The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has defined metrics for utilities to measure the success at which they operate their networks and provide energy. The System Average Interruption Frequency Index (SAIFI), how many customers lose service in an outage versus the total number of customers, and Customer Average Interruption Frequency Index (CAIFI), the number of service interruptions compared to the number of meters affected, are useful metrics to evaluate the implementation of Satelytics.

How? Vegetation is a leading cause of service interruptions, and vegetation management practices enhanced by our utility vegetation management (UVM) services can reduce outages across your network, improving your scores. Our UVM algorithms lend a data-driven approach to an old challenge.

Satelytics’ UVM algorithms measure tree height, tree health, and proximity of individual trees and branches to the wire zone, and identify speciation. Together, these analyses determine strike threat potential, directing ground crews to high-risk areas — providing immediate benefit to SAIFI and CAIFI numbers.

Our customers realize financial savings and system performance improvements by sending vegetation crews only where they’re needed in place of the traditional cycle-based approach. Constant Vigilance™ monitoring is also deployed to ensure contracted work was performed to company standards with work verification. Additionally, Satelytics can help reduce outage time due to natural disasters with post-storm evaluation, directing personnel straight to affected areas.

With Satelytics, results are returned a few hours after satellite overpass. Alerts and analysis details are posted to our cloud-hosted platform, and can be passed through via API to any internal program — so there is nothing to install on your company’s internal networks.

Ensure your company’s service is the best it can be with Satelytics UVM suite. Call us today to see how you can save.