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
As a solutions provider for payment clearing, rating, and billing, nexnet is the market leader when it comes to implementing high-volume billing quickly and securely. Since our founding in 2000, we have specialized in running our customers complex finance processes and ensure high-level effectiveness. Costs savings of 30% and more have also convinced our customers to put their trust in nexnet’s solutions.
Thereby, our customers can concentrate on their core business while we handle increasing competitive pressure demands and regulatory requirements. Our central IT platform allows quick and easy adjustments of product and price as a reaction to changes in consumer
purchasing behaviors and provides valuable tools for reporting, statistics, and analyses.
Data centers in Germany and high-performance SAP and Oracle systems guarantee the highest level of performance and data protection.
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
ÇÖZÜMTRCözümTR Payment Systems offers consultancy services, first and foremost for public institutions. Automated Fare Collection and Payment Systems are at the heart of its portfolio
Turkey
About ÇÖZÜMTR
ÇözümTR Payment Systems, founded in 2014, develops products and services in the field of Machine Learning, Blockchain, Automated Fair Collection and Payment Systems. Since its foundation, it has also been engaging in research and development. It provides Project and System Consultancy services on the areas mentioned above.
About the Offering
ÇÖZÜMTRs many years of expertise on electronic, digital and mobile fare collection tools regarding any random system; be it open loop, closed loop, card based, account based, or code, barcode, paper slips etc.
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.
Flexens Oy AbFlexens paves the way for communities, asset owners, investors, commercial and industrial clients to achieve renewable energy solutions to 100%. Flexens Energy System Design allows for studying various phenomena in the energy market
Finland, Sweden
About Flexens Oy Ab
Flexens Oy Ab is a project developer and investor implementing critical technologies needed to enable societies to run 100 % renewable energy sources. Flexens was founded in 2018 to capitalize on the skills and capabilities created in building the world-leading RES testbed and demo platform, Smart Energy Åland, capturing the rapidly growing demand for renewable energy systems. Through a public-private-partnership with multi-level actors on Åland, Flexens has founded a clear pathway and developed the essential framework needed to ensure rapid novel RES technology diffusion and implementation.
About the Offering
Flexens is an ideal partner for communities, asset owners, investors, commercial and industrial clients seeking an energy transition towards a more renewable energy mix.
Societies have set ambitious targets to decarbonize their energy systems. These energy and climate goals are typically high level, act across different sectors, and set over long-time horizons. Therefore, the data must be gathered from multiple sources and stakeholders to get an appropriate overview of the whole system. That is why monitoring the energy transition progress can be challenging, and often out of date.
Flexens Energy Portal is a user-friendly and automated tool with which it is possible to overcome these challenges. The objective of Flexens Energy Portal is to aid in decarbonizing societies, by visualizing the energy transition in a simple and transparent way.
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.
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISEFraunhofer ISE''s applied and transformative energy system research ranges from materials science to system integration. ISE enables testing, certification and supports industrial implementation and successful market entry.
EU
About Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE
Fraunhofer ISE carries out applied energy research. Through excellent research results, successful projects with industry partners, spin-off companies and global cooperations, we shape the transformation of the global energy system. Together with companies, we transform original ideas into innovations that benefit society and strengthen both the German and European economy. With our technological and system-oriented approach, we support our customers through to the industrial implementation and successful market entry. Our scientific work ranges from materials research through to system integration. In addition to its R&D, the institute offers testing and certification procedures and features an excellent laboratory infrastructure.
About the Offering
OpenMUC simplifies the development of customized monitoring, logging and control systems. It can be used as a basis to flexibly implement anything from simple data loggers, energy management systems to complex SCADA systems. More information: www.openmuc.org
synPRO generates electrical and thermal synthetic load profiles in high time resolution (1 min) for the residential sector in Germany. This is done by a stochastic bottom-up approach, in which the household electricity is derived directly from the appliances used. It includes in the computation socio economic factors as well as building properties. More information: www.elink.tools
synGHD generates electrical and thermal synthetic load profiles in high time resolution (1 min) for the sector commerce trade and service.
synPRO-Tech simulates and sizes system technics to given electrical and thermal load profiles. It includes pv systems, pv-battery systems, heat pumps, gas boilers and direct electric heating.
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.
ieco.ioieco.io offers online simulations for photovoltaic installations for self-consumption and energy communities in Europe. Its integrated online tools address all stakeholders from engineering companies to citizens.
EU
About ieco.io
ieco.io is a startup willing to push forward and encourage the adoption of photovoltaic for self-consumption and energy communities in Europe. Our integrated online tools perform precise simulations and generate compelling proposals, helping all the stakeholders: installers and engineering companies, electricity retailers, energy agencies and citizens.
About the Offering
ieco.io offers SaaS tools to help PV self-consumption project stakeholders during the initial planning/simulation phase with accessible and easy-to-use services to create compelling proposals in very little time.
