Research

Proposal

The Internet of Things (IoT) shall be able to incorporate transparently and seamlessly a large
number of different and heterogeneous end systems, while providing open access to
selected subsets of data for the development of a plethora of digital services. Building a
general architecture for the IoT is hence a very complex task, mainly because of the
extremely large variety of devices, link layer technologies, and services that may be involved
in such a system. In this paper, we focus specifically to an urban IoT system that, while still
being quite a broad category, are characterized by their specific application domain. Urban
IoTs, in fact, are designed to support the Smart City vision, which aims at exploiting the most
advanced communication technologies to support added-value services for the
administration of the city and for the citizens.



IBM IoT for Energy is an open analytics solution designed to meet a wide range of current
and future provider needs. Via data integration, analytics, and visualization it provides a
detailed, accurate understanding of historical and current asset and network performance. It
integrates with existing data sources and operational processes to analyze and predict asset
performance and risk to help deliver safe, reliable, affordable and sustainable energy. Key
applications include asset performance management, situational awareness, health and risk,
investment planning, connectivity model verification, and wind farm optimization.

Improve maintenance practices and plans

Descriptive, predictive, prescriptive and cognitive models analyze historical and real-time
data to monitor asset health, warn of impending failure, and recommend maintenance
procedures and schedules.

Quickly assess risk and impact on grid

Risk exposure analytics provide information in context of grid operations, aggregating and
analyzing asset performance data to calculate probability of asset failure and potential impact
to the grid.

Understand assets in operational context

Quickly assess situations by understanding performance of individual assets within context of

the network through aggregation, analysis, and visualization of relevant asset and operational
data.

Prioritize maintenance and replacement

Analyses enable operations, maintenance, and finance personnel to make well-informed

decisions regarding maintenance scheduling, asset replacements plans, and level of
infrastructure investments.
Optimize wind farm operations

Report historical, current, and predictive insights for wind turbines and wind farms, and
optionally incorporate weather data to assess turbine health and risk and optimize wind farm
performance.

Applications to meet needs of a changing industry

• Asset performance management - past, present, and future

• Determine risk exposure and potential impact on the grid
• Performance and risk analyses support asset investment plans
• Connectivity model reduces manual verification costs
• IBM Energy & Utility Data Model
• Wind farm operations and performance
• Open Source software support