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IT12104 - IoT GCP Core Component EOL

Description of the initiative

Google Cloud Platform has announced the end of life for its IoT Core service on 2023/08/16.

This service is at the core of the Solvay IoT Hub architecture and must be replaced to ensure the application service continuity after this date.

Domain & Product

Requested Domain Journey / Platform

  • Platf1- Data & Analytics & AI Platform
  • Platf2 A- Develop, Test & Deploy Platform
  • Platf2 B- Multi experience Platform
  • Platf2 C- Ent. Business Systems Platform
  • Platf3 A- Ecosystem Platform
  • Platf3 B- Hybrid & Cloud Platform
  • Platf3 C- Intelligent Asset Platform
  • Platf4- Info Security and Compliance Platform
  • Platf5- Workplace Platform
  • Journ1- Digital Customer Journey
  • Journ2- Digital Ops & Corporate Enablement Journey
  • Journ3- Digital Employee Journey
  • Journ4- Prepare the Future & Connected Research Journey
  • DTmng3- DT Enablement & Transformation
Involved Domain Journey/ Platform
  • Platf1- Data & Analytics & AI Platform
  • Platf2 A- Develop, Test & Deploy Platform
  • Platf2 B- Multi experience Platform
  • Platf2 C- Ent. Business Systems Platform
  • Platf3 A- Ecosystem Platform
  • Platf3 B- Hybrid & Cloud Platform
  • Platf3 C- Intelligent Asset Platform
  • Platf4- Info Security and Compliance Platform
  • Platf5- Workplace Platform
  • Journ1- Digital Customer Journey
  • Journ2- Digital Ops & Corporate Enablement Journey
  • Journ3- Digital Employee Journey
  • Journ4- Prepare the Future & Connected Research Journey
  • DTmng3- DT Enablement & Transformation

Initiative Ownership

Digital Technology Partner

Enter the Digital Technology Partner, using « @ » for user attribution (if not known refer to the DT Playbook in "Relation with GBU & BSA" chapter)

Gaetan Frenoy-ADMS 

Flavio Ianague 

Product Manager / Service Delivery

Enter the Product Manager / Service Delivery Manager, using « @ » for user attribution

Jean-Luc Rosse 

Roadmap & Key objectives

Roadmap


2023 Digital Technology Key objective


Priority

Enter the level of priority of your initiative: P1 must do by day 1/ P2 can do/ P3 parked for now

P1

Phase 1: Envision - High level initiatives


Understand: Why is this initiative proposed? What are the consequences if not done? What are the new capabilities expected?

  • Create Envision brief if the initiative is part of the validated roadmap

  • Highlight roadmap value
  • Request a budget for Strategize if you need one
  • Security scoring 
  • RADAR/SENTRI
  • Request platform resources if the business capability is already identified and clear
  • Write portfolio epics, epics and user stories
  • Identify squad resources

First, let´s start with the Problem space

1.1. Reason

* Why is this initiative proposed today?

Explain what are the motivations and the expected objective behind this initiative/ what are the consequences if not done?

Google Cloud Platform has announced the end of life for its IoT Core service on 2023/08/16. This service is at the core of the Solvay IoT Hub architecture and must be replaced to ensure the application service continuity after this date.

If this project is not completed by the end of life date (2023/08/16), the IoT Hub service will be impacted and the communication and data collection for the Pibox (approximately 100 devices) will be stopped. 

As a first estimation, 6 months of delay will easily be necessary to perform the migration to an equivalent service. The project should start as soon as possible in 2023. 


1.2. Benefits

What are the new capabilities expected?

As a primary goal, we are aiming at the minimum equivalent solution to limit the costs and unnecessary migration.


What will it replace? Is it a new solution or an existing one?

Part of IoT Hub architecture on GCP will be replaced by another Cloud provider service

1.3. Target users

Who are the future users?

Identify the future users (BU, sites...) and population concerned

IoT Hub is used by 7 GBU, both ECO and SCO and R&I on 36 sites. All IoT Hub users using Pibox and others devices using MQTT are impacted.

The site equipped with Lorawan sensors should not be impacted.


What is the number of users impacted?

Around 100-200 users


What about the Business Needs?

1.4. Value proposition

What is the value of the initiative?

Financial Business expectation (ROI, benefits, savings,...) + Qualitative Business expectation (business value, market fit, visibility,...)

Collect near to real-time data and route them to business application to help process monitoring and optimization

1.5. Business goals

How does the product / deliverable align with the business goals?

Ensure continuity of service for R&I users of the IoT Hub after 2023/08/16 when the IoT Core component from GCP will be discontinued.

1.6. Challenges

Are there any challenges in developing the product?

Multicloud infrastructure (GCP and AWS) and specific IoT (Hardware, Cloud, MQTT, ...) development capabilities required. 

1.7. Business metrics

How will we measure success?

