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Ontotext Industry Services

Lowering operational complexity and building bridges between industries

September 2022

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Nikolay Krustev

Industry Sales Director

making sense of text and data

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Ontotext Introduction

  • Leader
    • Semantic Technology Vendor Since 2000
    • Part of Sirma Group: 400 Person, Listed on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange
    • Recently acquired with fresh investment for heavy product development and scale up

  • Profitable and Growing
    • Global: clients from 6 continents…still waiting for Antarctica
    • Clients: S&P, BBC, FT, Top-5 US Bank, UK Parliament, Fujitsu, Johnson Controls
    • Verticals: Financial services, Healthcare and Life sciences, Industry, Publishing, Cultural Heritage

  • Innovator
    • Participated in 48 European R&D Projects

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Portfolio

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Now let’s talk … navigating our lawyer’s NDA’s

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Automotive

  • Usecases
    • Product Range Specification (PRS)
    • Enterprise Data Management
    • Supply chain monitoring
    • Manufacturing process
    • Documentation/Manuals/Instructions
    • Risk Analysis
    • Compliance
    • Environment Protection Activities
    • Driver Behavior Analysis
    • Self-Driving cars
    • Road Test Analysis
    • ….and many many more!

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Automotive – Example 1 – Cable configuration

  • Engineering BOM
    • Build a knowledge base of all components used for cable production
    • Aware of all valid combinations of engineering factors
      • Cable purpose
      • Connector types
      • Cable and plating materials (thermals, strength, flexibility, etc.)
    • Leads to lowering the complexity and optimized the process
    • Leads to fewer mistakes at the early stages of designing the cables
  • Semantic Costing application
    • Dynamically price the design of the cable based on product pricing knowledge base

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Automotive – Example 1 – Cable configuration

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Automotive – Example 1 – Cable configuration

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Automotive – Example 2 – Vehicle Configuration

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Automotive – Example 2 – Vehicle Configuration

  • Modeling of all software components of a vehicle
    • Modern cars have dozens of ECU’s each with unique:
      • Specific functionality
      • Firmware version
      • Dependencies
      • Compatibility
    • Managing this complexity can be painful
      • leads to issues wrt to maintainability

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Automotive – Cross industry Semantic Links

  • Manufacturing, Industry 4.0
  • Smart Cities – managing traffic, pollution regulations
  • Building Automation
  • Electricity – Smart Grid
  • Logistics – parts/product shipping/optimization
  • Retail – sales

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Retail

  • Usecases
    • Product Catalogue
    • Semantic Search
      • Semantic Vector Search
      • Cognitive Search
    • Recommendation Engines
      • Content based
      • Behavior based
      • Hybrid
    • Global Loyalty Programs
    • Enterprise Data Management
    • Computer Vision applications

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Retail – Recommender Systems

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Retail - Example

  • One of the largest retailers in Japan is using GraphDB for cognitive search
  • One of the largest UK retailers is working on Product Catalogues with Hybrid recommendation systems
  • Top Swedish retailer is using GraphDB for product catalogues and recommendation

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Retail – Cross industry Semantic Links

  • Electricity – Smart Grid
  • Building Automation – Storages, Stores
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Logistics –product shipping/optimization

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AECO

  • Usecases
    • Building Information Management (BIM)– spatial information about building constructions but lacks comprehensive information about elements and equipment used.
    • Expand on IFC, ifcOWL – linking to additional datasets like materials data, GIS data, product manufacturer data, sensor data, social data, etc.
    • Regulation Compliance
    • Construction Resource Planning
    • Linking with Mapping Agencies and Land Registries
    • Building monitoring
    • Maintenance
    • Security
    • Operations – planning, optimizations

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AECO - Examples

  • Number of enterprises already are using tools for designing Smart Buildings with SemTech enabled tooling based on recognized standards.
  • Linked Building Data – W3C initiative
  • Digital Building Logbooks – from planning to decommissioning
  • Drone Inspections with drones on bridges – Switzerland
  • Road maintenance in Norway
  • Spanish construction company – simplify compliance with regulations

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AECO – Cross industry Semantic Links

  • Electricity – Smart Grid
  • Water – Smart Water
  • Building Automation Systems
  • Smart Cities

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Building Management Systems

  • Usecases
    • HVAC
    • Lighting
    • Elevators
    • Power usage/generation
    • Security
    • Fire Safety
    • Flood Prevention
    • Waste Management

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Building Management Systems - Examples

BrickSchema.org

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Building Management Systems - Examples

Johnson Controls Metasys

Schneider Electric EcoStruxure

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Building Management Systems – GraphDB OEM

