Utilities

Predictive Analytics for
Utilities

Quickly respond to demand and supply changes.

Utilities need to improve strategic alignment, strengthen customer focus and gain visibility into the impact of the customer, supply and financial decisions.

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Predictive Analytics for Utilities

In order to anticipate, or quickly respond to, demand and supply changes, utilities need to improve strategic alignment, strengthen customer focus and gain visibility into the impact of the customer, supply and financial decisions.

Version 1 Predictive Analytics solutions for water, electricity and other utility suppliers help them:

  • Identify and understand customer behavioural patterns
  • Forecast water consumption and energy usage
  • Align supply and distribution to customer demands
  • Predict maintenance issues and reduce the impact

Primary Analytics Solutions for Utilities

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  • Predictive Maintenance

    Predictive maintenance solutions from Version 1 can predict when and where equipment failures are likely to occur, avoiding unanticipated equipment downtime and reducing maintenance costs.

    • Predict when and where asset failures are likely to occur
      • Leverage from the Internet of Things (IoT) sensors readings on instrumented assets
      • Combine external data with internal data, such as environmental and weather data with data from Asset Management and Supervisory Control Systems
    • Avoid asset downtime and reduce maintenance cost
    • Perform root-cause analyses of asset and process failures
      • Mine maintenance logs to determine the most effective repair procedures and failure patterns
    • Visualize maintenance and operational insights and ensure Operational Efficiency through alarms prioritization and recommendations
  • Planning & Customer Analysis

    Drive revenue growth, increase competitiveness and improve customer loyalty by better understanding customer needs and aligning your supply and distribution to their demand.

  • “We are opening up a whole new approach for predictive and prescriptive analytics in oil and gas.”

    Steven Benn, Manager Exploration & Production Technologies Santos Ltd.

    Utilities Case Studies

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    Case Study – Santos

    When a critical asset fails in one of Santos’ operations, the result can be lost revenues and more time on the road for engineers. Santos needed to find a way to identify faults before failures occurred. To maximize production uptime and promote safe, efficient maintenance, Santos predictively models data from assets connected to the Internet of Things, providing early warnings of equipment failure.

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    Case Study – Aqualia

    Aqualia operates as a water management company wanted to accurately forecast water consumption for its agricultural, industrial and consumer customers. Utiilising IBM®SPSS Modeler the utility now has the precision to accurately align its water supply resources and operations to demands.

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