July 2021 - October 2023

Enexis

Salvador is an operational (micro)services platform for deploying and managing Mikronika DALI remote terminal units (RTUs). These units are used to monitor the low-voltage grid and automatically switch public lighting throughout the Enexis service area. Monitoring the electricity grid is essential in this era of energy transition. The outage service and congestion management teams are among the consumers of the information streams made available through Salvador.

Team Domingo is the DevOps team responsible for developing the Enexis Central Device Management platform. This ECDM platform acts as a vendor-independent broker between Salvador and RTUs in the field. As long as contracted RTU suppliers conform to the ECDM platform contract, their units integrate seamlessly with Enexis’s operational technology. Team Domingo’s responsibilities include preparing and planning substantive work and implementing and testing ECDM platform features. Because Salvador is a central link in the IT/OT chain, considerable integration work takes place with IT, for deploying and maintaining RTUs, and with RTU vendors, for configuration and firmware management and connection to the ECDM platform.

For the connection of Mikronika’s first RTU model, the Light Control Unit (LCU), to the ECDM platform, feedback cycles were drastically shortened. This was achieved by increasing the frequency of coordination on technical and integration matters and making the LCU available within the Domingo developers’ environment.

Result: The full technical integration of the LCU was completed at the end of August 2023.