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Dependable

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For Critical

Systems

© Copyright Critical Software S.A. 1998-2008 All Rights Reserved.

Critical Energy

Rui Avelãs NunesBusiness Development Manager

Energy & Utilities


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1. Critical Software2. Solutions for Energy & Utilities3. Case Studies4. Next Steps

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Critical Software, the “mothership”

• Spin-off of the University of Coimbra, July 1998– Dependable Technologies for Critical

Systems

• Software engineering company– Mission: to support mission and business

critical solutions

• Development of dual use technology: aimed at military and civil markets– Manufacturing, Energy, Telecom, Finance

and Government

– Aeronautics, Space, Defence and Transports

• 3 Engineering Centers in Portugal– Coimbra, Lisbon, Porto,

– Over 330 engineers

– More than 30 fully allocated to R&D

3© Copyright Critical Software S.A. 1998-2008 All Rights Reserved.

Coimbra, Portugal

Lisboa, Portugal

Porto, Portugal

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The Group Critical

• Global Vision

• Subsidiaries in the US, UK, Romania, Brazil, Mozambique

• Representatives in many different parts ofthe world:

– South Africa, Angola,China, India, ...

• Exports: ~70% of total turnover in 2008


San Jose, CA, USA

Bucharest, Romania

Sao Paulo, Brazil

Southampton, UK

Regensburg, Germany

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The Group Critical


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Financial figures

• High-growth profile (organic)– 19 M€ in 2008

• Good capacity to generate wealth– EBITDA: between 10% and 22% from year one

– Re-investment of all generated wealth

• Strong investment in R&D– ~10% of turnover


2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

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Customers and markets


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The company’s strategic pillars


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Innovation & Internationalization


R&D Partners

Universities

Partners

Labs

Market

VOLUME

SINERGY

PARTNERSHIPS

Institutional

Markets

Niche

Critical Software

IP Innovation

Marketing

Mid step

Lower

Barriers

Knowledge

intensive Less

competition Lower

Barriers Awareness

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Certified Quality


QualityDepartment

1st SPICEAssessment

2nd SPICEAssessment

ISO 9001 with TickIT

certification

ITILprocesses

October 2001 November 2001 May 2003 March 2004 December 2004

ISO 9001 withTickIT

surveillance audit

AQAPCertification

CMMI Level 3Achievement

EN 9100 & 9006

March 2005 September 2005 March 2006 March 2006

2009

CMMI Level 5Achievement

December 2008

Six sigma

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People & Community

• “Brainware” is our key success

factor.

• Capacity to build the best team

(people and culture) is

determinant.

• Our culture is based on merit,

humility and ambition

• Everybody gets 360 degrees

performance info to guide and

maximize personal improvement

• Community support – distribution

of 3% of our profit


Personal

improvement

Team

Community support

3% of Profit

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Unique Value Proposition


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Project Engagement


requirements gathering

software requirements

software design

validation acceptanceoperations and maintenance

time and materials

SRR PDR CDR QR ARKOM

Different approaches to suite our client’s needs.

B Fixed -price Fixed -price Time & materials

A Fixed -price Fixed -price

C Time & Materials Fixed -price Time & materials

D Fixed level-of-effort Fixed -price

on-site customer premises off-site & near shore critical premises


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Solutions for Energy & Utilities

• Our offer is focused in 3 major areas


EMSSMART GRID

Energy Efficiency

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EMS – The Problem


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EMS – The Concept

Change from, each one working by itself, to

everyone sharing information and working together


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EMS – The Approach


Strategic Vision

Business Orientations

Missions and Goals

Competition

Tactical Vision

Monitorization and Control

Productivity

Operational Vision

Activity

Operational Information

Business

Vision

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EMS – The Architecture


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EMS – The Modules


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SMART GRID

• Independent and Universal Remote Metering Platform; Smart Grid Management Platform– market liberalization;

– new paradigms to distribute and produce energy;

– optimization of the existing electricity grid to improve power distribution efficiency and enable green energy

• End-User Energy Management Platform; To provide feedback about energy use domestic and corporate-wise; to calculate Carbon Footprint– energy is perhaps the most important challenge world

is currently facing – which makes peoples awareness to the way they use energy much relevant

• Electric Vehicle

– Integration of the electric vehicle network with SMART

GRID


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Energy Efficiency

• Building Automation Energy Management

Systems (EMS)

– Development of a new Generation of EMS

– Integrate smart grid capabilities into EMS

– Integrate into EMS new generation of

algorithms in energy efficiency management

considering external factors and building

energy inertia



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SKIPPER


System, Knowledge, Information, Plant, Performance

EnviRonment

Geração Térmica

Geração Hidráulica

Ambiente

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The Problem


• Integrated vision for all Production Centres;

• Set-up of new Production Centres associated

with business expansion;

• Several dedicated information systems;

• Competences and key resources dispersion and

duplication;

• Elevated Training Costs;

• Elevated Operational Costs;

• Difficulties with Information sharing;

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SKIPPER – The Solution

• Portal that integrates business information providing the following functionalities:– Operational Management;

– Process Information;

– Advanced Business Intelligence.

• that enables a better asset management and monitorization:– More effective and efficient Information Management;

– More agile decision process.

• Independent of:– Geographic distribution;

– Number of Production Centres;

– Production Centre Technologies;

– Process or Transitional data.


