Analyzing petabytes of smartmeter data using Cloud Bigtable, Cloud Dataflow, and BigQuery

Analyzing petabytes of smart meter data using
Cloud Bigtable, Cloud Dataflow, and BigQuery
Edwin Poot & Erik van Wijk, Energyworx
Max Luebbe, Google

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ENERGY TRANSITION IN PROGRESS
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● rise of renewable energy sources
● regulation & market demands
● competition & increased costs
● intelligent devices in the home or along the
utilities infrastructure
(“Internet of Things”)
● two-way flow of information instead of one-
way
● increase of consumption

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1. increasing density brings increasing data quality problems
2. strict regulations for safeguarding user privacy
3. redistribution of economic power and energy demand
4. rising competition between distributed and central
5. innovation outpaces regulation
Top 5 industry challenges

www.energyworx.com
CHINA
435 M
USA
132 M
JAPAN
58.7 MFRANCE
35 M
UK
53 M
NL
8 M
Italy
32 M
Ontario
4.7 M
British
Columbia
1.2 M
Quebec
3.8 M Germany
50 M
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conventional utility systems cannot cope with this data diversity and endless
stream of all types, shapes and sizes
smart meters
smart grid equipment
sensors
home automation
multichannel customer interactions
consumers’ usage behavior
weather
social
spatial
creating a single, centralized view of data – accessible to many, and for many use
cases, that is the key to success
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“We enable the energy evolution by
uncovering and monetizing the hidden
value of your data!”
ingest, process, analyze & learn
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Enabling data-driven business models for the Energy & Utility industry since 2012
Offices in The Netherlands and in the United States,
Delivering a revolutionary data management & intelligence cloud
service disrupting the global Energy & Utilities market
Pushing out established vendors using pure play SaaS
Creating actionable information - sparking new
business concepts and models
Crunching data without being limited by scale,
speed and obsolete pricing models

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generation
Meter Data
Management
Renewable Energy
Management
transmission trading distribution supply
Social Energy
Consumer Engagement
imbalances
settlements
Energy insights
for wholesale
connections
energyworx and the energy value chain

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ENERGY INTELLIGENCE
ENERGY PROSUMERS
& RETAILERS
Demand Response (price)
Energy Insights
Demand Response (load)
Grid Insights
Renewables Engagement
Gamification Benchmarking
Balancing Congestion
Optimization Anomalies
MARKETS & SOLUTIONS
ENERGY DATA MANAGEMENT
Meter Data Management Energy Data Hub
ENERGY SYSTEM
OPERATORS

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● Always supporting the latest IoT
products and/or equipment
● Protocol agnostic data ingestion
and limitless computation capacity
● Cloud Machine learning to support
new business concepts and
models
● Pay as you grow SaaS model, so
no large upfront investments
OUR ADVANTAGES

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PLATFORM EVOLUTION HIGHLIGHTS
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
- batched data
- temporal aggregations
- VEE
- utility connectivity
- API
- multi-tenancy
- permissions
- custom querying
- grouping
- tag properties
- datalabs (EDA)
- Machine learning
- CloudML
- (A)DR
- streaming data
- pseudonymisation
- tagging
- analytics
- dynamic profiling
- PayPerUse model
- IoT devices
- many new adapters
- performance
- web console
- Sheets addon
Data ingestion &
management
Insights & analysis Intelligence & IoT control

DELIVER A DATA MANAGEMENT & ANALYTICS SERVICE FOR ENERGY & UTILITY COMPANIES
PUBLIC
&
PRIVATE
CLOUD
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Big Data Challenges at Google

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Google's mission to
"organize the world’s
information" presents
new challenges.

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Big Data technologies invented at Google
2012 20132002 2004 2006 2008 2010
GFS
MapReduce
Bigtable Colossus
Dremel Flume
Millwheel

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… build a 100TB+ filesystem?
Need: Google was building enormous data sets, and needed an
abstracted way to store and access at scale.

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Solution: GFS (replaced by higher-scale Colossus in 2010)

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Solution: GFS (replaced by higher-scale Colossus in 2010)
Google Cloud Storage

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Need: Massive data index files took weeks to rebuild. We needed
random read/write access.
… build a petabyte database?

