Ready to Scale Your Innovative Fire Detection Solution?

Iberdrola has over 1.1 million kilometres of electricity transmission and distribution lines in the United States, Brazil, the UK, and Spain. The network comprises over 4,400 high- to medium-voltage substations and more than 1.5 million medium- to low-voltage distribution transformers built and operated to provide a high-quality and reliable service to a total of 31 million electricity supply points.

The areas where Iberdrola operates are also home to a variety of wildlife and plants which are sometimes subject to official protection such as biosphere reserves and national parks.

For example, in Spain alone, Iberdrola's grid covers 19,314 kilometres of protected land, and there are 144 substations, 8,793 transformers, 31 reservoirs and 14 wind farms on sites of this type.

Iberdrola's commitment to environmental protection and conservation in these natural settings is based on the principles established in its Biodiversity Policy, through its environmental management, action plans and monitoring of restored and compensated habitats following the positive offsetting principle.

Among other activities, Iberdrola plays an active role through its "Trees Programme", which will plant more than 20 million trees by 2030, working preventively on plants and assets at risk of incidents due to demand peaks and weather conditions.

Iberdrola is no stranger to working with startups and emerging companies - over the last two years, the Group has launched over 15 Startup Challenges to address pressing issues in today's energy networks.

Moreover, working with Iberdrola presents a unique opportunity:

Winning this Challenge will award you with signing a collaboration agreement for the development of a Proof-of-Concept (PoC). The PoC will be developed in collaboration with the technical specialists from Iberdrola Generation.

Additionally, PERSEO covers the costs of the pilot activities and provides you with the necessary technical support, giving access to infrastructures and real data to test your solution.

Finally, PERSEO may consider investing in your solution!

In the context of fire detection, through its PERSEO Startups Program, and as part of the Global Smart Grids Innovation Hub, Iberdrola is looking for early-warning solutions that will detect fires close to electric lines, to reduce the environmental impact of the fire and minimize the impact on supply continuity for its customers.

Iberdrola also seeks support from environmental bodies with critical information that can help to pinpoint the origin of the fire.

The following technologies will be positively considered:

• spectroscopy
• thermal infrared
• IoT
• AI
• computer vision
• real-time satellite imagery
• and more!

Moreover, when a fire is detected, Iberdrola's Distribution Operations Centre can alert the authorities and firefighters, as well as trigger preventive measures to reduce the impact on customers and disconnect lines in the area to protect the system from further damage.

Your benefits include:

• Collaboration Agreement & Pilot Test: The prize for the winner consists of a collaboration and test agreement with PERSEO or any other Iberdrola group company. The group will support the cost of the pilot activities.

• Access-all-Areas: Iberdrola will provide the winner with all necessary technical support, as well as a site and real data to test the solution. This includes access to equipment, teams, infrastructure, high technology sites, and shared work areas.

• Scale Your Technology: If the pilot test is satisfactory, Iberdrola may offer the winner the opportunity to scale up the solution by adapting it through commercial agreements.

• Investment: What's more, PERSEO will consider investing in the participating company and/or the winner of the challenge.

Your solution will also be included directly in the Global Smart Grids Innovation Hubs registration process. As a collaborator, you will benefit from the services, activities, and resources that the Hub makes available in future!

The winner of the challenge will sign a partnership contract with Iberdrola and/or PERSEO and will be able to test their solution in a real environment.

For the collaboration of the pilot project, Iberdrola will:

• assume the costs of the collaboration and the proof of concept
• provide the necessary technical support to test the solution proposed
• give access to equipment, appliances, infrastructure, high technology sites, and joint work areas
• provide a real environment and real data to test the solution

The project will be developed in collaboration with technical specialists from the Iberdrola Network area.

You are welcome to submit more than one proposal, just make sure to submit a separate application form for each.

The application period for this challenge ends on 13 May 2022.

The following value propositions will be considered, among others:

• Long-distance detection capacity
• The maturity, reliability, and scalability of the hardware, software, or hybrid solution
• Ease of installation and maintenance
• The possibility of integration into existing surveillance systems
• Total cost (both initial and recurring)
• Application in other energy assets such as substations, transformers, and wind farms
• Positive impact on any of the Just Transition areas (e.g. Lada and Velilla del Río Carrión)
• Additional uses that can be made of the technology used (pruning management support, supervision of safety distances, line parameter measurements, discouraging birds, etc.)

All proposals will be analyzed by experts from the Iberdrola Networks team.