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SKIPPER

Generation

SKIPPER

Environment

SKIPPER

Thermic

SKIPPER

Hydro

SKIPPER

ResourcesThermic

Maintenance

SKIPPER

Optimization

Hydro

Maintenance

Process

Information

SKIPPER

Cogeneration

SKIPPER

Management

SKIPPER

Risk

Hydro

Operation

Thermal

Operation

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SKIPPER – Benefits

• Promote expertise clusters

– Monitor all EDP power plants in a geographical

independent way avoiding man power duplication

• Increased monitoring and control capabilities

– Increase the ability to detect in real time malfunctions

or non optimized operational conditions

• Application Renewal and cost reduction

– Replace old and dedicated systems with heavy

maintenance requirements

• Decisions in real time

– Provide real-time management information from a

single and validated source

• Standardization and set-up time reduction

– Decrease the start-up time of new power plant

operations and ease staff mobility


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Integrated vision of the Information, validated e auditable;

Process information globally and decentralized;

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Promote expertise clusters of EDP collaborators monitoring all

EDP power plants in a geographical independent way

avoiding man power duplication

Coal cluster

Natural gas

cluster

Environmental

cluster

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Increase the ability to detect in real time malfunctions or non

optimized operational conditions

Fault predictor

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Application renewal/replacement of legacy systems with

high maintenance costs.

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Padronização dos processos de gestão da produção e

métodos de análise e diagnóstico da exploração dos

grupos, funcionando como veículo de disseminação do

conhecimento pela organização;

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Increase quality and demands for work and performance.

Ensure a safe and effective supply of production centres.

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Collaboration tool – information sharing incentive

Enable user creativity in creating new data analysis models


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Modularity: Modular architecture allowing easy integration

of new data sources (e.g. system replacement; new

production centre configuration)

Business knowledge systematization and easy business rules

update mechanism

Auditable: Reduce uncertainty towards value chain.


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Wind Management System (WMS)


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WMS – The Problem

• Geographically disperse wind farms

– Several wind farms in Portugal and Spain with local

maintenance and operations needs

• Down time contract management

– Capability to efficiently manage down times

• Technology

– Several equipment manufacturers

• Collect, process and analyze real time and

transactional data

– collect, process and analyze data coming from multiple

wind farms in Portugal and Spain.


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WMS – The Solution

• Distributed system

– comprises one central node and several remote nodes

– each remote node monitors one or more wind farms.

• Increased local capabilities of Maintenance and

Operations

– All nodes (central or remote) are independent.

• Web based user interface

– Customizable real-time views;

– Customizable reports;

– Downtime Accounting;

– Alerts;

– Device configurable Categorization


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WMS – The Benefits

• Increased Monitoring and Control capabilities

– Real-time wind farm monitoring

– Reporting capabilities

• Contract Management

– Turbine Manufacturer Warranty Management

• Optimization

– Increasing kWh produced - Wind Farm Operations

– Distributed architecture

• User customizable interface

– Highly customizable

– Independent of equipment manufacturers


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NEMO&CODED

NEMO & CODED

NEtworked MOnitoring & COntrol,

Diagnostic for Electrical Distribution


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NEMO&CODED – The Problem

• “Pluggable” device network

– Model, design, implement and operate networked

hardware/software smart devices

• SOA devices

– Recognizable SOA ready devices

– Monitor and control devices based on web services

• Orchestration

– Devices will be able to offer their functionality as one

or more web services

– It will be possible to cooperate with other devices and

services in order to realise distributed monitoring,

diagnostics and control.


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NEMO&CODED – The Solution


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NEMO&CODED – The Benefits

• Architecture

– Modular building-block approach

– Transform data into useful information

• Remote access capability

• Alarming / Paging:

– Provide Alarms with description of each Event -

minimize power system downtime

– Dispatch Maintenance crew to the right place, knowing

what to expect

• Simplify energy management including self

generation

• Save time and money :

– Helps maximize resources and assets

– Provides data for critical decisions

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Electrical Vehicle


ITEV – Integrated Charging

Infrastructure for Electric

Vehicles (EV)

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Electrical Vehicle – The Problem

• Develop the IT infrastructure and charging network for Electric Vehicles in Portugal

• Develop an innovative and pioneer network management, monitoring and control system for the charging network at National level.


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Electrical Vehicle – The Solution

• Development of the Management System functional prototype for the charging network of EVs in Portugal, supporting1350 charging points and covering 25 municipalities.


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Electrical Vehicle – The Benefits


• Increased Monitoring and Control capabilities

– Rreal-time monitoring and control

– Centralized management of all national EV charging

network

• Highly Modular and Adaptive system

– Modular technology, easy adaptation and

customization, supporting different charging point

suppliers, multi-language, timezones, maps, etc

• Network performance analysis and provisioning

planning of the network in the future


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Next Steps

• Next Steps

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Dependable

Technologies

For Critical

Systems

Critical Software, S.A.Parque Industrial de Taveiro, Lote 48 3045-504 CoimbraTel: +351 239 989 100Fax: +351 239 989 119

Critical Software, S.A. R. Engº Frederico Ulrich, nº 2650 4470-605 Moreira da MaiaTel: +351 229 446 927Fax: +351 229 446 929

Critical Software S.A.Campus do INETI no Lumiar, Ed M8Estrada do Paço do Lumiar1649-038 LisboaTel: +351 217 145 430Fax: +351 217 145 432

Critical Software Ltd.111 North Market Street, 6th FloorSan Jose, California 95113Tel: +1 (408) 351 33 53 Fax: +1 (408) 351 33 30

Critical Software Technologies Ltd.2 Venture RoadSouthampton Science ParkChilworth - Southampton So16 7npTel: +44 (0) 23 8011 1339 (outside UK)Fax: +44 (0) 870 762 2487 (outside UK)

Critical Software SRL Str. Turnu Magurele, nr. 270 D Corp C, Sector 4 BucharestTel: +40 216 834 045

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Contacts

Rui Avelãs Nunes

Business Development Manager

Energy & Utilities

[email protected]

http://solutions.criticalsoftware.com/energy/

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http://solutions.criticalsoftware.com/energy/

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