Mender Case Studies OTA Software Updates for Smart Energy (gridX)

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OTA Software Updates for Smart Energy (gridX)

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Technology Category	Cybersecurity & Privacy - Application Security
Applicable Industries	Renewable Energy
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Cybersecurity
Challenge	gridX has a requirement for over-the-air software updates for their gridBox devices and used the Yocto Project for their builds. The driver for the requirement was having the ability to quickly support new features, as well as deploying bug fixed and path known security vulnerabilities. New software updates with a US stick manually to all gridBox devices in the field would be prohibitively expensive and labor-intensive. Read More
About Customer	gridX is the first truly digital and decentralised energy supplier that matches prosumers of renewable energy with consumers. The gridX gateway, called gridBox, is an Internet of Things device that interconnects renewables such as solar plants and storage Read More
Customer Name	gridX Read More
Solution	Mender as a rich feature set while being a end-to-end open source, hence being the only solution that provided both components while allowing users to avoid vendor lock-in. Atomic updates with built-in rollback is a key requirement. We need to make sure our devices continue to work with automated rollback if the update didn't take for any reason. Mender provided that crucial capability. - Joel Hermanns, CIO of gridX Read More Log in to view content
Data Collected	Data Security, Energy Consumption Rate, Solar Power Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Application Security

Applicable Industries

Renewable Energy

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Cybersecurity

Challenge

gridX has a requirement for over-the-air software updates for their gridBox devices and used the Yocto Project for their builds. The driver for the requirement was having the ability to quickly support new features, as well as deploying bug fixed and path known security vulnerabilities. New software updates with a US stick manually to all gridBox devices in the field would be prohibitively expensive and labor-intensive.

About Customer

gridX is the first truly digital and decentralised energy supplier that matches prosumers of renewable energy with consumers. The gridX gateway, called gridBox, is an Internet of Things device that interconnects renewables such as solar plants and storage

Customer Name

gridX

Solution

Mender as a rich feature set while being a end-to-end open source, hence being the only solution that provided both components while allowing users to avoid vendor lock-in. Atomic updates with built-in rollback is a key requirement. We need to make sure our devices continue to work with automated rollback if the update didn't take for any reason. Mender provided that crucial capability. - Joel Hermanns, CIO of gridX

Data Collected

Data Security, Energy Consumption Rate, Solar Power

Impact #1	[Efficiency Improvement - Operation] Quickly provide new features over-the-air for customers
Impact #2	[Efficiency Improvement - Labor] Fleet-wide management elimiates manual effort to update devices 1-to-1
Impact #3	[Efficiency Improvement - Deployment] Automated rollback provides confidence deploying OTA software updates

Impact #1

[Efficiency Improvement - Operation]
Quickly provide new features over-the-air for customers

Impact #2

[Efficiency Improvement - Labor]
Fleet-wide management elimiates manual effort to update devices 1-to-1

Impact #3

[Efficiency Improvement - Deployment]
Automated rollback provides confidence deploying OTA software updates

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OTA Software Updates for Smart Energy (gridX)

Operational Impact