Big Data in Energy & Utilities Sector

Technology and environmental changes in energy & utilities have brought avenues as well as challenges. Energy utility Companies worldwide are moving or moved from conventional data collection devices to smart or “NextGen” data collection devices. For example smart grid the modern version of the electrical grid using digital information and communications technology gathers immense information.

Various electric and electronic devices like smart meters, smart grids and system sensors help utility companies to collect immense amounts of data both structure and unstructured data.

The huge data with right analytics and business intelligence help utility companies to tackle the business challenges -

• network optimization
• reduction in operational costs
• Prediction of energy demands and response in real time
• Asset maintenance
• Customer behavior and engagement

Big Data Architects create effective business models to push the data from these different source devices to some of Big Data platforms Hadoop Eco system and performing complex Map Reduce programs to generate streams of business value. The big data platforms would be evolving further to keep up with the pace of growth of data and expectation of processing in much shorter and shorter durations. New concepts are emerging to tackle the Big data challenges.

GE along with its partner firm of Analytics has come up with a suite called

Industrial Data Lake – the product built on Big data suite with major backbone of open source Apache Hadoop. GE says this data lake can store and compute large amounts of data with high performance analysis. Though GE did for Aviation industry, they claim it can get extended to other industries as well. Similarly other energy giants across the world are investing on the analytics.

It is quite interesting to see how these new inventions/revolutions in electric, digital and information industries would transform not only the energy industries but economic and politic scenarios across the world. It is quite certain customer would be ultimate beneficiary with uninterrupted, cost optimized energy and real time intelligent services.

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