Dr. Roland Werner

Energy-efficient buildings through IoT data analytics

Techem is one of the leading energy service providers for all aspects of real estate. Intelligent metering technology can be found in almost every third German rental apartment. But not only here in Germany: Techem is “out in the field” with a total of more than 50 million end devices in 19 countries. For many years, bulk processing has been day-to-day business for the energy service provider. But how do they collect these masses of data? Energy is generated, distributed and then consumed. The path of energy leads us to some of the questions of this podcast: Generation: How can it be matched to consumption? Grid distribution: How can I optimize power grids? How can I monitor a system with a wide variety of connectors and asset interfaces in such a way that I can detect anomalies at an early stage so that interventions can be made under predictive maintenance? How can the downtimes in the networks be reduced? Consumption: How do energy management solutions for end customers work (e.g. via dashboards)? The podcast explores the specific use case that Microsoft has implemented together with Techem: The IoT data is read from the meters and transmitted as a stream to the Azure Data Explorer using the Azure IoT Hub. This is a fully managed Big Data analytics platform. It enables the analysis of large amounts of data in near real time. Whenever the device sends out the data, it can be processed immediately. That means you don’t have any time delays or latencies. More about this and many exciting insights into the project from Techem and the selected partner Microsoft can be found in episode 90 of the IoT Use Case Podcast. Guest at the microphone: Malte Schulenburg (Senior Client Executive, Microsoft) and Dr. Roland Werner (Head of IT, Techem).