VRT – IoT

September 2016

VRT Systems Snapshot

● Founded 1987 (29th year of operation)● Real-time systems integrators, controls and

automation, business systems integration (OT+IT)

● Long-term comprehensive support & maintenance contracts (24x7 helpdesk, 20+years continuous)

● “trusted adviser” and master systems integrator for many large enterprise and government clients (Anglo, BHP, Xstrata/Glencore, DTMR, Defence – some for 25 years)

Customer Samples

VRT Smart Solution Journey

SMART... Timeline Customer Examples

Mining From 1990 BHP, Anglo, Xstrata, Rio Tinto

Manufacturing From 1996 CSR, CRL, Xstrata Tech.

Grid From 1993 Ergon, Endeavour Energy

Transport From 1995 QLD Transport, Aurizon (QLD Rail)

Meters From 2003 Defence

Buildings From 2010 Lend Lease, Mirvac, Next DC, Daisho, Leighton

Precincts From 2010 UQ, Living Utilities, Defence, JPC

Cities Now Cherbourg, Tamworth, Yeppoon (Telstra)

Innovation

● SCADA – no compile, SVG, zero footprint client – 1990● Remote control via wireless SCADA – 1994● Web access to SCADA – 1996● RUMS – 2003● Citect + Enterprise Suite (SQL Server) – 2003● Xtrack – RFID Tracking, copper refining – 2004● WAGES HubTM – meter hub/gateway - 2009● Visual Workplace - Virtual Real Time 3D Visualisation – 2009● WideSky IoT Management Platform - 2015● Firefly – Smart Lighting Management Platform – 2015

IoT Memberships

● ASCA (Australian Smart Cities Association) - foundation

● IoT Alliance Australia

● Comms Alliance - IoT

● IPWEA – SLSC TAG (Technical Assistance Group)

Integrated Building Solutions

Converge, Simplify, Save

MSI References

● Underground Coal Mining – 9 x Longwall Mines (Anglo, BMA, Rio Tinto)– Integrate previously siloed systems via separate delivery

packages.

– Rapidly changing market (machine automation), standards lagging behind the rate of innovation.

– Strong vendor control (niche players)e.g. gas monitoring, longwall equipment providers

● Site-wide BMS – Gallipoli Barracks, DoD/Spotless– 200ha estate, home and work to 5500+ Defence personnel,

ELF2B upgrade saw construction of 150 new structures and addition of 220,000 m2 of built area.

– VRT manages site-wide energy management system, and written in all construction specifications as point of integration for BMS in each building.

● Qld Health – Lady Cilento Hospital– VRT delivered EMS & NCS packages, covering metering,

load shedding, HV controls & emergency generator controls.

– Shortcomings in HV design and generator controls identified by VRT – asked by client to take on Master SI role to coordinate rectification works.

● Intelligent Transport – Qld DTMR (Busways)– Tight integration between systems

(fire control, ventilation & security systems – life-critical)

– Separate delivery packages, no master SI at commencement of stage 1 – VRT assumed the master SI role by necessity.

– Now the only supplier to have been involved with every subsequent stage, and now written in to current tenders uncontested (unusual for govt. procurement).

● Education Campus (UQ)– Site-wide energy management system (multiple points of

interface to campus-wide JCI BMS)

– Started multi-vendor, now primarily VRT.

● Vale – “Visual Vale”– Ambitious project to develop a “mine of the future” operating

platform for Vale global underground coal operations.

– To cover mine planning, stakeholder communication, staff training, simulation & pre-rehearsal of complex tasks – immersive “cave” environments, multi-user VR, desktop.

– High-res 3D models – geological models, borehole drilling, mine plans, miner “flight path” planning, surveying, asset and human tracking, machine telemetry and controls.

– VRT responsible for architecture of data integration platform. Proof of concepts built and successfully demonstrated, program interrupted after 3 years, $2m invested when Vale withdrew from Coal business in AU.

Lessons

● Benefits of integration often not anticipated at the beginning– (e.g. LW downtime analysis, ROC collaboration, Vale geo/operator experiences)

● Clear vision essential– Everyone knows where we're going

● Strong owner support required– Clear mandate to MSI – everyone knows the MSI has backing of project owner

– vendor “gaming” (large suppliers)

● Specification to a point of interface is essential for 3rd party contract packages● Specification alone is not enough

– leaving integration responsibility to individual packages doesn't work, even with a tight specification and clearly defined interface

– tendency for vendors to deliver what they usually do and argue later – standards suffer

– need a single party responsible for making it happen

VRT Solution Suites

● Sensing & Metering: Metering for all forms of energy (WAGES – water, air, gas, electricity, steam) as well as weather, environmental sensing and plant instrumentation.

● MDU Home Automation: integration of unit controls with access control and intercom systems. Integration of tenant controls with base building systems (demand response, billing).

● Digital Networks: From pulse meter inputs, through various serial and bus technologies (RS485, Mbus) to wired and wireless IP and mesh networks.

● Energy Efficiency: Low energy technologies such as smart LED lighting, solar PV and renewables, to energy management systems, reporting and intelligent analytics solutions to optimise energy use and reduce waste.

