Energy
Transforming the Energy Sector with OWL
As the energy sector faces increasing demands for safety, efficiency, and innovation, geo-location and geo-fencing technology offer powerful solutions to address these challenges. For electricity distribution companies such as National Grid, Iberdrola, and SSE, these technologies are critical in reducing safety risks, optimising logistics, and improving operational efficiency across both daily operations and large-scale capital delivery projects like the Great Grid Upgrade.
With the backing of industry, geo-location technologies such as OWL are becoming essential tools for creating safer, smarter and more efficient energy networks.
Enhancing Safety Across Energy Distribution and Generation
Safety is the top priority in the energy sector, where the risks of electrical hazards, vehicle interactions and hazardous work environments are ever-present. OWL can help mitigate these risks by providing real-time visibility of personnel, vehicles, and equipment, ensuring a safer working environment.
Preventing Safety Incidents
OWL creates virtual boundaries around high-risk areas, preventing workers and contractors from unintentionally entering hazardous zones. This is particularly crucial for preventing people from interfacing with dangerous plant machinery or vehicles, reducing the risk of injury or fatalities.
Electrical Safety
With the presence of both overhead and buried electrical services, OWL can alert workers when they approach high-voltage areas or equipment. These real-time warnings ensure that work crews maintain safe distances from power lines and transformers, preventing electrical contact incidents. OWL also supports the safe operation of live equipment during routine maintenance or capital works, minimising disruptions to service.
Maintaining Situational Awareness
In busy, high-risk environments, losing situational awareness can have devastating consequences. OWL ensures that all personnel are continuously aware of their proximity to hazardous areas, electrical infrastructure, or live systems, reducing the risk of accidents due to distraction or fatigue.
Statistics to Consider
According to the UK’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE), over 1,000 workers annually suffer electrical injuries, with a significant portion due to accidental contact with live equipment or services. OWL can dramatically reduce these risks by providing constant oversight and proactive safety alerts.
Driving Operational Efficiency in the Energy Sector
The energy sector operates in a fast-paced environment and improving efficiency is key to meeting demand while maintaining high standards of service delivery. OWL can help to significantly enhance operational efficiency by optimising the use of resources and streamlining logistics.
Improving Capital Delivery Projects
Large-scale initiatives, such as the upcoming Great Grid Upgrade by National Grid, require precise management of resources, personnel, and equipment. Geo-location technology allows project managers to have real-time visibility of plant and machinery on site, ensuring that assets are fully utilised and tasks are completed on time. This improves overall project efficiency and reduces the likelihood of costly delays.
Maximising Plant and Equipment Utilization
OWL provides insight into how vehicles, tools, and machinery are being used across multiple sites. By tracking asset usage in real time, distribution companies can improve the utilization of their fleet and equipment, reducing downtime and avoiding unnecessary duplication of resources. This leads to better cost management and a more efficient allocation of resources across projects.
Streamlining Operations and Maintenance
For day-to-day operations, OWL can help teams manage and track personnel across wide distribution networks. Whether responding to an emergency or performing routine maintenance, real-time tracking ensures that the nearest team is dispatched to the correct location, improving response times and overall operational efficiency.
Supporting your Capital Delivery Projects
OWL will also play a key role in capital delivery projects, such as substation upgrades, new grid infrastructure installations, and renewable energy developments.
Enhancing Safety on Capital Projects
During high-risk activities like construction or substation expansion, OWL can be used to ensure that workers and equipment stay within designated areas. This helps prevent accidental damage to underground or overhead services, reducing the risk of electrical incidents while protecting the integrity of the infrastructure.
Streamlining Logistics for Large-Scale Projects
Capital projects require precise logistics and resource planning. OWL offers real-time visibility of all assets and personnel on site, improving coordination and efficiency. This is especially important for remote or complex sites, where logistics challenges can impact project timelines and costs.
Ensuring Regulatory Compliance
By monitoring personnel movements and equipment usage, OWL helps energy companies comply with stringent Health and Safety regulations and Electrical Safety Rules. This reduces the risk of non-compliance and ensures that projects adhere to industry standards set by regulating bodies. OWL also provides the ability to set competency based access to zones, allowing competent and authorised people into a work area and alerting for others looking to enter.
Leveraging Powerful Data Insights for Better Decision-Making
The real value of OWL lies in the data it provides. With detailed, real-time insights into personnel, equipment, and resource movement, energy companies and their Contractors can make more informed decisions that improve safety, efficiency and overall project management.
Real-Time Monitoring
Having a real-time view of people, vehicles, and machinery across multiple sites allows for better coordination and quicker responses to emerging challenges. This ensures that operations run smoothly, minimising downtime and maximizing productivity.
Data-Driven Decisions
The data insights gathered through OWL can be used to identify inefficiencies, track equipment usage and optimise logistics planning. Over time, this data enables continuous improvement in project delivery, ensuring that resources are used more effectively and operations are streamlined.
Key Features and Benefits
Ready to Power the Future with OWL?
As the energy sector continues to expand and modernise, OWL offers the solution to address the key challenges of safety, efficiency, and logistics. From routine maintenance to major capital delivery projects like the Great Grid Upgrade, these technologies provide electricity distribution companies and their contractors with the tools they need to operate more safely and efficiently.
Stay ahead of the curve with real-time visibility and data-driven insights. Contact us today to discover how OWL can power the future of your operations.
