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David Duijnmayer: ‘Roll-out of smart meters could be done a bit smarter’
AMSTERDAM (Energeia) – SynerScope, the software company that specializes in distilling knowledge from large amounts of data, is helping a network operator with the large-scale rollout of the smart meter. By linking different types of data, SynerScope can better and faster predict what is currently installed behind the front door. This way, the network operator can send the right technician with the right equipment.
SynerScope, around since 2011, is new to the energy sector. Until now, the company was mainly active in the financial sector and for insurance companies. Via Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE), where SynerScope originated, the energy network operators came to the attention of the software company specializing in big data. “The ‘big’ in big data is actually not that interesting,” says solutions engineer Thomas Ploeger of SynerScope. “We are particularly interested in issues for which different types of data must be linked. Even then there are still plenty of challenges for the network operators.”
The issue that SynerScope helped solve for this network operator is: how can you roll out the smart meter as smartly as possible? If a plan is made to offer the smart meter in a certain area, it is useful to know what a grid operator will find behind the front door: what kind of meter is there now, what kind of cabinet is around it, what kind of fuses are used and is there possibly asbestos present? “To answer those questions, a series of manual checks is still needed,” says Ploeger. “That takes a lot of time and is error prone.”
SynerScope will collect the information of interest faster and better by linking all the data that was first checked manually. In addition, photos taken by mechanics are used. These are clustered with the help of machine learning: photos showing the same equipment are placed in the same group, so that it is quickly visible whether there are many different meters in a certain area or whether there is great uniformity. “What we do is bring data together to optimize work preparation,” Ploeger summarizes.
Making a work schedule with the correct information, prevents any errors. “Specific training is required when removing certain fuses, and not all mechanics are in possession of that specific training”, Ploeger gives as an example. “It sometimes happens that upon arrival a technician is not allowed to do anything because he does not have the right papers. Good information also helps to plan the required time, so you know how many addresses you can schedule in one day.” According to Ploeger, a first test – in which the SynerScope method was compared with the results of the old, manual method – showed that 30% fewer errors were made.
Source: David Duijnmayer | david.duijnmayer@energeia.nl | June 15th, 2017
SynerScope is shaping the future with disruptive High Speed Big Data Analytics Technologies
SynerScope is shaping the future of Law Enforcement and National security agencies with disruptive High Speed Big Data Analytics Technologies.
The Netherlands, 12 June 2017. The explosion of crimes, terrorists acts and cyberthreats and the amount of data to collect and analyse to deal with those threats, create a new challenge to achieve maximum protection and anticipation.
SynerScope Ultra-Fast Big data Analytics appliances will provide unique analytics solutions, fast investigations/exploration to Governments, National Security agencies and Law Enforcement bodies with an efficiency, a speed and a price never delivered to date in the market.
SynerScope data science and predictive analytics technologies help Analysts in storing, processing, analysing and do quick findings in large amount of structured (geo location, air traffic data, sensors data, license-plate readers, travel and credit-card records) and unstructured data (text documents, message traffic, phone data, social media data, speeches, images…).
Speed is achieved without the need of any upfront data modelling and cleaning. Cost efficiency is achieved using mass storage on a Hortonworks Hadoop Data lake.
This new market of mining billions of records of structured and unstructured data and crunching the data to find crucial clues, is pushed by intelligence and law enforcement agencies to use big data technologies to find suspicious activities and predict crimes or terrorist acts before they happen. According to research firm MarketsandMarkets, the market for those new technologies is estimated to reach $9.2 billion by 2020, up from $3 billion in 2015.
About SynerScope
SynerScope, the next generation platform that provides analytics solutions to help discover critical insights from massive amounts of data, including dark data, and turning it into useful information and insights. SynerScope combines Scientific Visualization Technologies (MRI scanner), ultrafast predictive analytics and machine learning on top of its proprietary enterprise data navigation, -search and -linking.
This technology stack provides enterprises high speed detection of abnormal behaviours and anomalies in complex data. SynerScope operates in the following sectors: Banking, Insurance, Critical Infrastructure, and Cyber Security. Learn more at synerscope.com.
Synerscope has strategic partnerships with Hortonworks, Nvidia, IBM, SAP and Dell.
