Nuno Amaro is a Researcher at R&D Nester since September 2015. Prior to joining R&D Nester, Nuno worked at Nova University of Lisbon as Researcher and Teaching Assistant. Nuno holds a Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering – Energy, from Nova University of Lisbon and an MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the same University. Nuno received the certificate of excellence on The Regulation of Power Sector from the Florence School of Regulation in 2015. His main areas of interest include power systems analysis and simulation, integration of renewables and application of new devices in power systems. He is author and co-author of several technical and scientific papers.

Rui Amaral Lopes was born in Lagos, Portugal, in 1989. He received the M.Sc and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal, in 2012 and 2017, respectively. He is now working with the Electrical Engineering department of this institution as Invited Assistant Professor. Additionally, since 2013 he has been with the Center of Technology and Systems/UNINOVA, Portugal, where he is currently working in several national and international projects.

Title: BigDataOcean: exploiting oceans of data for wave power characterization

Abstract: BigDataOcean is a H2020 project that aims to capitalise on existing modern technological breakthroughs in the areas of the big data driven economy and roll out a completely new value chain of interrelated data streams coming from diverse sectors and languages. The maritime sector, which is quite traditional and slow-moving, and has historically been unorganized and fragmented, is ripe for the introduction of innovations such as the big-data-driven economy, interrelated data streams from diverse sectors and languages, and cross-technology innovations that deliver data in several different formats (such as structured and unstructured, or real-time and in batches). These innovations will enable the creation of an entirely new value-chain, which will lead to great economic, societal, and environmental impact This tutorial session aims to showcase to the wider audience of DoCEIS, the latest release of the integrated BigDataOcean platform with a particular emphasis on the services developed for use case that is analyzing “Wave Power as the next clean energy source” which is being piloted in Portugal with the support of UNINOVA and R&D NESTER. This session will feature nearly-final version of the platform, consisting of a list of enhanced backend and frontend services that were implemented to improve the offerings of the platform and the realisation of the integrated maritime data value chain. Through the frontend services, dataset exploration, query execution and creation of visualisations, dashboards and analytics in form of services are offered. Participants of this tutorial session will have the opportunity to engage the BigDataOcean experience, gaining a free access to test the whole platform, contributing with comments and improvement suggestions so that it can be reused in further industrial cases and additional research.