Ocean Protocol is a decentralized network for data and compute access management that aims to solve two key issues: 1) connecting problem owners with problem solvers and 2) unlocking the benefits of more data while maintaining privacy and control. The Ocean network allows private data to remain behind firewalls while running algorithms and modeling to gain insights. This enables businesses to gain value from their private data without compromising privacy or control. Ocean launched its mainnet in March 2019 and its open source code and thorough documentation allow any organization, like the EWF ecosystem, to use Ocean for energy data access management across offices or collaborators on either private or public networks.

1. Roadmap
Alpha Aug ‘18, Mainnet Mar ‘19
Energy Data
Access Management
with Ocean Protocol
Trent McConaghy
@trentmc0

2. Issue #1

3. Problem
solvers
Problem
owners GAP
Issue #1: gap between problem owners & problem solvers

4. Issue #2

5. The most valuable data
Is private data

6. Data
you
have
(Private)
Data you want
100 databases
1 database

7. Data
you
have
Data you want
100 databases
1 database

8. Privacy ↓ ↓ ↓
Control ↓ ↓ ↓
Accuracy ↑ ↑ ↑
Lives Saved ↑ ↑ ↑
More DataLess Data
Issue #2: Can’t get more data without privacy & control problems

9. Towards a Solution

10. Ocean is a decentralized network
for access management
f(x)
data provider
algorithm
compute provider storage provider
analytics
further processing
curation

11. Ocean is a decentralized network
for access management
Ocean unlocks solutions for issues #1 & #2
Decentralized orchestration
f
(
x
)
privat
e data
modeling
algorithm
privately
train
model
private
model
model
predictio
ns
Data stays
behind
firewall
f(x
)
data provider
algorithm
compute provider storage provider
analytics
further processing
curation
Issue #1 solution Issue #2 solution

12. #1: Connect problem owners with problem solvers
via a unified “public utility” substrate
Data sharing
platform
DSP
Data commons
Data science tools
(sklearn, Tensorflow, ..)
DM
Problem solvers
(data scientists)
Govts, NGOs, enterprises
With data & compute
Unified “public utility” substrate
Data
market

13. Decentralized orchestration
#2: Unlock the benefit of more data while keeping control &
privacy: bring AI compute to the data
f(x)
private
data
modeling
algorithm
privately
train model
private
model
model
predictions
Data stays
behind firewall

14. Accuracy ↑ ↑ ↑
Biz benefit↑ ↑ ↑
More DataLess Data
#2: Can get more data, while maintaining privacy & control
Privacy ✓
Control ✓

15. Ocean Commons: Open Data on an Open Substrate
commons.oceanprotocol.com

16. Ocean MantaRay: Data Science on Hosted Jupyter Notebooks
datascience.oceanprotocol.com

17. All Ocean Code is Open, With Thorough Docs
github.com/oceanprotocol, docs.oceanprotocol.com

18. Use Cases

19. Collaborator: EWF
Use Case: EWF-authenticated data (from internal, Web2, Web3)
authentication

20. Collaborator: Verv
Use case: Sell household energy meter data in a data marketplace,
with goal of $0 energy bills
[Image source: www.verv.energy]

21. Collaborators: ConnectedLife, TU Munich, NU Singapore
Use case: Better predict Parkinson’s by connecting data across
borders

22. Collaborator: You?
Use Case: Energy data access management among your org’s offices, or
between your org & collaborators. “Google drive without the Google”
Substrate: Your own private net, EWF net, or Ocean public net
Org1
Org3
OrgN
Org2
Access mgmt

23. About Ocean

24. On Ocean Protocol
Is:
• A protocol (standard): specifications of how machines communicate
• And, a community: 8K stakeholders, 250 ambassadors, 30 advisors
• And, a nonprofit foundation to steward the protocol & community
• And, networks that implement the protocol, both public & private
Characteristics of protocol / networks:
• Decentralized – no single point of failure
• Global & open (public network), or local (private networks)
• Reconciles privacy
• Can plug in legals

25. Collaborators with Ocean Protocol

26. Conclusion

27. Ocean Protocol does access management for (energy) data
Decentralized orchestration
f
(
x
)
private
data
modeling
algorithm
privately
train model
private
model
model
predictions
Data stays
behind firewall
#1: Connect problem owners and
problem solvers
#2: Unlock benefits of more data
without losing control or privacy
Ocean is open to the EWF ecosystem to use, please reach out!
trent@oceanprotocol.com or @trentmc0