Mediacontact:
Marieke Beijsens
+31 (0)6 2364 4933
Email: marketing@synerscope.com
GERRIT VAN DIJK AWARD for Stef van den Elzen
Dr. ir. Stef van den Elzen, VP Engineering at Synerscope, has won the Gerrit van Dijk Award for Science 2017. One of three Dutch Data Science awards, the Gerrit van Dijk award goes to best Phd thesis by a researcher who graduated between January 2014 and January 2017. Stef has won with his thesis on interactive visualization techniques as part of a successful collaboration between the TU/e and SynerScope.
The Dutch Data Science Awards are an initiative of the Royal Holland society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW) and the Big Data Alliance (BDA). The festive ceremony took place on June 8, 2017 in the Hodshon House in Haarlem, The Netherlands.
Solving Cybercrime at Scale and in Realtime
In a recent event organized by Hortonworks, SynerScope and Inter Visual Systems, we discussed using data technologies to solve cybercrime in scale and realtime.
Solving Cybercrime at Scale and in Realtime
Information security is a big problem today. With more attacks happening all the time, and increasingly sophisticated attacks beyond the script-kiddies of yesterday, patrolling the borders of our networks, and controlling threats both from outside and within is becoming harder. We cannot rely on endpoint protection for a few thousand PCs and servers anymore, but as connected cars, internet of things, and mobile devices become more common, so the attack surface broadens. To face these problems, we need technologies that go beyond the traditional SIEM, which human operators writing rules. We need to use the power of the Hadoop ecosystem to find new patterns, machine learning to uncover subtle signals and big data tools to help humans analysts work better and faster to meet these new threats. Apache Metron is a platform on top of Hadoop that meets these needs. Here we will look at the platform in action, and how to use it to trace a real world complex threat, and how it compares to traditional approaches. Come and see how to make your SOC more effective with automated evidence gathering, Hadoop-powered integration, and real-time detection.
Speaker:
Simon Elliston Ball, Director Product Management, Cyber Security, Hortonworks
Simon Elliston Ball, Director Product Management, Cyber Security, Hortonworks
Advantage of Central Security Data Lake:
Cyber Security teams are keen on not only finding threats, but also understanding them. By putting all relevant data out of the silo’ed individual systems and into a central security data lake SynerScope greatly enhances the productivity of the Security Operation Center. The SOC is provided with operationally relevant information on as-it-happens events, as well as given the ability to hunt and discover their unknown risks within their enterprise. SynerScope Ixiwa is used to orchestrate and correlate the data, and SynerScope Iximeer is used for human-in-the loop viewing, understanding and collaboration. This combination greatly speeds up attaching new sources, reducing time to resolution and enhancing the way findings are shared within the SOC.
Speaker:
Jorik Blaas, CTO, SynerScope
Secure data transmission in control room environments
Data is a major asset of any organization. Not only for commercial companies, but also for government institutions and other types of organizations, the vast amount of images, video, and data needs to be distributed throughout the organization in a fast and easy way. Control rooms are typically the central intelligence hubs of all information. However, the actual needs of the control room are not limited to the personnel within this room. It is the nerve center to communicate and collaborate with everybody involved. Stakeholders, wherever they are located, expect complete and swift communication about any possible issue and real-time status overviews. The vision of Inter Visual Systems is to offer an solution to distributes data throughout the complete organization to the right location in a fast, easy and secure way. It is even possible to share information between different secured private networks.
Speaker:
Harry Witlox, Project Manager, Inter Visual Systems
In cooperation with:
Webinar SynerScope with Hortonworks
Do Insurers Spend Too Much Time Understanding Data vs. Finding Value In It?
Recorded Tuesday, April 25, 2017 | 57 minutes
Every insurance company regardless of line of business is focused on being more data-centric. Risk assessments based data is at the heart of analysis. Understanding and paying valid claims quickly is key to customer retention and loyalty. Creating new insurance offerings to meet market and customer demands is imperative to remain relevant.
Today insurance companies have more data available to them than ever before. Whether it is big data from open data sets, IoT data, customer behavior data, photos from risk assessments, drone aerial inspections of property or traditional risk/claim/customer data. It’s all data! The challenge remains “how quickly can you ask questions of the data and make insightful business decisions”?
