Efficiently managing theĀ real-timeĀ flow of solar energy across an entire countryĀ is no small feat. With over 35 years of energy management experience as well as being Israel’s leading power generation contractor, Electra set out to do just thisĀ by combining an in-house solution with manufacturer created APIs.Ā After installing theirĀ first twoĀ solar energyĀ subsystems and connecting the manufacturer APIsĀ to the in-house system,Ā ElectraĀ was operational.Ā
However, soon after the system went live problemsĀ quickly began to ariseĀ such asĀ latencyĀ issuesĀ causingĀ malfunction alertsĀ toĀ arriveĀ very late, servers sporadically crashing under the weight of too much data, and reliability concerns when transferring data.Ā Operations workers were also having a hard timeĀ visualizingĀ all of the different systems without one uniform display for the data.Ā
ThisĀ allĀ led toĀ operators having to manually perform the monitoring and analysis of data in order to not miss any faults or alertsĀ (defeating the entire purpose of building a system to do all of this). Electra knew they needed an alternative solution.
When this project wasĀ forecasted toĀ be developed in a traditional fashion (not real time andĀ withoutĀ Vantiq)Ā it was estimated to take over one year of development time. WhenĀ VantiqĀ and partnerĀ CodeOasisĀ wereĀ put to the task, a real-time solution was implemented in less than six weeks.
Now that Electra has a working real-time application (including an easily navigable user interface) for energy management,Ā previouslyĀ unknown revenue streams are opening up.Ā Electra has plans to sell their energy management applicationĀ and associated dashboard as a subscription service to other energy companies in the region.
Gone are the days of malfunction alerts never being delivered or operators having to manually correlate data points to ensureĀ systemĀ accuracy.Ā Electra is now able to do effective human-machine collaboration through real-time dashboards andĀ notifications sentĀ directlyĀ to operators whenĀ aĀ problem is detected.
