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Big Picture
Utilities currently face a perfect storm: an aging grid suffering under growing power demand, intermittent supply, and more intense and frequent extreme weather events. In addition to rolling blackouts and soaring power bills, outdated grid infrastructure is sparking unprecedented wildfires that burn millions of acres of land and rack up enough legal liability to send utilities into a death spiral.
How it Works
Gridware provides real-time distribution grid monitoring. Their solar powered nodes contain 18 ultra-high frequency sensors that unlock instantaneous risk sensing and failure prediction even in the most remote environments. This empowers utilities to remotely predict, detect, and prevent infrastructure degradation, eliminating maintenance costs and avoiding dozens of wildfires.
Unfair Advantage
Utilities spend billions each year deploying field officers to remote areas to search for line risks and failures. Gridware’s IoT-alternative can sense risks remotely and instantly, reducing search time and crew deployments by 90%. A node can be installed in five minutes during routine inspections. They’re cheap enough for a utility to install on every single pole for less than the damages from a single wildfire.
90
Percent lower
search times for line risks and failures
TIM BARAT CEO & CO-FOUNDER
Tim began his career as a linesman before starting his own electrician company. He holds degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
ABDULRAHMAN BIN OMAR CTO & CO-FOUNDER
Abdulrahman previously worked as an engineer for Aramco and Schlumberger.
Gridware is building early-detection sensors for power grid failures and wildfires
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Wildfires produced record-breaking emissions this year from U.S. to Turkey
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