Enablers
Figure 1. Energy flexibility and traffic accident use cases.
The demonstration of the energy flexibility
use case included an evaluation of the World
Wide Streams (WWS) horizontal service
platform developed by Nokia Bell Labs. In the
demonstration, WWS acted as a key horizontal
enabler for a set of energy flexibility services
interacting to balance the power level and
reduce the peak loads in the distribution grid.
The flexibility services combined a number
of essential capabilities: Distribution system
operators (DSO), network state monitoring and
short-term congestion forecasting (Technolution,
Target Holding, Alliander); a local energy
flexibility market (Empower); scheduling of
resources by aggregator services (Gecad);
interaction with an aggregated simulation of
energy resources like Electric Vehicles (EVs);
buildings and local distribution grid (VTT); a
standardised energy flexibility interface (EFI)
for household appliances (TNO); an EFI-capable
gateway for white goods (Arçelik, KoçSistem);
and EFI-based operation of EVs (Eteration). The demonstration of the traffic accident use
case included an evaluation of the virtual
CPS communication hub (realised by VTT),
which enables mobile embedded products
and services of multiple stakeholders to
horizontally interact and exchange information
in a controlled and secure way. This CPS hub
facilitated interaction between resources
like a smart watch (Polar), a small air quality
monitoring sensor (Imec), a wearable platform
for health monitoring & analysis service
(Bittium), a street lamp (Valopaa), animal
tracking products (Tracker), a 3D camera
(Sony), a crime announcement service (LiveU),
and Safax authorisation service (TU/e). In
addition, the CPS hub was the key enabler of
the interaction with Nokia WWS, energy market
service (Empower), external aggregation of
simulated energy resources of EVs, buildings
and local distribution grid (VTT).
The Nokia World Wide Streams (WWS) platform,
as matured for distributed multi-actor automation scenarios in M2MGrids, is now enabling a Nokia
Enterprise business unit product, and is regularly
used in customer trials.
The Nokia Enterprise TEPS (Transport, Energy and
Public Sector) segment sales unit promotes WWS
as an enabler for flexible launching of services as
part of segment solution toolkits, notably for the
sub-segment of Energy Flexibility Management and
related Smart City and Utility services. In this way,
WWS is consistently broadening the capabilities
of the Nokia IoT solution umbrella, with the
management of distributed edge stream processing
services, and facilitating domain expert service
authoring on the platform. Being actively proposed
in customer solutions in the energy domain and
other automation domains alike, as well as in
related smart city cases, WWS, already today,
can be considered to enable a 20-30% higher
business growth in application-enabling Digital
Value Platform (DVP) projects for these segments
worldwide.
New business models, new products
Empower IM analysed new business models
for microgrid trading and networked devices
in the M2MGrids project. This knowledge has
led to activities for preparation of national
infrastructure for energy flexibility in Finland
targeted to new flexibility markets with national
TSOs and local DSOs of the energy ecosystem.
Within the M2MGrids project Bittium created a
Medical Analysis cloud (‘MA-Cloud’) solution,
which was the basis for Bittium’s neurology
businesses in the Medical business area. After
the M2MGrids project, Bittium continued with
the MA-Cloud solution from the research project
to the commercialisation project. Today Bittium
BrainStatus™ Wireless EEG Amplifier solution
is medically certified and together with Bittium
MedicalSuite™ Service Platform (formerly
called MA-Cloud) these solutions are generally
available to domestic and international
customers. Bittium BrainStatus™ is a wireless
compact EEG amplifier, which is used together
with a disposable easy and quick to wear
Bittium BrainStatus™ electrode headband for
diagnosing patients with altered mental status
like status epilepticus. Bittium BrainStatus™
enables quick measurement in field conditions
as well as in hospitals, thus making the
treatment process of the patient faster.
Tracker developed a low-power development
platform for new products, applications and
services for monitoring, tracking and control in
M2MGrids. The platform led to the development
of the Tracker Artemis product, the world’s
first 4G IoT dog tracking collar, which is now
generally available. Commercialisation impact
estimation including device and related services
sales is about €3 m in 2020. The development
is essential in Tracker growth, and four persons
were employed permanently even after the
project, with market share potentially increasing
in future.
M2MGrids contributed to the development of
smartness and interoperability for cyber-physical systems, especially in energy and mobility domains.
Technolution developed a sensor prototype for
sensing power quality as well as congestion
analysis and prediction in M2MGrids. After the
project, this R&D led to the Technolution LS/MS
sensor product, which is now offered in different
markets for non-intrusive, cost-effective
and high-quality sensing, such as low/midvoltage
power cables and industrial electrical
motors. The sensor products have been installed
as part of a multi-purpose sensing platform in
multiple sites, such as energy grid transformers,
steel factories and industrial machinery
electrical motors, helping these clients track and
predict the status of their processes, equipment,
infrastructure and equipment status in realtime.
The development of the LS/MS sensor,
partly within M2MGrids, has proven to be a key
feature in the Technolution IoT operation and
management portfolio.
Slimmer AI (formerly Target Holding) developed
machine-learning knowledge of short-term
energy consumption forecasting from daily down
to 15-minutes horizons (called nowcasting)
within M2MGrids. This knowledge has boosted
the development of new, AI-powered forecasting and balancing solutions for energy producers
and solar panel companies, including day-tonight
storage, for solving problems pertaining to
grid congestion. Besides this direct exploitation,
the forecasting technology is part of Slimmer’s
AI toolbox. It is further developed and adapted
to a number of other applications. Working
closely with its customers, Slimmer AI expects to
employ up to 10 colleagues on the basis of this
M2MGrids technology within three years.
Arcelik was first to introduce new, automated
demand/response compatible household
appliance products. KoçSistem exploited
the results to enable energy management
of adaptive demand-supply household and
industry devices as well as energy grid adaptive
demand-supply gateways. Eteration developed
a Complex Event Processor that manages
real-time events within big data according to
the execution plans. The processor can run
in embedded gateways and large-scale cloud
environments. Imec has taken advantage
of the project’s work by producing an Air
Quality Monitoring Platform that provides
real-time monitoring/accessing of the
sensing data along with data storage in the
cloud. LiveU has opened significant market
opportunities, having won a tender for the
next Olympic games with the Japanese police
department and also having collaborated with
Associated Press on a new live video exchange
newsgathering platform: AP Live Community,
an app based on M2M.