Lansub · Operational digital twin for energy assets
Run more power through the grid you already own.
Digital Twin reads the SCADA and sensor data you already collect, works out what every line, transformer and machine can safely do right now, and puts the next action in front of your operators with the physics to back it up.
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- Kafka contracts, 1 s cadence
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- independently scalable services
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The problem
Grids are being asked to carry 2030 flows with 1990s ratings, calendar maintenance and scattered data.
We built Digital Twin around six constraints that came up in almost every control-room and asset-management review we sat in.
of real line capacity hidden by static seasonal ratings
Static ratings assume worst-case weather all season. On most hours the conductor could carry far more. That margin shows up instead as congestion cost, curtailment and multi-year upgrade projects.
Source · GE Vernova software-only DLR references; research/01
of renewable LCOE is O&M
Turbines, inverters and batteries generate thousands of alarms but little foresight. Failures are found by calendar or by outage rather than by condition.
Source · GE Digital Wind Farm; research/02
lead time for a large power transformer
When replacement takes years, knowing the true ageing rate of the units you own (IEEE C57.91 hot-spot, loss-of-life) is worth more than any spare.
Source · Supply-chain constraint; research/02
grid bottleneck: the interconnection queue
Developers wait years while feeders sit with unknown hosting capacity. Screening is manual, evidence is scattered and every study starts from scratch.
Source · DOE iQMS / LBNL; research/01
annual grid investment needed by 2030 (vs. USD 400 B/yr today)
You cannot build your way out on that timeline. Operators need to extract more from existing assets, safely and with evidence regulators accept.
Source · IEA via IBM; research/01
is the most-cited blocker to digital twins in energy
SCADA, historians, EAM, GIS and weather live in separate systems with separate identities. Without a shared model there is no twin, only dashboards.
Source · POWER Magazine, Cyient, IBM; research/01
How it works
Connect. Model. Act. Live on your telemetry inside 90 days.
No rip-and-replace. Digital Twin reads from the systems you already run, models what the data means physically, and hands your team decisions they can defend.
Connect
Read-only connectors for SCADA, historians, MQTT / Sparkplug B, OPC UA, Modbus, LoRaWAN (ChirpStack / TTN) and plain webhooks. Telemetry lands once on Kafka and fans out to every engine. Nothing writes back until you certify it.
Model
A CIM/CGMES-aligned twin graph joins your assets to live data. Physics engines score every line, transformer, turbine and feeder each second: ratings, health, remaining life and per-tag data quality, each traceable to its standard.
Act
Recommendations arrive with expected MW, expected USD and confidence. Dual-control approvals, work orders and a hash-chained ledger track every decision through to the value it produced.
How value is created
A conductor's real limit changes every minute. Digital Twin computes it, forecasts it and shows exactly how much is dispatchable.
We solve the IEEE 738-2012 heat balance per line span against live weather cells and measured load: Joule heating in, convective and radiative cooling out, solar gain on top. The shaded area is capacity a static rating leaves unused.
more line capacity from software-only dynamic ratings
GE Vernova reference
renewable curtailment reduction in a UK DLR demonstrator
IJEPES citation
less downtime and up to 5-year life extension with fleet PdM
GE Digital Wind Farm reference
pilot time-to-value on your own telemetry
Digital Twin pilot design
The product
One console. Every module runs on the same twin, the same events and the same ledger.
Every screen below is captured from the running platform. Each KPI, alarm and rating on it was computed by a service you can inspect.
Dynamic line ratings & forecast
IEEE 738-2012 steady-state heat balance on live weather cells and measured load. Real-time DLR, 0–240 h forecast with 1-σ uncertainty bands, study mode and FERC 881-style evidence export.
/ratings · /forecastIEEE 738-2012CIGRE TB 601 (R2)
Situational awareness (God's Eye)
One geospatial operating picture across every site: flows, ratings, alarms, health. Seven display modes, tours, follow-mode, whiteboard markup, time travel and natural-language commands.
/gods-eyeMapLibre + deck.gl
Fleet & asset health
Health index and remaining useful life per asset from physics-informed models: transformer hot-spot ageing, wind power-curve deviation, PV performance ratio, ISO 10816 vibration zones, breaker contact wear.
/fleetIEEE C57.91IEC 61400-12IEC 61724ISO 10816-3IEC 62271
3D site twin
Substations, plants, wind and solar parks, refineries and mines in 3D with live sensor overlays, thermal views, inspection mode and what-if physics per equipment.
/twinReact Three FiberglTF equipment kits
Insights, recommendations & ROI ledger
Streaming z-score anomaly detection (Welford, exponential forgetting) plus threshold alarms with hysteresis on 60+ tags. Every recommendation carries expected MW, expected USD and confidence; status tracks open → accepted → realised.
/insights · /actionsreco.eventsUSD 12/MWh default
Incidents, work orders & dispatch
Alarm-to-crew workflow with SLA timers, dual-control approvals (second approver enforced server-side), fleet dispatch and a SHA-256 hash-chained audit ledger.
/incidents · /work-orders · /dispatchplatform-service
Hosting capacity & developer portal
Feeder-level hosting capacity with smart-inverter and flexible-interconnect options, IEEE 1547 screening, 8760-hour profiles and a persisted interconnection queue with stage SLAs.
/hosting-capacity · /portalIEEE 1547DC power flow
Scenario studio & playback
DC power-flow (B-θ) engine with island detection for outage, weather and load scenarios; full historical playback of the twin state.
