Intelligent Grid Management

Overview

Traditional energy delivery systems have been facing challenges delivering high-quality, reliable power, while meeting the market demands for keeping the rates low. These challenges are all the more amplified in areas of integrating renewable energy or distributed generation with the aging infrastructure. Technical loss or theft of power, unplanned outages, overload on transformers, and imbalance on circuits, equipment failure and resultant inconsistent power quality are causing energy companies worldwide significant financial losses. Minimizing carbon footprint, enhancing real-time/ near real-time operational intelligence to support advanced demand response, dynamic pricing, smart metering and micro grid implementations are gaining significant traction across the utilities value chain.

While upgrading to the modern grid and advanced distribution networks can help utilities address these challenges and critical business imperatives, companies continue to be slow in transforming operating technologies; As-is utilities network infrastructure and adopting Internet of Things (IoT)/ Machine-to-Machine (M2M) technologies due to operational constraints and lack of readiness. Being constrained by strong regulatory compliance and security challenges, there aren’t enough strong business cases and/ or ROI proof points to indulge disruptive transformations. Moreover, there is significant capital investment required to upgrade or replace the existing infrastructure and re align the operational environment to meet the new standards and business needs.

With all possible options of transformation through Smart Grid initiated, primary concerns to the stakeholders are:

How to ensure smooth transition and rapid time-to-value along the journey?
How efficiently the advanced infrastructure would ensure a seamless OT and IT convergence to address the current and future needs?
How such upgrades help utilities to derive actionable insights, remote intelligence to aid reactive operational efficiency in the long run?

Slowly, though, utilities companies worldwide are moving towards smart grids/ advance automation to manage utilities assets and distributed generation infrastructure, rolling out smart meters. But most of the global utilities aim to maximize efficiency of the existing infrastructure and create new insights as the stepping-stones towards next generation energy management. In the near future, the smart grid and advance resource monitoring platforms would integrate with infrastructure and operational environment seamlessly, develop actionable insights and enhance context awareness and collaboration among systems, processes and user groups – treating regulatory compliance, simplicity and cost reduction as the top priority.

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How Ranial Can Help

Enabling real-time machine-human collaboration through our unique M2M, HPC and actionable analytics convergence platforms and workflows toolkits.

Ranial’s cognitive intelligence platform provisioned for utilities operates on three layers of service integration: Aggregate>Access>Act. Within the space of ‘build vs. buy’ polarization, our system can deliver need-based frameworks to ensure flexibility, better risk mitigation strategy, improved time-to-value and speed-to-market through an incremental realization of ROI and new way of doing things.

Ranial’s intelligent grid management and utilities asset monitoring systems complement existing utilities network with intelligent communication and integrate data captured from discrete energy equipments, SCADA, DMS and control systems. The platform can be customized based on management strategies, market development plans, technology landscape, and R&D initiatives to realize the smart grid management services through real-time collaboration of OT and IT. We ensure an open and flexible integration and infrastructure (AS-IS & To-Be) preparedness. For the mid-market segment, the platform can be provisioned as subscription-based model (SaaS) hosted and managed by Ranial.

Unique solutions offer:

Next generation Asset Monitoring and Controls
Early Fault Detection and real-time notifications
DER/ Microgrid Energy Management
Automated Load Profiling & Dispatch for Micro Grid/ BESS systems
VOLT/ VAR optimization and T&D loss control
Distributed energy storage & EV charging infrastructure management

DER management system & virtual power plant

Modern Energy ecosystem is adopting much more Non-Conventional Energy Inputs into Grid day by day, which is most of the time unplanned and unpredictable. To manage this uncertainty, our innovative DER Management System plays a major role to Monitor, Control the Grid Resilience along with predictive alarm based System, which runs on Historical Analytical Studies using Machine Learning Technology.

Real time loss distribution management

Loss is always a BIG concern, for Energy Sector. This (Loss) is not limited for Energy Loss, in terms of Reactive Power and others , rather this also includes phenomenon like premature depreciations of Assets , sudden failure of Infrastructure, unplanned deployment of Machineries (an increment of CAPEX). Reducing of Loss develops earning Profits. Our Intelligent & Machine Learning based program helps to Plan, Manage, Monitor & Predict any such failure or loss in advance.

EV charging point and fleet management

Civilization has setup its mind to prepare a Green Planet , and most Popular change is seen , when it’s EV over conventional fossil fuel . Any transition invites lots of challenges. Our Smart EV Charging Management system help from Business to consumer, and even the Utility Sector also . This is NOT only limited to helping user to plan / find Charging Points, this gives complete planning and Control to Business in both commercial and Technical Perspective. This helps Power Sector to be safe from any spike in demand by its smart managing technique . Altogether , this is an unique solution , combined with AI & ML

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