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We are excited to announce that ADVANTICSYS is proud to be a part of the DR-RISE project, an ambitious initiative aimed at enhancing energy resilience across Europe. The DR-RISE project focuses on developing and implementing innovative demand response solutions to strengthen the stability and sustainability of energy systems.

At ADVANTICSYS, we bring our expertise in advanced monitoring and control technologies to the project, working closely with our partners to integrate cutting-edge solutions that empower consumers to play an active role in energy management. Our goal is to help reshape the future of energy use by making systems more flexible, reducing energy costs, and contributing to a cleaner, more sustainable environment.

What is DR-RISE?

DR-RISE (Demand Response for Resilience, Stability, and Energy Efficiency) is a groundbreaking European initiative that seeks to enhance energy resilience by empowering consumers to adjust their energy consumption in response to supply conditions. The project’s aim is to address current energy challenges, improve grid stability, and promote energy savings by optimizing demand response strategies.

With participation from top industry players and research institutions, DR-RISE is at the forefront of technological innovation in the energy sector. ADVANTICSYS, as part of the project consortium, will contribute to developing integrated solutions that enable real-time energy monitoring, demand control, and data-driven decision-making.

Our Role

As a leader in the field of energy management systems, ADVANTICSYS will be contributing its technological expertise to ensure the seamless integration of demand response strategies. Our role in DR-RISE includes:

Developing advanced sensor and monitoring systems for real-time energy consumption tracking.
Providing smart energy control solutions to support flexibility in energy use.
Collaborating with project partners to design scalable and user-friendly platforms for energy management.
Implementing solutions that help consumers reduce energy costs while contributing to grid stability.

Looking Ahead

Through our participation in DR-RISE, we are committed to driving innovation in the energy sector and contributing to a resilient, sustainable energy future for all. We believe that demand response solutions will play a critical role in reducing energy consumption and stabilizing energy grids, helping to meet the challenges posed by the energy transition.

Stay tuned for updates on our journey as part of the DR-RISE project!

This project received funding by the European Union under the Horizon Europe Framework Programme

On November 17, 2023, the FITDRIVE project was presented at the European Parliament, showcasing its goal of improving road safety through advanced real-time driver monitoring technologies. This project is aimed at developing advanced technologies to monitor and analyze drivers’ behavior in real-time, providing valuable insights to enhance both individual and public safety.

Advanticsys plays a crucial role in this initiative by enabling real-time data collection from vehicles, essential for driver behavior analysis. During tests campaigns, our technology monitored urban delivery vans, capturing driving patterns that feed directly into the project’s AI models. These insights are fundamental for refining safety features and preventing accidents.

FITDRIVE - Real-time vehicle telemetry collection — FITDRIVE – Real-time vehicle telemetry collection

The collaboration with EU institutions is a critical step toward improving standardization for vehicle data collection across Europe. By working together, FITDRIVE’s partners, including Advanticsys, are helping shape the future of European transportation by setting data collection standards that ensure compatibility, accuracy, and effectiveness across various vehicle types and driving environments. This standardization effort is key to creating a safer, smarter, and more efficient road system in Europe.

Stay tuned for more updates on our role in this exciting project and how Advanticsys continues to innovate in the field of real-time vehicle data solutions.

This project received funding by the European Union under the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme

We are facing the challenge of operating a sensorised shipyard, with the aim of implementing predictive maintenance in main facilities such as ASTANDER cranes. The collection of raw data, together with its processing, is the task that must be addressed by our platform.

Our partner ASTANDER will benefit from cost reduction while maintaining customer satisfaction, reducing downtime, and increasing quality.

Broadly speaking, predictive maintenance consists of the analysis of existing data that, using Artificial Intelligence techniques, allows us to know which parts of the observed system are likely to need maintenance before a failure occurs.

This is a breakthrough over reactive maintenance, avoiding downtime costs, which adds to reaction time when it occurs, and preventive maintenance, avoiding changing items that still remain usable. It also allows automating alerts and corrective actions, avoiding the human cost in terms of surveillance and stress.

Based on the above, advanticsys establishes two lines of action:

Crane sensorization in collaboration with ASTANDER, making on-site configurations, advising, and verifying the sending of information.
The collection and provision of data for analysis, configuring the data collection platform -deployed in the cloud- and supervising the process using the platform’s tools.