/scenarios · /playbackpowerflow-serviceNumPy
Data quality scoring
Per-tag 0–100 quality score from gap, flatline, spike and drift detectors, so operators know when a number cannot be trusted before they act on it.
dq-servicetelemetry.quality
Copilot (grounded)
Deterministic tools over the twin with citations into the ledger. Drafts actions that still require human approval; LLM planner swappable behind the same interface.
/copilotcopilot_draft approvals
Compliance & administration
Tenants, users and roles, API keys, integrations, retention tiers, ontology versions, feature flags and the audit ledger, with identity provided by the built-in identity service.
/compliance · /adminRBAC · 6 roleshash-chained audit
End to end
From a sensor reading to a signed-off, valued action in one auditable loop.
This is the actual path an event takes through the services. Hover a step to read what happens there.
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Ingest
Edge collectors post telemetry batches; ingest-gateway validates the contract and publishes to raw.telemetry.
1 s cadence · OPC-style quality codes
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Model
dlr-service solves IEEE 738 per line; equipment-sim / asset-health run per-class physics; dq-service scores every tag.
ratings.realtime · telemetry.quality
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Detect
insights-service raises threshold alarms with hysteresis and streaming z-score anomalies; a CAPACITY_UNLOCK or INSPECTION recommendation is created with expected MW / USD / confidence.
alarms.events · reco.events
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Decide
An operator accepts in Action Center. High-impact kinds require a second approver — self-approval is rejected by platform-service.
approvals · dual control
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Act
A work order or dispatch is created and tracked to closure; write-back to EMS/EAM stays behind a feature flag until the connector is certified.
work orders · dispatch
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Prove
The recommendation is marked realised with realised_value_usd; every step is a SHA-256 chained entry in the audit ledger.
audit_ledger · ROI
Physics, not heuristics
Health index derives from the standard's ageing acceleration factor, oil and winding temperatures and load history — so an engineer can trace every point of the score.
Guard-railed actions
- reco.accepted by operator@…L-201 CAPACITY_UNLOCK +38 MW45384540f…
Dual-control approvals reject self-approval server-side. Every entry hashes the previous one, so the ledger cannot be edited without detection.
Advisory first
Digital Twin ships in advisory mode. Write-back to EMS and EAM systems is behind a tenant feature flag and only enabled after the connector is certified with your operations team — the status bar says so on every screen.
Architecture
Event-driven, standards-based, deployable anywhere.
Telemetry lands once on Kafka and fans out to every engine. Each service scales on its own (KEDA on consumer lag for writers, HTTP concurrency for APIs) and can be replaced without touching the console.
Industries & equipment
Physics models for the asset classes that fail expensively.
The platform ships with 50+ CIM-aligned equipment classes, each carrying the standard that governs its limits. Ten reference twins with real geography and plant configuration (synthetic telemetry) let you explore every industry before connecting a single tag.
Grid & transmission
IEEE 738 · IEEE C57.91 · IEC 62271 · IEC 61287
ACLineSegmentPowerTransformerBreakerUndergroundCableWeatherStation
Renewables & storage
IEC 61400-12 · IEC 61724 · electrochemical SoC/SoH
WindTurbinePhotovoltaicUnitBatteryUnit
Thermal & hydro
heat-rate / creep · hydraulic · structural
BoilerSteamTurbineGeneratorThermalGeneratingUnitHydroUnitPenstockReservoirDam
Oil & gas
ISO 10816-3 vibration · integrity
WellPumpCompressorSeparatorStorageTankPipelineSegmentFlowlineCPRectifierValveManifoldScrubberAirCooler
Refining & LNG
process limits · thermal
DistillationColumnReactorFurnaceHeatExchangerFCCUnitHydrocrackerLNGTankVaporizerCityGateFlareJettyMeteringStation
Mining
ISO 10816 · safety telemetry
HaulTruckExcavatorCrusherConveyorDewateringPumpContinuousMinerHoistMineShaftStrataMonitorMethaneSensorDustMonitorSlopeMonitor
Why Digital Twin
Built for operators who need results this budget cycle, not a five-year transformation.
OEM-neutral, open ontology
CIM/CGMES-aligned twin graph and Protobuf contracts. Your models are not locked to one vendor's APM.
Physics you can audit
Every rating, health index and recommendation cites the standard and the inputs it was computed from.
Outcome-tracked
Recommendations carry expected MW and USD; realised value is recorded in the ledger so ROI is measured, not asserted.
Your perimeter
Azure Container Apps in your region, your subscription, or on-premises/air-gapped. Same images, same Bicep.
See Digital Twin on your own network data.
A 45-minute working session with our grid engineers using a sanitised slice of your topology and telemetry, followed by a scoped 90-day pilot proposal.
References for figures on this page
- IEA grid investment outlook (via IBM Institute for Business Value).
- GE Vernova — software-only dynamic line ratings: up to 33 % additional capacity; significantly lower cost than sensor-based DLR.
- IJEPES — UK dynamic line rating demonstrator, ≈ 56 % curtailment reduction.
- GE Digital Wind Farm — 25 % less downtime, up to 5-year life extension.
- DOE iQMS / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory — interconnection queue statistics.
- Verified Market Reports — energy & utilities digital-twin market USD 9 B → 36.9 B (19.7 % CAGR).
- IEEE Std 738-2012, IEEE Std C57.91-2011, IEC 61400-12, IEC 61724, ISO 10816-3, IEC 62271, IEEE 1547.