Internet of energy: Extracting value from data silos in utilities - IoT Agenda

In the industrial world, and specifically the energy sector, the amount of connected devices, sensors and machines is continuously growing, resulting in the internet of energy, or IoE. IoE can be broadly defined as the upgrading and automating of electricity infrastructures, making energy production more clean and efficient, and putting more power in the hands of the consumer. Given the vast amount of data the energy sector generates and the increasing number of sensors added, it is the perfect environment for machine learning applications. Artificial intelligence (AI) excels at finding subtle patterns in data sets of all shapes and sizes, particularly under complex or changing conditions. Although data within IoE is growing at exponential rates, much of that data is traditionally siloed across business units (generation, transmission and distribution, energy trading and risk management, and cybersecurity).