The main objective of this collaboration has been to create a comprehensive Edge Computing architecture that covers all the operational processes that are necessary after the digitization of these assets and that is compatible with the high real-time and security requirements needed in these operating environments.

Onesait Phygital Edge will enable the homogeneous and interoperable virtualization of devices and applications currently deployed in substations, using generic hardware and discrete sensing and update elements. The main advantages of this asset virtualization will be its easy remote management, flexible local scaling, fault resilience, and the ability to deploy new AI-based applications for operational improvement and support for business processes and decision-making.

Onesait Phygital Edge integrates, among other things, the cybersecurity capabilities of Intel and Red Hat in the areas of dedicated hardware and operating systems in their specific Edge Computing versions. Intel Trusted Platform extends TPM 2.0 capabilities and integrates with SIA's PKI and Key Vault modules (SIA being a leading cybersecurity company through which Minsait provides services in this area) to verify the identity of the elements participating in the network (Identity of Things) and encrypt the information they exchange. Having interconnected devices makes the information they handle increasingly sensitive and more exposed to cyber incidents, so providing capabilities to protect them is of vital importance. The use of digital certificates in IT/OT environments, in this case offered in the SIA cloud, is key to protecting them.

For its part, Red Hat provides both Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the edge operating system (an operating system for unattended infrastructures with a robust lifecycle), and Red Hat OpenShift with a single node for distributed orchestration.

Thanks to the collaborative ecosystem created by the three companies, this solution, launched for the energy market, will allow high- and low-voltage operators to accelerate the digitization of their processes, virtualize their hardware, and begin deploying an adaptable and resilient infrastructure in response to the business reconfiguration challenges currently underway.

Currently, the solution is being deployed in extended demonstration environments within the infrastructures of several major energy operators in the Iberian Peninsula. Among the results achieved in previous phases, noteworthy achievements include a 47% reduction in maintenance costs and a 55% reduction in the deployment time for new use cases that will integrate the complete prosumption scheme (active demand management, virtual power plant, etc.).