This event is the culmination of three, 6-week architecture sprints where over 50 enterprise architects have met to work on the LF Energy functional, data, security, and technical architectures. Our intention is to create guidance for LF Energy open source projects and to identify areas for leveraged development that will enable accelerated innovation.
We would like to welcome a broader community to participate and to engage in the conversation. This is a work-in-process as inputs and additional structure is clarified. Each track is led by co-facilitators and represents many hundreds of hours in effort. Explore the tracks below and their corresponding activities.
LF Energy Data Architecture
LF Energy created guidelines for data architecture. This track will go into detail about the why and how of the data architecture.
Join this breakout session for knowledge sharing on how to apply the LF Energy data architecture, pre-flighting the data architecture framework, and adding your buy-in to an LF Energy data project.
LF Energy Security Framework
Learn about a common approach on how to address the security challenges of open source projects of LF Energy.
We have selected one of the most interesting projects, GXF. In the first break out session, we will perform together a (security) impact assessment for GXF and next do a threat modeling of one of the important risks. In the second break out session, we will discuss and select appropriate security countermeasures and strategies based on the risks identified during the first session.
Join this breakout session to participate in a security impact assessment that addresses threat modeling and security countermeasures to mitigate risks. See below the session activities:
- Introduction security working group LF
- Introduction of project GXF (analysis scope)
- Security risk analysis: discuss and review a prepared impact assessment and do threat modeling for one of the key risks
- Security strategy x (TBD)
- Security strategy y (TBD)
Pre-read – Resources to come prepared to participate:
Infrastructure
In times of high demands like 100% availability, redundancy and low latency in combination with serious security aspects, the energy world is facing critical challenges. Especially the requirements to have a multi-cloud in combination with a hybrid-cloud approach including the limitation of running critical workloads only in your data center have to be solved. This UseCase is trying to establish a guideline on how to have the flexibility of a public cloud provider and the security of an on-premise environment.
Join this breakout session to help define the high-level infrastructure architecture for energy that focuses on critical workloads.
- KRITIS for critical infrastructure (national)
- BAIT and VAIT (Supervisory Requirements for IT in Financial Institutions/Insurance Undertakings) (national by the BaFin)
- ISO/IEEC 2700x (international by the International Organization for Standardization and the International Electrotechnical Commission)
Pre-read – Resources to come prepared to participate:
Asset Monitoring & Predictive Maintenance
RTE initiated an internal project aiming at replacing an aging asset monitoring system and paving the way for a shift from preventive maintenance to predictive maintenance.
This track will focus on the following:
- The actual state of the project: Presentation of the project goal and its architecture that is mainly based on open source components. Attendees will participate in the following discussions:
- Discussion/challenges of the architecture with regards to its goals
- Discussion of possible extensions / other use cases that could be developed on top of this architecture
- Community Building and Opening the project: Today the project is designed within RTE, initially without the goal of opening the code. Attendees will participate in the following discussions:
- What does the community expect when opening an internal code? What are the key elements to take into account to ease the onboarding of contributors to build a community?
- It is not only a matter of code, working in parallel on the business design and software design.
- Before the code: Transitioning from preventive to predictive maintenance requires new softwares to support activities that are not yet well defined. How to define them on a community level?
- Beyond the code: analytics will be trained on physical assets? Should the Community share fitted models? How?
Join this breakout session to define key actions to be implemented by RTE when opening the code to ensure success of community building.
CoMPAS
Develop open source software components related to IEC 61850 model implementation (profile management) and configuration of a power industry Protection Automation and Control System (PACS).
The CoMPAS project is currently focusing on two short term goals:
- detailing the overall technical architecture for the project, based on the initial principles mentioned in the initial roadmap document (microservices, scripting capabilities, API to external tools, etc.);
- developing the user story mapping for a Minimum Viable Product, based on the high-level description of use cases outlined in the initial roadmap document.
Join this breakout session for the opportunity for community brainstorming on the above-mentioned topics. See below the session agenda:
- Introduction to CoMPAS
- Use Cases & user story mapping
- Technology selection
Pre-read – Resources to come prepared to participate:
Digital Twins
Validate how a digital twin oriented “system-of-systems” approach could be useful in designing the technical architecture of smart energy systems.
The ambition of the Digital Twin project is to validate an IoT approach that is compatible with a Blockchain architecture and running on the edge of a distributed cloud environment for a smart energy “System of Systems” (integration of different categories of Intelligent energy devices -IEDs – and energy management platforms).
The major benefits of building a Digital Twin representation of an energy system is in creating a symbiosis between entities representing real and digital world objects connected via standard APIs and characterized by properties, describing the context in which they operate and use assumptions to simulate their behaviors for different purposes.
The integration of the different data sources to design the representation of the virtual twin is the result of a System of Systems architecture, leveraging on Extensibility (new systems can be added easily), Replaceability (systems can be replaced), Loose coupling (systems can evolve independently), Low intrusiveness (systems do not need to change) and Recursiveness (systems of systems at different levels)
The Digital Twin project will leverage on the NGSI-LD API, a public, royalty-free standard API for Context Information Management standardized by ETSI and already deployed in multiple Open Source implementations available in the FIWARE Foundation’s catalogue.
Join this breakout session to participate in the conversation of identifying The Digital Twin project’s main goals, challenges, and risks in a system of systems’ approach and use them to break down architectural complexity. Participate in drafting the initial mapping between NGSI-LD and other LFE project components. See below the session agenda:
- General Introduction
- Description of possible use cases
- Breakout discussions
- Report to Main Group
Pre-read – Resources to come prepared to participate:
- Data Oriented System of Systems Architecture for Energy
- FIWARE smart-data-models space on GitHub
VPP / Microgrids
Discuss requirements for VPP and Microgrid functionality.
Development of open source software components for Virtual Power Plant (VPP) and Neighborhood Microgrids to solve for network resilience, power quality, efficiency, stability, reliability, and investment optimization when connecting Renewable Energy Sources (RESs) / Distributed Energy Generation (DER).
Join this breakout session to gain an increased understanding of the problem scope and sharing best practices for connecting platforms. See below the session activities:
- General Introduction
- Description of 3 NMG/VPP use cases
- Breakout discussion
- Report to Main Group
Pre-read – Resources to come prepared to participate: