CASE SUDY: Connecting ADMIE to PICASSO

Our company recently completed a pivotal project for one of our key clients, ADMIE - the Greek Transmission System Operator. This project, which we secured through a competitive tender process, was focused on integrating ADMIE’s systems with the PICASSO platform.

ADMIE required a robust solution to transform their local bid data into a format compliant with the PICASSO platform, facilitating seamless integration with Pan-European systems. This involved implementing a complex transformation algorithm to convert their existing balancing implementation into the standardized format recognized by PICASSO.

The project timeline was particularly challenging. We began on February 1st and successfully delivered the completed project on July 24th, 2024. To achieve these results, we built the system using the Damas MMS:E platform over The Architecture and cloud-based in an on-premises installation. The Damas MMS:E platform, particularly its Balancing module, allowed us to concentrate on ADMIE's specific requirements. This focus enabled us to deliver the project on time, within budget, and to the highest standards of quality.

The client expressed great satisfaction with the outcome,

and this project has further solidified our position as a trusted partner for ADMIE.

This project is further proof of our ability to deliver complex solutions under challenging conditions and within short timeframes. We are proud of our team and their contribution to our client's success.

Project highlights

Thousands of bids generated and exchanged with PICASSO every day
Hundreds of exchaned files with external systems
Integrated with four key external systems (PICASSO, ETP, BMMS, EMS)
Top-class performance, full processing of single MTU is in term of seconds
Agile development, each sprint finalized with presentation for client
0 critical bugs reported since acceptance
6 development months

Stacked user interface screenshots of the energy platform dashboard showing data tables, balancing metrics, and integration analytics

Product based solution

Damas MMS is the main Software product of Unicorn Systems for the energy domain. It has been continuously developed since 2000 and incorporates the best practices and experience of Unicorn. Since 2000 tens of the largest solutions in the European energy domain have been successfully built on Damas. What makes it different from other solutions is its state-of-the-art technology and architecture with 10+ years of perspective.

Damas MMS:E Balancing - newest Unicorn product, designed specifically to cover core business processes of TSOs related to balancing of the grid. It also already contains the pre-configured connectors to common European platforms (such as MARI, PICASSO, ACER, etc.) and allows easy integrations with local systems.

The main advantage of Damas MMS:E is high flexibility, which allows for quick delivery of the subset of all modules, which are necessary for Admie. In particular, Balancing bids and demands, management of transmission capacity, activations and unit parameters.

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Technologies

Microservice architecture - Decomposition to standalone sub-applications, All functionalities are available via REST API
Fully hosted in Cloud Environment
HTML5, React, NodeJS, JAVA SE, PostgreSQL, Mongo DB

System support and operation

Due to the complexity of the whole Damas MMS:E solution, Unicorn and ADMIE were jointly working on the Damas MMS:E development, and reached the newest Damas MMS:E version successful deployed on the production environment in August 2024. However, Unicorn support continues providing the post go-live maintenance as 24/7 service with very strict SLAs , including:

operation monitoring and preventive vulnerabilities scanning,
maintenance support.

About ADMIE / IPTO:

IPTO (ADMIE) manages the operation, control, maintenance, and development of the entire Greek Electricity

Transmission System to ensure the country's electricity supply is adequate, safe, efficient, and reliable, as well as

the functioning of the electricity market, according to the principles of transparency, equality, and free competition.

It is a long-standing collaboration with Unicorn, having already delivered the Damas MMS:E - XBMS

(Cross-Border-Management-System) for the needs of trading transmission capacities

(daily, intraday) at the borders of Greece in 2019.

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Unicorn Systems a.s.
+420 221 400 111
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