Initiative brief
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Project details
Phase |
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Status | APPROVED |
Start Date |
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Initiative name ID Provided by DT PMO | 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 | |
| Involved Domain Journey/ Platform | |
Initiative Ownership | |
Digital Technology Partner | |
Product Manager / Service Delivery | |
Roadmap & Key objectives | |
Roadmap |
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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
Do
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
Don´t
- 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?
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?
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?
| 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
1.9. Up to investment
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€) | |
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Estimated size of investment (high level) | 100 |
What is the coherent run and build commit on the initiative?
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?
Flavio roberto Ianague diniz IAP leader, sponsor Thierno Gueye IAP Platform Architect 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?
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If the initiative will be done in Agile methodology, please contact during the strategize phase Nicolas LOVAGNINI
Phase 2: Strategize
Do
- 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
Don´t
- 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) | ||
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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
| Complete Capacity planning tool Done | |
Complete Accolade
| Claire Bazin | Complete Accolade Done |
Review with Enterprise Architect the actual solution answering the objective
| Complete Architecture Impact Analysis (AIA) Done | |
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 | |
Support for budget estimation (via the Workload & Cost), Financial evaluation (Total Cost of Ownership over 10Y), saving validation
| Done 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 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)?
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 |