GridAI Consulting Services, Optimizing Digital Transformation
Our consulting team offers a unique combination of expertise in the areas of system protection and asset management. At GridAI we are committed to helping utilities and businesses of any size optimize digital transformation, and stay one step ahead in our ever-changing world.
What We Do:
We have a team of system integrators that can help cleanse, correlate, and centralize your asset data within OSIsoft PI systems and relational databases. Asset data includes but is not limited to:
- Nameplate/characteristics
- Maintenance data
- Diagnostic data
- Real time operational data
- Financial data
- Oscillography/event data
We can work closely with your data scientists, engineers, and analysts to develop and test algorithms that determine:
- Asset Health
- Risks associated with an asset failure
- Likelihood of an asset failure
- Type and location of a system fault
- Disturbance Monitoring equipment health (analog/digital channel & communication health)
- DME alarms such as clock not synchronized, loss of communication, etc.
- Asset Alarms such as excessive breaker / LTC operations, low SF6 gas, high transformer top oil/winding temperatures, etc.
We can help drive change within your organization by:
- Streamlining your existing processes.
- Creating applications that will automate system updates such as adding new/removing retired assets from the algorithm groups and from the OSIsoft Asset Framework hierarchies. Significantly reducing the time it takes to manually update the systems.
- Create algorithms that will scan all data sources to ensure data cleansing policies are enforced and automatically notify when policies are broken.
To read about projects we have done in the past click on the tabs below.
Wildfire Safety Inspection Program
We worked closely with the Transmission Electric Asset Management team (TEAM) on the 2019 Wildfire Safety and Inspection Program (WSIP). We created an FMEA for all transmission line/tower assets that could cause an ignition. We created several procedures within SQL server to consolidate, transpose, cleanse, prioritize, and map the Transmission Line Drone and Ground Inspection data, the SAP Notifications and the Historical outage data to the FMEA component. The data was used to drive asset health and Tableau reports/dashboards.
PRC-002, PRC-004, PRC-005 Compliance
Our team automatically processed and analyzed massive amounts of collected oscillography/event and disturbance data files from various types of protection and monitoring devices, and securely reported on any fault occurrences or potential trouble spots. The collected data files included digital fault records, sequence of events records, disturbance records, measurement logs, configuration settings, and health checks. All collected data files were parsed and uploaded to a relational database. Algorithms were created within the database to identify fault type, fault category (actual fault, thru fault, or no fault (potential miss-operation)), fault location, issues with recoding channels, excessive alarms, communication health, and device setting/configuration changes. Email notifications were automatically generated in real time to notify engineers of system faults, high bus voltages, and high transformer temperatures
Displaying Fault Location on GIS Maps
Our team assited KAMO in automating the process of extracting relay targets from Comtrade fault files, uploading the data to a relational database, and cleaning the data. We also worked closely with their engineers and IT department to display the fault location information on ESRI GIS maps.