Title: An energy IoT platform for real-time production and
delivery of wind power generation forecasts
Date: June 28, 2017
Bio: Chandrasekar (Chandra) Venkatraman is Principal Research Scientist at Hitachi America Research
and Development in the Big Data Laboratory focusing on Industrial IoT Architectures and Analytics for
Energy. Prior to joining he was Chief Scientist at FogHorn Systems-Palo Alto based start-up focusing on Big
Data Analytics and applications platform for Industrial Internet of Things (IoT). Chandra was with Hewlett
Packard Labs, Palo Alto for almost two decades working on Information architectures, distributed computing,
in-home network, ePrint architecture, sensor networks and Internet of Things. He has authored over 15 patents
and a number of research papers and talks.
Abstract: Power generation using renewable energy resources such as wind turbines has
grown increasingly popular. Because the underlying meteorological processes are highly
unpredictable, it has become important to be able to provide accurate power forecasts in real-time. In this talk we will describe an end-to-end IoT platform that enables SCADA sensor data
to be collected in real-time directly from a remote wind farm, securely and reliably transmitted
to cloud servers where data is analyzed to create forecasting models. These models are then
applied to the turbine sensor data stream to generate day-ahead power generation forecasts.
We will also describe the machine learning techniques used as the basis for the forecasting
models and our strategies to make the solution scalable for other big data applications.