A complete digital documentation of all relevant assets in a utility company’s water grid is the foundation for successfully operating a water grid. The Lovion system can integrate assets that have already been documented in other systems. However, as water plants are usually not fully depicted in other systems, the Lovion ASSET ELECTRICITY module offers functionalities to completey depict electricity plants in their entirety and depth.
Electricity grids are documented based on their location in a geographic informtaion system. Thus, the Lovion system offers the Lovion CONNECT SUITE interface for widely-spread GIS which provides the data foundation for carrying out technical business processes of a utility company’s electricity grid. In the process, it is also possible to add relevant data that is not documented in GIS.
The Lovion ASSET ELECTRICITY data model for electricity depicts documented assets within the electricity grid. These include transmission substations, distribution substations and cable distributors in their typical structure. Voltage levels and plant components can be flexibly edited through configurable catalogues.
Lovion ASSET ELECTRICITY is based on a standard data model that depicts assets as primary or secondary components. The structure of the data model is strongly based on valid rules and regulations of the forum for electrical engineering, electronic and information technology (VDE) i.e. the forum network technology/network operations (FNN). The assets are a logical supplement for the georeferenced GIS database and support hierarchical system structures.
Electrical plants are visualised in a flexible manner. The basis for this visualisation is always the asset data model which depicts the hierarchical structure of an electricity asset including switchgear, switches, fuses or substations. Electricity plants are depicted with their boundaries in a geographical map as well as text labels. Each plant can also be visualised in an internal view using a single line diagram. It is possible to switch between these two views anytime.
All switching components in ASSET ELECTRICITY have a switching status. This attribute describes whether a circuit breaker is switched on or off in its standard position. When viewing the single line diagram, the standard position is easily recognisable on the switch. The symbol also automatically changes when a switching position is modified.
Lovion ASSET ELECTRICITY also offers warehouse functions and depicts warehouses in the map. Individual components which are functional, but not installed in plants are managed in warehouses. An installation is carried out by selecting a component in the warehouse and assigning it to an ASSET ELECTRICITY plant. Vice versa, if a component is removed from an electricity plant and moved to a warehouse, this is called a deinstallation. As asset data can be linked to external systems (for example, ERP data), these warehouse functions ensure that these links remain intact.
Efficient data editing tools are available in Lovion ASSET ELECTRICITY to create new plants and plant components as well as to modify existing data. These assets are documented comprehensively using the hierarchical data model structure. Copy and paste functions are also available to simplify editing work and to help create objects with identical structures which are commonly found the same type of components, for example switching gear. Configurabe catalogues and asset types provide further functions to optimise data editing and data modifications.
When connecting Lovion ASSET ELECTRICITY with the module Lovion ASSET SECONDARY, additional secondary equipment can be documented as well. This includes remote controlled devices such as network components, notification systems, switch safety components, timing devices, SCADA or SPS systems and power source components for these systems, for example
converters, batteries or air compressors.
If numerous Lovion ASSET datamodels are used in parallel, the datamodel for secondary equipment is used for all utility divisions. As a result, these assets are managed uniformly for the whole company and can be maintained and serviced using the same protocols.
Relevant plant documents linked to an asset are stored in Lovion DOCUMENTS. As a result, a digital plant file is created which also stores documents regarding the plant description, manufacturer certificates, permits and inspection certificate as well as photos. Furthermore, this database document management system offers a keyword search within document titles as well as in document metadata.
For carrying out maintenance and service work, Lovion ASSET ELECTRICITY delivers complete task types for inspections, assessments and maintenance measures. These include digital checklists that are defined in collaboration with custmers in expert panels and are available, for example for the following types of assets:
For electricity grid operations, visualising circuits effectively is vital. The module Lovion ANALYZER is able to evaluate the status of switching components based on plant and grid data as well as depicting circuits in colour using this data. In combination with the module Lovion SWITCHBOARD, switching operations can also be simulated, planned and executed.
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