Fault Management
We help Network Operators manage their networks proactively – to prevent and repair faults, keep their customers on supply and maximise returns on their infrastructure investments.
We help Network Operators manage their networks proactively – to prevent and repair faults, keep their customers on supply and maximise returns on their infrastructure investments.
Adoption of low carbon technologies is growing fast, making customers increasingly reliant on the continuity and quality of the distribution network. That’s made finding and repairing LV faults an even more pressing priority.
At Kelvatek we’re leading the way with cutting-edge solutions for LV fault location and management. You’ll find our smart devices, services and software deployed by every DNO across UK & Ireland, helping them anticipate, prevent, repair and manage faults more effectively.
We’ve amassed decades worth of experience from real-world networks, providing unparalleled insight into every stage of the fault management lifecycle. We’re harnessing the power of that data to enable better-informed network management strategies for our clients.
As the challenges of managing networks safely and sustainably become tougher, we’re here to help Network Operators drive operational efficiencies today – and embrace the opportunities of a low carbon future.
Our solutions play an essential role in maintaining quality of supply for customers, minimising CI/CML and maximising incentives for DNOs.
Our smart devices contribute directly to safety, helping field engineers repair faults with reduced exposure to potentially hazardous situations.
We help customers to predict, repair and prevent faults more efficiently, reducing time on-site and optimising the deployment of equipment.
Our devices, services and software assist clients in implementing more proactive fault management and prevention strategies.
Our smart devices, services and software support network operators at every stage of the fault lifecycle including the detection, accurate location and monitoring of transient, intermittent and persistent LV fault.
Bidoyng
Weezap
PRESense
LineSIGHT
Rezap Faultmaster
Snoopi
Transflekt
Kelvatek’s comprehensive suite of services provides Network Operators with round-the-clock visibility and control over their LV networks.
Combining advanced analytics and the vast experience of our technical support team, Sapient transforms data collected from our smart devices in the field into actionable insights. Helping operators to pre-empt costly faults, effect repairs more efficiently and minimise customer interruptions.
Learn more about SapientWe’re working in close collaboration with all UK & Irish DNOs to enable more effective, proactive fault management strategies and optimise the performance of their networks.
Over the last 20 years Kelvatek’s expert team of engineers, data scientists and PHD specialists have been developing innovative methods of analysing the very complex power flows that happen in the instants surrounding a fault.
We have accumulated over 50 working years of dedicated research developing and training algorithms that can reliably and consistently analyse, classify, and translate this high-volume, deeply complex data into actionable information.
We sort through terabytes of waveform data captured via our proprietary triggering algorithms, aligned with phases and locations to produce a distance to fault, often before the first fuse operation.
View case studyKelvatek’s dedicated Parma-based Machine Learning Group use artificial intelligence and machine learning to give predictive information to Network Operators about forthcoming asset failure, load behaviours, and LV fault management strategies.
They do this by analysing data collected from from smart devices in the field and identifying patterns and correlations in historical data that help to formulate future strategy.
Working together with other parts of our engineering teams, they can then automate the process behind the insights and provide these as packaged business capabilities to our customers.
By the end of ED1, Kelvatek’s PRESense advanced LV monitors will be installed at 5,000 of Electricity North West’s most populous ground-mounted substations supplying around 1.1 million customers.
Through the ED2 period, tactical installation of PRESense will continue on LV circuits to help deliver savings to customers through the continuation of the ‘Connect and Manage’ programme, measuring the risk profile of circuits, their capacity, and their ability to connect and balance load optimally.
Read the case study to find out more
At Kelvatek we remain committed to R&D, key to this is our unique test facilities. Comprising of dedicated cable health labs and a live electricity network, we are able to monitor faults from their infancy, right through to a permanent fault condition.
The network is constructed of multiple cable types that can be arranged in a wide variety of configurations. Faults can be added to the network in a specially constructed fault trough which allows us to investigate faults mid-cable, at joints and at cable ends. This also allows us to evaluate the behaviours of faults in different ground conditions. Street surface simulators allow us to measure the progress of fault gasses, as well as the heat generated by the fault, through the wide variety surfaces that cover cables in real settings.
To date, this has allowed us to capture more than twenty million burst of fault activity, and countless hours of early life fault development data.
Get in touch if you’d like to know more about how Kelvatek can support your end-to-end LV fault management strategy, optimise network performance and deliver greater long term returns from your infrastructure investments.
Simply complete this enquiry form or call us on 028 9262 6989 (UK) to speak to a member of our team