UDC’s Digital Twin solution is designed to help reduce asset downtime considerably and increase reliability and efficiency for utility operations. The solution provides technology for creating a digital replica of your network that can be analyzed in real-time, retrospect and can be used for internal and/or customer communications, process improvement and future CapEx budgeting and planning.
A digital twin solution at your utility can provide benefits across the organization. Key capabilities and business benefits include:
Business Transformation
Uncover opportunities for improvement within the digital environment that can be applied to physical assets and current business processes for increased efficiency and customer satisfaction.
Predictive Maintenance
Digital twins can be used for predictive maintenance – identify issues prior to failure for targeted maintenance planning and increased reliability.
Grid Optimization
Connecting a digital twin to utility operational systems and embedded sensors assists to visualize data for deeper analysis and projection enabling fuller optimization.
The capabilities of DyAN™ allow your network data to be utilized in utility operations to support operational management vs. the informational KPI’s generated by many dashboards. DyAN brings interactive widgets that concentrate on your particular areas of interest and interact with the map to focus on the metrics and information required for daily operations such as outage or asset performance results by area.
DyAN includes business intelligence within the application and allows drill downs to specific areas for both the information and the mapping display. UDC’s Digital Twin solution using DyAN provides external facing dashboard capability to enable customer and public communication on the web which can contribute to increased customer satisfaction.
Compatible Operational Systems
Data Receptors in DyAN provide the capability to integrate data from a variety of systems to obtain operational insights.
The following systems can be used to drive DyAN™ analytics and build digital twins:
- Outage Management Systems
- SCADA Historian
- Mobile Workforce Management
- Advanced Distribution Management Systems
- Demand Response Management
- Advance Metering Infrastructure / Meter Data Management
- Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Systems