● Demand Response: Control strategies to manage demand such as peak lopping, adaptive control in response to spot market pricing (NEM gateway), and integration of storage technologies to achieve load shifting.

● Supply Reliability: Power network control systems to maintain supply stability and reliability – from load-shedding and emergency generator controls (e.g. hospitals, data centres, defence) to the integration of co-generation, tri-generation and renewable energy systems.

● Track & Trace: RFID & WiFi tracking and location services, occupancy, asset tracking.● Community Engagement: Tenant and visitor information displays (mobile apps, foyer

displays, information kiosks) and residential community portals.● Central Monitoring and control: Common UI, CCTV integration for NOC, Augmented Reality.

Details:

Integration Landscape

Market Sample Companies Standards

Industrial Automation ICS Vendors (e.g. Rockwell, Schneider, Honeywell)

Modbus, OPC(DCOM+UA), ISA88/ISA95

Building Automation BMS Vendors(e.g. Schneider, Honeywell, JCI, Siemens)

Modbus, BACnet, LON, DALI, KNX etc. Niagara / Tridium

Smart Meters / Smart Grid Utilities, GE, Itron, EDMI, Landis & Gyr

CIM/SCL, IEC61850, DLMS/COSEM, M-Bus, AEMO/NEM12/NEM13

Smart Street Lighting GE, Philips, Silver Spring (SLV6), Echelon

LON (PLC), TALQ

Smart Cities, Internet of Things Telcos, Cisco, IBM, Accenture, Platform providers (mostly IT companies) Thingworx, Xively, Octoblu, Cumulocity

WPAN (wireless), [6LoWPAN, LoRa, NB-IoT, SigFox] cityprotocol.org, CoAP, MQTT

Building Integration Challenges

Some examples of emerging and evolving challenges:● Converged Networks

– GPON/VLAN – high-end IT networking systems – no longer an FM's network.

● MDU – microcosm of a smart city– Pressure to integrate security (arrival/departure) with unit HVAC controls, lighting controls etc.

– Full of smart devices, growing demand for devices & services from consumer domain (smart home controls, entertainment systems, smart thermostats etc.) rather than pure BMS/controls background.

– Danger of producing a building “full of gadgets” instead of an intelligent outcome for the occupant

● Metering Complexity – Utility and C&I worlds being forced together (NMI, OIML, AEMO ENSP etc.)

– Multi-stakeholder access to metering data, integration headaches

– Need for meter data provider platforms in embedded networks – traditional utility-oriented providers not coping well with embedded network complexity

● Lighting controls– emerging challengers to programmed DALI & KNX systems from distributed presence-aware controls

network (Organic Response, others)

Integration Approaches

● I/O level Integration● High level data interfaces

– What data, what systems?

– Point to point (power of N) vs ESB / platform

● Alarms & Events● Command & Control● UI Integration

A multitude of technologies, standards and integration approaches. ...what problems are we trying to solve?

What problems are we trying to solve?

● Cost of construction?● Cost of operation?● A better environment for

occupants?

● A building in use is a system of complex interaction:– Architecture

– Building Physics

– Humans

● Smart buildings are often not very smart:– Full of gadgets

– Make users feel dumb (too complicated to use).

“Complex need not mean complicated...”

http://www.memoori.com/audio-smart-buildings-need-smart-thinking/

Intelligent Buildings

“buildings that augment the wellbeing of occupants ...such buildings will be autonomous”

How?● Sensor networks, IoT, Big

Data, analytics & machine learning

● Personal apps (not fixed controls) ...drive my environment to behave the way I want it to.

Examples:● Google – search made simple (Altavista?)● Uber – taxis made simple

Applied to buildings:● Empowered – Buildings controlled by the user with

apps:– http://buildingrobotics.com/comfy/

– http://www.loxone.com/enen/products/software/apps.html

● Social – Rated by users to help people find their preferred environment– :http://www.apartmentratings.com/

● Autonomous – react to occupant behaviour– Organic response

– Nest etc.

Global Technology Trends

● IoT – people + devices – lots of sensors

● Big Data – “4 v's” volume,velocity, veracity & variety(first 3 are staples of OT)

● Variety (of data types). Structured or unstructured?

● Generate vast quantities of (primarily) time series data.

● New generations of time series data stores and analytics engines

● Most IoT platforms take a simple “device-centric” approach

● How well can we analyse data without context?

● Competing demands:flexibility <=> structureHave to choose one or the other?

