The main innovation of PLATOON project is the proposed end-to-end solution for a federated ecosystem to exchange data, its representations and services while ensuring interoperability, security, sovereignty and privacy of both data and services. PLATOON goes beyond the state of the art by implementing and demonstrating these technical solutions into 8 real-life large-scale pilots. PLATOON can be regarded as a first attempt to establish the grounds for a future European Energy Data space.
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.