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NET2GRID Drives Transition to Green Energy, Builds Utility Monitoring Solution on AWS
…tion with expert guidance and packaged solutions AWS Home AWS Solutions Library NET2GRID Drives Transition to Green Energy, Builds Utility Monitoring Solution on AWS 2021 Overview Home energy management company NET2GRID supports renewable energy…
Description
Dutch home energy management company NET2GRID built machine learning models on AWS to disaggregate household energy consumption by appliance with over 90% accuracy, and edge models that identify appliance events with 98% accuracy, while predicting next-day energy consumption for utilities with 98% accuracy.
…ta are applied to the disaggregate energy consumption of individual appliances, achieving over 90 percent accuracy. The third algorithm uses pretrained edge models to identify appliance events w…
…nergy consumption of individual appliances, achieving over 90 percent accuracy. The third algorithm uses pretrained edge models to identify appliance events with 98 percent accuracy within 15 seconds. These models process 100 Hz data and run on the latest-generation smart meters.…
Company
NET2GRID
…sumers while helping utility companies improve customer service and engagement. It is based in the Netherlands and Greece. Benefits of AWS Reduced cost of AWS services by 400–500% Can predict next-day e…
Country
Netherlands
…sumers while helping utility companies improve customer service and engagement. It is based in the Netherlands and Greece. Benefits of AWS Reduced cost of AWS services by 400–500% Can predict next-day e…
Industry
Energy
…choices that will lead to cleaner, greener energy use for all.” About NET2GRID NET2GRID is a home energy management company founded in 2011 with the mission to drive energy efficiency and savings for consumers while helping utility companies improve customer service and engagement. It is based in the Netherlands and Greece. Benefits of AWS Reduced cost of AWS…
Problem
NET2GRID's energy-monitoring solution needed to scale after its customer base grew 10x in under two years, but its cloud-agnostic architecture using containers, relational databases and EC2 instances was not cost-effective or scalable enough for a mass-market business case.
…is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. But NET2GRID needed a solution that would be scalable and cost effective enough to cover a mass market business case. The company opted to develop a new solution on AWS that would enable it to go s…
Solution
NET2GRID rebuilt its platform as a serverless architecture on AWS using AWS Lambda, moved from relational databases to flat storage on Amazon S3 queried via Amazon Athena, and used Amazon Data Firehose to stream smart-meter data, layering its own machine learning algorithms (general appliance-recognition models, per-household disaggregation models, and pretrained edge models) on top of Utility Meter Data Analytics on AWS.
…ng infrastructure management and costs, and providing access to real-time data. NET2GRID decided to implement a serverless architecture using AWS Lambda , a serverless compute service. The company also opted to move from its relational databases to flat storage on…
Business value
NET2GRID cut AWS service costs by 400-500%, scaled to support 10x user growth, achieved over 90% accuracy in real-time appliance-level energy disaggregation, 98% accuracy identifying appliance events within 15 seconds, and 98% accuracy predicting next-day energy consumption (worth millions to utilities and up to 3x ROI for customers), while reaching an 85%+ customer referral rate and four-star app ratings.
…vice and engagement. It is based in the Netherlands and Greece. Benefits of AWS Reduced cost of AWS services by 400–500% Can predict next-day energy consumption with 98% accuracy Scaled to support use…
AI capabilities
Predictive Analytics
…not accurately predicting the next day’s consumption,” says Lutje Berenbroek. “With our artificial intelligence tools and models, we can predict next-day energy consumption with 98 percent accuracy. That can save millions for utilities, and with our service, energy providers co…
Technology
AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, Amazon Data Firehose, Amazon Athena, Amazon EC2, Utility Meter Data Analytics on AWS
…for its utility monitoring app Enabled a 3x return on investment for customers AWS Services Used AWS Lambda AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that lets you run code without provi…
Deployment model
cloud
…ved a challenge. The company’s customer base grew by 10 times in under 2 years. NET2GRID used Amazon Web Services (AWS) to design, develop, and implement a new serverless architecture, reducing operating costs by 400–500 percent and increasing scalability to enab…
Headline outcome
…etherlands and Greece. Benefits of AWS Reduced cost of AWS services by 400–500% Can predict next-day energy consumption with 98% accuracy Scaled to support user growth by 10x in under 2 years Achieves 90% accurate rea…
Use case type
Predictive operations
…such as those who use electric car charging stations and solar panels. Finally, this data can be used for electricity load forecasting to help utilities predict future energy consumption. “Utilities in the Netherlands lose €12 million per year because they’re not acc…
