Press Release
Nokia, A1 provide private wireless connectivity for
Siemens renewable energy microgrid
- Industrial-grade private wireless network deployed on Siemens
campus in Vienna, Austria
- Renewables smartly managed within a microgrid are making an
impact by offering energy cost savings and security of supply to
industrial campuses
- Private wireless provides critical connectivity for control of
all microgrid assets, helping to manage energy loads and lower the
environmental footprint
25 November 2020
Espoo, Finland – Nokia and A1 have joined forces to
provide a private wireless network for Siemens’ microgrid, which is
deployed at its Austrian headquarters in Vienna. The A1 campus
solution demonstrates the advantages of using a private wireless
solution to operate critical applications such as enterprise or
utility microgrids, and how they can be efficiently implemented
with secure, reliable and fast connectivity.
Renewable energy sources, storage and microgrids are being
adopted by industries worldwide to help enterprises minimize their
environmental footprint and reach their sustainability objectives.
Smartly managed renewables within a microgrid are making an impact
on many industrial applications by offering energy cost savings and
supplying security to industrial campuses.
Nokia is providing the industrial-grade private wireless
network, while A1 is providing spectrum along with hosting and
management of the newly deployed campus network. The private
wireless network is connecting the microgrid assets on the Siemens
campus, enabling secure communication between the microgrid
controllers and the metering or charging points at guaranteed data
rates and with low latency.
The Siemens Vienna campus microgrid project includes solar
generation, electric vehicle (EV) charging, building management and
battery storage. Initially, Siemens has implemented 320kW of solar
generation and 500kWh battery storage, all to support around 50 EV
charging stations.
Wolfgang Hesoun, CEO Siemens Austria: "One of
the challenges of the future is a reliable and at the same time
clean supply, transmission and use of energy. Microgrids can
significantly contribute to this. Our campus project, in
combination with the infrastructure of an existing industrial
plant, is the first of its kind – and offers many
opportunities for innovative research and concrete new
solutions.”
Intelligence by connectivity
Despite their size, microgrids are complex systems with many
elements which need reliable connectivity because they integrate
distributed energy sources such as solar cells and battery storage.
Voltage levels across the grid are in a constant state of flux with
load balancing and optimization between different sources and loads
requiring direct control. With private wireless, the microgrid
controller easily connects to all assets to manage the grid,
ensuring optimal load balancing between energy demand and
availability of local distributed energy resources.
Avoiding the need to deploy cabling to connect sensors and other
devices associated with managing the microgrid results in speeding
up its deployment and enables an easier expansion. A1 network
slicing, together with edge cloud processing, is able to achieve
the reliable low latency needed for automated microgrid control
responses to manage instantaneous load fluctuations. This
infrastructure can be used for additional industrial use cases
where wireless connectivity and high reliability are critical.
Marcus Grausam, CEO A1 Austria, said: "Network
slicing in A1’s mobile networks allows organizations to operate
private wireless networks which not only offer the best possible
security, but also enable completely new applications thanks to
lowest possible latency and high reliability. By using this private
campus network as the foundation of the Siemens microgrid, we are
demonstrating how 5G technologies enable the optimal control of
energy facilities."
Peter Wukowits, Head of Nokia Austria, said:
“Managing microgrids is another example where both utilities and
enterprises, such as Siemens, can benefit from the reliable
wireless connectivity provided by private wireless networks. Nokia
brings its experience of supporting more than 200 utility customers
in mission-critical networking to this microgrid project. Our
private wireless LTE/4.9G solutions contain many of the
capabilities required for today’s Industry 4.0 applications, as the
Siemens microgrid deployment demonstrates. And additional
capabilities for future industrial use cases will follow with
5G.”
As announced earlier this month, Nokia is providing its
industrial-grade private wireless technology and services for all
existing and new A1 Austria LTE and 5G enterprise campus network
deployments accelerating the digital transformation of A1’s
enterprise customers.
To learn more about Nokia’s industrial-grade private wireless
solutions, please visit
https://www.nokia.com/networks/solutions/private-wireless. With
more than 220 large enterprise customers across industries
worldwide, and an extensive ecosystem of key vertical partners,
Nokia has recently been named leader in private wireless by
GlobalData.
Resources:
Siemens microgrid images:
https://press.siemens.com/at/de/feature/microgrid
Nokia Industrial Grade Private Wireless images: Nokia
Industrial-grade private wireless | Nokia
About Siemens Austria
Siemens is one of the country’s leading technology companies.
Around 8,800 employees work for Siemens in Austria in total. Sales
in the fiscal year 2020 amounted to roughly 2.6 billion euros.
Siemens combines the physical and the digital world — and aims at
creating benefits for customers and society. The company focuses on
the fields intelligent infrastructure in buildings, decentralized
energy systems, automation and digitalization in the process and
manufacturing industry as well as on intelligent mobility solutions
for rail and road traffic. Automation, software and data analytics
play an important role in this context. With its plants, globally
active centers of competence and regional expertise in every
Federal Province, Siemens AG Österreich significantly contributes
to local value creation. Furthermore, Siemens Austria has the
overall business responsibility for its own market as well as for
an additional 20 countries (region Central and Southeast Europe as
well as Israel). Additional information can be found here:
www.siemens.at
A1 – Internet, Voice, TV and IT-Services from One
Source
A1 is Austria’s leading communications provider, encompassing
more than 5.1 million mobile communications customers and over 2
million fixed access lines. The customers benefit from a global
package of offers from one source: voice telephony, Internet
access, digital cable television, data and IT solutions, wholesale
services, and mobile business and payment solutions. A1 Telekom
Austria AG is part of A1 Telekom Austria Group (ATX:TKA) – a
leading digital services and communications provider in the CEE
region with around 25 million customers across seven countries.
Offering communications, payment and entertainment services as well
as integrated business solutions Telekom Austria Group achieved
revenues of 4.57 billion Euros, with A1 contributing more than 2.65
billion Euros, by in the year 2019. Around 18,000 employees and
state of the art broadband infrastructure make digital business and
lifestyle possible and enable people, companies and things to
connect everywhere anytime. As European unit of América Móvil, one
of the largest wireless services provider in the world, Telekom
Austria Group is headquartered in Vienna and gives access to global
solutions.
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