Thursday, 27 August 2015

In Search of Raw Data to Ra Data


Date : 24th 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 .....

Monday, 17 August 2015

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.

Wednesday, 12 August 2015

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.