Joel Courtney from Energy Australia (cover parts of NSW)
- Fundamental business of power not changed in 100 years. Compared to technology and telecommunications
- Very high reliability requirements
- 60-80 year old infrastructure in places
- instrumentation limited as to home close it goes to customers. Only to distribution stations (30k of these) , sometimes substations
- Rolling out 4G and other wireless networks – priority is coverage not speed
- IP over power not viable solution
- Need to do something with all this data
System
- Need to integrate GIS and other information about state of network to make sense of raw numbers and how they relate to each other
- decided to go with web based system since clients had at used web. Browsers on desktops etc
- Web based systems more mature these days
- Lack of expertise in IT space
- Using GIS info and maps based apps to plan rollouts ( reduce tralvel distances)
- Some inspiration from flickr ( url structure, deep linksing, simple relationship between assets)
- Everyblock ( Integrating and agregating information on geographical basis)
- Twitter (asset reporting of event on timestamp, everything else is on top that)
- tumblr ( similar to twitter, move through streams of events)
- Google maps ( simple intergration, visualisation, assets in real world
ION
- Application for monitoring
- 750 sub-stations currently
- Previous systems used polling (didn’t scale)
- Push messaging
- Operators at this point able to get better locations of faults than in current systems
- Huge increase in information being collected (every minute vs once every few months in some cases)
- able to do overlay on google maps for assets (putting 30k on one map pushes google API). Percentage utilsation
- Some cases substation in remote areas only have a couple of customers. Not worth deploying especially since next generation metering will provide information
- Looking at future integration once smart meters rolled out. But data from this still be decided by power regulator. Strong privacy concerns.
- Mostly event related browsing now
- Sorter term pushing up into transmission space
- Interested in releasing more information to public. Need input on formats , interaction.
