energy market to everyone, leveraging innovation by a flexible software platform
Germany
About Lumenaza GmbH
We believe that green distributed electricity will power the world. Everyone will shape and participate in the energy market.
Lumenaza stands for green distributed electricity. We remove entry barriers to the energy market by connecting all of its participants, thus allowing them to generate more value from energy. We empower businesses to innovate by leveraging our flexible energy software platform.
About the Offering
Lumenaza develops powerful software to connect producers and consumers of green distributed energy, providing open access to the energy market. We unlock innovative business models based on green distributed energy resources, accelerating new energy. This enables business to increase core product sales and sell energy services to existent and new customers. Our platform significantly reduces time-to-market and cost-to-serve. We maximize value from renewable assets. Consumers benefit from knowing the exact origin of their energy and profit from innovative and individualized energy solutions.
OmnetricOMNETRIC delivers technology solutions that improve energy providers’ performance by integrating their energy operations with IT to support their business goals
Austria
About Omnetric
OMNETRIC offers:
- Technology solutions that integrate operations and information to make data available where needed
- Deep industry expertise to successfully deliver complex solutions
- Flexibility and customer-centricity
-Unique combinations of software elements from ecosystem partners to create innovative solutions to meet industry needs
The OMNETRIC approach:
- Advocate and design change
- Apply engineering and IT know-how
- Develop an open, stable foundation from which energy providers can innovate
- Push the boundaries of what’s technologically possible
- Extract the value of data
- Collaborate in the energy ecosystem to deliver innovation
About the Offering
Co-creation, realization and operation of new solutions with data scientists and energy domain experts, highly skilled developers and consultants for OT&IT / IIoT integration.
We have strong experience in operation and analysis of big amounts of data and can support in understanding problems by solving them analytically by data analytics, AI and ML competences, from rapid prototyping of MVP to scaling into productivity.
orangeNXTOrangeNXT offers an energy-specific IoT product called energyNXT boosting the digital transformation by putting data to smart use and increasing efficiency through fully automated processes
The Netherlands
About orangeNXT
A wholly owned subsidiary of ICT Group, OrangeNXT uses its in-depth knowledge of and expertise in digital transformation to create plug-and-play products and solutions that enable customers to fully benefit from faster and more efficient implementations.
We define ‘digital transformation’ as the smart connection of people, devices and data. People generate data with every move they make, with every mouse click and with every bit of data they enter. Even machines and other assets generate data. And with IoT, you can gather this data in real-time with no effort at all.
Digital transformation entails more than eliminating paper processes alone: data needs to be put to smart use to discover new links, ensure fully automated processes in order to eliminate strenuous, repetitive work.
About the Offering
Rapidly changing challenges in the energy market caused by sustainability objectives demand intelligent and flexible energy systems.
Saving energy is important, but in addition, the alignment of supply and demand is becoming increasingly important, in short, energy management in its broadest sense. ICT’s energy specific IoT platform, energyNXT, helps in meeting this demand. It provides improved insight into their energy management to organisations and enables them to deploy and align energy production resources and energy consumption equipment in a smart manner.
energyNXT controls all your energy flows and optimizes the usage of renewable energy.
energyNXT supports various IoT connections to smart meters, PV inverters, domestic heating devices, thermostats, EVs, batteries, industrial meters, industrial cooling, heat pumps and logistic transport vehicles.
phoops srlPhoops core product is BriX, a modular and scalable microservice platform. BriX has been adapted to smart mobility management and also lends itself for applications in smart grids system management
Italy
About phoops srl
Phoops is an IT company (SME) located in Florence (Italy). The company was born in 2007. Ever since then, it has been focusing on the development of its core product, BriX. BriX is a modular and scalable microservice platform that supports both the addition and the removal of various types of functionalities satisfying the needed requirements depending on the decided use cases.
Since 2015 BriX was adapted to the smart mobility management, the MUV-App, a Mobility as a Service platform saw the light. Furthermore, phoops currently relies on BriX for applications in the field of Industry 4.0 and smart grid system management. To develop its products, phoops relies on a strongly interdisciplinary young team of IT engineers, professional developers (front and back end) and business professionals.
About the Offering
Phoops offers BriX, a modular and scalable micro-service platform that supports the addition and removal of different types of functionalities to satisfy specific needs according to the available use case. Phoops proposes BriX through SaaS logic - Software as a Service. Our offering includes the source code of libraries or utilities that can be of general interest; executable package with interface (see as an example our mobile Apps, generally free for use by the end-user) and executable package with interfaces against remuneration. Furthermore, phoops is also available for counseling services in its expertise fields and can assist its partners/customers also in the design and development phases of a specific solution.
