Affirma for Energy and Utilities
Transforming the Energy Grid through Data
The energy sector is facing several large disruptions such as the energy transition, sustainability considerations, distributed energy resources, resilience and need for operational efficiencies. Sensors and onset of IoT means that valuable and useful data has increased exponentially.
Affirma empowers organizations to ingest, manage, and generate diverse metadata throughout the data lifecycle, ensuring data remains accurate, accessible, and ready to drive informed decision-making.
Utility CIO's are focusing on Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning which is driven by metadata management and semantics.1
Utilities have increased spend on Business Intelligence and Data Analytics resulting in a high need to manage data.2
Energy Analytics Platform
An energy analytics platform is based on integrated systems and processes data. By combining data from operational technologies utilities can begin to answer complex questions that cannot be answered with data from only one or a few technologies.
Maintaining and future proofing such a platform requires managing the metadata from sources and harmonizing it to ensure common understanding of the semantics. Only then can the data be reliably used for analysis, optimization, forecasting and advanced decision making.​
- Supporting Advance Analytics - AI / ML Models
- Driving Data Quaility and Consistency
Network Model Management
To ensure reliability and efficiency a common utility network model is needed for engineering, construction, operations, and maintenance. Vendors have their own proprietary schemas to represent network components and their relationships. By combining and augmenting this existing metadata to track history and origin of data objects reliability and authenticity of data is enhanced.​
- Organizing and Understanding Network Components
- Enabling Accurate Model Integration
- Faciliting Interoperability and Stanrds (IEC CIM, MultiSpeak, etc.)
Electrification
Electrification is a key component of reducing carbon emissions, as electricity can be generated from renewable sources like wind, solar, and hydroelectric power. Electrification spans across multiple industry segments, energy, transportation, manufacturing and others. Metadata supports the integration of new technologies and data sharing across industries. This allows for assessing and acting as to when, where and how to best adopt new electrification technologies.
- Improving Data Integration Across Systems and Vendors
- Support Grid Planning and Modernization
- Enhacing Customer Engagement and Experiance
Distributed Energy Resource Management
Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) include solar, wind, battery storage, electric vehicles, and other distributed energy assets. Integrating these resources into the energy grid is required to ensure operational efficiency and reliability. Different DERs can communicate and work seamlessly together, effective data management is essential. As DER related technologies continue to expand, so does the common metadata to support them. Managing and sharing metadata results in faster integration and quicker adoption.
- Asset and Resource Identification and Categorization
- Trust in Data for Real-Time Monitoring and Control
- Digital Twins
Affirma Capabilities
Connecting your Ecosystem of Data and Technology Investments
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WHY INVEST IN METADATA MANAGEMENT?
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