Smart Biogas 3: Digesting Data

Smart Biogas(Tm)是一个正在申请专利的远程监测平台，旨在以最低的成本监测世界各地越来越多的分散在各地的家庭/机构沼气池。Smart Biogas收集有关单个沼气池的性能和使用情况的数据，从而能够检测到潜在的故障或不符合标准的安装/操作。该数据被传输到云平台，在该云平台中，通过该项目，数据被自动处理并且例如通过通知使用户可理解，以便于及时维修或进一步的用户培训。硬件和软件是在能源催化剂第七轮资金(第105909号)(EC7)的资助下设计和成功试验的。在EC7期间，我们发布了计量硬件和网络应用的MVP(最低可行产品/第一版本)，并记录了来自世界各地的5500万份沼气性能每小时报告，并发表了两篇学术论文。这个MVP产品允许计量并在Web应用程序中显示信息，但尽管该产品已经是有价值的和独特的，但在这个阶段，它不会为数据增加任何额外的情报。这笔赠款将使我们能够开发其他一些用于商业发布的功能，包括：*增强沼气厂预防性维护和诊断的分析*敲定碳信用报告*增强传感硬件以提供更多数据点*现有产品和更广泛的使用案例(包括更大的商业消化器)的稳健性开发*进一步的学术论文和知识传播最终我们寻求解决财务障碍和运营效率低下的问题，实现可行的沼气即服务商业模式，增强公司运营并提供额外的收入流。智能沼气提供了一个强大的工具，帮助更多的人，特别是农村穷人更多地获得沼气技术。该项目由普惠能源有限公司领导，得到了东非沼气部门的知名参与者、肯尼亚沼气项目和沼气解决方案乌干达的支持，诺丁汉大学的学术投入，以及绿色影响技术(马拉维)和草根能源(印度)的更大规模的商业试点。

Smart Biogas (tm) is a patent pending, remote monitoring platform designed to monitor increasing numbers of geographically dispersed household/institutional biogas digesters at minimal cost across the world. Smart Biogas collects data on individual biogas digesters' performance and usage, allowing detection of potential faults or substandard installation/operation. This data is transmitted to a cloud platform where the data is, through this project, automatically processed and made intelligible to the user for, example through notifications, to facilitate prompt repairs or further user training. Hardware and software was designed and successfully piloted with Energy Catalyst Round 7 funding (No.105909) (EC7) .Over the course of EC7, we released a MVP (Minimum Viable Product/first release) of the metering hardware and web-application, and recorded over 55 million hourly reports on biogas performance from around the world and published two academic papers. This MVP product allowed the metering to happen and display the information in a web-application but, valuable and unique as that product already is, at this stage it does not add any additional intelligence to the data. This grant would allow us to develop a number of other features for commercial release including:* Enhanced analytics for preventive maintenance and diagnostics for biogas plants* Finalise Carbon Credit reporting* Enhanced sensing hardware to provide further data points* Robustness development of the existing product and for wider use cases including larger commercial digesters* Further academic papers and knowledge disseminationUltimately we seek to address financial barriers and operational inefficiencies enabling viable biogas-as-a-service commercial models, enhancing company operations and providing additional income streams. Smart Biogas provides a powerful tool that facilitates increased access to biogas technology for more people, especially the rural poor.The project is led by Inclusive Energy Ltd, with support from prominent actors in the biogas sector in East Africa, Kenya Biogas Program and Biogas Solutions Uganda, academic input from the University of Nottingham, and larger scale commercial pilots with Green Impact Technologies (Malawi) and Grassroots Energy (India).