Minsait, an Indra company, has joined forces with Net Hat and Intel to introduce to the market an open, scalable solution with advanced security capabilities for the virtualization of electrical substations, which can be used both in the segment of primary installations and in secondary substations (or transformation centers). The main objective of this collaboration has been to create an edge computing architecture that covers all the operation processes that are necessary after the digitization of these assets and that is compatible with the high real-time and security requirements necessary in these operating environments.
Onesait Phygital Edge It will allow virtualizing, in a homogeneous and interoperable way, the devices and applications currently deployed in substations, using generic hardware and discrete sensorization and updating elements. The main advantages of this asset virtualization will be its easy remote management, flexible local scaling, resilience to failures and the ability to deploy new applications based on Artificial Intelligence for operational improvement and decision support and business processes. .
Onesait Phygital Edge integrates, among others, the cybersecurity capabilities of Intel and Net Hat in the areas of dedicated hardware and operating system in their specific versions of Edge Computing. Intel Trusted Platform extends the TPM.2.0 capabilities and integrates with the PKI and Key Vault modules of SIA (a leading cybersecurity company through which Minsait provides services in this field) to verify the identity of the elements that participate in the net (Identity of Things) and the encryption of the information they exchange. Having interconnected devices means that the information they handle is increasingly sensitive and more exposed to cyber incidents, so providing capabilities to protect them is of vital importance. The use of digital certificates in IT/OT environments, in this case offered in the SIA cloud, is key to protecting them.
For its part, Net Hat provides so much Net Hat Enterprise Linux, the operating system at the edge (operating system for unattended infrastructures with a robust life cycle) as Net Hat OpenShift with a single node for distributed orchestration. Thanks to the collaborative ecosystem created by the three companies, this solution presented for the energy market will allow high and low voltage operators to speed up the digitization of their processesvirtualize your hardware and start deploying an adaptable and resilient infrastructure in response to the business reconfiguration challenges that are currently taking place.
Currently, the solution is already being deployed in widespread demonstration environments within the infrastructures of several large energy operators in the Iberian Peninsula. Among the results achieved in previous phases, it is worth highlighting a 47% reduction in maintenance costs and a 55% reduction in the implementation time of new use cases that will integrate the complete prosumption scheme (active demand management, virtual power plant , etc).
