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Wirepas MeshIoT Connectivity – a strategic decision not a technology choice

Thomas WeisshauptProduct Marketing, Smart Energy, Wirepas

IoT Connectivity – a strategic decision not a technology choice

ESTA Energy Conference, Birmingham06/09/2018

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Our World records

Largest scale

700k+ devices in a single network

Smallest power IPv6 router

25 μA stand by, continuously

connected

Highest density

1000+ devices inside m3 without

a single packet collision

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Electrification requires Key technologies and access to money

Source: World Economic Forum - The Future of Electricity New Technologies Transforming the Grid Edge, March 2017


Is the platform economy a way to go for DER vendors ?

DER Assets

(BEMS)

Distribution Grid

(Transmission Grid)

UBER

Municipal taxi authority

Airb’nB

Local tourism agency

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Money flow

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Mone

tization

: P

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Asset c

ontro

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tizatio

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ited to

rule

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Why DER monetization is an ecosystem play….

Decentralization ofGeneration/Storage

(fragmented) Regulation

Digitizationof value chain

Renewable

grid inte-

gration

Smart

Sub-

metering

Smart

Market

models

Security of

supply

Affordable

energy

Low cost

connectivity

EV Cost decline

Population

growth

Building energy

management

Demand side

management

Pollution

Geopolitics

DER

Integration

+

Market facilitation

(Multiprotocol +

Blockchain)

Metering

Grid

Access to energyData based

business models

Marginal

transaction cost


….and is discussed based on different objectives.

No Subsidies

Security of

Supply

Market

Access

QoS - Data

availability

OTA -

Flexibility

No/low

recurrent fees

Security -

Data integrity

Balancing

repsonsibility

Regulatory

compliance

Network

lifecycle

Small Ticket

transactions

Standard

Semantics

Scalability/

DensityStandard APIOff Shelf

Hardware

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Massive IoT - Northstream

Early focus Today / Future

“Either the customers are somehow disappointed – or are extremely disappointed”*Why the connectivity choice is part of a company digital strategy and shall not be

exclusively triggered by single use case requirements

*quote during WirepasGO from a very experiences developer

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From Stovepipe end2end to Convergent (local) ecosystems

Local

Local area and small

installations - Zigbee,

Thread, BLE Mesh, Z-wave

< 200 nodes per installation

Wide Area

Wide area and sparse installions

with limited bandwidth - SigFox,

LoRA, Ingenu, NB-IoT

Network effect: Operator

Massive IoT

Any scale, any density, any

location installations, OTA, open

self healing platform with no

central control

>200 nodes per mesh

Network effect: System provider

Centralized/Operator driven/P2P/Single App De-centralized/App agnostic


Diversity of use cases will merge in service ecosystem

Mission critical infrastructure component of 15-20+ years lifetime

Disposable mobile tag of few months lifetime

Few milliseconds of latency

Few uA of power consumption

Free of recurrent fees

Smart

Meters

DistributionGeneratos

Lighting

& HVAC

Access

Fire &

Safety

Meters

Lighting

Wearables

Alarms

Real time

recomm.

Tracking

Monitoring

Tracking

Comms

Lone

workers

Alarms

Tags

Supply chain

management

Vending

Machines

Planes

Connected

Cars &

Goods

Monitoring

Process

monitoring

Factory

Automation

Pumps,

Valves,

Sensors

Alarms

MRI

Pharma-

ceuticals

Industrial

Massive

IoT


Data gathering uplink: No data loss

Control and updates downlink:

Fixing bugs and updating during lifetime

Direct communication between devices in

the network:

Local intelligence w/o internet connection

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Non-Tech thinking: Everything shall be possible

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Internet

Headend Systems

Distributed Ledgers


Enablers

Industrial and

infrastructure IoT

characteristics

and needs for connectivity

Performance

Energy

Throughput Latency

Minimized

CAPEX &

OPEX

Unconstrained topology

High service level

Future proofness

Cost efficiency

Varying

installation

topologies

Devices in

the field for

tens of years

Dynamic

operating

environments

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Varying performance

requirements


Self healing – Every Device of the Network is a Router!

SMART NODE

Internet

Back end systems

=

If the router or controller fails, the

communication channel breaks

Every node self-determines if it is a node or

router and creates the fastest connection to the

gateway


Scalability: Intelligent Routing builds a network bottom-up

Flooding mesh networkLots of noise, data packets dropped

De-centralized networkSpeaks to nearest node, quieter, no data lost

GW

GW

sender

sender


Availability: The Wireless Spectrum – 2.4GHz

WiFi

Channels

1 2 143 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

Advertising

Channels

Bluetooth

Channels

Channel must be

selected at

provisioning

ZigBee

Channels

Channel must be

selected at

provisioning

Channel must be

selected at

provisioning

Wirepas

ChannelsWirepas Mesh operates across all 2.4GHz channels

Stack always scanning to find the quietest part of spectrum

Dynamic channel

selection for higher

performance


End-to-end service/business needsbe aware of long term digitization strategies

Ecosystembe clear that there is no free lunch

Technologiesbe aware of too much Powepoint

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Conclusion: Steps for successful solution


What guides the way to DER monetization

Distribution Grid

(Transmission Grid)

DER Assets

(BEMS)

Soltution approach:

Natural Monopoly

Transaction sizes

Inertia

Data Granularity

Data IntegritySensor

level

Meter

level

Down to

<1s

Currently

15min up to 1yr

Real time

settlement

Up to 1yr

to settlement

any Limited

ConnectivityDecentralized

AutonomousCentralized

Management


The Path of Digitization and Innovation

Distribution Grid

(Transmission Grid)

DER Assets

Soltution approach:

Distributed Ledger

Transaction sizes

Inertia

Data Granularity

Data IntegritySensor

level

Meter

level

Down to

<1s

Currently

15min up to 1 yr

Real time

settlement

Up to 1yr

to settlement

any Limited

ConnectivityDecentralized

AutonomousCentralized

Management

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DER Asset monetization can be the trigger for a successful energy transition with help of IoT connected

Source: https://whatsthebigdata.com/2016/04/05/amazon-facts-and-figures/

Contact Details:

Thomas Weisshaupt

[email protected]

+49 73 487 1800

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Mesh Connectivity – Wirepas Mesh, Zigbee, BLE Mesh

Wirepas Mesh ZigBee BLE Mesh Thread

Design principle Large scale mesh:

unlimited

Medium scale

mesh

Home small scale

mesh

Large scale mesh

Routing De-centralized Routing table Flooding Routing table

Availability Any radio HW Many Some Many

Max hop Unlimited 30 127

Frequency Both <1GHz and

2.4GHz

Mainly 2.4 GHz,

<1GHz

2.4GHz 2.4GHz

Adaptive channel Yes

40 channels

No No

3 channels

If designed into

application layer

Dense networks Yes No No

Low power routers Yes, 20 uA No No Yes

BLE beacon Yes No Yes Yes

IPv6 Yes No No Yes


Wirepas approach

Autonomous, de-

centralized device mesh

network

Smart Device

Radio Hardware

Wirepas Connectivity & Positioning

SW

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Reinventing smart metering with a Wide Area Mesh

IDC case study downloadable at

www.wirepas.com

• Hafslund Nett is a Norwegian

electricity utility in greater Oslo,

serving appr. 1.5 million people in

100 x 200 km area.

• > 700k electricity meters in a

single Wide Area Mesh network

• No infrastructure for connectivity

– just the meters

• Benefits of WAM for utility:

• Coverage 100%

• SLA >99.9%

• Future proven, OTA

• Connectivity is free

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