Smart Biogas 3: Digesting Data

Smart Biogas（TM）是一个正在申请专利的远程监控平台，旨在以最低的成本监控世界各地越来越多的地理上分散的家庭/机构沼气池。Smart Biogas收集关于单个沼气池的性能和使用情况的数据，从而可以检测潜在的故障或不合格的安装/操作。这些数据被传输到云平台，通过该项目，数据被自动处理，并通过通知等方式使用户易于理解，以促进及时维修或进一步的用户培训。硬件和软件的设计和成功试点与能源催化剂第7轮融资（编号105909）（EC 7）。在EC 7的过程中，我们发布了一个MVP（最小可行产品/第一次发布）的计量硬件和网络应用程序，并记录了超过5500万小时报告的沼气性能来自世界各地，并发表了两篇学术论文。这个MVP产品允许计量发生并在Web应用程序中显示信息，但是，由于该产品已经是有价值和独特的，在这个阶段，它不会向数据添加任何额外的智能。这笔赠款将使我们能够开发许多其他功能用于商业发布，包括：* 增强分析，用于沼气厂的预防性维护和诊断 * 完成碳信用报告 * 增强传感硬件，以提供更多的数据点 * 现有产品的鲁棒性开发和更广泛的使用案例，包括大型商业消化池 * 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，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来源。智能沼气提供了一个强大的工具，有助于更多的人，特别是农村贫困人口获得沼气技术。该项目由包容性能源有限公司领导，并得到东非沼气行业知名企业、肯尼亚沼气计划和乌干达沼气解决方案的支持，诺丁汉大学的学术投入，以及与绿色影响技术（马拉维）和基层能源（印度）进行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).