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Space-Time Insight Named Finalist for Platts Global Energy Award
Together with the California ISO, Space-Time Insight was named a finalist in the “Sustainable Technology Innovation of the Year” award category, which recognizes technologies focused on renewable energy.
Geospatial Software from Space-Time Insight Helps Utilities Keep the Lights On
Designed to accommodate the microsecond measurements recorded by synchrophasors, devices used to measure the state and quality of the power system, Space-Time Insight introduces new software that arms control room operators with timely information needed to make instant decisions that impact grid stability and availability
California ISO manages 80% of California’s electric grid, using Space-Time Insight’s Market Intelligence, Grid Intelligence, Renewable Integration and Crisis Intelligence applications to detect anomalies, achieve economic efficiencies, maximize grid reliability, optimize the use of alternative power sources, and track fires that might affect power lines.
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
Situational Intelligence Solutions Gain Market Traction
As many organizations are overwhelmed by massive volumes of data needed to effectively run their businesses, situational intelligence is emerging as the go-to solution for critical decision-making, lowering risk and increasing customer satisfaction and profits.
Rob Massoudi and Cathy Minter join Space-Time Insight Executive Team
Rob Massoudi joins Space-Time Insight as Senior Vice President of Business Development and Strategic Partnerships, and Cathy Minter joins as Vice President, Strategic Industries.
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.
Steve Ehrlich To Lead Marketing At Space-Time Insight
Steve Ehrlich has been appointed Space-Time Insight's Vice President of Marketing. With over 25 years of experience, Ehrlich brings a wealth of marketing, product marketing and executive management skills to the company. Ehrlich has previously held executive positions at Oracle Corporation, Nuance, Apptera and BUZ Interactive.
Rob Schilling Joins Space-Time Insight as CEO
Rob Schilling, former SVP and General Manager for SAP North America, has been appointed CEO of Space-Time Insight. At SAP, Schilling was responsible for all utilities industry accounts as well as the Western Region, the top-performing North American region in 2010. Schilling brings more than 20 years experience in sales and general management experience to the company and has previously held executive positions at SAP Japan, Oracle Corporation, Siebel Systems, and Comergent Technologies.
November 23, 2010
Space-Time Insight Opens European Office in France
Space-Time Insight has opened its first European office in France. This move reflects the belief that the critical infrastructure companies in Europe have an advanced and highly sophisticated understanding of the value of real-time, visual, geospatial analytics. Recent advancements in Europe signal dramatic changes, which require new technologies and new paradigms for which Space-Time Insight technology is well-suited. As Space-Time Insight now enjoys the trust of influential enterprises in this geography, a decision was made to invest proactively in the European TSO and DSO market.
Intelligent Utility: Mauell Corporation Partners with Space-Time Insight, Inc.
Mauell Corporation, a leader in the design and implementation of purpose-built utility control room environments, today announced a strategic partnership with Space-Time Insight. Integrating the spatio-analytics software product of Space-Time Insight with its field-proven control theater technologies, Mauell will be able to deliver a more situational aware operation.
Press Release: Mauell Corporation Partners with Space-Time Insight, Inc.
Mauell Corporation, a leader in the design and implementation of purpose-built utility control room environments, today announced a strategic partnership with Space-Time Insight. Integrating the spatio-analytics software product of Space-Time Insight with its field-proven control theater technologies, Mauell will be able to deliver a more situational aware operation.
Real-Time “Spatio-Temporal" Visual Analytics
Space Time Insight™, the leader in visual, geospatial analytics software, today announced a break-through technology that helps visualize, analyze and detect smart grid data at performance levels never thought possible with commodity hardware. Using a unique patent-pending "spatio-temporal" processing technique, the space time server splits data from millions of meters and indexes it based upon spatial and nodal attributes.
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 the 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.
PennEnergy: Quentin Grady Joins Space-Time Insight as a Senior Vice President
Space-Time Insight, a real-time geospatial visual analytics software provider, announced that Quentin Grady, former general manager of Oracle Utilities has been named senior vice president, effective immediately.
Electric Light & Power: Quentin Grady Joins Space-Time Insight as a Senior Vice President
Space-Time Insight, a real-time geospatial visual analytics software provider, announced that Quentin Grady, former general manager of Oracle Utilities has been named senior vice president, effective immediately. Mr. Grady brings more than 25 years experience in the utilities and energy industries.
Renew Grid: Space-Time Insight Names Quentin Grady Senior Vice President
As senior vice president, Grady is responsible for building and leading a global sales force, scaling global delivery capability, devising channel strategy and providing domain expertise. Before joining Space-Time Insight, Grady was senior vice president and general manager of Oracle's tax and utilities global business unit. Previously, he was executive vice president and general manager, Americas, for SPL WorldGroup.
Press Release: Quentin Grady Joins Space-Time Insight as a Senior Vice President
Leading energy and utilities industry executive, Quentin Grady, former Senior Vice President and General Manager of Oracle’s Global Utilities Business Unit, joins Space-Time Insight.
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.
