Rackspace Technology Works with VoltaGrid to Generate Cost Savings with Cloud Native Solutions That Provide Optimization of Energy Generation and Consumption
February 08 2022 - 11:00AM
Rackspace Technology® (NASDAQ: RXT), a leading end-to-end,
multicloud technology solutions company, today announced its
collaboration with VoltaGrid to deploy a secure, serverless
cloud-native solution that leverages IoT, Machine Learning (ML) and
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in AWS for its software-controlled and
managed mobile electric microgrids.
Founded in 2020, VoltaGrid is based in North America and deploys
mobile microgrids to provide power in remote locations. The company
is serving energy companies that need electricity to power the
hydraulic fracturing processes used to extract oil and gas.
VoltaGrid also provides energy-generation services to data centers,
industrial facilities, and medical centers, and has the capability
to add power to a city grid.
VoltaGrid’s microgrid solution consists of a natural gas fired
reciprocating engine that sits on a 52-foot trailer weighing over
100,000 pounds. Ten trailers working together can generate an
astonishing 26 megawatts of electricity at 13,500 volts.
VoltaGrid is committed to transforming the world through its
best-in-class, clean, affordable, intelligent energy technologies
and enabling their partners to focus on their core competencies
while offering a practical avenue to improve their ESG
performance.
The Solution
Rackspace Technology leveraged an agile workflow to deploy a
secure, serverless cloud native solution in AWS for VoltaGrid’s
software-controlled, cloud-native solution that leverages IoT, ML
and AI for its managed mobile electric microgrids to optimize
operations for VoltaGrid customers.
As part of the solution, an edge device, HiveCell, was fitted to
each VoltaGrid managed mobile electric microgrid’s trailer which
allowed software to be deployed at the edge. The IoT technology on
the mobile trailers captures data and sends it to the cloud. The
scalable, seamless solution was built to collect data that
quantifies power usage and emissions output from the mobile
trailers in real-time.
In addition, VoltaGrid worked with Onica by Rackspace
Technology® to design and deploy an end-to-end cloud native
solution that incorporated an edge device by leveraging ML and AI,
to build a customer-facing portal. The VoltaGrid customer-facing
portal, determines how data is ingested, stored, and refined and
can monitor, measure and report on each customer’s power
consumption, fuel costs and emissions in real-time at remote
locations.
“The VoltaGrid project, including fitting the trailers with IoT
technology, building the entire cloud infrastructure, and creating
the application, was completed in less than a year,” said Jeff
DeVerter, Chief Technology Evangelist at Rackspace Technology.
“VoltaGrid was able to launch its service and enhance its product
offering quicker than had been initially predicted, allowing
VoltaGrid to sell mobile power services to customers more
quickly.”
“VoltaGrid had to build the mobile electric microgrids solution
fast and by working with Rackspace Technology we were able to
quickly and easily access the expertise that was needed when we
needed it,” said, John Chavner, Director, Technology and Cloud
Development, VoltaGrid. “Rackspace Technology understood our entire
AWS ecosystem from a business standpoint, and they helped us get
off the ground and I'm very thankful for that.”
To learn more about the VoltaGrid’s Rackspace Technology
solution click here.
About Rackspace Technology
Rackspace Technology is a leading end-to-end multicloud
technology services company. We can design, build, and operate our
customers’ cloud environments across all major technology
platforms, irrespective of technology stack or deployment model. We
partner with our customers at every stage of their cloud journey,
enabling them to modernize applications, build new products and
adopt innovative technologies.
Media ContactNatalie SilvaRackspace Technology Corporate
Communicationspublicrelations@rackspace.com
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