Utilities

Empowering Utility Operations: Real-Time Visualization for a Resilient Grid

The utilities sector, responsible for our most critical infrastructure, faces unprecedented challenges: an aging grid, the integration of variable renewable energy sources, increasing physical and cyber threats, and heightened customer expectations for reliability. To navigate this complexity, modern utility operators need a unified, real-time view of their entire network. Lygos provides a powerful command and control solution, transforming operations centers for electricity, water, and gas into hubs of intelligence and proactive management. By consolidating data from SCADA, GIS, and other disparate systems into a single, intuitive visual platform, Lygos enhances situational awareness, accelerates incident response, and ensures the delivery of safe and reliable services.

Use Cases:

Centralizing Grid Management and Network Monitoring

Optimizing Water and Wastewater Treatment and Distribution

Managing and Integrating Renewable Energy Sources

For electric utilities, maintaining grid stability and minimizing outage durations are top priorities. Lygos serves as the central nervous system for grid operations, providing a comprehensive, real-time view of the entire transmission and distribution network.

In an electric utility's control room, a large Lygos video wall becomes the common operational picture, displaying a wealth of integrated information:

Interactive GIS Network Map: The Maps Module is the centerpiece, showing the entire electrical grid geographically. It overlays real-time SCADA data, allowing operators to visualize the status of substations, transmission lines, and feeders. A fault on the network can be instantly located on the map, with affected areas automatically highlighted.
Real-Time Load and Generation Data: The Visualization Module creates dynamic dashboards that track system wide load, frequency, and the output from various generation sources (including solar and wind). This allows operators to balance supply and demand effectively and maintain grid stability.
Integrated Weather and Outage Data: The Data Module can embed live weather radar and storm tracking information alongside data from the Outage Management System (OMS). This provides critical context, visualizing on Maps Module with layers, allows operators to anticipate weather related impacts and preposition field crews for faster restoration.

With this holistic view, operators can move from a reactive to a predictive stance. Allows multiple engineers to collaboratively analyze an event, simulate rerouting scenarios, and dispatch crews with precision, significantly reducing outage times and improving SAIDI/SAIFI reliability indices.

Water utilities manage vast, often underground, networks where visibility is a constant challenge. Lygos brings this hidden infrastructure to light, enabling proactive management of water quality, pressure, and flow to prevent service disruptions and conserve resources.

A municipal water authority's operations center uses a Lygos dashboard to ensure the safe and efficient delivery of clean water:

Distribution Network Health: The Maps Module visualizes the entire water distribution network. By integrating with sensors via the Data Module, it displays real-time water pressure, flow rates, and reservoir levels. An unusual pressure drop can indicate a potential main break, allowing for immediate investigation.
Water Quality Monitoring: The Visualization Module tracks key water quality parameters like pH, turbidity, and chlorine residuals from sensors at treatment plants and throughout the network. Any deviation from regulatory standards triggers an immediate visual alert on the main screen.
Live Facility Monitoring: Through the Media Module, live video feeds from secure areas like treatment facilities and remote pump stations can be displayed, enhancing security and allowing for remote visual inspection of equipment.

This data centric approach helps utilities detect leaks faster, reduce non revenue water, optimize pumping schedules to save energy, and ensure unwavering compliance with public health standards.

The shift towards renewable energy introduces new complexities for grid operators, primarily the variability of wind and solar power. Lygos provides the tools necessary to monitor, forecast, and integrate these green energy sources seamlessly.

An energy company managing a large scale solar farm uses Lygos to maximize its green energy output:

Real-Time Asset Performance: The Maps Module displays a layout of the solar farm, showing the real-time energy output of each panel or inverter. The Visualization Module creates dashboards that track overall farm performance against forecasts and historical data.
Predictive Generation Forecasting: By linking to advanced weather forecasting services through the Data Module, Lygos can display predicted solar irradiance and expected power output for the hours and days ahead.
Maintenance and Fault Alerts: The system can be configured to flag underperforming panels or equipment faults, allowing maintenance teams to address issues proactively and minimize generation loss.

The Presentation and Signage Modules can be used to display key performance indicators and operational targets throughout the facility, keeping the entire team aligned on the goal of maximizing clean energy production and contributing to a more sustainable grid.

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