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Grid Analytics System Jim Lynch
Sr. Director of Sales
June 19, 2019
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Imagine if You Could Easily
• Restore power after a storm 50% faster, w your existing budget and crews?
• Prevent an outage by identifying & eliminating vegetation encroachment?
• Instantaneously detect circuit phases that have been restored incorrectly
or mapped incorrectly in your GIS for years?
• Reduce your reliability indices (SAIFI & SAIDI) 10% year-over-year?
• Detect equipment degradation and prevent a future failure?
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Sentient Energy’s Grid Analytics System
“We know where to look …
… we have reduced our patrols
from 3 people to 1”
- JEA
ZM1 “zero amp”
Lateral Line Monitor
UM3+ Underground Line Monitor
MM3 Primary Overhead
Feeder Monitor
Ample Analytic Software
“The team found the issue within 3
residential blocks …
this was really awesome”
- ComEd, Chicago
Combines real time field data and high value analytics from all grid locations
to deliver best-in-class grid management solution
Intelligent Sensors
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Disturbance Management
“The line sensors are already
proving to be a great value,
just yesterday we prevented
a future feeder outage.”
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Waveform Analytics
“We prevented a feeder outage on the Homeland 8664. We saw a momentary on the feeder a few hours
ago. We used Ample and the synergy map to identify a suspect scadamate switch at the normal open.”
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CFL only Voltage Line Sensors
Layered View
Filtered view shown to operators
Enhances Existing Systems
Layering Fault Location Techniques
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Sentient Energy
Sentient Energy HQ
Burlingame, CA
MFG & SW Design Center
Santa Clara, CA
Customer Success & Product Design Center
Dallas, TX
$100M+ Invested in Technology
65,000 + Sensors Deployed
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Grid Analytics System
Powerful combination of Intelligent Sensors and Analytic Software that:
• Reduces reliability indices (SAIDI & SAIFI)
• Lowers O&M costs
• Improves customer satisfaction
Making the Grid Safe, Reliable and DER Ready
Editor's Notes
Isolating & Sectionalizing
Disturbance Management
Phase ID
Partial restoration, less customers out through switching – Find : Switch : Fix
Waveform Analysis
On-Premise or On-Demand
Analytics
Phase Identification eField – Energy Direction
Disturbance & Fault Waveform Analysis
Vegetation Encroachment Animal Intrusion Equipment Degradation
Sensor Fleet Management
Only possible now by combining technologies that are available now
