DR Software: Essential Foundational Elements and Platform Components
UCLA Smart Grid Energy Research Center (SMERC) Industry Partners Program (IPP) Meeting
May 27, 2011
Yogen Patel, Vice President, Zyrion Inc.
[email protected] , +1-408-524-7407
Overview & Company Background
Review how Zyrion can contribute to the development of automated Demand Response (DR) software systems
• Provide a quick introduction of the company
• Summarize some of the challenges in developing effective DR software
• Explain how Zyrion’s technology and software platform can be utilized by the SMERC project and solution partners
• Zyrion provides an integrated software platform for performance data capture, event generation, analysis, visualization and reporting
Network and IT Infrastructure Monitoring
Business Service Management
Operations Management
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Automated Demand Response (DR) Process
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Key Challenges in Creating Effective DR Software Systems
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Supporting highly-distributed, massive, device-agnostic, data collection
Linking to dashboards, portals & information systems, and enabling future trending & predictive modeling
Processing huge amounts of raw data, and abstracting this as high-level events
Performing intelligent filtering, suppression, and translation of events
Integrating with the transmission and distribution control infrastructure
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Executing sophisticated, contextual rules to determine appropriate load changes
How to Get There
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Researchers focus on the models, algorithms and protocols
behind the “smarts” in the automation of DR
Rely on partners for: •Massively scalable “plumbing”•DR system solution enablers •Underlying platform and frameworks
How Zyrion Helps SMERC & Partners: Ready-to-Use Platform for DR Work
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Distributed collectors, supporting SNMP, plug-in monitors, EDF interface, and log capture (data-agnostic)
Powerful integration APIs for all objects, events and data
Highly configurable, fully-open, extensible, XML-based rules framework for event processing and alerting
Highly configurable, extensible, two-way, plug-in action framework (Java, C, Perl, etc.)
Customizable reports, visualization and status views, with full user mgmt.
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‘Container’ object model for higher-level abstraction, dependencies & relationships
In Conclusion
Zyrion has one of the most scalable and flexible performance/event processing, analysis, reporting and visualization platforms in the world
– Innovative distributed database architecture
– Proven deployments worldwide ‘comparable use cases’ to DR
Our software provides a solid foundation for experimenting with DR solution approaches / prototypes
– Augment with domain expertise and add-ons to develop full DR solutions
Zyrion looks forward to collaborating with SMERC and Partners in the DR areas of the research project
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Yogen Patel, Vice President, Zyrion Inc.
[email protected] , +1-408-524-7407