INSTAR Standards

With these smiley faces, we're waving goodbye to the first of the two-day workshop on Cross-Domain Standardisation and Architecture for IoT and Edge Computing! 👋🏻 Thanks to all who attended, thanks to all the panelists, but most of all, thanks to this amazing consortium that made this workshop today an interesting and insightful day! BluSpecs Trialog AIOTI Trust-IT Services COMMpla srl AIT Austrian Institute of Technology Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft fortiss Delft University of Technology NCSR "DEMOKRITOS"

As last hurrah of the day we have Tanya Suarez Ph.D., CEO of BluSpecs and coordinator of #INSTAR, and Hahn Thomas, from Siemens, conducting a #firesidechat, on "lessons in scaling tech adoption from a Market leader". 🎙️ Tanya Suarez started off by reading a bit from Ursula von der Leyen's Mission Letter to Henna Virkkunen, Executive Vice-President-designate for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy: "We need to work to promote EU digital norms and standards internationally and to ensure a leading role for the EU in global digital governance, in particular for AI and cybersecurity." 🎙️ Thomas Hahn continued the discussion by talking about scaling interoperable standards: "Scaling interoperability standards requires a healthy ecosystem, continuous service innovation, and unlocking the unrealised value of data."

📢 Starting the last panel of the day with an engaging word-cloud session that highlighted the key word of the day as being #interoperability, is Silvana Muscella, CEO of Trust-IT Services and #cybersecurity #ETF leader. With her on stage are Dr. Katerina Poustourli (International Hellenic University, CEN/CENELEC STAIR Expert), David Raggett (W3C), and Laurent Schmitt (Digital4Grids), discussing together how to scale up #standards from pilots to #international actions. 🎙️ Katerina Poustourli: "Testing new standards in real environments is crucial, supported by diverse expert consortia and aligned with global challenges and performance metrics." 🎙️ Dave Raggett: "To advance standardisation, we must address the risks and costs of early deployment, support national procurement, and ensure knowledge retention from completed projects to feed use cases into standardisation activities." 🎙️ Laurent Schmitt: "Pilots are going to drive harmonisation, they are bottom-up driven by industry. We have been able to define a minimum data exchange in the grid industry. There is a gap in certifying and testing. Do we go into more formal certification? It depends how we test interoperability of standards." Join the last bits of the #day1 of the workshop now! https://lnkd.in/dPKQEM6N

📢 From Digital4Grids, Laurent Schmitt is joining the workshop to talk about a new API standard for behind the meter flexibility management. 🎙️ “Interoperability is key, as grid operators use Digital Twins to standardise interfaces, focusing on applying existing standards to enable edge-operating devices and manage flexibility.” Join the workshop! ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dPKQEM6N 

📢 EEBUS Initiative e.V. Managing Director, Robert Boehm is with us today to present eebus as an emerging standard connecting appliances and its main characteristics. 🎙️“Why is it essential to have a standard around device control? More and more players want to influence the behaviour of the end consumers; eebus provides this standardised interface for the GCP to coordinate these signals.” Join the workshop! ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dPKQEM6N

After the afternoon coffee ☕️ break , we have the honour and pleasure to have with us David Raggett, computer scientist and W3C Fellow at the World Wide Web Consortium. He is giving a presentation on the challenges to overcome for IoT applications and standards, introducing the role of AI as a way of reducing the burden on the cloud by preprocessing at the edge— for videos, for example. 🎙️ "We need clean, simple, easy to understand approaches that hide the underlying complexity of this process. Descriptions in terms of classes, properties and relationships, a behaviour modelled in terms of events, facts and rules to encourage the realisation of the benefits of the IoT." Join the webinar! ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dPKQEM6N

📢 Our very own Rute C. Sofia Sofia is chairing the panel on “Industrial evidence for common standards: What unlocks the full potential of flexibility of energy assets?”, featuring Philipp Miesen (WIKA Alexander Wiegand SE & Co), Martin Roßmann (VIESSMANN), Martin Forsén (Nibe Industrier), and Henrik Madsen (DTU, Citycom.AI TEF).  🎙️Philipp Miesen talked about the challenges of complexity and fragmentation in IoT end-to-end solutions and the role of Standardisation. “There are 7 steps of Digital Readiness, that are essential for businesses looking to digitalise their assets.” 🎙️Martin Roßmann presented the products and systems of VIESSMANN: “Interoperability in energy management requires EU-wide use cases for demand-side flexibility, cross-sector standards for data and smart services, and updated interfaces like EEBUS for devices such as heat pumps.” 🎙️Martin Forsen discussed about the “electrification” of the transport and heating sectors, and demand flexibility: “As electrification increases, demand flexibility becomes essential, requiring digitalisation and standardised communication between energy grid operators and manufacturers.” 🎙️Henrik Madsen talked about unlocking the full potential of flexibility of energy assets  “We need standards, smart tariffs, and TSO-DSO coordination to enable dynamic energy management, from individual devices to houses and communities, unlocking significant savings for end-users.” Join the workshop! ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dPKQEM6N 

📢 Directly from Viessmann, we have the pleasure of having with us as a speaker Martin Roßmann, who is giving an “industrial evidence” pitch, specifically about sector coupling for heat pumps. 🎙️“We develop cloud-based solutions with an algorithm that determines potential of shiftable load in dependance of consumption forecast, building class, user behaviour, summation per network node.” Join the workshop! ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dPKQEM6N

📢 Luka De Bruyckere (ECOS)  is now presenting the S2: a #standard to unlock residential demand-side flexibility. The S2 standard is an energy transition-proof and a future-proof EMS standard, which focuses on “behind the meter” energy management with no limitation in technology. 🎙️“The S2 standard is future-proof because software updates happen in the EMS, instead of the device.” Join the workshop! ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dPKQEM6N

📢 Next up we have the pleasure to host professor Henrik Madsen (DTU - Technical University of Denmark, Citycom.AI TEF), discussing minimal Interoperability Mechanisms (MIMs) as a tool to support international standards for Energy Flexibility. 🎙️“Demand-side flexibility powered by AI, Big Data, and IoT is key to aligning user energy consumption with renewable solutions, supported by standardisation and Minimum Interoperable Mechanisms (MIMs).” Join the workshop! ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dPKQEM6N