Smallworld PTI Interface

In today's utility environment, companies are moving from stand-alone analysis applications to integrated enterprise-wide solutions. These systems provide designers, planners, operation engineers, and managers with intuitive easy-to-use support for analyzing network issues ranging from provision of service to long-range system expansion. While Smallworld Core Spatial Technology* provides the tools to model and maintain the real world assets and physical network for the enterprise, power systems technology is essential to deliver the complex mathematical algorithms for electrical network analysis.

As a result, the Smallworld PTI Interface* was developed to integrate with PSS/Engines(TM) from Siemens Power Technology International, LLC, a leader in power systems technology. PSS/Engines is a suite of network simulation libraries that helps users solve a wide range of electric network analysis problems. These libraries seamlessly embed the power of Siemens PTI's network analysis capabilities into enterprise-wide information systems.

Embedding these libraries within the Smallworld PTI Interface* allows basic analysis functions such as load flow, short circuit, and motor start calculations to be performed within the geospatial environment. In addition, more advanced analysis is available through optional PSS/Engines, including Capacitor Placement Optimization (CAPO) and Tie Open Point Optimization (TOPO). For more advanced capabilities, the electric network maintained in the Smallworld environment can be exported via PSS/Engines “hub” files for use in other Siemens PTI products such as PSS/Adept(TM).

Benefits

  • Single source of data: Eliminates the need to recapture network assets and maintain redundant data sets in order to develop new power analysis studies/scenarios. The ability to use a single data source reduces data entry time and cost (up to $70,000 per year for large networks) and helps avoid data integrity and update issues.
  • Integrated network analysis: The advanced analysis tools in PSS/Engines provide information to optimize the network during the design and network planning process. Integrating network planning with the design process reduces engineering time and minimizes network overbuild.
  • Multiple design scenarios: With the Smallworld PTI Interface 4, multiple design scenarios can be analyzed, compared & contrasted. The performance of one network configuration against another using profile graphs provides for graphical selection of the optimum network plan.
  • Spatial representation of data: Thematic mapping, profile graphs, and results presented in correlation with the facility network or schematic representation provide power tools for the decision-making process.

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