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Okko Oulasvirta

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Energy & Utilities

Your control room watches the grid in real time on a wall of screens. The asset that failed on Tuesday had been telling you for weeks — in vibration data, in weather exposure, in an overdue inspection — but never in the same place at the same time.

Energy and utilities are instrumented to the second, yet the costliest events are still the ones nobody connected in time. The gap is not more telemetry. It is the distance between a sensor noticing something and a crew being sent to the right place with the right part.

Data domains

  • Assets

    The physical estate — transformers, lines, turbines — with condition, age and maintenance history.

    asset management (EAM) · condition monitoring · inspection records

  • Grid and network

    Topology, flows, loading and real-time state — how the network is behaving right now and where.

    SCADA · GIS · outage management

  • Metering

    Consumption and generation reads down to the connection point, feeding demand and billing alike.

    advanced metering infrastructure · meter data management

  • Customers

    Connections, accounts, contact and service history behind every supply point.

    CRM · billing · contact centre

  • Contracts and tariffs

    Supply and connection agreements, tariffs and obligations that govern each customer relationship.

    contract management · billing · tariff systems

  • Field service

    Crews, skills, locations, work orders and parts — the capacity to actually intervene.

    field service management · workforce scheduling · parts inventory

  • Market and trading

    Prices, positions, generation and settlement — the commercial context of every operational choice.

    trading systems · market operator feeds · settlement

  • Weather

    Forecast and observed conditions by location — the biggest single driver of demand and asset stress.

    weather forecast providers · lightning and storm feeds

  • Finance and cost

    Cost, revenue, the value of lost load and the real cost of an outage or a failed asset.

    ERP finance · regulatory reporting

Source systems

  • SCADA and control systems
  • Asset management (EAM)
  • Advanced metering infrastructure
  • Geographic information system (GIS)
  • Field service management
  • Outage management
  • Market and trading systems
  • Weather feeds
  • CRM and billing
  • General ledger

What the analytics estate usually looks like

  • Real-time network monitoring on control-room dashboards
  • Monthly reliability and asset performance reporting
  • Outage and incident analysis compiled after the event
  • Meter and consumption analytics held in the metering and trading teams

Typical data flow

Real-time operational twin

For operations that move in minutes, not months. Machine and process data becomes a live picture of the operation that people and AI can both reason about.

  1. 01The operation itself
  2. 02Live data capture
  3. 03Now, plus history
  4. 04Lines, assets and orders
  5. 05What changed and why
  6. 06The operator's screen
  7. 07The intervention
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Flagship experience

Asset Health & Field Operations Twin

One live view of an asset — its telemetry, its condition, the weather it faces and the crew that can reach it — that turns an anomaly into a dispatched job.

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Application opportunities

Where the value usually sits in Energy & Utilities

  • One live view of an asset — its telemetry, its condition, the weather it faces and the crew that can reach it — that turns an anomaly into a dispatched job.

    Decision
    This asset is behaving abnormally. How serious is it, and what is the right field response right now?

    ImpactVery strong (5 of 5)
    ReadinessStrong (4 of 5)
    SpeedModerate (3 of 5)
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  • Give the control room the live network state, the likely cause of a disturbance and the safe options — in one place, at the speed the grid moves.

    Decision
    What is happening on the network right now, why, and what is the safe next move?

    ImpactStrong (4 of 5)
    ReadinessModerate (3 of 5)
    SpeedModest (2 of 5)
    Explore
  • Rank field work by what it protects — safety, supply and cost — and match it to the crews and parts actually available.

    Decision
    Of all the work we could send crews to do, what should we do next and who should do it?

    ImpactStrong (4 of 5)
    ReadinessStrong (4 of 5)
    SpeedStrong (4 of 5)
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  • Put demand and generation forecasts next to the actions they should drive — positions to take, plant to ready, crews to pre-stage.

    Decision
    Given the forecast, what should we do now to be ready for it?

    ImpactStrong (4 of 5)
    ReadinessModerate (3 of 5)
    SpeedModerate (3 of 5)
    Explore
  • One view of a customer's connections, contracts, consumption and open issues, so the person serving them can resolve it in one contact.

    Decision
    What does this customer hold and owe, what is going wrong, and what is the right resolution?

    ImpactModerate (3 of 5)
    ReadinessModerate (3 of 5)
    SpeedStrong (4 of 5)
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Impact, readiness and speed are editorial judgement offered to help prioritise a conversation. They are not research statistics and they are not market data.