Connected Things 2016 Exhibit

On Tuesday April 5, 2016, Perry Grossman and Shana Penna exhibited the Dataglen and Nebula solution at Connected Things 2016 at the MIT MediaLab. The event was very successful and we had good interest in the solution as well as some detailed discussions about the platform offering and the IoT board.  

We discussed Dataglen’s goal to build analytics platform across many industries and the team’s background at IBM Research in Energy and the targeting of solar and wind farms in India. We showed the analytics from a solar farm and the benefits from identifying inverter faults and the analytics of energy generation by module temperature, ambient temperature, and solar radiation. The Dataglen Solar Power Presentation provides good material on this, particularly the diagram of panels, inverters, gateways, and the dashboard (Please contact Dataglen for a copy). We explained that Dataglen is doing data management at the gateway and articulated the benefits of the Dataglen dashboard and of notifications for plant operators. We talked about plans for advanced analytics, including machine learning, and how string level monitoring will allow more granular level data than that which is currently available at the inverter level.

We explained that Radiostudio, a Dataglen partner, is working on a string level IoT solution to identify string level issues such as dust, leaves, shading, faults etc. We exhibited the Nebula board, which is a a demo device for student use and a step toward providing string level monitoring. We demoed these features:

1) Temperature sensor

2) Humidity sensor

3) Reed switch

4) LED light

5) Relay actuation, through both a toggle on the browser and through a python script

6) Light sensor

The people we spoke to had a range of interests, including the following:

An MBA student was nterested in using Nebula to teach non-programmers to program; he thought Nebula could be great for that. Another educator was interested in using Nebula in IoT coursework.

A couple people asked about predicting future PV output, using machine learning, included analysis of cloud patterns, trends, and identifying maintenance needs based on historical needs.

A few people were interested in using remote sensors with Nebula, including monitoring attic temperatures to help identify potential ice dam issues.

A physician was interested in a health monitoring solution.

Exhibiting at Connected Things 2016 (#connectedthings2016) was a great experience and we look forward to future opportunities to showcase the solution.

-Perry Grossman

IoE hands on  workshop co hosted by Radio Studio and Dataglen and sponsored by ACM Sigcomm

Date : 9^th of Jan 2016

Place : Hotel Chancery Pavilion Bangalore

The application and registration process conducted across India and shortlisted 25 students .

Tanuja kick started the event setting the agenda right for all the students.

Deva following up on the IoE trends and triggering a spark among students to think on the application and solutions that can be derived through this kit.

Rajesh the man behind the design and development of the IoE kit “ NEBULA” gave a insightful talk on the architecture and the design and providing the key differentiation of Nebula over other boards available in the market.

Radio Studio and Dataglen team assisted the students to set up the Nebula and to connect to the cloud and take them through the actuation process.

Students were thrilled and enlightened on the hands on training and many gave the feedback that lots of workshop are conducted in similar platform and nobody gives the kind of hand on training

Students came up with bright and innovative ideas in the Ideation Forum.

All together students hands were clean with clear thought this time for a change.

Demo & Exhibit in Comsnets

We participated in the Demo and Exhibits for the Comsnets event 

Date : 6^th and 7^th of Jan 2016

Place : Hotel Chancery Pavilion Bangalore

We could show case the Dataglen platform with the features .

We received queries on the IoT platform and especially on the IoE kit from the academicians and students

Also we received coverage on the media through the your story

http://yourstory.com/2016/01/billion-mobile-users-startup-profiles-innovation-insights-mobile-india-2016/ 

IEEE IoT Use Cases Workshop

IEEE IoT Use cases Workshop

Venue: Hotel Lalit Ashok Bangalore

Date: 4^th December 2015

Our co founder Deva P Seetharam was one of the key speakers in this workshop.

Snippets of the Workshop and the key points by Deva:

·         Highlighting the evolution of IoT from the World War II to till date.

Trends in IoT Success Stories and Challenges

Mentioning the importance of IoT in different industry verticals in India and resolve key issues

Challenges in scaling due market economics, unavailability and complexity of different sensors in India

Show casing and to enable India through our Dataglen platform in Data Sensing and Aggregation. Data Management , Data Processing and Analytics and Data Presentation

Track and monitor the  health of the sensor on real time , error analysis with alerting mechanism

Nebula developed by Radio Studio the sensor with specific functionalities can track and measure and integrate with Dataglen platform

Significance of IoE and need to train students and Dataglen along with Radio Studio is driving a new initiative IoE lab

  https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bzme8hoP7I59aHQ0VE5RQ2g1a1k&usp=sharing

Watch this space for more updated on IoE lab 

In Search of Raw Data to Ra Data

Date : 24^th July 2015

Place : 60 kms from Trichy in Tamilnadu

Solar Farm : 20 MW & 10 MW

Area : 10 acres

Once fertile agricultural lands with cash crops are still fertile with cash, Yes!!! all the arid lands are being converted to Solar farms.

Solar farms are environmental friendly with less pollution. Entrepreneurs look as a viable option for investment and revenue .

 These solar plants deployed in remote locations provide a spin off in terms of employment for the people in the nearby villages from unskilled to skilled labor.

Renewable Energy is gaining importance in India , with the launch of plethora of schemes from Government of India .

India Shines 

India has 300 clear sunny days.

India's power reception theoretically is 5000 trillion KWh per year.

Daily average solar incident is between 4 to 7 KW/sq mtr.

As per the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India has set itself a target of 100 GW of Solar Power generation by 2022.

40 GW in terms of utility scale.

40 GW in terms of roof top solutions.

20 GW in terms of entrepreneurial scheme. ( Our Target )

According to Mark Jacobson Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Stanford University,  the renewable energy gains importance with the depletion of fossil fuel , and also showed with a model  by 2030 how the world can get all of its energy  fuel as well as electricity from wind, water and solar sources .

With Internet of Things(IoT) devices connectivity which is set to reach a 50 billion mark by 2020, it becomes very critical and a huge challenge to manage the humongous amount of data that will flow through.

We, at Dataglen, provide solutions in terms of data collection, curation, management and analytics for the massive amount of data generated by IoT devices.

  

The plant visit  provided a comprehensive insights regarding the current  set up, the pain points in the existing set up and what the customer actually needs in terms of the monitoring systems and solutions.

This is just the beginning and the search is on .....

DaemonSitter released on github

We have developed a simple python-based tool for monitoring systemd daemons.  This tool has been tested ONLY on Debian Stable (Jessie) that is running systemd and Python 2.7.  We have released this as an open source under apache license on github (https://github.com/dataglen/daemonsitter.git).

We would love to get your comments/suggestions/questions/advice.

Tanuja's Keynote in ICACCI

Tanuja, one of the co-founders, delivered a keynote address at the 4th International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication & Informatics. The title of her talk was "Bridging the Cyber and Physical Worlds - Opportunities and Challenges of IoT Technologies". The slides are available here.