Gordon Jahn M.Eng Ph.D

Chief Technical Officer

Data Visualisation

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Consultancy and software company based in Glasgow, UK

Provide service and software including consultancy, applied research, and commercial software development

Work with a number of utilities and vendors

A lot of our work has been international, primarily North America and Europe.

25+ different clients in 12 countries

Involved in IEC standards work regarding software and data modelling including IEC TC57 Working Groups 13, 14, 16 & 19

Work focussed on Model Driven Architectures, Open Standards and cutting-edge technologies

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Overview• Establishing the optimal analytics and visualisation methodologies to support grid planning and operation

for a single network as well as multiple networks for comparison

• Achieving speed of visualisation when dealing with unstructured data sets from multiple sources across the grid

• Optimising visualisation interactivity to ensure data can be fully explored and anomalies identifiedeffectively

• Ensuring effective interworking of data science and grid engineering colleagues to maximise exploration effectiveness

• Improving the visualisation tool to ensure its robustness for additional applications and key performance indicators

• Reviewing the range of visualisation tools and open-source libraries on the market and how they can be adapted for grid analytics

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Establishing Optimal Analytics

Customer Reported Data

Organisational Data

Live StreamingReview and Prototype

Strategic Visualisation

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Grid View®

5

ⓘField crew application for on-line and off-line integrated data access with Geographical, Augmented Reality and Dynamic Form interfaces and work order management.

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Ensuring Speed of Visualisation

Gather

• Time Series

• Discrete Event

• Warning and alarms levels

Store

• Ingest

• Normalise

• Align

Present

• Widgets

• Visualisations

• Alerts

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Grid Dynamics

7

Real-time sensor data storage and visualisation supporting wide area monitoring of the network. Visualise current and historical data integrated with the electrical network model.

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Optimising Interactivity of Visualisation

Visualisations

Network Models

Operational Data

Weather

Collated Data

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Grid Reporter

9

A customer-facing smart-phone application for crowd-sourcing outages and equipment damage using intelligent server-side processing leveraging electrical network models.

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Grid Insight for Reporter

10

Management interface for interactive data visualisation. Supports the utility interaction with Grid Reporter users including real-time messaging to devices.

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Ensuring Effective Interworking

Identify Opportunity

Integrate and Present Data

Review Effectiveness

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Grid Insight for Lightning Tracking

12

Takes lightning from third-party data provider and performs geo-lookups to highlight equipment at risk, allowing operators to focus on important strikes

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Grid Insight for Lightning Tracking

13

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Improving tools for new apps and KPIs

• The “Open” in Open Grid Systems

• Approach has always been to integrate using international and de-facto standards

• CIM / IEC 61970 for electrical network integration

• Appropriate extensions as required

• RFC 7946 / GeoJSON for overlay and features

• Allows ready integration of third-party data

• JSON, XML and OData (in OASIS standards process) to make data available via GridIM

• Data available directly via RSS/XML for integration, or consumption via Excel, SharePoint, etc

• Active Directory for authentication

• Integrate authentication for ready access to data and minimise the maintenance burden

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Tools and Libraries Available• Usual mapping libraries from Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc

• An unlikely source? Uber

• https://eng.uber.com/data-viz-intel/

• deck.gl: https://uber.github.io/deck.gl/

• https://d3js.org / https://vega.github.io/vega/

• Open Grid Systems now making native libraries available

• Allows custom apps focussed to specific markets using the mature GridIM integration backend

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Put It All Together