Periodic Reporting for period 1 - PLATOON (Digital PLAtform and analytic TOOls for eNergy)
Berichtszeitraum: 2020-01-01 bis 2021-06-30
The partners worked on the creation of several template documents and on the organization of different Pilot-Specific Workshops between the Pilot Leaders and the Technical Core. From this, a first version of the Implementation and Validation Plan was developed, ready to be fine-tuned in the next months. Then, the set-up of each pilot was defined and the execution of the implementation tasks started.
The 1st Open Call of PLATOON has been successfully launched and managed. The project received double the expected number of submissions (KPI was 40 per Open call, 80 in total received). The PLATOON consortium selected 6 relevant projects after 9 months of preparation and execution. FBA is currently undergoing the SGA (Sub-Grant Agreement) preparation process where the selected SMEs are formally enrolled in Technology Transfer Programme 1 (TTP1) (the 1st Support Programme). The kick-off of this 9-month long programme aimed at the development and implementation of solutions within the PLATOON pilots was scheduled for the 1st of July 2021. In parallel to these activities, FBC (FBA’s LTP) has created momentum around PLATOON’s target audience by creating a community on the FundingBox platform, as well as by recruiting and managing Supportive Partners and Ambassadors to create further outreach about the PLATOON project and its Open Calls, and finally by supporting TIB to communicate and disseminate the Open Calls.
A Communication & Dissemination strategy has been developed and realized for the PLATOON project. 950+ followers on the Twitter account and 1.600+ followers on the LinkedIn account of the PLATOON project were generated. A project website has been set up, displaying the, latest news, up-to-date developments & more that have been disseminated to the target groups. PLATOON partners have visited 50+ online events related to topics like energy, digitalization, sustainability, or innovation.
At the scientific level, three main scientific events have been organized by consortium partners: the LAMBDA summer school and PhD Workshop in June 2021; the 2nd and 3rd International Workshops on Transforming Big Data into Actionable Knowledge (BiDAW) collocated with the IEEE Big Data and the Web Conference 2020 and 2021; the EU Project Networking in the context of ESWC 2021. Lastly, a scientific article describing an edge-computing framework to implement the PLATOON framework has been published in the International Journal of Applied Science (MPDI).
In total, ten peer-reviewed publications were accepted in this period. Five of them are published, and the rest are in the process of publication by the corresponding publisher.
Different variants of the edge-cloud framework instantiation scenarios related to the O&M/Control were identified: distributed control, centralized control and hybrid (aggregated) control. based on the pilots’ technical requirements, the initial components of the PLATOON Edge-Cloud framework were identified, focusing on easy management of edge-node services and deployment of real-time processing capabilities to the edge nodes and other parts of analytic tools to the Cloud or Central computer. A refinement of the initial technical framework proposal, the initial open-source edge-cloud framework was compiled supporting automated deployment of a framework on all nodes, Docker images with analytic tools (T4.1) node management, service management, orchestration and security.
The next part of the PLATOON project, period will serve software integration of the different modules developed in WP2, WP3 and WP4 in a form of PLATOON Platform that will facilitate the development of new data-driven services and ensure that security, privacy, and access-control policies are enforced in all the components of the distributed system. It will also contribute to the setup, deployment and operation of large-scale pilots (LSP) that make use of digital platforms, data governance schema and data analytic toolboxes, to develop prototype applications on top of the platforms, and validate the platforms in both reduced, controlled environments and in real-life use cases.