ENERGY & UTILITIES

Using cloud to ensure delivery of services and utilities

THE IMPORTANCE

Energy and utilities must provide around the clock service continuity of supply, not only to power the consumer and business world, but also to, to ensure transparent and accurate billing. Fleet management of critical assets is essential to monitor conditions, which could flag safety, maintenance or consumable issues to the business, allowing proactive steps to be taken to reduce any business impact.

Our work with clients has covered renewables such as wind and storage batteries, as well as traditional public utilities, helping deliver robust and secure AWS IoT solutions. We have also been involved in brokerage and customer facing services, delivering secure and scalable AWS solutions into those businesses.

Anglian Water, the UK’s largest water company by geographical area, has undergone a multi-year programme to build a Smart Water Network using condition-based monitoring (CBM) on pumped and rotating assets. This approach puts insight and data at the heart of decisions and helps keep the network efficient, reliable and resilient as its region grows and adapts to climate change.

The condition-based monitoring platform developed with Green Custard uses a combination of key AWS IoT services and intuitive end-user-focused designed interfaces, which has allowed Anglian Water to achieve its goal. All sensors at the Offord site were brought online and delivered all the required data to a single-pane dashboard.

By working with Green Custard, Anglian Water was able to identify that its existing CBM data sets were of the necessary quality and accuracy to implement machine learning, and so avoid wasting time trying to develop a solution that would not succeed. Instead, Green Custard implemented alternative monitoring solutions at the Offord site which Anglian Water can use as a proof-of-concept to show its other CBM providers

"Green Custard listened to exactly what we needed for functionality and capability in our dashboard; they hit the mark first time with their solution. Working with Green Custard made us a more intelligent customer: now that we know what we want is achievable, we can work with our other providers to build this capability."

Charlotte Stewart

Senior Engineer, Smart Water Systems, Anglian Water

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