When fire weather conditions escalate—as they have in the current wildfire season—utilities must act quickly to eliminate ignition sources. A wildfire can ignite immediately from an electrical arc or fault, with the biggest risk window between fault occurrence and power shutoff. This means advanced protection devices need to detect the fault and de-energize the equipment in milliseconds.

The challenge is that utilities must also minimize the impact of outages, limiting size and duration, and avoiding widespread power shutoffs that increase societal and economic impact. This requires being able to act with precision to locate and eliminate ignition sources. 

Surgical De-energization

Landis+Gyr’s Revelo® platform provides real-time data and predictive analytics that enable more “surgical” power shutoffs through rapid fault isolation and automated de‑energization of specific grid segments. 

Examples:

Revelo’s Enhanced Power Outage Notification data feeds analytics that provide greater fault location granularity. This enables faster isolation, reduced ignition exposure windows, and faster restoration time.

The Revelo Grid Location Awareness App and cloud analytics provide precise geo-referencing and transformer-level mitigation recommendations to minimize shutoff scope and support safer, faster re-energization.

Speed and Precision = Safe Operations

Get the details on how Revelo uniquely equips utilities to respond quickly to faults and act precisely to enhance safety and minimize service impacts. Download the Next Generation Wildfire Mitigation brief here.