NETWORK VISIBILITY
Network operations depend on understanding what is happening in the field
Distribution system operators are under growing pressure to maintain reliability, integrate new energy resources and manage increasingly dynamic network conditions.
Yet much of the distribution network remains difficult to observe. Insight is often concentrated at substations, leaving operators with limited understanding of conditions developing across feeders, assets and the grid edge.
Without timely and reliable information, emerging issues can remain hidden until they affect customers, impact performance or require intervention.
EYKON helps utilities extend operational awareness across the distribution network, providing the information needed to monitor changing conditions, investigate issues and support day-to-day operations with greater confidence.
OPERATIONAL GAPS
Common operational challenges
Many utilities have detailed information at primary substations but less understanding of conditions across the wider distribution network.
Without information from the grid edge, developing issues can remain hidden until they begin affecting customers, assets or reliability.
Electrification, distributed energy resources and changing demand patterns are creating new operational challenges across MV and LV networks.
Operators need better information from across the grid as systems become increasingly connected and dynamic.
Power quality and network performance are increasingly important for reliability, customer satisfaction and regulatory compliance.
Utilities need a clearer understanding of developing issues before they become larger operational problems.
Utilities often operate a combination of control systems, substations, communications infrastructure and field devices developed over many years.
New monitoring and control capabilities must fit into existing environments and workflows rather than create additional silos.
OPERATIONAL AWARENESS
From field data to operational awareness
Gain a clearer understanding of what is happening across the distribution network.
EYKON combines intelligent field devices, operational measurement capabilities and integration with utility systems to help operators monitor network behaviour, investigate anomalies and make more informed operational decisions.
Information from across the network can be connected with existing operational environments, helping utilities understand changing conditions, identify emerging issues and support day-to-day operations with greater confidence.
Rather than relying solely on information from substations and customer-reported issues, utilities gain awareness closer to where conditions are developing across the distribution network.
Measure
Capture information from across the distribution network through grid-edge monitoring, operational measurement and intelligent field devices.
Connect
Bring field intelligence into utility operational environments, creating a more complete view of network behaviour across substations, feeders and network assets.
Understand
Monitor changing conditions, investigate anomalies and gain greater awareness of what is happening across the network.
Operate
Support day-to-day network operations with more informed decisions, earlier identification of issues and greater confidence in network performance.
CAPABILITIES
How EYKON helps
- Extend awareness across the distribution network Gain insight closer to where issues develop, helping build a more complete understanding of network performance.
- Strengthen operational awareness Monitor key indicators, identify abnormal behaviour and understand changing network states with greater confidence.
- Connect field intelligence to utility operations Integrate information from field devices with SCADA and operational technology environments, supporting established utility processes and decision-making.
- Support modern grid operationsBuild a stronger operational foundation for increasingly digital, connected and actively managed distribution networks.
BENEFITS
What utilities gain
Gain broader insight into conditions across the distribution network.
MEASUREMENT HERITAGE
Extending expertise from measurement into grid operations
For decades, EYKON technology has supported critical measurement applications across electricity networks.
As utilities seek greater understanding of network behaviour and operational performance, EYKON is extending this heritage into grid monitoring and control. By combining grid-edge intelligence, operational measurement and integration capabilities, EYKON helps utilities strengthen awareness across the distribution network and support modern grid operations.
This builds on EYKON’s experience in utility measurement, communications and operational environments, creating a natural progression from measurement towards broader operational insight.
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