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KTVU: Old windmills get replaced by new, faster wind turbines
As renewable energy such as wind turbines replace aging windmills, KTVU profiles how the California ISO modernized their control center. This modernization leads to improved management of the California eletrical grid and the ability to visualize changing renewable energy levels in real-time.
KTVU: Energy crises a possibility in distant future
KTVU examines how aging power plants impact the California grid and highlights how the California ISO, the state's power grid operator, monitors the state's generation capacity and offers warnings about possible short-falls in the distant future.
Smart Grid News: The votes are in - Meet 12 smart grid companies we'll be watching this year
Smart Grid News announces Space-Time Insight as one of the 12 Smart Grid Companies to Watch in 2012 from their third annual search.
Greentech Media: And the Smart Grid Winner Is...
Space-Time Insight customer, the California ISO, is announced as winner of Powergrid International Magazine's Best Grid Integration of Renewables Project of the year at Distributech 2012.
Datanami: Space-Time Aims to Make the Grid Smarter
Space-Time Insight launches their situational intelligence suite for utilities, which aims to help energy companies reach peak operating efficiency by delivering solutions for energy, telecom and transportation industries with real-time visualized data.
Smarter Utility: Space-Time Insight Debuts the Situational Intelligence Suite for Utilities
Helping companies transform massive volumes of real-time, historical and predictive data into intuitive displays for rapid decision-making, Space-Time Insight has unveiled the Situational Intelligence Suite for Utilities.
Greentech Media: Smart Grid, Rendered in Space and Time
Space-Time Insight goes live with its “Situational Intelligence Suite for Utilities”, a smart meter data mapping and analysis-in-a-box product.
Smart Grid News: 12 Smart Grid Companies to Watch
Smart Grid News includes Space-Time Insight in their "Smart Grid Companies to Watch in 2012" series.
Powergrid International: Data Complexity Poses Next Big Challenge
This article explores the massive increases in data volumes, the challenges posed by this data complexity and the solutions found in situational intelligence, which takes data integration and visualization to the next level.
Computerworld Video: A Rare Look at Big Data Visualization for Power Grids
IDG News Service goes behind the scenes at the Cal ISO control center to discover how a 65-foot long wall with tiles and post-its on it to designate fires, was converted to "a wall full of pertinent information, from weather to power line grids" using Space-Time Insight.
GigaOM: How Big Data Will Manage a World of 7 Billion People
GigaOM's CleanTech includes Space-Time Insight and its data and geospatial visualization software in an examination of how big data will help manage a world of 7 billion people and growing.
PowerGrid International: Situational Intelligence Keeps Crises from Turning Catastrophic
Space-Time Insight CEO, Rob Schilling, explains how situational intelligence, powered by data and geospatial visualization software, keeps crises from turning into catastrophes.
Electric Energy T&D Magazine - Visualize This: A Smarter Approach to Managing Renewable Energy
The California Independent System Operator’s (ISO) new control center houses the first dedicated renewables dispatch facility in the nation, and what makes this facility unique is a new grid visualization technology powered by advanced geospatial software.
EPRI Smart Grid Demonstration Initiative: Three Year Update
EPRI describes how it uses Space-Time Insight for a project at Entergy (see pg. 22).
Being able to monitor demand in near real time and avoid a total grid shutdown that puts safety and property at risk makes more business sense than, literally, operating in the dark. (see p29.)
Fierce Energy: Space-Time Insight Situational Awareness Helps Utilities Avoid Outages
Space-Time Insight introduces new capabilities in its software to simplify a utility's ability to assess the performance of the electric grid and visualize, analyze and act on large volumes of data received from multiple sources, a critical requirement in the deployment of Wide Area Situational Awareness (WASA) systems.
Greenbang: Real-time Grid Awareness Can Help Avert Disaster
New software aims to provide control room operators with timely information needed to make instant decisions that impact grid stability and availability based on microsecond measurements recorded by synchorophasors.
Directions Magazine: Location-based Situational Intelligence for California's Utility Operator
California Independent System Operator (Cal ISO) deploys Space-Time Insight's geospatial solutions for "situational intelligence" to manage the state's power grid. The solution employs Space-Time Insight's real-time view of situations impacting power supply such as weather and natural disasters.