WideSky

● Scalable IoT Platform● Semantic Engine

– Project Haystack tagging model – primarily a “Buildings” domain model

– Extensible (new tags can be added to haystack tag set)

– Adaptable (whole new tag sets created – ISA95 for process industry, others for utilities)

● Open API– REST

– Project haystack compliant

● High performance time-series data store– Nanosecond time-stamping

– Stores billions of points

– Ingest 100's of thousands of points per second

– On-the-fly down-sampling & aggregation

● “No Lock-in” guarantee– Separate infrastructure for each

tenancy (On-premises install if desired, or hosted in DC of choice)

– Key components open source, transfer control on exit

VRT's IoT Architecture – 3 Tier

Diverse Applications

Management

Energy Management

Personal Security

Smart Lighting

Other

Analytics

Smart Parking

CommunityEngagement

EnvironmentalSensing

● Graphics● Learning algorithms

● Smart bins● Vehicle monitoring

● ON/OFF● Dimming● Presence● Light level● Energy consumption● Condition monitoring● Wireless mesh network

● Information portal● Social media● Digital displays● Dashboards● Live 3D

● Operations● Assets● Data● Security● Availability● Reporting

● Monitoring● Solar● Storage● Demand response● NEM interface

● Weather● Air quality● Water quality● Flood levels● Noise

● Sensors

VRT's WideSky® Application Suite

Taming Complexity: Domain Models

● History:– Automation – point-based, namespace, manual mapping

– Visual Workplace – object server – domain data modelling

– LLT – Ultimate EMS Specification: “Automatic reconciliation”

– QUT – Need to model building data for Open Data API project (BMS, Occupancy, Solar, Tri-gen, Lifts, Network Traffic etc.)

– UQ – Need to automate configuration of reconciliation and CoP calculations for chiller plants

● Candidates:– ASHRAE, BIM, Project Haystack

Project Haystack

● Open initiative to streamline working with data from Buildings and the Internet of Things.

● Standardised semantic data models and web services to make it easier to unlock value from the vast quantity of data being generated by smart devices.

● Applications include automation, control, energy, HVAC, lighting, and other environmental systems.

Semantic Modelling

WideSky Documentation:

● Getting Started

● WideSky API Reference

Asset Model

● At it's simplest, a database of the meters or other devices installed on a customer's site (like the points or tag database in a SCADA system)

● Plus so much more:– Tagging – classify/type/class

– Relationships – parent/child hierarchies, flows, rings– Standardised (domain-specific) vocabulary for buildings (Project

Haystack)

– Extensible to other industries (ISA95 for process, CIM/SCL/IEC61850 for utilities)

– Machine readable

Precinct /Community

Building

Home

PersonalProperty

Occupant Focus

Home:

Access Control

Lighting

HVAC

Energy Monitoring

Home Automation

Remote Access

...

Community:

Owner's Manual

Maintenance

FM Notices

Body Corporate

Groups & Clubs

Facility Bookings

Local Businesses

…

Pathways to Smart City

● Smart Buildings (BIoT)

Technology

Operational Efficiency

Data Structure (models)

● Smart Street Lighting

($)

● Smart Grid

Collaboration/rationalisation

New Services

● Smart Precinct

● Smart City

Foundation Project Examples

● Barangaroo (10M/day)

● Defence (900 devices)

● Next DC (5 sites)

● JPC

● UQ (10M/day, 16 precincts)

● Telstra: Cherbourg, Tamworth, Joondalup, Yeppoon

● Etc.

Barangaroo

● $6 billion urban regeneration project● 22 hectare site located on the western edge of Sydney CBD● 23,000 people will live and work in the precinct● Australia’s first large scale carbon neutral community – 6 Star

WideSky Gateway

● Managing the collection of all forms of metering data

● Communications protocols for disparate metering systems:– Modbus RTU to the CET meters

– EDMI Commandline to the EDMI meters

– M-bus to the Siemens thermal meters

● Water and gas pulses collected by a CET data logger connected to WideSky Gateway

● Local storage for all meters● Interface to the PecStar iEMS ● Export(import) NEM12 (NEM13) format

to the MDSP

UQ – WideSky System Size

Smart Public Lighting

WideSky Application Example

Firefly Light Manager:● Hosted on WideSky● Fully Responsive

Material Design, AngularJS

● No DB, all Asset Model – easy to add new object types (e.g. CCTV @ Cherbourg)

VRT Analytics

Features● Data Quality Analysis● Load Curve Characterisation● Anomaly Detection

Benefits● One-off energy audits● Ongoing alerts notification● Works with range of EMS

Software, online energy reporting or csv/spreadsheet output

VRT Analytics

QUT (IFE) – Visual Workplace

SCRC Smart City Pilot – bins and WiFi

SCRC Smart City Pilot – smart bins

Smart City - Telstra

VRT Living Lab – Smart Building

● Smart power metering

● Power quality metering

● Smart water metering

● Energy and water monitoring

● Weather monitoring

● Digital displays - tenant, community engagement

● Tenant monitoring

● Cloud based data storage and display - web and BYOD - WideSky

● Visual Workplace

● Interactive social media public displays (Enplug)

● Smart LED lighting (internal)

VRT Living Lab – Smart City

● Smart street lighting

● CCTV (DVR, analytics)

● Smart parking

● Smart bins

● Duress station

● Vehicle tracking

● Integration into VRT's WideSky IoT platform

● Interface to Telstra's smart city management platform (Cumulocity) -

Demos

WideSky® Dashboard WideSky® Firefly WideSky® TenantView Floth Dashboard Cherbourg Tableau Demo

Tamworth Ops Dashboard

UQ Firefly R8-R9

Barangaroo Aeris Environmental

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