SOGNO platform successfully accepted in LINUX Foundation Energy

04.12.2020 | "It is a great success!" The SOGNO platform has been accepted in the Linux Foundation Energy. Platone uses SOGNO architecture as reference for its own approach.

December 4th, 2020.

The successfully concluded and former BRIDGE project "Service-based Open-source Grid automation platform for Network Operation of the future” (SOGNO) will live on: The well-recognised, international Linux Foundation Energy (LFE) selected the SOGNO architecture as reference architecture for grid automation of the future.

Platone uses the SOGNO architecture as reference and expands the work of SOGNO with the integration of the market aspects and with the customer connection based on blockchain technology. The architecture is applied by the three Platone trial sites and on the campus of RWTH Aachen University supporting the monitoring of the distribution grid within the university.

The EU Horizon 2020 funded project SOGNO proposes a service-oriented architecture based on 5G technology for a light implementation of automation solution in distribution grids. Edge cloud is the key technology of SOGNO. The project started in 2018 and has concluded in 2020. RWTH Aachen University, project coordinator of Platone participated as technical coordinator in the SOGNO project. The integration of SOGNO into LFE is now a great chance for Platone to further exploit the architecture and the corresponding new services.

LFE fosters neutral, open technical collaboration by hosting open source projects like SOGNO in the energy sector. In addition to open-source software, the Linux Foundation also enables technical project communities building open standards, open hardware, open data, and open specifications. LFE was founded in 2018, yet embracing a huge network and expertise. The acceptance of the SOGNO on a joint Kick-Off Event on December 4th, 2020 is "A great success” as Prof. Anto Monti from the RWTH Aachen says "It gives great mechanism to keep the SOGNO platform alive and build synthesis with similar activities around the world.”

It is a big success transforming the SOGNO project from a European into a global initiative with great opportunities to build synthesis with similar activities around the world.

As any Linux project, SOGNO in LFE is an open initiative. Companies, research centres and universities are encouraged to join the foundation and to contribute to jointly develop solutions.
SOGNO platform successfully accepted in LINUX Foundation Energy

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