New York Times/GigaOm: How California uses Space-Time Insight and Big Data to Manage Power
California Independent System Operator Corporation explains how Space-Time Insight's software led to a quantam leap in how they visualize, analyze and act on massive quantities of data.
Smarter Technology: Visualization Analytics Writ Large
An 80 foot wide visualization display simultaneously tracks data streams from thousands of sensors to provide the real-time analytics necessary to balance a statewide electric grid.
Vector1 Media: Space-Time Insight Delivers Situational Intelligence to California Utilities
The California Independent System Operator Corporation (Cal ISO) has incorporated Space-Time Insight's real-time geospacial software applications for market, grid, and crisis intelligence as well as monitoring and integration of the variable energy flow of renewable energy sources.
Sacramento Business Journal: California ISO win judges choice award for project
For pure "wow factor," it's hard to beat the control room at the Folsom headquarters of the California Indepedent System Operator.
Energy Biz: California ISO’s State-of-the-Art Control Center
California ISO's state-of-the-art control room features ten new visualization screens displaying information using Space-Time Insight. The screens focus on fast start up of power plants, voltage stability, renewable forecasting, congestion management and reliability.
Utility Products: Situational Intelligence Software Improves Field Effectiveness
Situational intelligence provides field service managers with the operational visibility to make informed decisions that will save valuable time and resources in critical situations.
Intelligent Utility: Situational awareness requires data visualization tools
San Diego Gas & Electric discusses their use of situational awareness software to identify problems on their grid and gain 24/7 visibility into its behavior.
PowerGrid International: California ISO Delivers Modern, Efficient Grid – see pages 42 and 46
In summer 2009, the California ISO deployed Space-Time Market Composite, a geospatial visualization and analytics application designed to graphically display over 3,000 market pricing nodes. This software application from Space-Time Insight helps ISO operators understand why prices are higher in one area than another. The underlying technology is being applied in new ways to provide grid operators with tools to help them keep the grid reliable, efficient, and cost-effective.
Vector1 Magazine: Could Full Context Have Prevented the Deepwater Horizon?
This article is the first edition of a quarterly column that will address the importance of a common operating picture, in full geospatial and temporal context, with intuitive real-time analytics and alerts for infrastructure operations across a variety of sectors. Topics addressed in this article: sub-millisecond, high volume data; human psychology and the unexpected; the importance of full context; and ways to overcome challenges to achieving a common operating picture.
Space-Time Insight integrates with IBM’s Maximo Asset Management, WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Application Server, ILOG Elixir and DB2 Enterprise 9 software. Space-Time Insight’s geospatial, visual analytics specifically offer advances in context-aware, preventive and condition-based maintenance and field service.
Renew Grid: Space-Time Insight Technology Integrates With IBM Solutions
The Space-Time Awareness Server (STAS) v. 3.1 has been validated for IBM's Solution Architecture for Energy and Utilities (SAFE) industry framework, received validation for Ready for IBM Tivoli software, and will be included in IBM's Open Process Automation Library catalog.
Electric Light & Power: Space-Time Insight Named “Cool Vendor” for Energy & Utilities by Analysts
Space-Time Insight’s software integrates real-time data from devices and sensors with enterprise data and web feeds for high performance correlation, analysis and visualization. The resulting situational intelligence enables more informed business decisions and timely prevention or mitigation of operational concerns directly from a satellite view of the location of an event.
Organizations that can integrate real-time analytics with enterprise data and intuitive geospatial visualization have the data they need to inform better decisions, benefit from early warning, and gain an often critical advantage by having extra time to prepare for and mitigate a situation, thereby limiting its impact and accelerating remediation. The geospatial future of disaster response has arrived. The article discusses new technology trends for disaster response and preventive action.
Forrester Research: Social, Spatial and Temporal, The Coordinates of Community in the Cloud
People's proximity -- measured in social, spatial, and temporal coordinates -- is the matrix within which we measure the situational complexity of real-world decisioning environments. Most noteworthy about Space-Time Insight, the vendor of a geospatial business intelligence (BI) platform, is their "space-time OLAP" engine, rules engine, and spatial processor, which are is optimized for in-memory, real-time correlation, calculation and visualization of location, time, and social proximity among individuals, as well as among any other "nodes."
