Breakthrough electric utility predictive analytics
19/04/2021
Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) companies Sentient Energy and OnPoint Digital Solutions have announced a partnership that combines their deep domain expertise and complementary capabilities to create targeted predictive analytics outcomes for electric utilities. The companies claim that the collaboration brings together extensive electrical, environmental and other situational data with the speed and machine learning power of performance analytics to produce a uniquely valuable grid management tool.As an intelligent sensor platform provider to North America’s top electric utilities, Sentient Energy’s grid-wide sensor footprint is a source of high-fidelity waveform data. The powerful advanced analytics driving OnPoint’s Cortex™ platform will leverage this rich data, providing significant speed and scaling to create actionable predictions specific to each utility’s diverse grid management scenarios and needs. Actionable location-specific insights on faults and failures will enable proactive maintenance of issues before they become outages, resulting in better safety, increased reliability and lower operating and maintenance costs for utilities and their stakeholders.
Ageing infrastructure, widespread deployment of distributed energy resources, extreme weather and wildfires mean ever-growing complexity for today’s grid operators. This complexity requires solutions that allow for data-driven asset management, grid planning, operation and reliability decisions to effectively address their most pressing grid needs. Sentient Energy’s Grid Analytics System™ and OnPoint’s Cortex performance analytics platform provide customers with an enhanced single solution for real-time monitoring, alerting, analysis and scaling of thousands of predictive models at the grid edge and in the cloud.
Acquired by Koch Engineered Solutions in March 2020, Sentient Energy has significant utility industry expertise, with an established team in grid analytics and waveform machine learning technologies. OnPoint, a connected solutions business launched by KES in April 2020, provides a connected ecosystem to deliver real-time advanced analytics and machine learning insights for its partners and their customers.
