
Data & Cyber Security
The traditional power system is experiencing a push towards innovation like never before. The abundance of renewable energy sources and solutions, increasingly fragmented stakeholder groups, availability of new and emerging technologies, increasing demand for secure, clean and efficient energy all point toward a pressing need for transformation in the energy system.
The Horizon 2020 OneNet…
read full article7 major challenges of a power grid and their solutions
Electricity is a powerful thing. In order to use its benefits, it is necessary that the amount of electricity in the grid corresponds with actual consumption needs. Due to the ever-increasing demand…
read full articleHungary, Portugal and Poland sign up to EU quantum communication infrastructure initiative
At the Digital Assembly, 7 Member States agreed to work together to explore how to make available a quantum communication infrastructure (QCI) in Europe, to boost European capabilities in quantum…
read full articleCybersecurity solutions designed to ensure the operational continuity of industrial (ICS/SCADA) networks
This short paper highlights the new risks that manufacturing companies are exposed to due to the adoption of IoT/Industrie4.0 technologies.
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read full articleISO500001 + IT = Energy Data Management System
What does it mean to establish an Energy Management System integrated in companies IT system architecture. This paper describing the Energy Data Management System from VIDEC, ranging from interfaces to system configuration. It also highlights the necessary input such systems require,e.g. KPIs or training for users. It has an in-build kind of audit functionality, called zero investment analysis.
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read full articleCase study cement industry: increased fuel efficiency
This short case study shows how data mining has led to significant and recurrent savings in a cement plant located in Belgium. In this example, the fueling of the multi-step-heating process of production lines was analyzed and optimized. A good case to show that data analytics might be capable to deliver the next step in energy efficiency.
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