PowerGrid International: Renewable Energy Says, It’s Time to Take Me On
Leading by example, the United States’ largest independent transmission system operator began the trek to the intermittency solution with the first logical step: geospatial visual analytics. By combining real-time data on grid congestion, dynamic line rating, and weather shifts with predictive analytics and energy production forecasts, they are better able to integrate more renewable energy into the grid – under a variety of weather conditions.
ebizQ: BI’s Next Frontier – Geospatial Cloud Computing
Location, location, location. Every action has a location component and a time component. Geospatial cockpits with cloud computing capabilities can now integrate the wealth of cloud data with internal operations information to help define and execute optimal business decisions in real-time.
Google’s Official Google Enterprise Blog: Welcoming Earth API
In these climate-conscious times, Space Time Insight enables utilities to visualize critical streams of data using the Earth API from smart grid data to current wind conditions.
Transmission & Distribution World: Demand Response Composite Software
Space-Time Insight’s Demand Response Composite supports visual balancing of consumption and supply conditions. One of Space-Time Insight's smart grid solution offerings, the Space-Time Demand Response Composite correlates streaming data with enterprise data to deliver rich geospatial analytics and enable fast, informed decisions directly from a satellite view of the grid and surrounding urban/suburban terrain.
LBx Journal – Time: the Fourth Dimension
Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku declared that time travel, “…once confined to fantasy and science fiction...is now simply an engineering problem.” Today, from the standpoint of operations improvement and top-line growth, it’s an engineering problem that’s been solved. Case study examples include applications for electric utilities, oil & gas, and railroad. Use case applications include real-time geospatial analytics, correlation and action; full-context historical playback; and forward scenario planning – all on a 3D, interactive satellite image canvas.
Intelligent Utility: I Can See for Miles
The Who's 1967 hit song, “I Can See for Miles,” is about being able to perceive reality – even if it’s obscured. This article illustrates geospatial solutions electric utilities use to 1) interpret multi-source data, including real-time sensor feeds that require correlation with other data for contextual understanding, and 2) take timely, informed action. Use cases include mitigation of system disturbances caused by asset degradation, natural disasters, or human error; load curtailment and demand response; and smart grid management.
Smart Grid Newsletter: Latest in Smart Grid and Smart Metering
Space-Time Insight's new Space-Time Demand Response Composite is the first ever smart grid solution to support visual balancing of electricity demand and supply.
Insight magazine: Global Leaders Profile: Space-Time Insight
The Global Leader’s Profile gives specific examples of 9 challenges faced by electric utilities, independent system operators (ISOs), and other critical infrastructure companies, that can only be solved by – or are most efficiently addressed with – geospatial composite solutions. Designed for energy utilities, independent systems operators, and other critical infrastructure companies, Space-Time Insight’s Space-Time Awareness Server and geospatial composites deliver a unique value proposition: a single, intuitive geospatial view for complete situational awareness—and fast, informed action from the same screen.
Smart Grid Blog: Smart Grid Solution Supports Visual Balancing of Consumption and Supply Conditions
Space-Time Demand Response Composite is the first smart grid solution to support visual balancing of consumption and supply conditions.
Electric Light & Power: Smart Grid Solution Supports Visual Balancing of Consumption and Supply
Space-Time Insight's Demand Response Composite is cited to be the first smart grid solution to support visual balancing of consumption and supply conditions. One of Space-Time Insight's smart grid solution offerings, the Space-Time Demand Response Composite correlates streaming data with enterprise data to deliver rich geospatial analytics and enable fast, informed decisions directly from a satellite view of the grid and surrounding urban/suburban terrain.
In response to growing global concern over the impact of extreme climatic and other environmental events on critical infrastructure, Space-Time Insight’s new upgrade release to its Space-Time Crisis Composite adds geospatial analytics that correlate the effects of hurricanes, earthquakes, lightning, ice storms and man-made events on grid assets and supports on-screen action scripts that guide operators in taking fast action before, during and after the event.
Space-Time Insight has been selected as a Finalist for Commercial Technology of the Year in the 11th Annual Platts Global Energy Awards. Established in 1999, the Platts Global Energy Awards has become the most recognized awards program in the industry and recognizes innovation, leadership, and superior performance in categories spanning the entire energy industry.
