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Challenge

Build a Sparkplug B Multi-Zone Thermal Energy Optimizer

Process Sparkplug B thermal oven metric updates and electric utility peak hours. Plan dynamic zone ramp-up sequences to minimize compound electrical peak demand charges.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

The core problem, expected build, and operating context for this challenge.

Process Sparkplug B thermal oven metric updates and electric utility peak hours. Plan dynamic zone ramp-up sequences to minimize compound electrical peak demand charges.

Process Operations Engineer

Parse Sparkplug B thermal zone telemetry payloads across multiple industrial curing ovens.

Evaluate cumulative instantaneous power against utility peak demand threshold ceilings.

Sequence oven pre-heating and ramp intervals to stagger overlapping peak loads.

Generate a thermal ramp scheduling plan for furnace control operators.

Heatmap timetable illustrating staggered zone power curves against the site demand cap.

Generate synthetic JSON payloads following Sparkplug B v3.0 metric schemas for multi-zone industrial ovens. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.

Eclipse Sparkplug Uses Sparkplug B complex data types, metric properties, and dataset structures defined in Source 2.

ray-serve, numpy. Ray Serve enables scalable parallel evaluation of multi-zone thermal scheduling constraints across multiple production cells. Local model for rule-checking or hosted API for thermal ramp plan explanation.

Submit runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, a working interface, example outputs, and a recorded end-to-end demo. Include tests and an action log.

Guarantees aggregate power remains below simulated 1.2 MW peak demand cap.

Ensures all curing recipes achieve target soaking temperatures within required batch windows.

Produces valid Sparkplug B compatible schedule proposal documents.

```json [ { "input": { "ovens": [ { "id": "OVEN-1", "ramp_power_kw": 400, "soak_power_kw": 120, "ramp_min": 30, "soak_min": 60 }, { "id": "OVEN-2", "ramp_power_kw": 500, "soak_power_kw": 150, "ramp_min": 40, "soak_min": 45 } ], "max_simultaneous_kw": 700 }, "expected_output": { "oven_1_start_minute": 0, "oven_2_start_minute": 30, "peak_aggregate_kw": 620, "demand_cap_breached": false } }, { "input": { "ovens": [ { "id": "OVEN-3", "ramp_power_kw": 600, "soak_power_kw": 200, "ramp_min": 45, "soak_min": 90 }, { "id": "OVEN-4", "ramp_power_kw": 650, "soak_power_kw": 250, "ramp_min": 45, "soak_min": 90 } ], "max_simultaneous_kw": 800 }, "expected_output": { "oven_3_start_minute": 0, "oven_4_start_minute": 45, "peak_aggregate_kw": 850, "demand_cap_breached": true } } ] ```

Read-only planning simulation; does not issue write commands to live furnace controllers. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.

Rules

Participation guide

Read-only planning simulation; does not issue write commands to live furnace controllers. Use mock external writes and human review.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Guarantees aggregate power remains below simulated 1.2 MW peak demand cap. Ensures all curing recipes achieve target soaking temperatures within required batch windows. Produces valid Sparkplug B compatible schedule proposal documents.

Submission format

Runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, working interface, example outputs, recorded demo, tests, and action logs.

Datasets

Challenge datasets

Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.

Evaluation rubric

How submissions are scored

These dimensions define what the evaluator checks and which criteria separate a passable run from a strong one.

Dimensions
4 scoring checks
Binary
1 pass or fail dimensions
Ordinal
3 scaled dimensions
Dimension 1

Complete workflow

Parse Sparkplug B thermal zone telemetry payloads across multiple industrial curing ovens. Evaluate cumulative instantaneous power against utility peak demand threshold ceilings. Sequence oven pre-heating and ramp intervals to stagger overlapping peak loads. Generate a thermal ramp scheduling plan for furnace control operators.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 2

Correctness and evidence

Guarantees aggregate power remains below simulated 1.2 MW peak demand cap. Ensures all curing recipes achieve target soaking temperatures within required batch windows. Produces valid Sparkplug B compatible schedule proposal documents.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 3

Review interface

Heatmap timetable illustrating staggered zone power curves against the site demand cap.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 4

Safe execution

Read-only planning simulation; does not issue write commands to live furnace controllers.

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Learning goals

What you should walk away with

  • Parse Sparkplug B thermal zone telemetry payloads across multiple industrial curing ovens.

  • Evaluate cumulative instantaneous power against utility peak demand threshold ceilings.

  • Sequence oven pre-heating and ramp intervals to stagger overlapping peak loads.

  • Generate a thermal ramp scheduling plan for furnace control operators.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Generate synthetic JSON payloads following Sparkplug B v3.0 metric schemas for multi-zone industrial ovens. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.

Challenge setup

Configuration summary for this challenge.

Challenge input

Input details are not configured.

Ray Serve

Action Space in the agent workflow.

Evaluated output

No output checks are configured.

Evaluation checks
  • Parse Sparkplug B thermal zone telemetry payloads across multiple industrial curing ovens. Evaluate cumulat...
  • Guarantees aggregate power remains below simulated 1.2 MW peak demand cap. Ensures all curing recipes achie...
  • Heatmap timetable illustrating staggered zone power curves against the site demand cap.
Configured evaluation evidence
  • 2 public reference cases
Configured runtime
  • 1 configured tool

Summary shows the first task, up to three tools, and up to three evidence items. Open the technical recipe to view all configured items.

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Configured tools

Action Space
  • Ray Serve · Optional

Evaluation contract

  • Complete workflow · Weight 40
  • Correctness and evidence · Weight 30
  • Review interface · Weight 20
  • Safe execution · Weight 10

Reference cases

  • 2 public reference cases

Workflow tasks

No workflow tasks are configured.

Recipe freeze marker

No recipe freeze time is recorded.

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