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Mobile Asset Management - Utilities on the Development

6/27/2018

 
Mobile Asset Management - Utilities on the Development
​So the world is going mobile and the utilities, no matter how big or small, are going with it. Talking to 5 different electricity utilities about their mobile future, I learned this: Challenges aside, the new technologies bring benefits beyond just switching paper into tablets - they bring a possibility to start working in a whole different way, even renewing entire processes. Processes whose quality, in turn, is measured to the max at major outages.
Today, utilities already use a variety of mobile solutions for various activities, like work order management, filling in data such as meter identification at a changeout, work hour reporting, safety and quality reporting, and even managing the surveillance cameras at substations. On top of those, there are the services for the utility customers, for example, for checking their consumption data or reporting an outage. Also - and quite importantly - many of our customers have their field crews bring the network to the field in tablets or smartphones with Utility To Go, using it, for example, in network planning, maintenance including component inspections, and operations both by in-house technicians and contractors.

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Future Networks - Microgrids and the Regulation

4/18/2018

 
Renewables, battery technologies, microgrids. They’re coming, in one form or another, that’s a given. But do they need to be a threat to the utilities of today? Or, could we think of ways to cooperate in order to turn the development into something great for us all – the utilities, the energy consumers, the entire society?
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Drawing from his interest that I introduced previously, the backcasting methodology, Tarmo Mere, Segment Director for Electric & Gas at Trimble Energy, encourages utilities to consider their decisions and actions today, in order to gain a better tomorrow. “As for the technologies affecting the utility business, for example the solar power will evolve, and it will become more efficient and more affordable for households and companies alike,” he states.

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Future Networks - Utilities Out of Business?

2/28/2018

 
Looking at the development pace for alternative energy sources, it’s only a question of time when a disruptive innovation wipes over the utility business. So what could be done today to keep the utilities in business, and what does the regulation have to do with it?
​Working on his doctoral dissertation on the future of electrical networks, Tarmo Mere, Segment Director for Electric & Gas at Trimble Energy, became familiar with the backcasting method a couple of years ago and found it interesting also for his professional life. “It is a process, or a methodology, not just to design the imaginable future but also to organize today’s work in order to make the preferred kind of a future a reality,” Tarmo explains.
What Future Utilities should Avoid Today to Stay in Business

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Augmented Reality - The Importance of Accurate Positioning

2/15/2018

 
Now that the 3D and AR technologies are getting mature enough for enterprise tools, their wider adaptation really only comes down to matching the actual use cases - the kinds where the new technologies can provide some real benefit - with the reliability and usability of the devices. For taking these new gadgets out in the field, the question is how reliably and accurately they can provide the geospatial data without a sky-high price tag.
Mixed Reality and Accurate Positioning
​​​I had the privilege to participate in a really cool workshop with representatives from the biggest Finnish electric utilities from all over the country, held last month during the Finnish Trimble User Days. The workshop went by the name of 3D and augmented reality for distribution utilities, but it actually focused mostly on mixed reality - combining and positioning virtual and real objects with one another - and finding ways for utilities to make it beneficial, for real.

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Optimized Asset Management - Tying It All Together

11/28/2017

 
There is no point in fixing bits and pieces, when it’s the big picture that matters. Benoit Mallen, business area director at Trimble Energy North America, is driven by helping utilities transform their overall business functions to be more effective, whether that be about software or internal processes, staking or outage management, investments or maintenance - it all counts.
Benoit finds that sometimes in utilities, there can be data flow barriers between different divisions, creating silos within the organization. “So we might see the engineering group or the asset management group look at their piece, their responsibility, without necessarily looking across other divisions to be able to tie that information together.”
Future of Asset Management?

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