Deploying the Smart Energy Tool for Investment Simulation inside the HUBCAP Sandbox

Given its strategic characteristic, the energy management sector is transitioning into a cyber-physical system setting, where digital models, computation and associated tools provide decision support and find the set-points that optimally control the infrastructure at hand. The transition challenges the experts in the field that, in addition to the domain complexities, face the additional burden associated with adopting a new tool from the fast paced and ever-changing digital solutions market. To facilitate the adoption of energy management decision support tools and other digital assets, the HUBCAP project developed a cloud-based collaboration platform enabling tool providers to deploy tools in a sandbox, a protected and ready-to-use cloud environment, where users can experiment with candidate assets in a try-before-invest manner. In this paper, we report on research conducted to deploy the Smart Energy Investment Simulation tool into a HUBCAP sandbox. The tool is a cloud asset, so the deployment was straightforward migration between cloud providers, and the outcome was reviewed as positive. We expect that our results facilitate the adoption of other tools and attract other models and stakeholders interested in finding new partners and applications in the energy domain.