Yeah, hey, good afternoon. I'm Pierre, Pierre Kill, Opremot. I wanted to give
actually a follow-up of the talk which was held by Eric last year here on a pilot
we're doing in the sport work. He's some docklands in Amsterdam about grid congestion
and engaging households. And we think it works, but I'll share about a bit more about
the minute. A bit of background to Opremot, we had an up-cent complete open source
in general IoT platform, basically targeting equipment manufacturers and
system integrators as well as as governments and NGOs. We were using our software.
The picture would almost say for you that's probably obvious. So we have pieces like
OK, the protocols, the integrations, the layers where you can unify your objects and add
all kinds of logic to it. And towards the application side, we have a library of web
components which allows a front end developers to quickly make the spoke apps for
end users or integrators. And as a company, we support it to integrators and
and manufacturers with services. To give you a bit of idea of some of the
custom-zone users of Opremot, just quickly going through the first one is the city of
or actually not an empty city council, which uses our software for optimizing the energy
production and consumption on their sites, including V2G charging, for
co-workers of Dutch entity use open mode for a control of smart lighting in a public
space. K2 systems is a German equipment manufacturer who does mounting materials for
solar panels and in snow-rich areas they add weight sensors to it to measure the snow loads.
And the reason for that is the risk of panel breaking or micro cracks and therefore
the lifetime or the production rates are decreasing. The fourth one is military
police in the Netherlands use it for forecasting and measuring passenger flows on the
airports and the reason of it is to predict queues on the checkpoints so that they can
flexibly move people around to prevent queues basically in the end.
On the other hand, I'm sure you heard the length before. To Dutch dzo, I'm going to
talk about it in a minute. We're using it for congestion management there and
digitize a Finnish company who does power line monitoring in icy regions
Finland and the risk of the power lines breaking so they actively monitoring to prevent
the power lines to be broken. This really is short. We have a booth here so I
really want to go into the topic. You can in the AWS building basically a rough overview
on the left side of the real world. We have all kind of APIs. We have a broker in our
platform so you can connect over MQTT but you can also run open mode on premise.
It's the same code base which you then run on the local instance.
Create your local network and as you can connect these gateways, multiple gateways
to a sent for instance of open modes. In open mode itself, we have already mentioned
that protocol integrations. We run a several kind of rules.
The solution is so groovy scripting when then flow. That's the visual modeling of rules.
And we have some built-in services like a map service, notification service, which
can also easily add your own specific service of course by using the APIs we have.
And towards the front ends, we have a standard manager of what we call manager
you live for the let's say the expert user to configure all of this.
And do you also have a dashboard builder for that let's say professional users to
make dashboards for their users again. Or we have a library of web components which
allow front end developers to build specific apps for their end users.
Now going into the project, we talked about it last year. We started and the project
I think it was a couple of months in running. Now you're running them over a year
and it was about engaging households and to prove that actually you could
incentivize residents and in this case it's a district and I'm still
in with 500 households. And the problem, the typical problem in the Netherlands
is they are the transformers which are getting too low in capacity.
And we want to prove that we can motivate people to change their power
consumption in peak congestion moments.
So basically this is the story the way we explain it to residents in the neighborhood
say hey we want to introduce a solution which first of all helps you
optimizing your individual users to align your own production with your own
consumption that's good for everybody especially for your water in the
ends. So the low is bill and secondly say well if you can't use it yourself
use it with your net or give it to your neighbor that's the basic.
And by doing it the first reason for that would be what we introduced
because you then you would help the grid operate because we limit the
investment in the future capacity.
We introduced an app for that that was the one I'm showed here.
