Anastasios Zafeiropoulos,
Greek Research & Technology Network
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Dublin, 7/5/2013
Improving Energy Efficiency in School Networks with IPv6
IPv6 Pilot in Greece “Energy Efficiency in School Networks with IPv6“
• Vision – Mobilize school communities for environmental protection
– Raise energy awareness by interconnecting energy smart meters in selected schools intranets
– Raise awareness in new technologies, especially IPv6
• The pilot aims to interconnect intelligent smart meters over IPv6 in 50 schools and influence the behaviour of the school communities so as to reduce energy consumption.
• Energy related information from participating schools will be recorded using smart meters, stored and processed using scalable cloud computing and disseminated to the users via a secure communication channel.
Brief Description
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IPv6 Pilot in Greece “Energy Efficiency in School Networks with IPv6“
• The Computer Technology Institute & Press “Diophantus” (CTI),
responsible for the administration and the daily operation of the Greek School Network.
• The Greek Research & Technology Network (GRNET), responsible for providing networking and cloud computing services to the Greek academic and research communities.
• The Intelen Group, a start-up company providing services to the Energy and ICT sector, such as smart metering, meter data management.
Partners
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IPv6 Pilot in Greece “Energy Efficiency in School Networks with IPv6“
Networking Infrastructure – GRNET
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IPv6 Pilot in Greece “Energy Efficiency in School Networks with IPv6“
• The Greek Schools’ Network (GSN) is the educational intranet of the Greek Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs, Culture & Sports, which interlinks all schools and provides basic and advanced telematics' services.
Networking Infrastructure – Greek School Network
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IPv6 Pilot in Greece “Energy Efficiency in School Networks with IPv6“
• GSN has acquired one /47 and one /48 IPv6 address spaces from RIPE.
• The GSN backbone network is fully IPv6-enabled, and includes IPv6 support on all point-to-point (p2p) links of the primary and secondary nodes of GSN.
• Peering with GSN’s ISP (GRNET) and the access network is also IPv6-enabled.
• On the access network, IPv6 has also been enabled for 95% of GSN users.
Networking Infrastructure – Greek School Network
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IPv6 Pilot in Greece “Energy Efficiency in School Networks with IPv6“
• The energy power meters installed in schools forward energy consumption data (over IPv6 ) to Intelen Cloud Infrastructure.
• The storage infrastructure integrates near real time stream analysis
• An interactive web platform allows secure access to energy consumption data
• End-to-end connectivity is supported for management purposes
Technical Description
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IPv6 Pilot in Greece “Energy Efficiency in School Networks with IPv6“
• The primary Internet connection in schools with installed power meters is broadband (xDSL) connection with IPv6 characteristics.
• Figure 2 depicts the IPv6 assignment to a broadband (ADSL)-connected school.
Technical Description (#2)
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IPv6 Pilot in Greece “Energy Efficiency in School Networks with IPv6“
• Monitoring and Management Infrastructure
• Data analytics mechanisms
Technical Description (#3)
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IPv6 Pilot in Greece “Energy Efficiency in School Networks with IPv6“
– Online survey for gathering school characteristics.
– Selection of schools required telephone interviews and on-site visits.
– IPv6 testbed setup for development purposes.
– Development of prototype IPv6-enabled smart meter.
– Installation of smart meters in 30 schools.
– First version of the monitoring infrastructure. • monitoring of the smart metering infrastructure
• several types of graphs for demonstration and environmental awareness purposes
– Preparation of the educational material and the educational portal.
Activities
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IPv6 Pilot in Greece “Energy Efficiency in School Networks with IPv6“
• Final phase of deployment.
• Real-time measurements of energy data & provision of smart profiling over internet using IPv6.
• Upgrade of the web portal to IPv6 -Preparation of the final version of the educational portal.
• Preparation of operational manual for the support of the smart metering IPv6 infrastructure.
• Preparation for dissemination events - Organization of multiple educational / dissemination activities within schools.
• Preparation for the extension of the pilot – Installation of a meteorological station in one school
– Cooperation with Smart Santander project
Upcoming Plans
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IPv6 Pilot in Greece “Energy Efficiency in School Networks with IPv6“
• Easy integration of smart sensors in the networking infrastructure (6LoWPAN).
• No need for use of NAT gateways and dynamic IPs that reduce the overall availability of the service and increase maintenance costs.
• Support of autonomic networking characteristics (auto-configuration mechanisms, ad-hoc networking communications, bootstraping of the infrastructure)
• End-to-end communication and management of the smart sensors - no need for physical access for management purposes cost reduction.
• Increase in the overall system security (effectively control access to the application servers or the energy smart meters).
IPv6 as a “green” enabler
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Screenshots
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14 Interactive map
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IPv6 Pilot in Greece “Energy Efficiency in School Networks with IPv6“
Smart Meters
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Smart Meter in GRNET
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School Name Power Saving
1st High School Haidariou
16,38%
8th Primary School Vyrona
18,51%
70th Primary School Athens
29,93%
10th Primary School Haidari
25,68%
7th High School Haidari
27,77%
152th Primary School Athens
29,43%
7th High School Peristeri
29,70%
8th Primary School Dafni
25,68%
1/7th Primary School Athens
24,02%
59th High School Peristeri
28,92%
Primary Results
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IPv6 Pilot in Greece “Energy Efficiency in School Networks with IPv6“
• Use technology to create value for the community – Not deploying technology for the sake of technology
• IPv6 can become an enabling technology – Not possible to be done in IPv4-only environment – Bidirectional monitoring (e2e connectivity) – Simpler security policies
• Advanced services create new challenges for the design teams and operations – Re-addressing – Zero-configuration for end-systems and integration systems – Address challenges from the operational perspective
• Further opportunities still need to be explored – Autonomicity (smart grid)
• GEN6 perspective – First production services within school intranets
Conclusions
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Thank you!
Anastasios Zafeiropoulos
Green GRNET Activities:
http://green.grnet.gr/