For this, a system has been developed that, using standards such as MQTT -to send and request data- and JSON -to structure the information returned- allows the information to be stored and transformed. This data is then securely shared through a REST API, another standard that allows data to be collected by defining what we want to retrieve via an Internet address URL). One measure of its simplicity is that we can access the results with a normal browser.

Therefore, the sensorized crane data that supports ASTANDER’s needs are now being successfully collected, transformed, validated, and delivered ubiquitously and securely to stakeholders.

The objectives of this Industry 4.0 application are twofold:

Improve productivity, avoid downtime, and reduce maintenance costs associated with machinery.
Increase safety, through intelligent monitoring to predict potentially damaging failures for workers in real time.

In this way, we align and improve ASTANDER standards, focusing on quality and safety while actively maintaining and promoting customer satisfaction.

Advanticsys continues its growth by planning the incorporation of new protocols widely used in Industry 4.0 -such as OPC UA-, the integration with new systems and the improvement of products. The exploitation of information is another objective on our path towards the implementation of Industry 4.0, the circular economy and associated processes. All these components will be available for our Concordia® Industrial IoT Cloud Platform.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme KYKLOS 4.0 under grant agreement No 872570. More details can be found at KYKLOS 4.0 website.

Real-time monitoring of one of Greece’s leading chicken production plants, the Ioannina Agricultural Poultry Cooperative PINDOS cooperative, offers a challenge for the extraction and processing capabilities of our components.

Recycling in Industry 4.0 is one of the fundamental pillars. Through extensive sensorisation of PINDOS plants and advanticsys’ data management, two branches of Industry 4.0 are to be supported: optimisation of utilisation and value recovery. Predictive maintenance avoids economic losses due to downtime, and the extraction of knowledge from data allows processes to be optimised, maximising the use of resources and reducing material waste.

The data generation capacities in modern industry, such as PINDOS, are very large and heterogeneous. This makes it necessary to create a suitable hardware support for each case (temperature, humidity, volumes per unit of time) in the different points of the factory, as well as a system that is capable of encompassing the data generated to monitor and share the results in a homogeneous and efficient way.

advanticsys uses its experience in the development, installation, integration and operation of hardware sensors to plan, collect, process and store the data produced.

In this way, an MQTT system has been chosen for connectivity, a protocol already commonly used within the Concordia platform. MQTT is a de facto standard for data transmission in the Internet of Things, with low latency and high efficiency. It consists of the centralisation of messages from devices/sensors in an MQTT broker, or intermediate server, which has a series of topics to subscribe to, in order to retrieve the data. In this way, clients or data exploitation systems can connect to the broker, and request information on those topics in which they are interested. It is widely spread and can be exploited by means of the usual languages such as Python, Java, etc. Security is also contemplated/covered, allowing encryption of communications and authentication of users connecting to the broker.

PINDOS currently has 103 monitored measurements, divided into 9 different data sources (systems), ranging from measurement of consumed and wastewater to conveyor belts and information from other equipment, such as automation panels. These data will be used by other IT components for analysis in the form of carbon footprint and predictive maintenance analysis. An API has been made available to access the data, providing filtering, paging and sensor selection capabilities, as well as a web interface to interact with the data in a more user-friendly way.

Advanticsys continues its growth by planning the incorporation of new protocols widely used in Industry 4.0 -such as OPC UA-, the integration with new systems and the improvement of products. The exploitation of information is another objective on our path towards the implementation of Industry 4.0, the circular economy and associated processes. All these components will be available for our Concordia® Industrial IoT Cloud Platform.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme KYKLOS 4.0 under grant agreement No 872570. More details can be found at KYKLOS 4.0 website.

advanticsys successfully commissioned a real-time wireless mesh monitoring solution for string combiner boxes at a 75MWp plant in Khanak Harayana, India for Sterling & Wilson as end-customer.

This project is part of our portfolio in India where we are currently monitoring more than 600 MW since 2019 when a strategic alliance with local partners Alltronix was established.

Our innovative approach relies on the robustness of our DM-108 bridge installed in each of the string monitoring boxes at site, wirelessly connected to several master stations where all data is logged and integrated into the plant SCADA seamlessly.

Compared to other technologies, DM-108 has a very strong noise rejection (quite important in solar plants where electromagnetic environment changes through time), co-exists with other wireless networks without any interference problem and near real-time data transmission (tests have ensured polling periods below 5 secs for the whole plant).

More information about this and the rest of our solar plants monitoring projects can be found in our project dedicated area