Pratexo is the edge solution acceleration platform required to electrify the world. We bring the benefits of cloud computing to the edge of power systems and simplify and accelerate the ability to deploy and manage solutions to your most critical operational issues. Powered by Pratexo’s open, flexible, scalable, and secure platform, our solutions include real-time system monitoring and analytics, and advanced fault cause analysis for complex power systems. Pratexo solutions to electrify the world are being used today by companies including ABB (where Pratexo recently won its Electrification Startup Challenge), at Norwegian grid operator Hallingdal Kraftnett, and at EV charging company Elywhere.
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Pratexo is the edge solution acceleration platform that brings the power of cloud computing to the far edge, simplifying and accelerating the ability to deploy and manage valuable solutions to critical operational issues. The Pratexo Design Studio allows solutions architects (SAs) to automatically generate code and physically deploy ‘micro’ clouds to the edge, enabling data collection and analytical processing workflows using a drag and drop ‘whiteboard’ interface. With the click of a button, any number of edge computing nodes in multi-tier architectures are dynamically built, installed and clustered utilizing open source and/or third-party software components including Intel OpenVINO.
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Electrification ecosystems are rapidly transforming from monolithic, one-way generation and distribution systems, to become highly integrated, multi-source operations. These ‘virtual power plants’ broker power from distributed sources and are able to utilize dynamic, market-based pricing. The technology and solutions to enable such an ecosystem now exist in the form of the Pratexo Edge Platform as a Service, hosting its highly-customizable Intelligent Grid Solution. Originally developed for Norwegian power grid operator Hallingdal Kraftnett and now being extended in coordination with industry leaders including ABB, Pratexo brings the benefits of cloud computing down to the energy grid ‘edge’ where data is local, secure, and can be used with low latency to both detect and predict problem situation and to react in real time. The benefits of this solution include increased system uptime, improved ability to handle peak load demand, greater resistance to external attacks, and dramatically reduced costs versus attempting to store and process all grid data in central clouds.