Energy management firm Blue Pillar’s latest update to its Aurora platform, which connects businesses to a single energy system, may help secure energy access to allow them to avoid power outages — while also boosting energy efficiency. Aurora – billed by the firm as an “energy network of things” now has end-to-end encryption and logs records for business to react to threats before they occur. Blue Pillar has also made the Aurora 5.0 platform more scalable through the addition of public and private cloud services, which give large businesses the ability to deploy changes at the same time across multiple sites. See Also: Will wind turbines and solar panels be IoT juice of choice? Aurora at the intersection of big data and big energy Aurora 5.0 also makes an attempt at optimizing big data collection, to provide businesses with usable and actionable data instead of tons of unusable and random energy data.