Procem project is a cross-disciplinary project executed by four different laboratories (Electrical Energy Engineering, Automation and Hydraulic Engineering, Industrial and Information Management, Pervasive Computing) of TUT. The planning of the project started by a question what will be the “uber of electricity”. The drivers of the project are
- increased concern of sustainability and climate change
- energy production and storage in small units close to customers (e.g. solar panels, batteries and electric cars)
- changes in markets and pricing schemes of electricity
- availability of new technologies like IoT, data analysis and blockchains.
One major effort we have involved is creation of the a pilot and demonstrator that collects huge amount of data from Campus Arena for dash boards and applications. An example dashboard is shown below:
Concretely, our laboratory has been involved in definition and piloting of the data platform Procem
- collecting data from existing sensors – with lot of challenges in adapting to various protocols,
- filtering and buffering data before sending it to an existing IoT platform IoTTicket
- distributed architecture between centralised IoT platform and edge
- experiments with data analysis (random forest) techniques to find new phenomena from the data
- experiments to use blockchains (Ethereum smart contracts) with the data
- conversion of the data to standard data format (FIWARE)
Contributors from Pervasive Computing:
- Ville Heikkilä
- Otto Hylli
- Nyyti Kinnunen
- Teemu Laukkarinen
- Kari Systä
For more information contact kari.systa@tut.fi