Intelligent Utility: You Can’t Always Get What You Want, But You Can Get What You Need
Control room operators want no surprises and an unambiguous path to resolving problems. Space-Time Insight can give operators what they need. Space-Time Insight’s geospatial visualization and remediation composites provide context-rich, situational awareness for timely decisions and enable the right actions from the same screen.
AnyGeo: A New Geospatial Composite Solution for Oil and Gas Companies
New from Space Time Insight a new solution purpose-built to help oil and gas executives and operations teams get every drop of value from each asset, as well as improve leak monitoring, conduct proactive pipeline maintenance and do proactive crisis mitigation. Space-Time Insight composite apps for the oil and gas industry automatically integrate features and data from geographic information systems (GIS), real-time weather, environmental and equipment sensor data feeds, and data from enterprise systems for asset management (EAM)
GIS News: Space-Time Insight Released Geospatial Solution for Oil and Gas
Space-Time Insight announced the release of a new geospatial composite solution for the oil and gas industry. The solution is purpose-built to help oil and gas executives and operations teams get every drop of value from each asset, as well as improve leak monitoring, conduct proactive pipeline maintenance and do proactive crisis mitigation.
LBx Journal: The Power of Location Intelligence – Spring/Summer 2009
Space-Time Insight's geospatial dashboard enables supply chain planners to visualize demand and supply across locations, over time, and in the context of local seasons and weather conditions. This helps planners more effectively meet demand. The solution includes real-time data feeds, alerts, and analytics and is directly linked to workflow systems. Planners use the application for location-intelligent and condition-aware visual scenario planning. Popup remedial action and workflow scripts link directly to workflow systems. Time-based streaming with full-context historical playback enables root cause analysis.
Intelligent Utility: July/August Issue – We Didn’t Start the Fire
In the summer of 2008, wildfires raged throughout California - up to 1500 fires on one day. Utilities’ critical transmission and distribution assets lay in the path of hundreds of fires. Despite the chaos and general pandemonium, electric power flowed throughout the state. Outages were minimized. The grid was balanced. Commerce flowed. Economic disruption was a fraction of what it could have been. The article briefly describes how Space-Time Insight enabled utilities and ISOs to balance the grid and ensure reliable energy throughout the crisis.
July 27, 2009
Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition (DRSG): Adds Space-Time Insight
DRSG added Space-Time Insight to the coalition. DRSG is the trade association for companies that provide products and services in the areas of demand response and smart grid. DRSG works to educate and provide information to policymakers, utilities, the media, the financial community and various stakeholders.
Spatial Sustain: Tackling the Space-Time Problem
Space-Time Insight delivers geotemporal insight and dovetails nicely with SAP and other enterprise solutions
Vector1 Media: Interview - Adding the Time Component to Visualize Change
Article briefly describes California ISO's use of Space-Time Insight to help balance transmission and distribution across the grid – even during crisis situations like wildfires. The article indicates how utilities interested in smarter demand response management for integration of renewable energy resources, organizations interested to green their supply chains, and emergency first responders can all use Space-Time Insight for visualization, geospatial analytics, compliance, remedial action scripts, and direct links to workflow
AnyGeo: Utilities Prepping for Storm Season
San Diego Gas & Electric have STI to enable rapid response to wildfires and enable preventive efforts.
AnyGeo: Visualization Software Drives Rapid Response to Wildfires
An interesting application from STI designed to enable preventive action and rapid response to wildfires.
Venture Beat: Space-Time Insight lets power plants monitor changing needs
Space-Time Insight (STI), maker of software that lets utilities and other infrastructure companies pinpoint data abnormalities on satellite maps, announced that it just brought in an undisclosed first round of funding to further develop its technology.
Greenmonk: Smart Grid demo at the SAP for Utilities Conference
Greenmonk interviews Krishna Kumar of Space-Time Insight at the SAP Utilities conference on smart-grid software management.
SAP Podcast: Jon Reed Interviews Krishna Kumar and Paul Kurchina on "Green, SAP and eSOA"
Jon Reed interviews Krishna Kumar of Space-Time Insight on the corporate green movement, eSOA, and energy consumption.
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