Africa is a continent known for its ingenuity. To solve South Africa’s electricity challenges, CT Lab envisioned a new approach to power monitoring and management, transforming power quality and grid resilience.

With the rise of broadband sampling, GPS time synchronicity, broadband connectivity, IoT and low voltage, broadband Current Transformers & Voltage Transformers, we saw the potential for a shift from traditional thinking.

What if the solution was a grid-wide fleet of synchronized devices with comprehensive monitoring & remote management capabilities that could manage all grid data in real-time?

What could happen when synchronised, networked, general purpose computing power was brought to the edge of the grid network?

Imagine a fleet of monitoring & management devices, deployed throughout your electricity-grid. Each device streaming energy data to a central data-store, providing near real-time event classification and grouping.

Imagine a monitoring device, analysing full sample rate electrical waveforms, in memory, in real-time, against A.I. learned event patterns. Configured to trigger alerting, response and protection mechanisms as the events happen.

Imagine a fleet of thousands of these interconnected devices, collaborating with each other as events happen, triggering grid management and protection protocols, in real time.

The journey has been tough, but with OTELLO, we’ve delivered just that.