Electricity, gas, and water Network Operators need to

• improve observability and reliability of their network assets (e.g., to reduce operational expenditure and improve the quality of service);
• decentralize key applications and functionalities (e.g., to reduce latency, improve reliability, and distribute workloads);
• overcome challenges of the digitalization and electrification of world in the energy transition age (e.g., distributed resources management and monitoring and cyber security).

New generations of IoT smart devices installed along networks can measure and make data available at high frequency and in a secure way, execute commands remotely, bring intelligence and processing capacity to the edge.

A fully functional and enterprise grade IoT Platform enables businesses to collect vast amounts of data in real-time, enabling them to gain valuable insights and make data-driven decisions, manage smart device remotely, run applications in edge. ML/AI techniques can allow businesses to unlock the full potential of the vast amounts of data collected through IoT devices leveraging the insights generated from the analysis of data. Furthermore, through Computer Vision solutions it is possible to support human operators with the artificial intelligence necessary to conduct daily work more safely and efficiently.

We provide an IoT Platform Project Accelerator (RIPA) which allows Network Operators to drastically reduce time and costs for the delivery of systems able to enhance:

• Network observability and reliability by IoT Data Collection from smart sensors in realtime;
• Streaming, batch, or event-based mode, and providing MLOps Suite;
• Network digitalization by Secure Device Onboarding and Management at scale;
• Network asset Remote Control by cloud to device and edge to device commands;
• Decentralize key applications and functionalities by Edge Computing;
• Reduce IT operational expenditure by serverless approach and providing DevOps Suite.

Starting from our IoT Platform Project Accelerator (RIPA) we provide faster configurable business logics and data models to implement business specific processes for:

• Grid Realtime Monitoring and Analytics;
• Grid Anomaly Detection;
• Grid Assets Predictive Maintenance using ML/AI techniques;
• Grid Digital Twin;
• Grid Computer Vision;
• Gird State Estimation, Fault Location and Congestion Prevention.

The Accelerator provides a modular, extensible, and virtualizable platform that utilizes AWS services such as IoT Core, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch services. These services can scale according to customer needs, the complexity of the enterprise solution and the expected scalability and performance requirements. Benefits achieved with our customers include:

• Fast implementation phase;
• Leading edge solution (IoT Gateway for device connectivity);
• Wide set of best practices and integration protocols;
• No limits/constraints to customization and personalization;
• Fast implementation of additional features and services;
• Efficient maintenance thanks to common features and AWS managed services.