Datahub
Data to be transferred to Datahub will come from a wide variety of different systems. Therefore, Fingrid Datahub Oy, Fingrid Oyj’s subsidiary and the party responsible for the operational tasks related to Datahub, wanted to prepare for the transfer as well as possible and initiated a public procurement process for a data pre-processing system, i.e. a data conversion service, in December 2016.
“Solteq’s proposal was simple and compact enough as well as suitable for the purpose. The schedule was ambitious but the implementation method very agile and well phased. Furthermore, we were impressed by how well the current consumer data protection matters had been taken into account in the service,” Fredrik Södö, project manager at Fingrid Datahub, describes the decision on the tendering procedure.
What did we do?
In summer 2017, Solteq and Fingrid launched a project to create a service to help electricity companies to ensure the quality and uniformity of their data. In October 2017, the service capable of handling a large amount of data was opened for a pilot group designated by Finnish Energy, and in April 2018, for the whole industry.
The data conversion service automatically generates comprehensive reports. Based on the reports, electricity companies can edit the data in their systems to match the Datahub system. At the pilot stage, information on user experiences was collected, and the service has been further developed based on this information.
“The service is very simple to use, and there are good instructions available for it. We greatly appreciate the fact that, already at this stage, we are able to work on our customer data to make it suitable for the Datahub system. Furthermore, it has been great to see how fast Solteq has developed the service based on feedback received from users,” says Katja Repo, network service expert at Nivos Energia Oy and one of the pilot group users.
Electricity companies are able to use the data conversion service until the launch of the Datahub system, and the number of service users is in constant growth. Once the quality and uniformity of data have been ensured, the data will be transferred directly to Datahub from the data conversion service.