  • GraphDB as OEM in thousands of buildings around the world
  • Long term trusted partnerships
  • Custom GraphDB builds to accommodate specific deployment scenarios
  • OEM level support and regression testing
  • Custom licensing model
  • Custom licensing mechanism
  • Custom licensing scale up

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BMS – Cross industry Semantic Links

  • AECO – building/infra data integration
  • Electricity – Smart Grid
  • Water – Smart Water
  • Smart Cities
  • Logistics – maintenance/product delivery

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Electricity

  • Usecases
    • electricity transmission
    • electrical distribution
    • energy management system
    • distribution management system
    • Planning
    • Optimization
    • network model exchanges
    • outage management system
    • Metering
    • Metering
    • work management
    • geographic information system
    • asset management
    • customer information systems
    • enterprise resource planning
    • market operations

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Electricity - Examples

  • Statnett - Norway
  • HOPS - Croatia
  • EDF - France
  • Demo: Transparency Energy Knowledge Graph (TEKG)

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Electricity – Cross industry Semantic Links

  • AECO – Power planning
  • BMS – Smart Building - Smart Grid integration
  • Water – Smart Water – Hydropower
  • Smart Cities

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Water

  • Usecases
    • Asset Management
    • Asset Maintenance
    • Demand Management
    • Forecasting/Analysis and Mitigation
    • Energy production
    • Flood protection
    • Environment protection
    • Quality control / Quality assessment

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Water - Examples

  • Water Europe
  • Water Asset Management in Canada
  • Plenty of academic work in the field

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Water – Cross industry Semantic Links

  • AECO – Water Management
  • BMS – Smart Building - Smart Water integration
  • Electricity – Hydropower
  • Smart Cities

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Smart City

  • Usecases
    • Energy Management
    • Water Management
    • Public Transport Optimization
    • Building Regulations
    • Parking
    • Air Quality
    • Citizen Data related
    • Healthcare
    • Security
    • Events
    • Municipal Services
    • Waste Management

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Smart City - Examples

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Logistics

  • Usecases
    • Asset Management and Fleet Tracking
    • Precise Shipment Tracking
      • Verifiable Credentials (blockchain)
    • Optimal loading of vehicles
    • Space utilization in warehouses
    • Reduced time in transit
    • Smoother flow of information between actors (manufacturers, shippers, consumers, etc.)

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Supply Chain

  • Plenty of standardization leads to simpler semantization
  • GS1 Digital Link, GS1 Voc, EPCIS 2, IoT enable:
    • Simple data sharing and interoperability between supply chain systems and trading partners
    • Standard way of capturing traceability & supply chain data for products
    • Interoperability with supply chain hardware (readers, sensors, etc)

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Logistics

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Supply Chain - Examples

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Supply Chain & Logistics – Cross industry Semantic Links

  • Retail
  • Manufacturing
  • Smart Cities
  • AECO

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Manufacturing – Industry 4.0

  • Usecases
    • Data Integration
    • Asset Management
    • Equipment Maintenance
    • Factory Floor Management & Optimization
    • Resource Optimization
    • On-time On-demand products and service
    • Regulation Compliance
    • Reconfiguration of resources
    • Process Optimization
    • Industrial Safety
    • And much more…

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Manufacturing – Standards and organizations

  • Standards help, but there are a lot of them, let us help:

  • RAMI, IDSA, BDVA, OPC, Gaia-X, IDTA, EDIH – various organizations push the development
  • W3C support – WoT
  • Plenty of corporate support: Siemens, GE, ABB, SE, Intel, Toshiba, Honeywell, IBM, Microsoft, PepsiCo….. Just to name a few

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Manufacturing – Examples

  • 2 of the biggest auto parts manufacturers leverage GraphDB
  • 2 of the biggest automakers
  • 5 electronic equipment manufacturer
  • 2 of the largest HVAC manufacturers
  • Top 3 computer manufacturer

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Manufacturing – Cross industry Semantic Links

  • Electricity
  • Oil & Gas
  • Water
  • BMS – Smart Building - Smart Water integration
  • Logistics & Supply Chain
  • Retail

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Aerospace

  • Usecases
    • Enterprise Data Management/Data Integration
    • Asset Management
    • Maintenance
    • Manufacturing (all of the previously mentioned)
    • Documentation Management
    • Mission Planning
    • Risk Management

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Aerospace - Examples

  • NASA
  • 6 of the top-10 Aerospace companies use GraphDB
  • DOD
  • USAF – Ontotext part of winning consortium $¾ Billion VAULT project

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Aerospace – Cross industry Semantic Links

  • Electricity
  • Oil & Gas
  • Water
  • BMS – Smart Building - Smart Water integration
  • Logistics & Supply Chain
  • Retail

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See Ontotext Products:

GraphDB: https://graphdb.ontotext.com/

Ontotext Platform: https://platform.ontotext.com/

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