DIPS Digital Twin Technology

The Monash Smart Energy City project provides a lens into the Clayton campus of Monash University, where distributed energy resources (DERs) appear as if they were instruments in a research laboratory. An outcome of the project is the Distributed and Intelligent Power Systems (DIPS) platform (see our recent announcement). DIPS brokers the large volume of data from sensors in a dynamic power environment, enabling predictive analysis and archiving for later use. This blog is about the Digital Twins aspect of the Monash Smart Energy City Project, an initiative building on DIPS to develop a simulated replica of the campus microgrid to enable data analytics (power data forecasting and fault detection) closer to the edge devices by implementing machine learning algorithms