Resilient EnergyRE is a spin-off H2020 project from the IOT-EPI program and Solar Demonstration Platform focusing on resource consumption management and energy community approaches with and by municipalities
Portugal
About Resilient Energy
The RE DEMO solutions were selected to be stand-alone services, Smart School, Dynamic building audit and Climate Services for citizens based on the positive DEMO phase and stakeholders feedback. We have a live DEMO site in the Algarve region and are developing further sites in Portugal, while collaborating within the EU and Morocco. We have digital ecosystems of collaborations. Digitalisation in buildings is an enabler, while we are working on integrated approaches with education processes, as well as enabling municipalities to lead the way. RE is a spin-off H2020 project from the IOT-EPI program and Solar Demonstration Platform We look holistically at resource consumption and focus on energy community approaches with and by municipalities based on interoperable solutions.
About the Offering
We offer interoperable digital platform enabled solutions and related software services geared towards municipal buildings and energy communities.
Seita Energy Flexibility B.V.Seita offers software, workshops and scientific expertise for developing energy management solutions in modern cloud software combining state-of-the-art smart grid management with web development
The Netherlands
About Seita Energy Flexibility B.V.
Seita Energy Flexibility B.V. offers software, workshops and expertise for developing energy management solutions in modern cloud software. We are a spin-off from CWI, the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands. Our team combines research expertise in smart grid management with professional web development skills. Seita's mission is to empower organisations in the sustainability development sector to act data-driven in their daily operations.
About the Offering
We are seeking user validation for (components of) our energy management platform, which offers predictive analytics and scheduling via an API based on the Universal Smart Energy Framework (USEF).
Our technical offering comprises cloud-hosted as well as open-source high-level services (power forecasting and scheduling), domain specific enablers (weather forecast collection) and generic enablers (secure asset and user management, and service monitoring), free for use in ERA-Net JPP SES projects on the condition of active user participation in our feedback programme.
Our non-technical offering comprises sharing experiences on projects and consulting on how to bring intelligent solutions into the cloud.
We''''d like to get to know other members, their needs and services, and help out where we can to bring partner solutions online. We''''d be happy to meet with you online, or at our offices at Amsterdam Science Park and Amsterdam Impact Hub.
Smart M Power LtdSmart M Power manages and intelligently automates local power-matching transactions. It is a national IEA Award operator and is also bidding in ERA-Net with a system of living labs
Ireland
About Smart M Power Ltd
Smart M Power Ltd. is an organization that can manage and intelligently automate power-matching transactions on a local level, anywhere. Additionally, this organisation is the national operator for the IEA Award "Tallaght Smart Grid Test Bed" and is bidding separately to ally through ERA-Era Net with a system of test beds/living labs spanning all-Europe and all means and cultural and other sectors.
About the Offering
Multiple instances of solutions will be able to integrate with each other and thus expand the energy trade market. The open API for internet of things'' developers will be made available.
“Previous research has shown difficulties in purpose and use, as well as in implementation of ICT platforms. The use and satisfaction of ICT platforms by citizens have also been shown to differ, depending on user motives, city size or population.” [Niklas Lindell & Emil Denudom 2020].
In the Model City H2020 Bid 2016, SIEMENS UK & Microsoft enerXchange went onto both the Azure and Mindsphere Cloud Systems. The failure of this bid brought it back to more accessible infrastructural solutions. MindSphere and Azure remain open to provide vastly superior functionality and interoperability between industry, city and community. This is where enerXchange is headed as soon as resources permit. IES and Technologieplattform Smart Grids AT add interoperability.
Zaphiro TechnologiesZaphiro is a Swiss start-up supporting resilient power grids by the patented smart grid solution SynchroGuard based on fast and time-synchronized measurements from micro-PMUs
Switzerland
About Zaphiro Technologies
Zaphiro is a Swiss startup that helps utilities to guarantee resilient power grids by mitigating the destabilizing effects of Distributed Energy Resources (e.g., renewables, electric vehicles, batteries, etc.) and by reducing the impact of blackouts on electricity consumers.
Their patented smart grid solution SynchroGuard is the only one based on fast and time-synchronized measurements from micro-PMUs (Phasor Measurement Units). It provides several benefits including: up to 300% more renewables integration without grid reinforcement, automatic location of short-circuits to reduce the number and duration of blackouts, as well as reduced CAPEX and OPEX.
About the Offering
Zaphiro’s main product is SynchroGuard, the first grid monitoring and control system based on sub-second and time-synchronized measurements from micro-PMUs (Phasor Measurement Unit) and powered by patented algorithms.
SynchroGuard is a combined hardware and software solution which consists of measurement devices (micro-PMUs) placed at strategic locations and a central grid controller which implements algorithms to analyze the measurement data. These algorithms provide a real-time view of the energy flows in the grid to the electrical utility with advanced grid analytics. They enable automatic control of Distributed Energy Resources (e.g. renewables, electric vehicles, batteries, etc.) and automatically locate faults in the grid. Also, SynchroGuard seamlessly integrates with legacy DMS/SCADA systems.
