GEN6 IPv6 pilot on energy consumption in schools

Anastasios Zafeiropoulos,

Greek Research & Technology Network

Pre FIA Workshop: IPv6 going »live«

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

Pre FIA Workshop: IPv6 going »live« - Dublin, 7/5/2013


• 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



Networking Infrastructure – GRNET



• 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



• 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



• 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



• 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)



• Monitoring and Management Infrastructure

• Data analytics mechanisms

Technical Description (#3)



– 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



• 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



• 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


Screenshots


14 Interactive map




Smart Meters



Smart Meter in GRNET


https://services.intelen.com/imeterlive/index.php?ipv6=2001:648:2320:7:2b3:f6ff:fe00:8c91


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



• 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


Thank you!

Anastasios Zafeiropoulos

[email protected]

Green GRNET Activities:

http://green.grnet.gr/

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