Energy
Smart grid monitoring
Real-time Data Analysis: CrateDB enables real-time analysis of data from smart meters, sensors, and other grid devices, providing insights into power consumption patterns, grid congestion, and equipment performance.
Predictive Analytics: By leveraging historical data and machine learning algorithms, CrateDB can predict potential grid issues, such as equipment failures or overloads, allowing utilities to proactively address them and prevent costly outages.
Predictive maintenance
Minimized Downtime: CrateDB's predictive maintenance capabilities enable utilities to detect potential equipment failures before they occur, allowing for proactive maintenance scheduling. This minimizes unplanned downtime, ensuring continuous energy supply and optimizing grid reliability.
Extended Asset Lifespan: By identifying maintenance needs based on actual equipment condition rather than fixed schedules, CrateDB helps utilities optimize maintenance activities. This approach reduces unnecessary maintenance costs and extends the lifespan of critical energy infrastructure, maximizing return on investment.
Energy consumption analytics
Granular Data Analysis: CrateDB allows utilities to analyze energy consumption data at a granular level, including individual customer usage patterns, peak demand periods, and trends over time. This detailed analysis enables utilities to identify opportunities for efficiency improvements and demand-side management strategies.
Optimized Resource Allocation: By gaining insights into energy consumption patterns, utilities can optimize resource allocation, such as adjusting generation and distribution strategies to meet changing demand patterns. CrateDB's real-time processing capabilities facilitate timely decision-making, ensuring efficient resource utilization and grid stability.
[Talk] Modeling and Analyzing Renewable Energy Data
This video is a recording of a talk given by Simon Prickett, Senior Product Evangelist at CrateDB, at the AI and Big Data Expo Europe in Amsterdam in October 2024. Using a real-world example of offshore wind farm data, the talk examines how CrateDB can handle various data types, including structured, semistructured, unstructured, time series, geospatial, and vector data. He demonstrates how to analyze this data using SQL queries, aggregations, downsampling, and geospatial functions.
Billions are invested in smart energy systems and revolutionize how energy is produced, delivered, and consumed; IoT innovation drives new solutions daily; Smart energy relies on solid and scalable data management. By reading these three case studies below, discover how companies in the energy industry leverage CrateDB to power real-time analytics in high-volume data architectures.
ABB's OPTIMAX® Cloud for Smart Charging is a state-of-the-art power management system designed for EV charging stations and heavy vehicle depots in the logistics and bus industries. It provides smart load management for ABB and non ABB EV chargers, and integrates with external assets like battery storages, PV systems, and interfaces to grid operators’ systems.
Gaining real-time insights into EV charging stations.
"CrateDB is a critical piece of our OPTIMAX® Cloud platform. Its ability to handle vast amounts of time-series data from diverse sources, while delivering real-time insights, has allowed us to scale our operations seamlessly. With CrateDB, we’ve empowered our customers with smarter energy management, reduced costs, and supported a more sustainable future."
Christian Kohlmeyer
Product Owner Mobility & Sites
ABB
Reducing the ecological impact of infrastructures in smart cities.
The Java integration was excellent and easy because CrateDB also provides a JDBC Driver to interact with the database. So every standard Java framework can work on CrateDB.
Charles-Edouard Ruault
Co-Founder
O-CELL
Gantner Instruments collaborates with the University of Cyprus to operate a state-of-the-art Smart Micro Grid, dedicated to investigating the control capabilities of renewable energy sources in the power grid and propelling the energy transition forward. They leverage CrateDB to analyze the vast amount of data generated in real time, enhancing their processes through machine learning (ML). With CrateDB, they gain access to their extensive data within microseconds at the frontend, ensuring optimal performance.
Gaining real-time intelligence into power grid infrastructures.
"CrateDB is the only database that gives us the speed, scalability and ease of use to collect and aggregate measurements from hundreds of thousands of industrial sensors for real-time visibility into power, temperature, pressure, speed and torque."
Jürgen Sutterlüti
Vice President, Energy Segment and Marketing at Gantner Instruments.