Measure the number of Pibox migrated during the project

No connection loss due to the IoT Core should be measured after 2023/08/16

1.8. Cybersecurity

Please duplicate this template in this folder. Then, for the envision phase, answer to the 7 high-level questions in the "Security Scoring" sheet. These questions will help the SIP team to determine the level of cybersecurity & compliance support you will need. Please contact the team by email: @SIP_team@solvay.com

If not able to answer yet, explain it at the Envision gate and it will be the DTLT to decide if green light or not considering with the high level of uncertainty 


1.9. Up to investment


What is the coherent time to commit on the initiative?*

Estimated Delivery phase start date*

 

Estimated Delivered end Quarter*

End of Q2 2023


What is the coherent money to commit on the initiative?*


2023 (in K€)* 2024 (in K€)* 2025 (in K€)

Estimated size of investment (high level)

 100




What is the coherent run and build commit on the initiative?

Only run cost impact - TCO over 10Y will be finalized during the strategize phase

Estimated run costs (estimation high level) - on 10Y (if already known)

Increase of run costs compared to current solution should be very low (most of the deployed solution will be automatized on AWS and the monthly maintenance team and process will remain the same as for the current infrastructure on GCP). 

Type of savings expected /year for DT (Ex: Contracts, FTE, ...)  

1.10. Resources

What skills and talents do we need? 

Here kind of skills required in order to start to fill the Capacity Planning.  If name already available please write the name

Flavio roberto Ianague diniz IAP leader, sponsor
Gaetan Frenoy Manufacturing product, sponsor

Thierno Gueye IAP Platform Architect
Jean-Luc ROSSE IAP SDM, project management
Paul-edouard Koeltz IAP IoT Engineer, project management

Witekio team expertise for IoT Hub and Pibox


1.11. Methodology to apply (refer for Accolade)

Do you think if your initiative is compatible with a waterfall approach or with an agile approach?

  • Agile model
  • Waterfall model
  • I do not know at this stage

If the initiative will be done in Agile methodology, please contact during the strategize phase Nicolas LOVAGNINI

Phase 2: Strategize


Understand: How this bring value? Which pain points will it removes? Will it be delivered in Agile or Waterfall?

  • Identify portfolio epics and epics within each portfolio epics
  • Create a document / slide / spreadsheet to build your epics and put a link in the bief
  • Estimate experts and budget by portfolio epics or by increment
  • Show SMART KPI (Specific, Measureable, Archievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound)
  • Evaluate the impact on Solvay One Planet objectives
  • Identify squad resources (naming)
  • Write user stories


Now, we can move on to the Solution space

2.0 Scope / Deliverables

What is the scope (technical, functional & organizational) / deliverables foreseen? 

The project consists in delivering an equivalent architecture replacing only the IoT Core function without impacting the rest of the IoT Hub architecture and functionality.

This can be achieved by building a second cloud service for this function and doing a technical migration for the devices connected. 

Technical → A technical impact study has been performed and is validated by Platform architects Thierno Gueye and MATHE, Alexandre 

Functional →  should be seamless for the users

Organizational → Minimum change 

2.1. Actions to complete 

Mandatory actions (please contact them together if possible)

Description of the action / task

Contact

Document & examples (please make your own copy and insert new link here)

Contact each relevant pool lead to book resources in the capacity planning tool

  • check if possible to generate automated email ARPIN, Florine  

Complete Capacity planning tool

Done (tick)

Complete Accolade

  • check if possible to generate automated email Claire Bazin   
Claire Bazin 

Complete Accolade

Done (tick)

Review with Enterprise Architect the actual solution answering the objective

Complete Architecture Impact Analysis (AIA)

ARB & AIA

Done (tick) → Conditional Go obtained on 2023/01/30

ARB 2023/01/30

Check you have confirmed the involvement of each platform


Revert to SDM of each Platform

Identify security needs (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability) and define security measures to be implemented by the initiative team

SIP Support tool

Done (tick) → Review on 2023/02/02

Security needs

Security measures

Support for budget estimation (via the Workload & Cost), Financial evaluation (Total Cost of Ownership over 10Y), saving validation

  • check if possible to generate automated email Jill Wilson   

Done (tick)

Confirmed with Jill Wilson , financial evaluation over 10 years is not necessary since it is a technical migration necessary for an existing application. 

Workload & Cost estimation filled in Accolade in preparation phase

Optional

If any relation needed with a supplier

Done (tick)Review done with Maud on 2023/02/07

SOW preparation on going 

If it concerns a key supplier, a sourcing strategy has to be defined

N/A

If conformity by design is required

N/A

If Data Governance is required: identify the business objects

N/A

2.2. Users needs

What do users dislike about the current solution?

Applicable when a new solution is developed

N/A


What tools or features do your users wish to have?

N/A


What value will it add to the user´s lives?

N/A


What alternative do we have?

N/A

2.3. Risk Analysis

What are the risks (refer to Risk analysis matrix in Accolade)?

Are there any internal / external constraints and what are the preventive actions associated?

Identify risks and mitigation plans

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2.3. Solvay One Planet Objectives

What is the qualitative assessment of Hardware/ Data processing/ Project’s contribution to Solvay One Planet?

- Is the business ambition you will support improving or not sustainability? → IoT Industrial data can be used to optimized any processes. It can reduce the amount of maintenance or detect water consumption and leaks (cf. St Fons site Use Case) 

- Will you increase or decrease the number of hardware we need to operate? How much ? → No changes in Hardware number

- Will you generate or transfer an important amount of data, especially videos? How much? → Low amount of data