It includes:
- An interactive 3D editor to design installations in less time
- Visualization of local shadow projections
- Reports with 3D visualizations and interactive plots
- Precise simulations based on state-of-the art models and taking into account: irradiation, temperature, wind speed, horizon, I-V curves, inverter performance curves, MPPT operating range, string connections, hourly consumptions, losses...
- Inclusion of tariffs, taxes and local regulations
- Calculation of detailed energy balances, savings and amortization
- Automatic generation of different-oriented reports (end-customer, technical, legal...)
- Optimizations to maximize the impact of the dedicated resources
- Energy communities support
INAVITASINAVITAS is an energy intelligence platform addressing utilites, renewables, businesses and homes. INAVITAS intelligence solutions promote efficiency in energy management and guarantee an innovative approach and continuous improvement
Turkey
About INAVITAS
INAVITAS is an innovative provider of smart energy management solutions for energy systems of all scales – utilities, industry and end-users . It is at the forefront of researching, developing and delivering real-time energy intelligence platforms.
INAVITAS is now serving 21 Distribution System Operators (DSOs) for power quality monitoring, SCADA, Distribution Management and Outage Management systems with its full-suite solution - so called “inavitas utility”. In addition to these, more than 1.4 GW PV capacity in Turkey have been using INAVITAS’ suite, “inavitas plant”, for performance monitoring of PV systems. Beyond generation and distribution markets, INAVITAS introduced new products, “inavitas business” and “inavitas home” on energy management for behind the meter applications.
About the Offering
INAVITAS is at the forefront of researching, developing and delivering smart energy management solutions for energy systems of all scales – utilities, industry and end-users. INAVITAS was established in 2012, and is now an SME with R&D and sales offices in India and Australia, as well as HQ in Ankara, Turkey.
As INAVITAS, that operates in many fields from utilities to renewable power plants or intelligent building and energy monitoring systems, it collects data from thousands of devices and keeps it in databases in order to provide analyses, inquiry and monitoring. These operations are managed in-house by way of a big data architecture, advanced analytics, and artificial intelligence on infrastructure.
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.
International Energy Research Centre (IERC), Tyndall National InstituteThe IERC is a renowned centre in integrated energy systems research . It conducts research in energy effiency and low carbon energy delivery for policy, industry and science
Ireland
About International Energy Research Centre (IERC), Tyndall National Institute
The International Energy Research Centre (IERC) is an industry focused collaborative research centre in the field of integrated sustainable energy systems, and is jointly funded by the Irish government and industry members. The IERC delivers world leading collaborative research to meet global societal needs for secure, affordable and sustainable energy services. It enables partners to develop new products and services that will ensure real energy demand reductions across society.
About the Offering
The International Energy Research Centre (IERC) develops web-based software platforms, which typically include various tools for use in energy projects. The IERC will make some of these tools accessible for non-commercial purposes to further the work of those involved in sustainable energy research.
These tools were designed and developed by the SIERRA Group in the IERC, SIERRA Group is a dedicated software and data analytics team focused primarily on the energy sector, but also transport and agriculture.
The IERC may also work with other research performing organizations to increase the functionality of these and other tools by inviting them as collaborators on our GitHub projects. This will improve the tools and offerings to JPP ERA-Net SES.
KonsorsiyumKonsorsiyum is a technology provider for energy networks and markets for promoting renewable energy.
Turkey
About Konsorsiyum
Konsorsiyum is a technology initiative that develops high TRL software, platforms, interfaces, models and tools for energy networks and markets. Our solutions promote renewable energy trade at local, regional and wholesale level, business models to increase the feasibility of new energy technologies, flexibility in energy systems, electrification of transport and heat, and end users with digital access to their data and assets.
We have efficient, reliable, transparent and traceable platforms and products in use in the energy industry and other sectors. We developed the Blockchain-based YEK-G (Renewable Energy Resource Guarantee) market in Turkey, for EPDK (Energy Market Regulatory Authority) and EPIAS (Energy Exchange Istanbul) which will be open to all market actors by June 2021.
About the Offering
Blockchain-based high TRL software and solutions (platforms, user interfaces, models, tools and other) for energy markets, certification of renewable energy, EVs and Smart Grid, Electrified Train Systems.
Tailored user and operator interfaces for monitoring and control in novel use cases, energy management, energy systems and individual assets (battery, smart appliance and other) modelling, electric vehicles and electricity markets.
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.
nexnet GmbHNexnet is one of the leading outsourcing service providers for CRM solutions, billing and credit management, and implements efficient solutions for payment methods, receivables management (financial-) clearing and customer service.
Germany
About nexnet GmbH
As a solutions provider for payment clearing, rating, and billing. nexnet is the market leader when it comes to implementing high-volume billing quickly and securely. Since our founding in 2000, we have specialized in running our customers'' complex finance processes and ensure high-level effectiveness.
Thereby, our customers can concentrate on their core business while we handle increasing competitive pressure demands and regulatory requirements. Our central IT platform allows quick and easy adjustments of product and price as a reaction to changes in consumer purchasing behaviors and provides valuable tools for reporting, statistics, and analyses.
