The Industry App Store® from Intelligent Plant Allows The Efficient, Secure Distribution and Analysis of Data

The Industrial App Store from Intelligent Plant makes getting value from your industrial data fast and easy by securing your data on-site and putting the applications in the cloud. Remove the classic hurdles associated with data lakes and get fast, easy access to analytics from anywhere.

Most people are familiar with the term “apps”, which is an abbreviation of “applications” that are computer programs with a very specific and focused function. There are now hundreds of apps available on the Apple App Store that people download onto their iPhones and iPads providing both games and useful tools to book flights, identify music tracks from their audible signature or monitor your heart rate during exercise. These are great for personal use and tend to be easy to obtain at little or no cost.

In the business world, there is a need for a similar platform to allow the efficient and safe distribution of industrial apps. This is where Intelligent Plant’s Industrial App Store® leads the way. The Industrial App Store is an online shop window and secure data access portal that allows anyone to provide a service that requires secure access to their client’s process data. This data stays on the clients network so there is no need to copy, upload, or duplicate data in the cloud, which means no additional storage costs or transport fees.

How does it work?

Industrial App Store manages access to client data and only allows apps to request the data for which they have been given the necessary permissions to obtain. The data request from an authorised app is routed to the client’s data historian by the Industrial App Store and passes the data back to the app.

The clients maintain intellectual and physical ownership of their data and there is no write back to their own data historian, only to a separate app results historian that Intelligent Plant provides for free.

The beauty of this arrangement is that Industrial App Store clients don’t have to manage multiple connections and data requests in different formats and protocols to their servers on an ongoing basis.

This reduces their cybersecurity risk to a single app store connection, which is established and tested once, is more easily monitored and, once set up, needs very little maintenance or support.

Functions and Benefits

• Customised, jargon-free approach to suit specific IT business requirements.

• User friendly, fast, portable online system giving up to date and accurate information safely and efficiently.

• Records vital day-to-day operations data ensuring highest safety standards are met.

• Intuitive, progressive technology that cuts the need for spreadsheets and transforms business processes.

• Users can access real-time data from a mobile, laptop or tablet, vessel, offshore platform or whilst on the move.

• Simultaneously manages a workforce and enhances operations.

O2 Tidal Turbine sending not only Power, but Data onshore

Intelligent Plant recently won a project with the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) and Orbital Marine Power to assist in deploying a data acquisition system for the O2 tidal turbine. The system, which is linked to Intelligent Plant’s Industrial App Store, allows remote access to real time mission critical data and provides a cloudbased platform for EMEC to carry out power performance assessments for wave and tidal energy developers.

This will improve the accessibility, storage and security of data for Orbital Marine Power’s operators, technicians and other stakeholders, providing cutting-edge data management tools to monitor the performance and status of the asset while in operation.

The Industrial App Store has been securely integrated with the systems onboard the Orbital O2 tidal turbine which was deployed at EMEC’s “Fall of Warness” tidal test site, in June this year as part of the Horizon 2020 FloTEC project.

The configuration and deployment of the data acquisition system has been supported by the Interreg NWE OceanDEMO project.

User-friendly dashboards enable quick, secure and easy access to relevant data streams from anywhere in the world. This will enable Orbital’s Engineers to access data from the O2 turbine in real time without a requirement for manual intervention.

The Industrial App Store also provides data to EMEC’s performance test engineers, streamlining the analysis of the tidal turbine’s performance as part of EMEC’s accredited testing services.

Invinity Energy Systems

Invinity Energy Systems, a global leader and innovator of utility-grade energy storage, uses the flexibility of Intelligent Plants Industrial App Store to monitor the performance of their installed batteries across the globe.

Invinity’s modular vanadium flow batteries store energy in an aqueous solution that never degrades, even under continuous maximum power and depth of discharge cycling. This patented technology is non-flammable and requires minimal maintenance and upkeep throughout its 20+ year service life.

Ideal for use alongside renewable generation, Invinity’s flow batteries meet the energy needs of business, industry and electrical networks safely, reliably and economically.

The Company’s batteries have been deployed at more than 40 sites in 15 countries on 5 continents to date.

Intelligent Plant are proud to be working with Invinity on visualising and analysing their global fleet of batteries. We see that energy storage is key to maximising the effectiveness of renewable resources. Invinity have access to all appropriate apps in the Industrial App Store which are already providing insights and enabling decision making on assets distributed around the world. We look forward to continuing this fascinating journey.