Grid Workflow Automation
Connect your systems. Automate your operations. Scale with confidence.
Connect existing utility systems and automate complex operational workflows to reduce manual engineering workloads, improve consistency and support increasingly complex grid operations at scale.
Industry Challenge
As grid operations become increasingly complex, utilities must manage growing volumes of data, distributed energy resources and operational interactions across multiple systems.
Even with sophisticated technology in place, coordinating these activities often involves extensive manual calculations, data transfers and repetitive processes, placing additional demands on skilled engineering teams and limiting the time available for critical decisions and higher-value work.
Solution
Connecting grid operations across existing systems
Grid Workflow Automation is a capability within SMPnet's Omega suite that connects existing utility systems, data and operational processes into coordinated, automated workflows.
From data acquisition and engineering calculations to operational actions, interactions with external platforms, execution and reporting, configurable workflows bring complex sequences of activities together while maintaining appropriate engineering oversight.
By taking care of repetitive tasks and improving consistency across operational processes, Grid Workflow Automation enables utilities to manage increasingly complex operations at scale, freeing skilled engineers to focus on critical decisions and higher-value work.
From network data to coordinated operations
Grid Workflow Automation brings together activities spanning network measurements, forecasting, analysis, optimisation, flexibility coordination, market interaction, control and reporting.
By connecting these activities within configurable workflows, utilities can coordinate processes across multiple systems and operational stages, improving consistency and visibility while maintaining appropriate engineering oversight and control.
These capabilities can also support applications such as Real-time Flexibility Coordination, where network monitoring, analysis and optimisation help utilities identify and manage flexibility requirements.z
Key Benefits
Make complex grid operations more manageable
Coordinate activities across existing systems, teams and operational processes, improving consistency, visibility and the ability to manage complex workflows at scale.
Free up skilled engineering time
Reduce the time spent on repetitive calculations, data transfers and routine operational tasks, allowing engineering teams to concentrate their expertise on critical decisions and higher-value work.
Prepare for future operational challenges
Develop adaptable, scalable workflows that support evolving network requirements, increasing volumes of distributed energy resources and more complex flexibility operations.
Why SMPnet?
Power systems expertise meets software engineering
SMPnet combines deep power systems expertise, software engineering and real-world operational experience to develop workflow automation suited to the demands of utility operations.
This combination brings together an understanding of grid behaviour with the ability to integrate existing systems, coordinate complex processes and automate operational activities.
As part of the Omega suite, Grid Workflow Automation also benefits from SMPnet's wider capabilities in network monitoring, analysis, optimisation and control.
SMPnet's work on the Northern Powergrid Community DSO project demonstrates how its technology can support the integration and coordination of grid operations across existing systems.
Key Characteristics
- Configurable workflow automation: Configure and coordinate complex sequences of operational tasks, automate routine processes and manage information exchange between different workflow stages.
- Integration with existing utility systems: Connect established applications, operational tools and data sources, enabling information exchange and coordinated processes across different systems without requiring wholesale replacement of existing infrastructure.
- Flexible deployment: Deploy on-premises, in the cloud or through hybrid installations, allowing utilities to accommodate existing IT infrastructure and operational requirements while addressing security, data control and compliance considerations.
- Advanced power systems capabilities: Combine workflow automation with network monitoring, forecasting, analysis, decision support, optimisation and control capabilities, supported by SMPnet's specialist power systems expertise.
- Visibility and operational oversight: Monitor workflow progress, track activities across connected systems and support the identification and handling of exceptions, with appropriate operational controls and engineering oversight.
- Scalable operations: Coordinate increasing volumes of data, assets and operational interactions through repeatable workflows, supporting complex grid operations as requirements evolve.
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