Greenbird Integration Technology

Utilihive is a cloud-native big data integration platform, purpose-built for the digital data-driven utility, offered as a managed service. Utilihive helps utilities and energy companies break down data silos and overcome the challenges of enterprise system integration, providing the data foundation to innovate energy services and deliver new, data-driven solutions.

Utilihive provides both a big data integration infrastructure and a library of pre-built accelerators for improving time-series data quality, managing metering operations, creating situational awareness in the low/mid voltage networks and harmonizing asset information.

Compared to other iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service) or ESB platforms, Utilihive gives utilities a head-start for successfully delivering mission-critical big data integration solutions with its pre-configured integration content. Utilihive has proven to speed up the implementation of complex and distributed integration systems up to 5 times faster than the commonly used system integration approach.

From a purely technical standpoint, Utilihive provides many advantages compared to traditional iPaaS, ESB and integration platforms. With its modern cloud-native microservices design and its event-driven architecture (EDA), Utilihive is ideally suited for the integration challenges of tomorrow, not only with regards to its elastic scalability and resilience but also flexibility and adaptability. More information about Utilihive

Utilihive offers secure data lake storage so you can perform faster real-time analytics, cut costs and reduce the need for internet access at distributed asset locations. Utilihive utilizes a high-performance distributed NoSQL storage and assembles NoSQL, time-series database, big data object storage and relational database technologies into one unified but distributed data lake architecture optimized for asset intensive utility use cases.

KEY BENEFITS

• Utilihive Datalake helps utilities to transition into the data economy and implement data-driven operations and decision-making. Designed specifically for the energy sector, Utilihive Datalake provides out-of-the-box features for any utility that wants to access and leverage their data and build new solutions on top of it.
• Utilihive Datalake utilizes a modern technology stack to integrate seamlessly with different environments, with support across multiple cloud providers and storage backends, and with integration towards common data visualization and reporting tools.
• A multitude of standardized interfaces is included, allowing operators and developers to interact with the data at just the right level of abstraction and privilege.

​CORE CAPABILITIES

Main capabilities of Utilihive Datalake are summarized below:

• Distributed data lake with pre-processed data buckets for energy and utility usage scenarios (data mesh)
• Operational data lake optimised for high transactional data access
• Analytical data lake optimised for complex queries
• CIM inspired data model
• Managed and secured data services API
• Store and index raw data at scale for a low cost
• Powerful ETL and batch processing
• Flexible schema for inbound data objects - records are linked and structured upon time of use (schema-on-read)
• Highly configurable storage tiers and backends
• Classical data warehouse capabilities for selected entities relevant to utilities
• Cloud native and cloud agnostic

More information and demo found here: Utilihive Datalake

Utilihive SMOC combines data from the Head End System(s) (HES); network device, communication performance information, fault information from the telco provider, network topology information from the GIS and other reference data from the System-of-Records (SOR) to provide a holistic view of the AMI and communication network status.

Utilihive SMOC provides authorized users and operators tooling support tools to identify and analyze communication problems or failures using configurable filters for both list and map-based views to display alarms, events, or metering data.

CORE CAPABILITIES

SMOC offers a holistic view to monitor and manage daily operations including:

• Progress and quality measures of rollout and smart meter installation and rollout plans
• Status and quality measures of the AMI and communication network
• Real-time insight and transparency of low/mid voltage grid infrastructure
• Quality insights across all stakeholders in the entire metering value chain
• Quality of the IT operations, message exchange, system, and data integrations across all interconnected systems and applications
• Alerts, alarms and incident management

More information about Utilhive SMOC