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Globema’s Smart Grid Software is a robust solution designed for technical calculations, management of power distribution networks, and real‑time monitoring and control of voltage levels and energy usage. It includes tools like GeoGrid GIS and digital twins for accurate grid modelling and analysis, enhanced by AI/ML for automated network updates and efficient low‑voltage topology management. It supports key distribution grid processes, network documentation, outage management, service provisioning, investment planning, maintenance, and control support, built atop GE Smallworld GIS for LV, MV, and HV networks. Integration-ready APIs enable seamless connection with SCADA, ERP, and asset management systems. Globema also offers mobile workforce management via GeoTask and GeoTraxx, map-based apps, AI/ML-driven analytics, and intelligent energy network visualization tailored to energy operators.

Globema’s Mobile HeatGrid is a smart, mobile-first solution that digitizes and optimizes heating network operations by automating task creation for field technicians, streamlining planning, and tracking progress in real time. It integrates a dispatcher’s interface, a mobile technician app, and a GIS system, creating a unified environment for efficient fieldwork management. It automatically generates tasks, collects data on-site, and provides status updates as jobs advance, transforming traditional processes into a seamless digital workflow. Designed for district heating companies, Mobile HeatGrid incorporates GIS mapping, enabling dispatchers to assign and monitor jobs based on precise geospatial locations, while technicians receive clear, step-by-step instructions on their devices. It supports full digitization of heating network assessments, field inspections, and maintenance activities, reducing manual entry and enabling real-time coordination.

ABB’s Grid Automation Solutions provide pre-designed, fully engineered, and factory-tested automation cabinets ready for installation in secondary substations, indoor or outdoor. These cabinets include protection and control devices such as Relion REC615, RIO600 I/O units, Arctic wireless gateways (ARx600), third-party RTUs, batteries, chargers, and I/O terminals, all pre-wired internally to simplify integration. These "GA boxes" integrate seamlessly into ABB's secondary compact substations, enabling fast deployment of digital substations that support efficient, reliable smart grid operation. ABB offers solutions for both greenfield installations and brownfield retrofits, addressing needs from basic monitoring to advanced measurement, protection, control, and automation functions. With secure wireless communication capabilities, substations can be connected to control centers or DMS systems via public mobile networks.

ABM Connect is a powerful, end‑to‑end data intelligence platform that brings real‑time, actionable metrics, robust reporting, and up‑to‑date KPIs, all at a glance. It connects clients to ABM’s workforce, operational leaders, and business intelligence via seamless, transparent data flows from field applications into a user‑friendly client interface. Clients benefit from continuous tracking of operational history and daily activities—including traditional KPIs (safety, financials), real‑time servicing updates, daily scope reports, invoice PDFs, and work order history, augmented by actionable analytics for continuous improvement. It empowers front‑line team members to clock in, follow scoped task routines, complete required training, note building deficiencies, receive and address ad‑hoc tasks, and communicate with supervisors.

UtilityIQ (UIQ) is a head‑end software suite that includes applications designed to help utility operators collect and manage AMI meter consumption data. Applications such as Advanced Metering Manager (AMM) and Meter Program Configurator (MPC) are secure and scalable solutions to support meter reading, management, and analysis for power quality, meter status, peak pricing, and more.

Fluentgrid MDMS enables utilities to extract full value out of meter data across the organization by efficiently processing data from meters and a variety of other devices in the smart‑grid ecosystem. It loads, validates, structures , and stores that data in ways that can be easily accessible for internal and external downstream systems across the utility. It supports standard functionality for Validation, Estimation, and Editing (VEE), aggregations, event subscriptions, bill determinants, and AMI rollout processes. A true commercial off‑the‑shelf (COTS) product, Fluentgrid MDMS can be quickly set up to work with leading meter head‑ends in target markets. It processes data in real time, identifying anomalies, detecting inefficiencies, forecasting future demand, and providing automated alerts and notifications to support proactive issue resolution.

