Making the Intelligent Power Grid Happen with Edge AI

Barbara enables Grid Operators to deploy and maintain distributed applications at scale.

Add Intelligence to your Assets

Digitalización
Virtualise
all elements of the grid
to gain control of your assets
Ejecución de procesos
Smarten your legacy infrastructure
by adding new functionalities and running upgrades when you need to
Espacio de confianza
Run your business intelligence close to your operations
by deploying autonomous, real-time and cybersecure AI
Despliegue de algoritmos
Use your own
know-how
to easily create and deploy edge algorithms or source specialised AI from Barbara Marketplace

Making the Smart Grid accesible to all stakeholders

We have designed the technology that enables all stakeholders in the Smart Grid to obtain visibility of all components, harnessing the value of flexibility.

TSO’s

Gain grid visibility through the virtualisation of transmission substations to freely deploy AI.

DERs Operators

Be Smart Grid ready to liaise with TSOs and DSOs.

Energy Communities

Achieve grid interoperability with other stakeholders through smart grid readiness.

Retailers

Supervise behind-the-meter assets for demand-side flexibility.

Aggregators

Combine off-grid assets and transact with other smart-grid stakeholders.

DSOs

Cyber-securely deploy real-time, multi-facet OT algorithms in secondary substations.

IEDs manufacturers

Incorporate the Edge revolution inswitchgear for servitized business models.
SUCCESS CASES

How we do it

CUERVA, a Spanish Energy Operator required a predictive system based on consumption and production patterns to help them avoid congestion and overvoltage events in the grid. Barbara facilitated the Edge Platform to deploy AI algorithm for demand and generation prediction and enabled MLOps techniques to retrain algorithm in the Edge.

Challenge

The separation of hardware and software in electrical equipment has significant implications in terms of design, development, and maintenance. The main reason behind this separation is to allow for greater flexibility, upgradability, and ease of maintenance in substations.

Solution

The full virtualization of the Transmission Substation was accomplished by deploying an Edge Node and some edge apps with Barbara Platform for data monitoring and processing.

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MORE SUCCESS STORIES AND USE CASES

Dive into T&D Virtualization

Deploying AI Flexibility algorithms in a Virtualized LV/ MV  Substation

CUERVA, a Spanish Energy Operator required a predictive system based on consumption and production patterns to help them avoid congestion and overvoltage events in the grid. Barbara facilitated the Edge Platform to deploy AI algorithm for demand and generation prediction and enabled MLOps techniques to retrain algorithm in the Edge.

Transmission Substation Virtualization

REDEIA was tied to the specifications of its current software-hardware assemblies and did not have the flexibility to add new applications. The virtualization of the electrical substation brought Redeia new opportunities to optimize its infrastructure investment, increase grid resilience and plan evolutive maintenance more efficiently.

Enabling an early  prediction model  for underground  high-voltage lines

Barbara´s Edge platform offers Edge Computing-based solutions tailored for critical installations. It enables the efficient operation and predictive maintenance of high-voltage transmission lines through the application of distributed artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Edge Computing Mesh Network for Transformer Substation Congestion

Learn how Barbara enabled Smart Grid stakeholder to virtualize the components of a medium to low voltage transformer substation and achieve independence between hardware and software and enable peer-to-peer cooperation between substations.

Federated Edge Platform for sovereign data exchange

Barbara Industrial Edge platform will provide local sovereignty to the data source through the implementation of Edge IDS connectors and will include a cyber security layer for secure communications, identity management, trust management and access control, in line with the IDS vision.

Digital Twin of a Distribution Transformer

Discover how CUERVA gained complete, real-time digital visibility into the last mile of the power grid, making the system more transparent to all stakeholders while reducing the number of incidents and associated response times.

Implementation of Virtual Power Plants for Efficient Demand Management

Aggregate heterogeneous distributed resources and facilitate physical world connectivity. Barbara's software enables the creation of Virtual Power Plants through Edge Computing Nodes that monitor and control the power sources, and a centralized control platform that manages the entire system in an agile and simple way.

Edge Computing in Substations

With Barbara's Edge Platform, CUERVA is able to capture and process real-time data from line cells and fault pass detectors as well as detect anomalous behavior and optimize its maintenance operations.

Energy monitoring system for self-sufficient residential installations

EDP Solar needed to have a monitoring system that would allow it to obtain real-time information on its customers' production and consumption, as well as alarms and information on the status of each installation, both to make it available to its customers and for internal use by the O&M team.

Smart Management of Distributed Generation Assets

Learn how with Barbara Edge Platform, EDP was able to achieve real-time control of distributed resources such as photovoltaic inverters, batteries, EV chargers and heat pumps with Edge Gateways to make smart flexibility decisions between Smart Grid stakeholders.

edp

"We value the fact Barbara is technology agnostic and most of all their agility and flexibility to find solutions to every challenge that emerged along the way.”

cuerva

"Barbara solved one of our major problems which is the range of languages and protocols we run on our power grid. To do it internally was too costly and slowfor us. They managed to resolve the data intake quickly, making it available wherever we needed it."

solarig

"Heterogeneity is a critical issue for us. We manage a wide diversity of solar plants with equipment from different manufacturers and we needed the versatility that Barbara's technology could offer us."

If you would like more information on what use cases you can implement and how to do it, please contact one of our experts.
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Edge apps certified and validated in the electrical industry, ready to be deployed.

Topology
Mapper
Grid
Analytics
Grid
Monitoring
DNP3
Connector
IEC 60870-5-104
Connector
IEC 61850
Connector
SoAP
Connector
Mongo DB