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Improve Reliability and Preempt Outages

Leveraging line sensors and advanced analytics to modernize the grid

In a time where utilities are amidst significant disruption with the digital revolution and increased pressure to transition to a multi-directional grid, it is imperative to increase grid resiliency and flexibility. Today, the distribution system accounts for 92% of all electric service failures.

Sentient Energy provides innovative solutions to help utilities improve reliability, save energy, enhance power quality and enable the transformation of the grid. Together with AWS, utilities are reducing their operational and maintenance costs by leveraging the power of advanced analytics and cloud computing.

When combined, our line sensing devices and Ample analytics platform, can:

  • Improve reliability through enhanced fault detection with more precise location, asset management and outage prediction
  • Enhance system planning with load monitoring
  • Enable proactive maintenance with prescriptive vegetation management and harmonics mitigation
  • Improve power quality with industrial and EV load management
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Ample Analytics Platform Highlights

Our Cloud-Native Ample analytics suite provides true architectural flexibility. It is scalable to handle any size of sensor fleet as well as exceptional performance to process large volumes of data effectively. Leveraging the sensor data and machine-learning, Ample can quickly locate and react to unplanned outages as well as provide utilities with predictive indicators of impending outages to increase reliability and preempt outage. In addition, with sensor data, Ample can enable proactive maintenance by identifying potential equipment failure, vegetation interference and harmonics disruption.

IMPROVED
RELIABILITY

• Highly available and fault tolerant
• Self-healing applications
• Zero downtime upgrades

IMPROVED
PERFORMANCE

• Lightweight and efficient services
• Auto scalability (= more efficient use HW)
• Better UI response time

IMPROVED
SECURITY

• No storage of plain text credentials
• Intra service level encryption
•
Zero trust Auth. (Principle of least privilege)

EASIER TO MANAGE
AND TROUBLESHOOT

• Standardized & automated upgrades
• Fewer maintenance touchpoints
•
Centralized logging (= easier to support)

GREATER
CONNECTIVITY

• Integrated concentrator (DNP3/104)
• Defined API

FLEXIBLE
DEPLOYMENT MODELS

• On premise
• Cloud
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Hybrid of on premise and cloud            

PREDICTIVE
ANALYTICS

• Daily event detection report
• Harmonics tracker
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Improve Reliability with Enhanced Fault Detection

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When utilities have a more granular view of their system, patrol areas are narrowed, and crews are better equipped to address the fault. Line sensors and communicating faulted circuit indicators (FCIs) are a proven method to improve utility reliability metrics such as outage durations, system average interruption duration index (SAIDI), and operations and maintenance (O&M) costs.  

Utilities typically see improvements of 20% or more in Customer Minutes Interrupted (CMI) on feeders with line sensing deployments. The improvement is largely due to a significant reduction in patrol time, with some utilities reporting upwards of 65% patrol time savings.

Load Monitoring for Improved System Planning

System planning teams don’t always have load data for the locations they need to make the most effective planning decisions. Visibility of system load at additional points on the system provided by intelligent line sensors can fill in these data gaps. This is especially important as DERs and EVs are increasingly added to power networks — creating significant changes in historic load curves and making load forecasting much more complex.

Line sensor load data is available within minutes of sensor installation, so utility system planners can benefit from the information as soon as they integrate the data insights into decisions and work processes. 

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Anomaly Detection for Proactive Maintenance

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The large amount of data collected when capturing system anomalies, the computing resources required for machine learning, and scalability over time often necessitate that analytics modules be deployed in the cloud.

Preempting outages due to vegetation contact and equipment failure provides significant system average interruption frequency index (SAIFI) improvements and O&M savings. And by preventing future outages utilities also improve long term SAIDI metrics. 

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AWS and its providers on Marketplace empower electric utilities to improve reliability and customer satisfaction, lower operating costs, and safeguard critical infrastructure.

Sentient Energy’s Managed Cloud is available directly through the AWS Marketplace.

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Additional Learning and Resources

Learn more about Sentient Energy's Line Sensing and Advanced Analytics that solve for a variety of concurrent use cases, enabling utilities to pursue multiple ROI streams

Improving Reliability with
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Improving Effectiveness of
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