Tollgrade Smart Grid LightHouse 4.0

Smart Grid
Solutions
Tollgrade Smart Grid Solutions
LightHouse® 4.0 Platform with Predictive Grid® Analytics
© 2014 Tollgrade Communications, Inc. - Confidential

Overview
Corporate Overview
Smart Grid Opportunity
LightHouse 4.0 Platform
Why Tollgrade?
© 2014 Tollgrade Communications, Inc.

Tollgrade is a Trusted Partner
 World Leader in Access Network Test Systems
 Incumbent positions in many of the world’s largest telecommunications providers
 Perform the automated test process for over +200 million copper access lines worldwide
 Expertise in Algorithms, Data analysis, correlation and dispatch in large networks
 Leading Edge Smart Grid Portfolio
 Key Utilities – Duke Energy, CenterPoint, First Energy, Iberdrola, National Grid
 International Expansion - Western Power Distribution (UK), Partnerships Latin America
 Leverages large Telco expertise in fault analysis and data accuracy monitoring 200M+ lines

#1 Smart Grid Sensor Market Leader

Smart Grid
Solutions
Opportunity

Grid is a $360B Asset
Little Visibility

Tollgrade LightHouse Platform
Software-Defined Smart Grid Sensors
Integrated Communication & Data Plan
SMS with Predictive Grid® Analytics Software

Medium Voltage (MV) Line Sensors
Operations:
 Low current operations to 3 amps
 Inductively powered, battery-free operation
 4KV to 69KV
 Clamps directly to conductor (#6 AWG to 795 MCM)
 Operating temperature: -40C to +85C (-40F to +185F)
 GPS: location, timestamp, Auto-phase ID, Time Synchronization
 20 Year MTBF
Measurements:
 Current (0-17,000 RMS amperes)
 Nominal RMS current
 Fault and Surge current
 Conductor temperature
 Power quality (sags, swells, harmonics)
 Power factor
 Voltage (Electric field strength)
First Sensor to pass Homologation in Brazil

Lightweight, “Hot Stick” Deployable Solution

Sensor Management System (SMS) Software
Configurable Reporting, Actionable Intelligence
• Substation, circuit and sensor views
• Google® Maps
• Event summaries
• Dashboard reporting
• Waveform display
Remote Sensor Management
• Configuration templates / auto configuration
• User defined thresholds / parameters
• Diagnostics
• Remote upgradeable firmware
• Seamless integration via DNP3 to SCADA, DMS, OMS
Predictive Grid® Analytics
• Fault analytics: Fault detection, correlation and location
• Event analytics: Peak current, inrush
• Operations analytics: Vegetation management, cap bank blown fuses
• Asset management analytics: Recloser counting, fuse operations
• COMTRADE or .csv waveform export
Only Sensor with Predictive Grid® Analytics

Raw Data Capture
Classification
Planning, Reporting,
Trending & Alarms
Predictive Grid®
Analytics
4 Layers of Analytical
Processing for Improved
Accuracy & Grid
Intelligence
1
2
3
4
SMS – The Intelligence Behind Our Sensors
Only Sensor with Predictive Grid® Analytics

Competitive Differentiator – Analytics Filtering
4-month period: 87 FCI Events
Only 6 True FCI Events
Reduced False Alarms
Accurate regulatory reporting
Eliminate wasted time
Faster location of faults
LightHouse Analytics Filtering:
81 Normal Operations
Load Switching
Capacitor Bank Operations
Adjacent Phase or Feeder Fault

Why LightHouse Is a Better Investment
LightHouse Sensors
Capture Data
Alternative
Solutions
False Alarms
Bloated Databases
More OpEX
SMS Filters
Suppresses False Alarms
Only Real Events
Shared via DNP
No Analytics;
False Alarms Not Filtered
DNP Data Directly from Sensor

Tollgrade LightHouse Architecture
Substation
Monitoring
Fault
Detection
Distributed
Generation
Load
Monitoring

“Highest functionality”
“Working better than other Fault
Current Indicators”
“It is a complete and robust
solution where others are lacking”

