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Unlocking Smarter Asset Management and Operational Efficiency

In today’s evolving energy landscape, utilities face increasing pressures to maintain reliability, manage costs, and meet sustainability targets. Gomero’s SIPP Hub provides a platform for critical assets at substations that consolidates sensor data, advanced analysis, and both strategic and operational insights, enabling utilities to monitor, manage, and optimise their infrastructure more effectively.

Utilities operate in complex environments, with dispersed infrastructure and growing expectations for performance and environmental compliance. Traditional monitoring approaches often leave operators reacting to issues rather than preventing them. SIPP Hub addresses this challenge by connecting transformers, switchgear, and other critical assets to a centralised management platform.

Connecting critical assets to actionable insights

A key advantage of SIPP Hub is its ability to integrate with various asset management systems, such as IBM’s Maximo Asset Management (MAS), or other platforms already in use by utilities. This allows sensor and operational data to be consolidated with work orders, streamlining maintenance planning and ensuring timely, informed decision-making.

“The synergy here is remarkable,” says Colin Williams, Principal Technology Specialist, IBM. “IBM brings a global perspective and technological expertise, while Gomero offers unparalleled specialisation in energy and utility operations. Together, we’ve created a solution that connects physical assets at the edge, such as substations and transformers, to IBM’s Maximo domain. This integration not only improves asset performance management but also scales globally to address industry-wide challenges.”

Gomero SIPP Hub pilot project Ellevio

Delivering tangible customer benefits

For utilities, SIPP Hub translates into clear operational and strategic advantages:

  • Improved efficiency: Centralising monitoring and integrating with work orders reduces manual inspections and accelerates decision-making.
  • Enhanced safety: Remote monitoring lowers exposure to operational risks for staff in substations and field operations.
  • Proactive maintenance: Real-time data enables early detection of potential issues, reducing downtime and avoiding costly unplanned outages.
  • Environmental protection: Better oversight of critical assets helps prevent incidents and supports sustainability goals.

Verified customer value – Ellevio

Ellevio, which had already implemented SIPP Nodes, recently upgraded to Gomero’s latest SIPP Hub technology, providing new opportunities to collect data in a standardised and uniform way.

“The upgrade to Gomero’s latest SIPP technology gives us new opportunities to collect more data in a standardised and uniform way.
With the new equipment and communication solution for data collection, the starting point to connect assets becomes significantly shorter. It also means a big difference compared to having to qualify new suppliers and solutions or carry out proof of concept projects,” says Mattias Airiman, Head of Process and IT Support at Ellevio.

By connecting sensors across critical assets to SIPP Hub and integrating the data into various asset management systems, including IBM MAS, and work order processes, Ellevio has streamlined maintenance planning, improved operational oversight, and taken actionable insights to the next level.

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