Real-time cloud-based big data hosting, analysis, visualisation & reporting platform

VECTO Grid OS

Designed to support millions of monitoring and control instruments in near real-time.

VECTO Grid OS Benefits

VECTO Grid OS translates thousands of electrical parameters into information that facilitates quick, data-driven decisions.

System users receive information from the grid in real time, providing accurate, easy to parse information that offers a clear direction for action
The system is platform agnostic, making it accessible on any smart device in a user-friendly format
The system supports data collected using third party recording devices
The time required to analyse complex interactions between various electrical parameters is significantly reduced
Visualisation provides unprecedented insight into the steady-state & dynamic behaviour of the network

The automated matching, visualisation & annotation of simultaneously recorded events reduces the time required to analyse & report on system faults
Rich real time data feedback assists installers to correctly match voltage & current channels at every installation
Measurement campaigns & firmware updates are centralised guaranteeing collection of rich, enterprise wide, homogeneous & time synchronised datasets
The fleet management module improves operator productivity by reducing the time required to keep the fleet functional
Record micro-synchro-phasor data offline throughout the network
Enjoy market-leading accuracy, adaptability & security at low cost
Billing functionality for prosumers allows for separate export and import time of use tariff structures

VECTO Grid OS Features

GRID MONITORING

Enterprise-wide measurement campaigns
Matching of simultaneously recorded events
Trigger full resolution recordings, across multiple devices, when network events occur
System-wide Snapshot® event recording
Harmonic visualisation
Near-real time grid-wide alarms & notifications
Event geo- and single-line mapping
Incident annotation & tagging

FLEXIBLE HOSTING

Cloud-based hosting
Behind the firewall on-premise hosting

BILLING & TARIFFS

Time-of-use tariffs
Separate tariff for import & export
Combined billing

GRID COMPLIANCE

Data classification according to international norms and standards
Import, export & net powers
Automated reporting with email scheduler

USABILITY

Fleet-wide firmware updates
Clipboard supports vector graphics
Support for 3rd party data

Alarm Notifications

High-quality network performance data enables quicker response to system events and more accurate business decisions for the organisation.

Alarm notifications arrive in near real-time via email and push notifications, delivered to the relevant team members
Individual users can sign up to receive notifications on Power Quality (PQ) events system faults & alarms or when preset parameters are exceeded

Fleet Management Module

VECTO Grid OS’ dedicated fleet management module offers a high degree of automation, detailed fleet monitoring, with diagnostic tools that reduce complexity, operator screen time and trips into the field.

Newly installed devices automatically inherit pre-defined monitoring rules from the central system.
Changes made to individual measurement campaigns automatically propagate throughout the entire system.
Simultaneous deployment of various measurement campaigns on a single device enable various users/departments to set up their own rules without interfering with other users/departments.
Real-time view feedback during installation
Simultaneous upgrading of the fleet achieved remotely.
Built-in ticketing system captures the activity history of each measurement point and device.
Detects temperature of devices in the field, premature aging of batteries, signal strength, and quality of communication infrastructure.

PQ Incident Browsing & Annotation

The matching and annotation of simultaneously recorded network events into consolidated incidents significantly improves insight into the dynamic behaviour of the grid under fault conditions. At the same time, VECTO Grid OS also significantly reduces the time required to process and analyse the data generated by the event.

Concurrent Power Quality (PQ) and parameter exceedance events are automatically combined into system-wide incidents.
A notification is automatically generated upon the creation of a new incident.
Upon receipt of the notification, users can review incidents on the diagnostic dashboard.
Grid OS supports detailed event tagging that can be utilised in machine learning and network optimisation.
The dashboard offers a geo-map, line diagrams, spark-lines, and waveform profiles for events, which the operator can tag or annotate with additional metadata.
The operator can remotely close incidents, generate reports, and search historic events.

Power Quality (PQ) Dashboards

VECTO Grid OS converts numeric thresholds into colour bars that allow operators to discern the steady-state performance of PQ parameters at a glance from selected points over selected periods.

Various dashboards are available to visualise PQ performance within the network.
>The Current Enterprise PQ Status dashboard reports on the current PQ status of the network, highlighting any measurement point that exceeds a pre-defined threshold on a single-line diagram and on a geo-map.
The Enterprise PQ Overview dashboard highlights all prominent PQ trended parameters.
Red and green bars indicate available margin per parameter. The Network Disturbance Summary provides the operator with the ability to correlate various aspects of PQ incident metadata with each other. This enables the user to search for correlations or patterns.