During this webinar you will learn how to:
- Spend little or no time on data hygiene and data transformation
- Make data accessible across the enterprise through data usage and collaboration
- Quickly identify what new open data or existing data is most valuable for your risk assessments
- Leverage deep learning on the underwriting and claims processes for a positive impact to your combined ratio
Speakers
- Cindy Maike, GM of Insurance Solutions at Hortonworks
- Monique Hesseling, Strategic Business Advisor at SynerScope
- Pieter Stolk, VP of Customer Engagement at SynerScope
SynerScope addresses your “white space” of unknown big data in your data-lake
The Netherlands, April 4, 2017 – As every organization is fast becoming a digital organization, powerful platforms that extend the use of data are imperative to use in the enterprize world.
By implementing SynerScope on top of your Hadoop, you are able to solve the whitespace of unknown data, due to the tight integration between the scalability of Hadoop with the best of SynerScope’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) including deep learning. The result is a reduced Total Cost of Ownership, working with Big Data and it also creates, extremely fast, great value out of your data-lake.
As data science developments happen in your data lake, you currently encounter data latency problems. Hortonworks covers the lifecycle of data: data moving, data at rest and data analytics as a core infrastructure play.
Ixiwa, SynerScope’s backend product, will support and orchestrate data access layers and it will also make your whole data-lake span multiple services.
Hadoop is a platform for distributed storage and processing. Place SynerScope on top of Hadoop and you gain advantage from deep learning intelligence, through SynerScope’ s Iximeer. It will bootstrap AI projects by providing out of the box interaction between domain expert, analysts and the data itself.
“AI needs good people and good data to get somewhere, so we basically help AI to make the best decision in parallel with first insight, then basic rules, then tuning”, says CTO Jorik Blaas.
We are proud to announce that as of today Hortonworks has awarded SynerScope all 4 (Operations, Governance, YARN and Security) certifications for our platform, which is a first in the history of their technology partners.
For more info about the awarded badges go to https://hortonworks.com/partner/synerscope/
If you are interested and want to know more about us, there is the opportunity to visit us at the DataWorks Summit in Munich, April 5-6. We like to welcome you at our booth 1001 as well as at the IBM booth 704 and we will be presenting at the breakout session: “A Complete Solution for Cognitive Business” 12:20pm, room 5.
About SynerScope:
Synerscope enable users to analyze large amounts of structured and unstructured data. Iximeer is a visual analysis platform that represents big insights arising from analyzing AI data into a uniform contextual environment that links together various data sources: numbers, text, sensors, media/video and networks. Users can identify hidden patterns across data without specialized skills.
It supports collaborative data discovery, thereby reducing the efforts required for cleaning and modelling data. Ixiwa ingests data, generates metadata from both structured and unstructured files, and loads data into an in-memory database for fast interactive analysis. The solutions are delivered as an appliance or in the cloud. SynerScope can work with a range of databases, including SAP HANA as well as a number of NoSQL and Hadoop sources.
SynerScope operates in the following sectors: Banking, Insurance, Critical Infrastructure, and Cyber Security. Learn more at Synerscope.com.
SynerScope has strategic partnerships with Hortonworks, IBM, NVIDIA, SAP, Dell.
Artificial Intelligence for Ancient Cultures
Google, SynerScope and the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities will present the new and incredibly fast on-line collection database, on Monday 20 March 2017.
SynerScope’s powerful software and the Google Cloud Vision API offer users the opportunity to search the on-line collection of the National Museum of Antiquities – with some 57,000 items – within several hours, instead of days. The on-line collection can now be easily linked to external databases and allows integral visualisation. Images and texts are available simultaneously, linked to a time and location indicator. This can lead to speedy scientific developments, in a way that was previously not available. During the presentation, all the options this unique application has to offer will be introduced, and what these might mean for scientific research. This is particularly relevant when more databases and sources are linked in the future. Sneak preview?
SynerScope Iximeer now certified for SAP HANA®, tested on Intel and IBM Power8
SynerScope Marcato is certified for SAP HANA, tested on Intel and IBM Power8 by the SAP® Integration and Certification Center (SAP ICC).
The ability of SynerScope Iximeer 4.0 to leverage the power of SAP HANA on Intel and Power8 will prove highly beneficial to our current and future customers by making it possible to explore all dimensions of data at once and give immediate insight in all type of data: text, numbers, geo, IoT, network and images. Existing software is able to deal with just one of these types of data at a time therefore with SynerScope Iximeer 4.0 productivity is improved dramatically.
