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The current energy supply is changing. More and more grid participants are working together: Producers, consumers and storage facilities. This project will focus on the latter. Battery storage systems distributed over long distances are to be digitized, synchronized, networked and connected to central monitoring and control units. The aim is to provide smart and barrier-free networking of the systems as well as real-time requirements in modern cloud and 5G mobile technologies. Based on newer ICT and cloud services, grid operators of districts and sectors are now demanding that digitalization be used in the energy systems of smart grids in order to achieve the next technology level of Industry 4.0. By networking the facilities, the operating parameters can be logged at a higher level in a cloud. Access is possible from any location to the processes running worldwide. Orchestrating all devices in a smart network eliminates manual tasks such as software updates, remote maintenance and remote control in the device. With the development environment created by the National 5G Energy Hub (N5GEH) in Germany, such tasks can be centrally managed and automated using cloud services for IoT devices. The challenge of the project is to adaptively collect system data in real time using real-time capable cloud key technologies, merge it on the central N5GEH platform and replicate the real battery storage for system services in a time-critical manner in a parallel simulation, the so-called digital twin. Intelligent sensors and high-performance controllers are integrated on site to determine the operating and environmental data in high resolution and transfer the data directly to suitable cloud systems via intrinsically safe networks. The connection and management of the IoT devices in central cloud services allows the consortium leader FREQCON to continuously (live) monitor the systems or even remotely adjust the operation of the battery storage systems.

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