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Solution: Bigtable (internal service launched 2006)

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Solution: Bigtable (internal service launched 2006)
Google Cloud Bigtable

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Need: Ad hoc queries over massive quantities of data, in just
seconds.
… query a trillion rows in seconds?

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seconds.
Solution: Dremel

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seconds.
Solution: Dremel
Google BigQuery

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Need: Process petabytes of static and streaming data, quickly.
… build data-processing at Google scale?

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Solution: MapReduce, Flume, and Millwheel

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Solution: MapReduce, Flume, and Millwheel
Google Cloud Dataflow

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Imagine what one can build...

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.. when scale is a solved problem.

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Google Cloud Platform is the same infrastructure
Cloud Storage BigQuery Cloud DataflowCloud Bigtable

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Cloud Bigtable is the same service Google uses
Cloud Bigtable
Bigtable Service

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What is Cloud Bigtable?
NoSQL database for large datasets /
large throughput
Supports sequential scans
Auto-adjusts to access patterns

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Bigtable
Node
Bigtable
Node
Bigtable
Node
How does Cloud Bigtable work?
Colossus
Filesystem
Client Client Client Client Client Client
Processing
Storage
Clients

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Node
Cloud Bigtable learns access patterns...
Filesystem
Node Node
Processing
Storage
Clients
A B C D E

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Node Node Node
… and rebalances data accordingly
Filesystem
Processing
Storage
Clients
A B C D EB C

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Throughput can be controlled by node count
Node Node Node
Nodes
80,000
60,000
40,000
20,000
QPS
Bigtable Nodes
86420
0

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400,000
300,000
200,000
100,000
QPS
Bigtable Nodes
403020100
0
Nodes
Node Node Node Node Node Node

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4,000,000
3,000,000
2,000,000
1,000,000
QPS
Bigtable Nodes
4003002001000
0
Nodes
Node Node
Node Node
Node Node
Node Node
Node Node
Node Node
Node Node
Node Node
Node Node
Node Node
Node Node
Node Node
Node Node
Node Node
Node Node

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Years of engineering to...
Teach Bigtable to configure itself
Isolate performance from “noisy
neighbors”
React automatically to new patterns,
splitting and balancing
Cloud Bigtable

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Google has had an internal
cloud for over a decade
The same engineering that has made our
internal services better makes our Cloud
better:
Simpler control planes
Multi-tenancy
Adapts to large, new patterns

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Why did we choose
● Fastest with consistent performance
● Competitive and transparent pricing
● Autoscale to millions of users (and back)
● Unlimited flexible storage and caching
● Big Data & Machine Learning capabilities
● Development SDK & tools
● 24/7 access to expert support resources

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5 things we’ve learned along the way
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SKILLS,
KNOWLEDGE &
TRAINING
REQUIRED
IMPLEMENTATION
TIME CODE
ABSTRACTION
USING API’S
PAAS
SANDBOX
IMPACT ON
BUSINESS MODEL
understand all PaaS
possibilities and
components to
prevent reinventing
what already exists
and speed-up
implementation &
migration
shorter release cycles
require smaller feature
sets per release, adapt
your software
development &
release management
method
to be cloud agnostic
you need code
abstraction layers
per PaaS service
you use
design and modify
your software
architecture to fit
the PaaS sandbox
adapt your business
model to PaaS cost
model

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INGEST PROCESS ANALYZESTORE
App Engine
Cloud PubSub
App EngineCloud Storage
Datastore
Bigtable
BigQuery
Cloud SQL
Dataflow
Dataproc CloudML
Datalab
BigQuery
API
Events
Devices
Validate
Aggregate
Calculate
Timeseries
Metadata
Tags
Insights
Predict
Decide

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Data Ingestion Process
Cloud PubSub DataFlow
IoT Equipment
Big Table
BigQuery

“Creating actionable insights - sparking new business
concepts and models. Crunching data without being
limited by scale, speed and obsolete pricing models.”
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Uncovering hidden value from data

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• Classification
• Clustering
• Regression
• Anomaly detection
• Prediction/forecasting
• Motif discovery
• Association rules
Exploratory Data Analysis with Energyworx
Uncover hidden value from your data!
Features:
- part of Energyworx SaaS
- autoscaling with demand
- notebook development
environment
- private & public models
- Energyworx shared models

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Demo: Clustering time series data
from Smart Meters

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