Intense storms, lightning, high winds, icing, wildfires and flooding can wreak havoc with electric utility organizations causing power outages, damage to equipment and pose a safety risk to work crews. Greater preparation for storms and alerting for threats directly impacting the grid are essential to allow time to time to plan, respond and investigate more effectively. Details of natural hazards directly impacting grid assets allow operators to make better informed decisions to minimize outages, direct maintenance and repairs, proactively de-energize lines in extreme fire conditions and decide where to look for potential damage.
The patented Indji Watch Utilities Edition from Indji Systems offers a solution that gives advanced warning and insight into hazardous weather and wildfires that disrupt utility operations and threaten assets and team safety. Indji Watch provides extreme weather forecast alerts with user selected thresholds, monitors and alerts on hazards specific to utility grid assets and provides forensic data allowing utility managers to verify faults and make informed decisions to protect equipment, saving them money and reducing sustained outages.
Indji Watch empowers utility users to:
- Plan - Advanced Forecast Radar and Forecast Lightning animation tools which provide storm forecasts up to eight hours in advance for crew scheduling, construction and maintenance planning
- Respond - See a live view of all current threats specific to the utilities' own transmission lines, substations and structures with the Asset threat Window. Receive alerts when forecasts exceed the user defined thresholds
- Investigate - Use the Lightning Fault Analyst and Distance to Fault tools for early lightning correlation and outage location response
