Overcoming the challenges
Ageing infrastructure leads to frequent faults, while adverse weather causes downed lines and outages. Regulatory demands for reliability and safety adds pressure, requiring minimised downtime and risks to public and field teams. Couple this with, extensive networks in rural areas, makes fault location time-consuming and costly.
Balancing operational efficiency with increasing demand leads to penalties, reputational damage, and higher costs.
Predict, prevent, protect with LineSIGHT
Linesight is a proven monitoring and fault management system specifically designed for HV overhead distribution networks. It integrates advanced sensors to continuously monitor key parameters including current, voltage, and network geometry. This enables early detection of anomalies, precise fault location within 300-500 metres, and identification of complex issues like lowered lines, low hanging conductors and nested faults – even without power.
Reliability, safety, and efficiency in overhead networks
Key features
Fault location
Precisely identifies faults within 300-500 metres, accelerating repairs and supporting automated restoration schemes.
Real-time alerts
Delivers instant notifications of anomalies or faults, enabling quick response and minimising downtime without physical inspections.
Predictive analytics
Uses historical data and machine learning algorithms to detect developing issues like component degradation early.
Downed lines
Provides real-time visibility of downed lines which reduces the significant safety risks to the public and field teams.
Nest faults spotlight
“Nested faults occur when secondary damage happens after an initial outage, often during storms when power is cut, making traditional detection impossible as no current flows. Linesight excels here – using advanced sensors to monitor network geometry and disturbances (even without power), it accurately locate these hidden issues within 300 metres.”
Benefits of Linesight
Faster restoration
Speeds up fault repairs with precise detection, cutting downtime and boosting network reliability for operators.
Enhanced safety
Significantly reduces risks to field teams and the public by detecting hazards like lowered lines, preventing incidents.
Cost efficiency
Lowers operational expenses by speeding restoration, optimising maintenance, and avoiding outage penalties.
Improved reliability
Minimises unplanned outages and consequential penalties, ensuring consistent power supply and regulatory compliance.
Customer spotlight: SP Electricity North West
For SP Electricity North West, Linesight enables swift resource allocation, improved storm performance, enhanced safety and response for customers. Strategic benefits include:
- For C-suite: it improves storm response and safety, reducing reputational damage
- Regulators: improved reliability standards
- Politicians: public safety and net-zero gains
Associated products
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