Siemens Grid Software is designed to accelerate the energy transition of power grids by delivering mission‑critical capabilities that help grid operators decode and shape a future‑proof power landscape. It is part of the Siemens Xcelerator for Grids portfolio and supports digital transformation across power utilities. It encompasses solutions like Spectrum Power, a globally leading grid management system that alleviates the complexity of modern grid operations by offering resilience, reliability, modularity, scalability, openness, interoperability, and cybersecurity. For high‑voltage transmission, the software provides tools and insights to future‑proof supply security and market efficiency. It addresses key disruptive forces, decentralization, decarbonization, and digitalization, giving operators the perspective and guidance needed to manage evolving grid demands confidently and securely.

AspenTech Grid Apps is an integrated solution suite for active management of distribution grids, crowd‑sourcing data for improved visibility of network conditions, DER (Distributed Energy Resource) connections, and outage response. It includes multiple applications: AspenTech Grid Reporter reports and displays real‑time status of network outages, faults, and damage while delivering notifications for time‑to‑restoration, crew locations, and emergency contacts; AspenTech DER Connect enables self‑service DER registration and streamlined connection requests, with automated electrical network and cost analysis via a centralized DER database; AspenTech Network Maps provides geographical views of network load demand and generation capacity; and AspenTech Resilience Portal offers real‑time information on resources, assistance, and assets during large‑scale outages.

CGI OpenGrid DERMS is a distributed energy resource management solution designed to help utilities intelligently and safely integrate, orchestrate, monitor, dispatch, optimize, and settle operations involving diverse DERs across the distribution grid. Built on an API‑based, cloud‑native OpenGrid Foundation platform, it enables registration, validation, and connection of independently owned DERs alongside utility‑owned assets, providing complete visibility and control over power, Volt‑Var, and voltage at the transformer and feeder level. It supports both static and dynamic aggregation of disparate DERs, allowing utilities to develop, optimize, and dispatch coordinated schedules based on operator priorities, fault proximity, connection agreements, or financial goals. Dispatching can be manual, scheduled, event‑triggered, or imported from external systems.

Corinex Grid Flexibility solution transforms the electric grid into a fully integrated AMI network by leveraging existing powerline infrastructure to enable high-speed, secure smart metering, monitoring, provisioning, and IoT management. It empowers two-way communication between utilities and customers, facilitating efficient energy management, real-time data collection, outage detection, demand forecasting, and time-based programs to reduce costs and consumption. This G.hn‑based Broadband-over-Power-Line (BPL) system supports edge computing and AI at the meter level, enabling autonomous grid operation, over-the-air firmware upgrades, built‑in security, and resilience designed for extreme environments. The scalable architecture supports millions of network elements, virtual metering, outage isolation, automated meter reading, and seamless integration with grid management software like GridValue EMS.

The SEMS platform delivers real-time insights into electrical consumption by tracking more than 40 parameters, including active and reactive power, voltage, current, frequency, power factor, and total harmonic distortion, through a web or mobile interface. It supports 3-phase 3-wire or 4-wire systems with Class 0.2s metrology accuracy, communication over GPRS/WiFi, and internal storage for backup. The solution allows consumption-pattern analysis for any interval, consolidated data access from a single portal, and automated reading with no human intervention. Designed to serve commercial and industrial customers, SEMS enables cloud-based data upload, centralized dashboards, detailed reporting, internal usage monitoring, and improved efficiency for power-exchange bidding. Comprehensive monitoring and analytics help organizations optimize energy usage, identify inefficiencies, minimize wastage, and support purchasing decisions.

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Utilities are evolving and the expectations of your customers are changing as well. These changes are being driven by smart grid, increasing mobility, and changing expectations from customers on how they wish to interact with their utility. Most CIS solutions have struggled to address these changing requirements and are limited by legacy technology. In addition, market consolidation among CIS vendors has limited competition, increased prices and left utilities with few alternatives to choose from. SpryPoint is excited to disrupt the market and offer the first enterprise CIS built from the ground up to be delivered in the cloud as a service. SpryCIS was built to address the challenges faced by today’s evolving utility.