Press Release: Deep Smart Grid Technology Integrations Drive Added Value for Electric Utilities
Space Time Insight's Space-Time Awareness Server (STAS) v. 3.1, has been validated for IBM’s Solution Architecture for Energy and Utilities (SAFE) industry framework, making it easier for energy and utility customers to adopt smart grid technology. The combination helps users from the executive suite to the control room protect revenue streams and reduce cost, while leveraging all their existing investments in information and operational technology.
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.
Press Release - Space-Time Insight Named Cool Vendor for Energy & Utilities by Leading Analyst Firm
Space-Time Insight has been included as a “Cool Vendor” in the “Cool Vendors in Energy & Utilities, 2010” report by Gartner, Inc. In the report, Gartner Vice President and Fellow Kristian Steenstrup writes that “the energy and utility market sector is leveraging technology to improve operational efficiency while addressing energy sustainability issues” and that “utility organizations need to concatenate multiple sources of information to create the situational awareness that is required to deal with a host of increasingly complex decision-making processes.”
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.
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.
Renew Grid - Space-Time Insight Releases Demand Response Software Solution
Geospatial solutions firm Space-Time Insight has released its Demand Response Composite software product, which connects operations data with asset and customer data to support the visual balancing of energy consumption and supply conditions. The solution includes input from Space-Time Insight’s utility customers. It includes integration with ISOs or demand aggregators for consolidated demand-drop requests and integration with customer relationship systems for visualization of demand response contracts. It also includes selection filters for demand response customers, as well as visualization of load shave potential, price-demand elasticity and even the demand curve as a function of renewable generation.
Alternative Energy News – Space-Time Insight Announces New Smart Grid Solution
Space Time Insight's new Demand Response Composite software, the first solution of its kind, was developed with input from leading electric utility companies.
Press Release - Space-Time Insight Announces Demand Response Composite, New Smart Grid Solution
Space-Time Insight today announced the release of its Demand Response Composite, the first Smart Grid solution to support visual balancing of consumption and supply conditions. 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.
Press Release - Space-Time Insight Releases Upgrade to Crisis Composite for Extreme Weather
The upgrade to Space-Time Crisis Composite responds to growing global concern over the impact of extreme climatic and other environmental events on critical infrastructure. The upgrade 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.
Press Release - Space-Time Insight Awarded Capgemini Rapid Innovation Partner of the Year
Space-Time Insight quickly delivered geospatial composite prototypes for Capgemini customers participating in the Rapid Innovation program. Customers of Space-Time Insight realize benefits, such as accelerated ability to increase revenue and improved reliability, reduced operations and maintenance costs, improved customer service and the ability to prevent or proactively mitigate crisis situations. View customer testimonial video from SKF here: http://www.capgemini.com/resources/videos/building-a-bridge-with-rain-for-skf/. View recent Space-Time Insight product demo recordings in the demos section of the Resources page.
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.
Space Time Insight's new geospatial composite solution for the oil and gas industry is purpose-built to help oil and gas executives and operations teams to get every drop of value from each asset, as well as improve leak monitoring, proactive pipeline maintenance, and proactive crisis mitigation.
SAP Developer Network - STAS by Space-Time Insight Is New on SAP EcoHub
Space-Time Insight’s Space-Time Awareness Server (STAS), based on a Space-Time Advanced Calculation Engine and purpose-built for the creation of geospatial composites, enables organizations to multiply the value they get from existing SAP and other IT & OT investments.
Space-Time Awareness Server (STAS) has achieved SAP certification as "Powered by SAP NetWeaver®". Space-Time Insight's geospatial composite applications deliver comprehensive, context-, location-, and condition-based visual analytics on 3D satellite images for fast, informed decision-making with real-time situational awareness; geo-links that launch multiple processes for fast mitigation and remediation directly from the same screen. Automated compliance reporting simplifies adherence to regulatory guidelines, while full-context replay supports informed forensics, audit, planning and problem solving.
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
Space-Time Insight featured in Mercom Capital Group’s Market Intelligence Report on Smart Grid
Space-Time Insight provides utilities visual intelligence and remediation capabilities for the smart grid. Users get a rich picture of the grid and the interaction across assets, field personnel, weather, sensor data, SCADA systems, and energy demand and supply.
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
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.
Space-Time Insight Honored Among This Year's Most Promising Private Technology Ventures in North America
AnyGeo - Visualization Software Drives Rapid Response to Wildfires
An interesting application from STI designed to enable preventive action and rapid response to wildfires.
Space-Time Insight Visualization and Workflow Software Drives Rapid Response to Wildfires
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.
Geospatial Analytics Leader Space-Time Insight Secures Series A Funding From Opus Capital
Now Known as Space-Time Insight
Enterprise Horizons is now known as Space-Time Insight
Smart Grid Software Management: Greenmonk
Greenmonk interviews Krishna Kumar of Space-Time Insight at the SAP for Utilities conference on smart grid software manamgenet.
Green, SAP, and eSOA: JonERP.com
Jon Reed interviews Krishna Kumar of Space-Time Insight on the corporate green movement, eSOA, and energy consumption.
Jon Reed, independent SAP analyst, presents a compelling article on mash-ups and Enterprise Horizons (now called Space-Time Insight).