Data centers in Germany and high-performance SAP and Oracle systems guarantee the highest level of performance and data protection."
About the Offering
Our central IT platform allows quick and easy adjustments of product and price as a reaction to changes in consumer purchasing behaviors and provides valuable tools for reporting, statistics, and analyses.
Data centers in Germany and high-performance SAP and Oracle systems guarantee the highest level of performance and data protection.
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.
PiTONPiTON is a technology provider of system integration in smart city, transportation, agriculture and industry.
Turkey
About PiTON
PiTON is an SME, established in 2006. PITON aims at bringing new technologies to customers and works on different areas for software and embedded solutions. PiTON first and foremost performs on system integration in smart city, transportation, agriculture and industry. It offers business and consulting about geographical information systems, smart city and smart transportation besides also performing R&D activities and applying new technologies. PITON R&D company aims to provide cutting-edge electronics and information technology solutions according to the needs of its customers and cooperation partners. PITON developed Transportation Information, Passenger Information, Enterprise Management, Fleet Management and Asset Monitoring software systems.
About the Offering
PITON is expert on GIS-based monitoring, tracking and management tools such as SaaS, PaaS and MaaS.
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 & hosts production-proven software for energy management & demand response solutions in modern cloud environments. The software is open-source. We have experience in real-world industry and e-mobility (V2G) settings.
The Netherlands
About Seita Energy Flexibility B.V.
Seita Energy Flexibility is an academic spin-off and current software company with expertise in real-time control of energy flows. Seita creates & hosts FlexMeasures, an open-source energy management system (EMS). FlexMeasures can be utilized in industry, home energy management and microgrids to optimize demand response for self-balancing, increasing the use of renewable energy and achieving optimal costs. Seita also has deep expertise in energy system modeling.
Seita offers production-proven software, simulations and scientific expertise for developing energy management & demand response solutions in modern cloud environments. 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 create mature intelligent software, which turns energy flexibility into cost- and CO? savings. We envision a world where AI-based optimization of energy flexibility is straightforward and affordable.
About the Offering
We are seeking opportunities to build novel & scalable energy flexibility services in partnerships, on top of our open-source energy management platform. Our contribution is to turn flexibility into value ? by using cheaper and greener energy. With our open-source software FlexMeasures (which is part of the Linux Energy Foundation), we support both the planning phase (with simulations and digital twin modeling) and the operation (real-time optimization), which we’ll host in the cloud, or on location if needed. FlexMeasures offers predictions and scheduling via an API based on the Universal Smart Energy Framework (USEF). We also aim to model flexibility of assets and portfolios with novel standards like S2 (initiated by TNO) and EFDM (developed by Fraunhofer).
As fitting challenges, we are looking for projects with forward-looking and complex settings. Our data model and experience are broad on purpose: We have experience with multiple energy carriers (electricity and gas). We have successfully run a vehicle-to-grid living lab and are now also designing projects with heating. Our technical offering comprises cloud-hosted as well as open-source high-level services (power forecasting and scheduling), domain specific enablers (weather forecast collection, ENTSO-E data integration like day-ahead prices) and generic enablers (secure asset and user management, and service monitoring). It’s possible to integrate custom algorithms with FlexMeasures, so we can bring partner solutions online in a transparent and sustainable fashion. Our non-technical offering comprises sharing insights into flexibility modeling and standards (see above), as well as experiences on project designs and building data integration pipelines (e.g. APIs, regular CSV imports) with an eye on data quality.
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.
TSK ELECTRÓNICA Y ELECTRICIDAD S.A.Founded in 1986, today, TSK is a leading business group in energy monitoring applications. Its main growth strategy is in the field of digitalization of the industry.
Spain
About TSK ELECTRÓNICA Y ELECTRICIDAD S.A.
TSK is a leading business group in engineering development and the supply of facilities founded in 1986. Today, the company has a turnover of around 1000 M€ p.a. with over 1000 professionals and experience in more than 50 countries. TSK is one of the Spanish companies with the most references in EPC projects of multiple sectors and a leader company in industrial automation and process control. In addition, TSK has a Digital Innovation Division where the Industry 4.0 paradigm is the main pillar in its growth strategy. This area is based on the digitalization of the industry through the use of the Information Technologies with the aim of generating intelligent factories based on concepts such as robotics, Big Data, Internet of Things, cloud computing or cyber-physical systems.
About the Offering
Our platform is a technological tool specifically designed for energy monitoring, which is achieved through three main components:
1. A unified architecture, which allows for the acquisition of all the heterogeneous data generated in an industrial process. This information is captured in a homogeneous way and independently of the provider and protocols.
2. A set of advanced analytic algorithms, which allow for the smart and automatic detection and prediction of events of interest.
3. A user-friendly and intuitive web interface, capable of showing the information visually, orderly and user-customizable.
Cybersecurity is not understood as something static but as an entity in continuous adaptation due to the evolution of the risks that need to be addressed.
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.
