Modernizing The Grid
Providing New Insights with Autonomous Learning
Using AI and Machine Learning to help keep the Grid up and Running Smoothly
New Visibility at Your Fingertips
Industry's only sensor fleet that installs without an outage and with no wiring
And that's only the beginning...
Achieve Transformational Change with an Autonomous Learning Platform
wave iQ®
- Grid Monitoring Dashboards
- Waveform Capture/Analysis
- Partial Discharge Detection
- Core Engine: AI and Machine Learning
- Fault Prediction & Avoidance
- Autonomous Learning
Advanced Grid Modernization Technology
Combining High-Resolution Waveform Analytics, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence
You now have the ability to monitor, analyze and action grid data in an entirely new way. At the core of the wave iQ® platform is an Advanced Sensing and Prediction engine, applying machine learning algorithms to electrical waveform signals, providing new insight into pending problems with a systematic approach to pre-fault detection and avoidance.
Improving both Reliability and Resiliency
Core Applications
Unmatched Visibility with SCADA+
With SCADA+, you leverage the computational power of "intelligence at the edge" bringing results of high-resolution waveform analysis to your SCADA dashboard to help predict and prevent failure.
Predicting Faults - with Autonomous Learning
At the core of wave iQ® and the SMART Block® devices, the ML engine is always running, analyzing, and learning from past and current events, helping to predict and prevent the next outage.
Cross-Triggering to Avoid Nuisance Trips
Set up a Cross-Trigger program so when one SMART Block® triggers, all SMART Blocks® trigger. Never before visualization of how events propagate from one bus to another to prevent Nuisance Trips.
Validating Relay Performance
Correct operation of protection relays is important to prevent nuisance tripping and also to help ensure the safety of the grid. Learn how SMART Block® edge devices are being used to validate the performance of protection relays.
Mitigating the Effects of Unwanted Harmonics
Excessive Harmonic content is a sure sign of problems ahead, with over-heating and stress on equipment. Real-time monitoring of over 50 harmonics helps ensure you avoid harmonic related problems.
Detecting Early Signs of Failure
Partial discharge defects within underground power cable insulation produce high-frequency electrical pulses that couple onto the cable shield and grounding conductors. These pulses travel along the cable system and can be measured at shield grounding points without direct connection to the energized conductor. High-frequency PD sensors, installed around the shield ground conductor, can detect these pulses, enabling online assessment of cable insulation condition.
Tracking Your Breakers with SOE Analysis
An SoE capture is an indispensable tool in validating the performance of key equipment on the grid and in gauging readiness for the next event.
Using Digital I/O for status and triggering
Incorporating Digital I/O into your edge intelligence opens up a wealth of new insights, ranging from time synchronization, equipment status, and real-time alert notifications.
High Resolution Fault Capture in COMTRADE format
Each SMART Block® captures and analyzes over 30 Million waveform cycles, per day, and in real-time, making decisions that can only be made at the edge. Atlas AI™, learning at the edge, helping to predict and prevent the next outage, captures and sends waveforms to wave iQ® for comparative analysis against larger populations and additional ML/AI application.
Using Sequence Components to calculate DTF
Using industry proven impedance-based algorithms, wave iQ™ Series pinpoints the location of faults so repairs can be undertaken quickly and safely.
Down Power Line Detection
Algorithms running within SMART Blocks® can provide key information as to the detection and location of down power lines so crews can respond faster to avoid prolonged and unsafe conditions.
Stay Informed with Alert Notifications
With wave iQ™ Daily Reports and Alert Notifications, you can rest assured knowing all is up and running smoothly on your network. Designate authorized users and notification schedules to ensure proper communication of key insights.
2 Implementation Options
Option 1
Option 2
Our commitment: Sustainability
Helping hydro power bring water to the southwest
When electrical circuits experience nuisance tripping, customers along the line feel it firsthand. And, if water pumps stop as a result, little time is available before serious conditions can arise. Fischer Block, Inc. is proud to have been selected to provide an early warning system, using machine learning and predictive analytical techniques, which is in use today, improving energy delivery reliability to this critical hydro industry.
Social Outreach
Tis the Season
It is now a tradition here at Fischer Block, Inc. - Each year, we rent a local kitchen and get busy making cinnamon snacks, loaded with wheat chex, pecans, and maple syrup. What started out as a thankful year-end gesture to our happy customer base has now grown into a Christmas-time tradition of giving to needy families and our friends at the local Salvation Army.
Diversity
Empowering Women to New Heights
The field tech team at Fischer Block, Inc. was recently happy to have their VP/Director of Strategic Accounts, Margaret Paietta, accompany them uptower, to get a few photos for her next article. You can see some of these photos in an upcoming edition of North American Clean Energy.