by Angela Guess
A new article reports, “The California Independent System Operator Corporation has installed an 80-foot by 6.5-foot screen in its control room to display real-time power-grid data from thousands of endpoints. Its new system is powered by software from Space-Time Insight, whose software melds real-time geospatial data with Google Maps to give ISO employees access to the data they need in a format that’s very useful. It might be the most-cutting edge ISO control room in the world.”
It continues, “The problem that required such an extreme solution is the massive scale at which everything takes place in California. The ISO, for example, manages about 85 percent of California’s power load, totaling more than 286 billion kWh of energy per year across more than 25,000 miles of line. Employees are inundated with data, said Jim McIntosh, an executive director at California ISO, so they needed something that would present it to them in a useful manner.”
The article goes on, “What Space-Time Insights’ software does is present data however it will be most beneficial for that customer’s particular needs. It maps data — from wherever and whenever it’s from — in-memory for fast access, organized geospatially as well as by time. The result might be the popular map view, or it might be any number of heat maps, correlation, trending or any other number of more-classical data views. Additionally, Space-Time’s Steve Erlich told me, customers can customize the application how they see fit to create their own visualizations, functions, data workflows or other capabilities.”
photo credit: ISO