Why Tollgrade?
Good for Utilities Good for Consumers
 Avoid Outages
 Restore Service Faster
 Better Quality of Service
 Fewer Outages
Reduce OpEx
Lowers Carbon Footprint
Ensures Crew Safety
Better Customer Service
© 2014 Tollgrade Communications, Inc

Smart Grid
Solutions
LightHouse 4.0

Key Features
New in LighHouse 4.0:
Substation Monitoring Reporting
Enhanced Accuracy & Crew Safety
 Auto-phase ID
 Sensor Time Synchronization
More Integrated Communications
 GSM sensors
International Deployment Update

Smart Grid
Solutions
Substation Monitoring

Why Monitor Substations Transformers?
Helps Avoid Failure:
• Avoid overloading
• Aging transformer fleet
• Monitor for phase imbalance
Business Case:
• Eliminate truck roll
• Have a record of events that are
leading indicators for failure
• Replacing before failure costs less
than replacing after failure

Growing Risk by 2020
“The average age of transformers is rising worldwide. There is likely to
be a significant increase in the number of failures by 2020”

Distribution Network

Why?
• Prevent overloading failures
• Detect phase imbalance
• Have reports to show regulators (needed to replace substations prior to fail)
• Aging transformers
Benefits
• Save operating expenses (reduced truck rolls, man hours)
• Its less expensive to replace a transformer before it fails
• Fraction of the cost of substation automation project
• Deployable in minutes not days or weeks
• Comms integrated (no fiber)
• Immediate benefit, low investment, low risk

Configurable Reporting Dashboards

Smart Grid
Solutions
Enhanced Data Accuracy &
Crew Safety

Distribution Networks Becoming More Complex
 Human errors
 Storm restoration
 DMS systems require accurate data to automate
switching and to speed restoration
 Without accurate data, crews don’t know where to go
 False positives / false alarms

Tollgrade Offers Best-in-Class Accuracy
Auto-Phase ID
 Sensors know what phase they are connected to
 Utilities will know when their records are incorrect
 Improves fault location, enhances crew safety, speeds restoration
GPS Time Synchronization
 System wide time synchronization of data using GPS
 Precise coordination of interval measurements for accurate reporting
 Key for integration into other back office systems

Smart Grid
Solutions
Integrated Communications
Expands global footprint

GSM Expands Tollgrade’s International Footprint
Support for GSM Networks
 Expands Tollgrade’ footprint into international markets
UK & Europe
 Western Power – Project Falcon
 Expansion in UK
 Product trials in Europe
Latin America
 Deployments in Brazil and expansion in Latin America
 Partnership with ELO (#1 Meter Manufacturer)
 Homologation Certification for Brazil

Why LightHouse?
 Only sensor to provide single fault location to DMS
 Only sensor to operate in low current (3 amps)
 Only sensor to provide location data
 Only sensor to provide automatic phase ID
 Easiest integration to SCADA, EMS or DMS over DNP3
 Easiest deployment (e.g. can install before summer peak)
North America’s #1 Smart Grid Sensor Leader
© 2014 Tollgrade Communications, Inc. All rights reserved.Slide 32

Low Risk Deployment for the Utility
 Favorable costs when compared with other SG
 No comms cost for 5 yrs with bundled offering
 No contracts to engage in for data service
 No technology obsolescence
 Remote firmware upgrades
 If a better technology comes around, use it
 ROI captured 6 – 18 months
 Unlike AMI, does not touch every customer
 Mobile, so not a stranded investment.
 If substation retired or automated, reuse sensors elsewhere
 Favorable maintenance contracts
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Conclusion: Smart Grid Sensor Leader
 LightHouse is an award-winning platform
 DA is next big growth engine; requires best-in-class accuracy
 We are the #1 Smart Grid Sensor Market Leader
 Proven deployments at world-leading utilities on 3 continents
© 2014 Tollgrade Communications, Inc

Smart Grid
Solutions
Thank You
Learn more by visiting www.tollgrade.com

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