Smarkia – Partner Q&A

Article submitted by Alvaro Díez, Operations – Project Manager at Smarkia

  1. Tell us about Smarkia. What is your core business and role within the project?

SMARKIA is a multi-energy cloud platform that offers different products related to energy monitoring and management. Our services are integrated in a platform that can gather data from meters remotely and get the most out of it by applying intelligence to anticipate problems before they appear and make data-driven decisions, predictions, and automate actions. Smarkia platform allows the creation of custom dashboards and reports, automatic generation of alerts, smart tasks and performance indicators, definition of global energy policies, monitoring of objectives, goals and plans, tracking of energy balances for stable smart grids, remote management of facilities, etc.

  1. Why did your organisation get involved in the ECOFACT project? How does this activity fit with the normal business of your organisation?

The objectives of ECOFACT and particularly those of the tasks in which we participate are well aligned with Smarkia core business. As Spain demonstration site leaders, we have been working closely with Gullón’s team to be able to integrate all the relevant data sources in the cloud platforms and also collaborating with the other consortium members to integrate it into the ECOFACT ecosystem.

  1. How will the outputs of the ECOFACT project help production system energy performance?

The project support organizations to optimize the energy performance of their industrial production systems and uses the data collected for determining the life cycle of the products and to customize the production to be more sustainable and productive.

It gives factories the ability to better adapt to consumer demands and to control the processes on a reliable manner.

  1. What are the technical challenges your work in ECOFACT is trying to overcome?

The main technical challenge in the ECOFACT project is achieving seamless interoperability. This involves ensuring robust integration across various systems to enable effective collaboration on a unified platform.

  1. What positive impacts will the project have when complete?

The main positive impact is that the learnings obtained during the project will enable companies to understand and implement the best practices for the integration of different modules, implementing dynamic LCA and automatic data-driven decision systems in their factories and therefore having a positive impact on their energy use and environmental performance.

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