DR Software: Essential Foundational Elements and Platform Components

UCLA Smart Grid Energy Research Center (SMERC) Industry Partners Program (IPP) Meeting

May 27, 2011

Yogen Patel, Vice President, Zyrion Inc.

yogen.p@zyrion.com , +1-408-524-7407

Overview & Company Background

Review how Zyrion can contribute to the development of automated Demand Response (DR) software systems

• Provide a quick introduction of the company

• Summarize some of the challenges in developing effective DR software

• Explain how Zyrion’s technology and software platform can be utilized by the SMERC project and solution partners

• Zyrion provides an integrated software platform for performance data capture, event generation, analysis, visualization and reporting

Network and IT Infrastructure Monitoring

Business Service Management

Operations Management

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Automated Demand Response (DR) Process

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Key Challenges in Creating Effective DR Software Systems

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Supporting highly-distributed, massive, device-agnostic, data collection

Linking to dashboards, portals & information systems, and enabling future trending & predictive modeling

Processing huge amounts of raw data, and abstracting this as high-level events

Performing intelligent filtering, suppression, and translation of events

Integrating with the transmission and distribution control infrastructure

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Executing sophisticated, contextual rules to determine appropriate load changes

How to Get There

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Researchers focus on the models, algorithms and protocols

behind the “smarts” in the automation of DR

Rely on partners for: •Massively scalable “plumbing”•DR system solution enablers •Underlying platform and frameworks

How Zyrion Helps SMERC & Partners: Ready-to-Use Platform for DR Work

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Distributed collectors, supporting SNMP, plug-in monitors, EDF interface, and log capture (data-agnostic)

Powerful integration APIs for all objects, events and data

Highly configurable, fully-open, extensible, XML-based rules framework for event processing and alerting

Highly configurable, extensible, two-way, plug-in action framework (Java, C, Perl, etc.)

Customizable reports, visualization and status views, with full user mgmt.

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‘Container’ object model for higher-level abstraction, dependencies & relationships

In Conclusion

Zyrion has one of the most scalable and flexible performance/event processing, analysis, reporting and visualization platforms in the world

– Innovative distributed database architecture

– Proven deployments worldwide ‘comparable use cases’ to DR

Our software provides a solid foundation for experimenting with DR solution approaches / prototypes

– Augment with domain expertise and add-ons to develop full DR solutions

Zyrion looks forward to collaborating with SMERC and Partners in the DR areas of the research project

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Yogen Patel, Vice President, Zyrion Inc.

yogen.p@zyrion.com , +1-408-524-7407