Cloud based flexibility management system: Flexibility Cloud, phase 2 - D8.2 INVADE H2020

In the INVADE project, a central delivery is the cloud-based Integrated INVADE platform, which will be used by the Flexibility Operator to manage flexibility from flexibility providers and offer this to flexibility customers.

The first version of the Integrated INVADE platform will be delivered in June 2018 and implemented at pilots during the autumn 2018. The fundamental parts of the Integrated INVADE platform, namely the asset management, asset control and data repository, was presented in D8.1. This second delivery will focus on the business intelligence in the Integrated INVADE platform covering Contract management, Meter values management, Events and external information, Calculator and scheduling, Predictions Management, Flexibility optimization management, Follow-up and reporting, and finally describe the Control signals management.

The delivery focuses on the flexibility services offered to a prosumer; ToU optimization, kWmax control and Self-balancing. To support the three flexibility services listed above, each of the above-mentioned platform functionalities are needed. These can be seen as individual processes and the overall platform functionality consist of these processes and their linkage.