mhg company presentation

10.04.2023

Company and Service Introduction

Kick-off Meeting, Trento, January 8 2014

Contents of this presentation

• About MHG Systems Ltd• Company´s view towards the SLOPE

– Built in house services: MHG Biomass Manager, MHG Feedstock Portal Platform, MHG Mobile application, IPTIM - Services for Sustainable Timber Procurement, Managing and Optimization of Supply Chains and Deliveries

• Overview of the role in the SLOPE• Responsible Experts in the SLOPE


MHG Systems Oy

• Agile Green ICT Services for end-to-end automation of entire biomass/timber acquisition process

• Globally unique service linking novel technologies resulting in situation view for various decision makers

• Developed together with bioenergy players & researchers

• Strong forestry and bioenergy

background• Green ICT Winner 2011 • Top25 Scand. Cleantech 2010, Logica ICT Innovation Winner 2010

Founded 2005


On-Going Projects and Partners

=>Feedstock resource monitoring and integration with MHG Feedstock PortalService to enable and optimize Sustainable feedstock procurement and supplying

Feedstock Monitoring; Thailand, Indonesia

LogistEC & CASTLE• leading FP7 R&D projects to develop sustainability toolsfor feedstock procurement and supply chains in Europe

Partners;

Waste Projects;• St. Petersburg


Agile Development with Leading Edge Technologies• Reliable and scalable Vmware vSphere cloud platform for service providing.

Hosted by TelecityGroup Finland.

• Built-in-House MHG Services can be modified easily to fit customer needs

• The Services are integrated with customer´s present IT systems by Web Service interfaces like SOAP. MHG Service Platform includes open SOAP intefaces.

• Well-known Open Source- and Java-technologies are utilized

• As Server platform Linux, MySQL, and Oracle Glassfish Server are utilized

• Map development is based on WMS-, WFS ja KML –standards and OpenLayers libraries

• MHG has good knowledge about modern server side Java development, Web development and Android mobile development.

• Agile software development model. Scrum model has been used in many development activities to our products.

• MHG uses JIRA for issue management and Subversion for version control.


For Customizing in SLOPE: MHG Biomass Manager Cloud Service

Resource Management

Storage Management

Work Management

Mobile Management

• For real time management and control of all feedstock and forest resources, procurement and supply activities

• For optimal efficiency, transparency, increased value of feedstock and certifiable origin tracking

SOAP Interfaces


Finland: From Stump to BoilerMain Benefits to Hyötypaperi

• access to market – partnership with forest associations due to MHG Biomass Manager

• storages, human and machinery resources can be managed on-line by easy-to-use technologyon-line alarms can be done when needed (weather and road conditions, demand etc.)

• less supervising needed (savings 50%)

• outsourced contractors plan their daily work by themselves and can optimise work and save in driving distances and working hours due to better optimisation of routes and volumes (savings 5-10 %)


Process

Harvesting and hauling information

Resources

Storages

Projects and originWork orders

Delivery notes

Revenue and expenses

Reports


For Basis Solution in Slope: MHG Portal Platform

MHG Biomass Manager - Liferay portal plugin

example.


Use Cases for the Platform

Biomass and Bioenergy Resource Assessment

Platform

Regional Potential Analysis

Supply Chain Management

Sustainability Management

Baseline Information

Mapping

Power plant level pre-feasibility analysis

Timber Tracking

From overall situation view

To individual supply chain operations

Change detection and

monitoring


For Data Collection in Slope: MHG Mobile Application

• Collect data, monitor biomass and record

key characteristics of the storages and add

HD photos etc• NFC-technology available for tracking

=> All in one single mobile device


For Customizing in SLOPE: Iptim Service

Iptim:

• The data model for forest inventory data and baseline definition of how forests are managed; the management regime

• The growth models on which the simulation is based; • possibility to create user’s own growth models in situations

where there’s scarce research literature found• Adopt specific models from research, calibrate with your own

data if necessary

The Simo framework has been validated in Finland where the framework is in operational use on close to all of the 26 million ha of forest land.


Overview of the Role in Slope

- Technology and solution provider; MHG Biomass Manager, MHG Portal Platform MHG Mobile app., Iptim

- Leader in two WPs:

• WP1. Definition of requirements and system analysis• and • WP5. Forest information development

- Integrator of SLOPE platform at WP6. System integration

- Active in demonstrations, dissemination, exploitation, business planning, IPR and licensing policies i.e. how to commerzialice the solutions and services developed in the SLOPE


Responsible Persons

• WP1. Definition of requirements and system analysis- Veli-Matti Plosila; [email protected] +• Sudip Kumar Pal; [email protected]• Task 1.5.System architecture- Veli-Matti Plosila; [email protected] +- Sudip Kumar Pal; [email protected]

• WP5. Forest information development- Seppo Huurinainen; [email protected]• + Veli-Matti Plosila + Sudip Kumar• Task 5.1. Database to support novel inventory data content - -

Veli-Matti Plosila + Sudip Kumar• Task 5.3. Online purchasing/invoicing of industrial timber and

biomass• - Sudip Kumar + Seppo Huurinainen

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Responsible Persons

• Task 5.5. Mid-long term optimization; strategic and tactical planning

- Seppo Huurinainen + Jarmo Ylinen; [email protected]

• WP6. System integration• Task 6.3. Second integration – forest management- Veli-Matti Plosila + Seppo Huurinainen + Sudip Kumar

• WP8. Openness with other activities, dissemination and exploitation of results

- Seppo Huurinainen + Sudip Kumar

• Coordinator at MHG Systems: Seppo Huurinainen
