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Predictive grid maintenance and outage forecasting.

18%

Op cost savings

60.7%

Grid uptime

10 wks

To production

240k

Endpoints monitored

The challenge

Where operations were breaking down.

Distribution faults across the network were being detected only after customer outage reports came in. The result: degraded SAIDI metrics, regulator scrutiny, and crews dispatched reactively instead of preventively.

Asset health data was scattered across SCADA, AMI, and field-inspection records. None of it was correlated. Maintenance planning operated on age-based schedules, not condition-based signals, so healthy transformers were being serviced while at-risk ones quietly degraded.

Leadership needed a system that fused telemetry, weather data, and asset history into a single risk-scored view. It also had to trigger work orders into the existing CMMS without operators changing tools.

Our approach

How Aelix GridIQ was deployed.

01

Multi-source telemetry fusion

SCADA, AMI, weather, and asset-history data unified into a single feature store keyed by feeder and substation.

02

Anomaly + risk models

Time-series anomaly detection on transformer load, voltage, and current patterns. Weather correlation flags storm-driven failure risk hours ahead.

03

Condition-based maintenance

Risk scores feed directly into the existing CMMS as prioritized work orders. Age-based schedules deprecated in favor of signal-driven dispatch.

04

Regulator-ready reporting

Automated SAIDI/SAIFI reporting with full audit lineage. Every dispatch decision traces back to telemetry that justified it.

Architecture in production

From source data to operational action.

Stage 01

SCADA + AMI + weather

Real-time telemetry from the grid combined with NWS feeds and asset registry data.

Stage 02

Unified data lake

Streams normalized into a feature store keyed by feeder, substation, and asset class.

Stage 03

Anomaly + risk models

Anomaly detection plus weather correlation produces forward-looking risk scores per asset.

Stage 04

CMMS dispatch

High-risk assets generate prioritized work orders in the existing CMMS with full context.

Measured outcomes

Operational gains after going live.

0%

Operational cost savings

Condition-based maintenance replaces age-based servicing of healthy assets.

0.0%

Grid uptime

Sustained over 18 months of production deployment across the service territory.

240k

Endpoints monitored

Transformers, switches, and field assets continuously scored for failure risk.

47 min

Avg lead time on faults

Storm-driven failure risk flagged ahead of customer outage reports.

0%

SAIDI improvement

Year-over-year reduction in system average interruption duration.

10 wks

From kickoff to production

Native CMMS integration meant zero changes to crew dispatch workflows.

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