Praxis is lightweight to deploy but a heavyweight when it comes to improving your utility’s internal operational efficiency
For utilities that can’t afford teams of engineers and data scientists to crunch numbers, Praxis is the right solution.
Praxis underlies applications like GridFin and GridScan and instantly frees your technical teams from repetitive and distracting spreadsheet formatting, data cleaning and organizing. Instead, you and your teams can receive outputs on demand and collaborate to solve problems every day.
Praxis incorporates the following types of data, and more.
Connect and upload data continuously from GIS - ESRI, Google Earth, Milsoft or ETAP.
No need to maintain GIS-specific information across multiple applications. Just use one GIS system to empower other apps with geographic and network connectivity data.
SparkMeter curates and stores your rate data to do specialized analyses on rate effectiveness and new rate design possibilities.
Use your own AMI data or purchase SparkMeter’s LV sensing and meter hardware to get the right data to address your needs.
SparkMeter works with your energy suppliers to achieve the most detailed view possible of how your cost of power is calculated, minute by minute across your substations.
SparkMeter connects directly to your primary metering points like substations through connections to substation AMI or distribution automation equipment like SEL relays.
Praxis organizes each of your data sources into an accessible format. AMI, GIS, asset, and supply data is organized for SparkMeter applications like GridFin and GridScan. This also becomes available to third-party services or customized applications. This eliminates the need to download, format, clean and organize data manually.
SparkMeter applications analyze data according to the critical needs of a distribution utility. This is possible because SparkMeter utility and power system experts understand the analytics you need to manage an electric grid. More general analytics platforms or those adapted from other industries don’t have this specificity.
GridFin and GridScan automate common workflows to save your team’s time. The power to analyze large pools of data enables outputs at the push of a button that would never be possible to assemble otherwise, such as true cost of power every minute of the year or a “P&L” for every customer meter. Organizing your data via the Praxis Platform automates wherever possible to make your job easier, your work safer and your service better.
Learn how Praxis can improve your utility.