// The challenge
The advancing digitalisation of the medium and low-voltage grid, the increased rollout of charging infrastructure and the increasing integration of decentralised feed-ins present grid operators and municipal utilities with new challenges in grid operation and grid service. In the process, there is an increasing overlapping of cross-sectoral operational management tasks due to the mutual influence and interdependency between the fields of action.
The operating staff and the service staff must be able to quickly overview the overall situation and at the same time need targeted information for the accomplishment of their concrete work tasks.
Today, the required data, information and instructions for action are still often distributed across different IT systems and access requires individual system knowledge.
In order to meet these new challenges, the system-independent provision of the information required for the respective work task in a consolidated and processed form is necessary.
Access must be simple, fast and flexible!
// The solution
The Energy Automation Group of the Siemens Regional Company Germany has created a “Mobile Service App” together with the platform provider “BentoNet GmbH” and the development partner “HEC” as part of an innovation project.
The mobile service app is hosted in the local data centre of BentoNet GmbH and in the current expansion stage has read access to data of the network control system „Spectrum Power 5“ uand the Siemens e-mobility backend solution „E-Car OC“.
The end user has multi-client access to the web browser-supported application via mobile devices such as tablets or iPads or via common desktop browser applications.
By decoupling the data provision from the original systems from the data supply of the mobile service app via a transfer interface set up on the BentoNet, it is ensured that the end users do not gain access to the actual basic systems or that an IT security gap arises in this respect.
// Advantages
- Low integration effort in the Spectrum Power 5 inventory system and/or E-Car OC
- Various interfaces available (SP5 via OPC UA odeSP5-Connect module; E-Car OC via REST API)
- Secure and application-oriented data hosting in a certified data centre environment
- Provision of selected and workflow-oriented databases and information from the original system
- Opportunities to contribute to the further development and shaping of the functionality and user interface
- Short-term project implementation and flexible running times for the use of the Mobile Service APP via a Software as a Service service agreement
- Access to further applications in the BentoNet App Marketpace
// Function overview – messages and faults
- Provision of messages and fault information in a predefined scope and range.
- User-related collective acknowledgement.
- Provision of static network overview images and subnetwork areas as information for the service staff in use.
- Step-by-step dynamisation of the network images
- Integration of a routing function
// Function overview – network status information
- Provision of selected network information such as switching states and measured values to support and track measures in the network.
- Deployment messages for service personnel
- Message field for deployment coordination
// Function overview Charging network overview
- Location information on the charging infrastructure in the network area Charging network operating information
- Overview of the current occupancy and utilisation of the charging points in the network area
- Notifications for the charging infrastructure
- Notifications for service staff
- Message field for deployment coordination
Charging log overview:
Provision and evaluation of charging duration and charging power for selected charging processes and/or RFID card users.
// Other information
- Display of users / User Online
- Select main menu / step back
- Operating diary,
- General messages, online help