TRUGrid™ Automation Suite

A data-centric suite of AI-driven applications and analytics that helps utilities protect assets, prioritize investments, anticipate problems and respond in real time when they arise.

Now more than ever, utilities need visibility, command and control over their distribution grids, and Tantalus’ TRUGrid™ Automation solutions provide that visibility. The TRUGrid suite of applications and analytics tools leverages artificial intelligence to pinpoint anomalies from power quality data to isolate failing assets and provide utilities with proactive insights to resolve vulnerabilities as they arise.

A Data-Centric Approach to Improving Distribution Grid Operations

TRUGrid solutions empower utilities to strengthen their distribution grids through AI-powered analytics and insights. By transforming data from disparate connected devices into reliable, actionable insights, TRUGrid helps operators avoid outages, reduce operational costs, and enhance customer satisfaction.

TRUGrid solutions harness power quality and grid performance data captured across the entire network—from substation to behind-the-meter—to identify potential issues, optimize assets, and protect critical infrastructure.

TRUGrid Automation Suite Components

TRUGrid includes a portfolio of AI-powered, data-centric analytics tools and software applications that give utilities predictive insights and real-time control across grid assets:

TRUGrid Reliability: A data analytics tool that leverages power quality data accessed through Tantalus’ TRUConnect™ AMI solution to help utilities identify failing assets deployed throughout an electric distribution grid that can lead to power outages or potential fires. 
TRUGrid Transformer: A data analytics tool that visualizes real-time transformer data across the grid, so utilities can identify voltage issues, sags and swells, and how many hours a transformer has been under- or over-loaded. Through the analytics tool, utilities determine when it is time to replace or repair a transformer and prevent catastrophic outages. 
TRUGrid SCADA: A distributed client/server supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system that supports multiple front-end processors, servers, and operator workstations. It offers real-time distribution grid monitoring and control of field area network devices. 
TRUGrid Restore: A software application that works to restore power to electric customers using connectivity models and feeder conditions to automatically locate and isolate faults to reduce the duration of power outages.
TRUGrid Mitigate: A software application that allows electric utilities to manage distribution systems and assets effectively, safely and rapidly to mitigate the risks of wildfires, extreme weather events or natural disasters by automating the control schema of distribution reclosers. Integrating TRUGrid Mitigate with existing reclosers, local climate information and wildfire severity forecasts allows the utility to be ready for those challenging conditions at a moment’s notice.

Closed Loop Voltage Reduction (CLVR™):A software application that monitors voltage data from a set of monitored meters and serves that data to a SCADA system for the control of electrical feeder voltage. CLVR provides voltage values and alarms and does not issue commands to the SCADA system. This software application utilizes the TRUConnect Edge Module as well as the TRUConnect Network to deliver the data and conditions to the user interface and then the SCADA system where decisions can be automated to either raise or lower voltage based on the information from the TRUConnect Edge Module.
Distribution Automation Bridge Modems:Intelligent, connected devices that utilize TRUConnect to communicate serially with DNP3.0 distribution automation equipment across the distribution grid. The DA Bridge Modem is a physical device that can be co-located inside the cabinet of the distribution automation equipment that enables communication over the TRUConnect Network.
TRUTrack™: A highly accurate electric transformer metering and monitoring device designed for an electric utility to address issues quickly and cost-effectively, such as energy diversion and theft, tampering and asset management. TRUTrack is a meter socket with pre-attached wiring used to connect directly to an existing transformer.

Benefits Include:

Real-time visibility, command and control across the entire grid
Voltage reduction/monitoring, including peak shaving cost reduction
Reduced outage times and increased system uptime for customer satisfaction
Proactive maintenance, including right-of-way vegetation management
More effective crew management
Easy integration of renewable resources
Enhanced safety for communities and utility workers

As part of the Tantalus Grid Modernization Platform™ (TGMP™), TRUGrid Automation solutions work seamlessly with TRUSense™ Gateway devices and TRUSync™ Grid Data Management, providing a unified view of grid performance from the substation to behind-the-meter.

By taking advantage of Tantalus’ data-centric technology architecture, TRUGrid solutions deliver the final piece of Unified Intelligence: actionable insights that lead to better real-world outcomes for utilities and the communities they serve.