I'm not going to detail or show that in a minute but I wanted to show what
the results are and what we're seeing here is we have 71 active
participants last year in 2024 we had 48 challenges people earned 35 to 146
euro max so not a lot of money but it's a nice financial incentive
and this is a graph showing for a typical day what actually happened because
the big questions of course what did we actually reach and what we did
measure is that with manual interventions people were actually
we were able to see that on average we had an half kilo watt
hour reduction just by these people just by on average 15 people
joining just by manual interventions so only the manual side so
that obviously says well that was quite promising so we said hey the
obvious next step is start adding automation and scalable way so that's
what we're looking at now in the next step but also add things like
dynamic terrors so if you can say hey you make use of my dynamic terrors
then obviously we can enhance the benefit for for users and as of
January 1st energy caring for you to be if you okay I'll leave the
question to the end of that then I'm in that as January the peer
to peer is allowed in announced now we also working in energy provider
to see better we can actually arrange it for people and that would
strengthen and and seeing whether that could could go inside with the
avoiding congestion so the next step two things which we doing first of all
be looking at automation and adding that to to the app we currently have
of course we want to increase the number of participants with more
communication but also to double the incentive people are getting and in
terms of automation you just give you some feeling what we think could be
more realistic it's not just added these numbers that's not what I'm trying to do
here but imagine there are 20 about 20 home if you use in that one
district we are 13 public charges there if you could reduce power with five
kilowatts with five cars charging in in a peak moments and that's 25
kilowatts if you assume that heating there's no heating and heat pumps
here but in other districts we now extend into so we're going to extend to
districts if you switch off the heat pump for an hour heat pump for an hour
people probably will notice we're going to talk about it and it's typically
five kilowatts that's also 25 kilowatts and the last one that's what we want
to experiment because it creates a lot of hassle is that our noise let's
put it that people are buying home batteries and trading and doing all
kind of stuff so from the network operator point of view we want to figure out
how can these batteries be actually beneficial for the day so so the 50 times
five hundred robber delivering back in a moment would also be 25 kilowatts just
give you some idea what we might achieve quickly the app because if you haven't
been in your last view so this is what the app does for users the 1563 is your
own consumption real time in seconds even the green indicates there's nothing
wrong with the neighborhoods if there's something wrong obviously you're not
looking at the app but it will tell you that there's something wrong here but the real
thing is that you will receive a push notification 50 minutes ahead of that
inviting you to join the challenge and if you then press the push notification
you'll end up in this page and you're being asked hey do you want to join the
challenge and they said why not and the challenge means you get a personalized
target so in this case I got a 600 watts target and then you go to this few and
there's a clock taking the green circle is actually going around in every six
minutes and it's green because I'm below the 600 watts and in a period of an hour
you can maximum 10 points so where does the automation so we already had this
automation now comes in is here in the tips and actions or the tips and tricks
so wherever you would call it and in this case as we have connected home battery
as an example actually as people have allowed it and they can put in settings
here I agree that you use my home battery in these cases if I join a challenge
in this case it says hey we actually this charging your battery is 660 watts
and you can say we'll stop this charging I don't want it so you can always
overrule the action and you can imagine that we could do the same with
ev charging or your thermostat for example once completed you get feedback on
how many points you earn and of course there's something like trophies as we call
them so you have an overview of the points you've earned and there's an exchange
rate so you can always see how much money you actually earn and that's being
handed out on a yearly basis which we now did for first time so that's the first
automation and the second part we are looking into now we also going to do that
is the let's say looking at a multiple methods to motivate self-consumption
or energy markets or wherever we call it the first one is obviously the grid
congestion we just explained what we are doing that are other aspects in this which
we gradually want to add and see whether we can they can enhance the solution
or how they potentially could conflict and then try to find solution as well
then the first one after grid congestion or the second one is then the dynamic energy
charge the energy sharing in the district we also going to add it to the solution
and the other one is maximized really self-consumption we were talking about
hands and really the optimization in the house so there we're looking
with open hap and home assistant to see hey maybe you can do something in the house
or connect to existing home information systems and the last one is important
to share we doing this now in multiple districts so we do it in Amsterdam we
going to extend to a second district in R&M we starting with one or two districts
and in the Hague we also doing it with the stadium so we're doing the same
and the last I wanted to add here is that we always talking about 24 hours but we have
a bigger problem or bigger maybe a bigger problem and that's the seasonal aspect
so what we also going to do and that's what we're going to do in R&M in the coming years
so just to manage expectations here is add a high temperature storage solution
and then basically do seasonal storage here and that's my last slide
so I hope it give you a big overview and hopefully I can give you an update next year again
oh there was one question there
and the first question for those when you're still on the slide
you know what can you get a bit of a reference on how much is it's in the
so the capacity of the transformer is a thousand so eight and a half is one percent less
so that doesn't sound much and the way we did it if that's so that's not much
but it's promising if you look at all the things you could potentially add
to all these houses that join the Israel they require a house memory
no no no no so they initial the numbers here without any automation
so just push notification hey please one is and people actually and we were positive
by the actually run to whatever hey what's like this my 2000 what come from turn on the
capital device or whatever and they actually seem to do that already manually so of course
it does last over time it's a bit I mean novelty does well but maybe you'll still have
some people happy to go on doing when they get a surprise like yeah
the back of the previous talk for the automatic control have you assessed as to the
computer and so which one would you like a yes but they're 14 or 15 now so
and the thing we and favor don't get it wrong we want to have a standout
but the problem is that the not the problem are challenges that we need to scale today
and there isn't so we're looking for a way how can we get 150 people on board
so that's why we didn't do automation because then everybody can join
now this next step of the automation we actually we've looked at e-notes to integrate
the e-notes because they offer all the integrations just being pragmatic and we hope that
S2 comes no yeah because the nobody has not nobody is that way and on the other
hands we're looking at the because they're the early adopters the homicist and open
happy users because in our name for example we have already quite a few homicist
users so they can be the the other early adopters to be the promoters in the in
the neighborhood