Power Quality (PQ) Event Browser

The Event Browser is a visualisation tool for displaying and analysing event data from selected field locations on the same canvas

The Event Browser is used to assess a selection of events based on advanced search criteria.
The use of spark lines and other tabled parameters enables the user to quickly find one or more events of interest.
The Event Browser can visualise clock-synchronised data recorded simultaneously at different locations.
Various graphs can be plotted on the same canvas, including waveform, ½ cycle, and 200ms block values (including harmonics).
Graphs can be exported as high-quality vector artwork and data as CSV files, drastically reducing time spent on report generation.

Trend Browser

The Trend Browser provides a powerful graphical tool to simultaneously display various types of trend data from various field recording devices on the same canvas.

Specialist graphs like scatter plots and the unique animated display of the harmonic spectrum assists operators in identifying strong & weak correlations between multiple parameters.
It supports visualisation of data captured at different intervals on the same graph.
Advanced Java-based mathematics can be performed on a series of trended parameters to derive new data.
Graphs and data can be exported for further analysis and reporting.
The Trend Browser visualises any trended parameter set from single or multiple measurement points simultaneously.

Scheduled Performance

Users receive valuable system-performance information in a friendly and familiar format at a pre-defined schedule.

A powerful set of pre-defined reports can be generated ad hoc or be scheduled.
Scheduled reports are automatically emailed to a mailing list.
The PQ site-assessment report covers all individual PQ parameters and events in detail according to a selected international standard or norm.
Other reports include billing, combined billing, technical losses, enterprise events, KPI benchmarking, repair status, etc.

XrossTrigger® & Snapshot®

The XrossTrigger® mechanism enables system wide recording of time-synchronised Snapshot® events. Any event recorded on one permanently connected measurement device can XrossTrigger® a selection of devices to record a time synchronised Snapshot® event.

Each Snapshot^® event contains raw waveform data, ½-cycle RMS & phasor data and 200ms Interval RMS, phasor, and harmonic spectrum data (incl. both amplitude & phase angle information per individual harmonic)
During network disruptions, the XrossTrigger^® mechanism enables the operator to record a complete and perfectly synchronised dataset from a specific portion of the network or from the entire network.
This function is essential when investigating Dip/Swell, harmonic, or flicker propagation.

By simplifying the stream of power grid information into coherent visualisations of up-to-the-second information, VECTO Grid OS takes the guesswork out of grid management.

Time of Use Tariffs

VECTO Grid OS combines load profile information with time-of-use tariffs to generate electricity bills, undertake bill verification, tariff analysis & measure loads.

Full support for time-of-use tariffs.
Periodic scheduling of billing reports.
Combined billing is also supported.
Separate tariffs for imported and exported energy.

Data Export

VECTO Grid OS’ Data Export function allows for the transfer of data into any other 3rd party system for further analysis.

A selection of event, raw waveform and trended data can be exported.
Harmonics can be selected individually.
Supports the simultaneous export of multiple measurement points.
Export format includes CSV, PQDiF and other proprietary formats.

Measurement & big-data hosting technology

The VECTO family of next-generation, multifunction devices combine Waveform Measurement Unit (WMU), Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU), and Power Quality analyser technologies in a single device. These analysers utilise edge-computing technology to deploy grid intelligence directly at the points of measurement.

The big data storage technology is hosted by Cassandra’s open source, cloud-based big data technology. No high-priced license fees are required.

Cloud data storage is based on Cassandra’s high availability and big-data open source technology.
Cassandra scales linearly as more processors and storage is added.
Measurement and data-hosting technologies support open interfaces to 3rd party devices & support software.
The system provides extensive support for cybersecurity.
Power over Ethernet and DC supply enable devices to be permanently powered from DC systems or from UPS backed networks.
Devices are powered by the latest multicore ARM technology and Linux.
Sixty minutes of battery back-up.
Built-in GPS and cellular modems.

VECTO Grid OS is designed to simplify the flow of grid performance information throughout your organisation. By collating all data into a single, accessible source, engineers & managers have a clear, shared view of network performance across the entire power grid.

Data Hosting Models

VECTO Grid OS offers three hosting options. The outsourced plan enables small quantity users access to enterprise class technology without having to lock into expensive software solutions. The behind-the-firewall solution provides additional security and specialist, big-data support—without large capital outlay.

Hosted on VECTO’s cloud-based servers.
Includes VECTO’s essential client & product support services.
Annual data-hosting & license fee based on the number of connected devices.

Hosted on client’s servers behind their own firewall.
Includes VECTO Grid OS essential support services to maintain the servers and to manage system updates.
Annual license fee based on the number of connected devices (min. 25 units).

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