The challenge: seamless integration between the grid at large and the local units.
There are benefits in real-time information being handed to both parties.

Picture a company called “NetGration LLC”.  
Their purpose is, as described, to link local small energy production units into the network.
The digital transformation journey begins with gathering data from the devices installed in the clients’ rooftops.

Here’s how Coreflux realizes the promise of smart grid technology:  

STEP-BY-STEP

1. Downlload coreflux hub  + Coreflux mqtt broker (on local device)

Values from the solar panel’s production must be retrieved into an MQTT Broker.
Coreflux offers a perfectly simple solution: install our Hub on an edge device, which provides a broker out-of-the-box. For free.

2. Modbus Connectors on local edge devices - MQTT Broker

Modbus-2-MQTT assets are installed and configured to:
- On one end, access the energy measurement values of the solar panels and gather data;  
- On the other, communicate their data back to the MQTT broker that was previously prepared.    

There, “NetGration LLC” now has a single source where all data can be consulted.  
It becomes easy to know precisely when and how much energy the solar panel is producing.
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3. MSSQL-2-MQTT Connector to register values

This local data can and should be further taken advantage of.
Installing a database on the edge device can:

- Ensure the values are backed-up,
- Create an historic record
- Provide the ability to query according to desired time periods.

All it takes is one is database Asset, like a NoSQL Connector.

4. MQTT Bridge Connector - Coreflux Online MQTT Broker

“NetGration LLC” needs to access the energy-related data in multiple ways and several locations.
Security is paramount.

Installing an MQTT Bridge Connector ensures only the desired data is passed along the data pipeline, through encrypted or certificate-protected channels.

Coreflux offers a free 7-day Trial of our Online MQTT Broker.
With the Online Broker integrated, all data can be sourced from and into the grid at large, to calculate and deliver the computed values.