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Megger Grid Analytics (MGA) - Smart Grid Sensors & Analytics Solutions

Making the hidden visible with advanced smart grid solutions.

Transform your medium-voltage distributed networks with MGA's smart grid technology and advanced analytics solutions. Our grid solutions optimise power distribution performance, reduce maintenance costs, and enhance safety for a resilient and efficient network.

Protect People and Infrastructure

MGA's precision monitoring identifies high-risk situations like broken cables and high-impedance faults, preventing hazards. Our trusted smart grid solutions safeguard assets, personnel, and infrastructure.

Boost Grid Resilience

MGA's diagnostics detects faults precisely. Our power grid monitoring solutions reduce outages, improve efficiency, and ensure reliability across medium-voltage distribution networks.

Smarter Decisions, Better Outcomes

MGA's smart grid analytics provides actionable insights to prevent outages, increase visibility, and provide a single view of network health. Our solution empowers smarter planning for resilient power distribution networks.

Introducing Megger Grid Analytics (MGA)

Megger's Grid analytics solutions

Megger appraises each customer's specific needs and develops a customised Analytics Solution around the network and customer specifications. These designs are built around our high-quality precision grid sensors, communication hardware, analytics software, and can include an integration with DMS/SCADA infrastructures.  

Our integrated sensors, communication devices, and analytics software deliver power grid monitoring systems that provide essential distribution grid insight.

Our grid analytics solutions deliver highly precise power grid monitoring systems, enabling you to perform:

  • Predictive maintenance by identifying weak spots
  • Tracking of real- time power flow monitoring and power quality
  • Grid insights into advanced distribution management systems (ADMS)
  • Faster searches of permanent faults, reducing outage time (SAIDI)
  • Data analysis of grid performance with increased power grid insights
  • Data encryption, end – to – end SSL/ TSL industry standard compliance.

Smart sensors

MS5000 wireless medium voltage sensor -side 2

On line wireless monitoring system

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Gateway/router MS3010

Gateway/router that integrates with the MS5000

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MGA software

Dashboard interface showing fault events identified by Megger smart grid analytics (MGA Software), a market-leading grid monitoring software solution used worldwide.

Server and software for collecting/analysing data

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Service and support

Megger delivers complete power grid monitoring systems - combining hardware, software, and consultative support before, during, and after implementation of your grid analytics solution.

Our expert technicians and engineers outline your grid needs and issues, and determine sensor locations, measuring and communication hardware needs, and optimal communication and server configurations. We support you during and after installation, and we are available to help analyse your data and results.

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Why grid analytics solutions ?

Smart Grid Sensors

MS5000

 

The MS5000 is an online wireless system for overhead distribution and sub-transmission lines that complements distribution management systems (DMS) and provides online information about faults and grid operations. It uses proprietary hardware and algorithms to support low power consumption while ensuring the high stability needed for large radio networks.

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Frequently asked questions

Grid analytics is the use of intelligent sensors on overhead lines and underground cables to capture and analyse power waveforms, so operators can pinpoint disturbances and locate faults.

Real-time monitoring alerts network operators as soon as unexpected disturbances occur, so they can find and fix faults faster and keep customers online. It also helps them spot unsafe conditions and emerging weaknesses early, improving overall network performance.

Megger Grid Analytics helps utilities rapidly locate unsafe overhead line and underground cable failures, cutting patrol time and outage duration. It also highlights the parts of the network most at risk of failure, supporting targeted maintenance and better distribution grid reliability.

Megger Grid Analytics combines edge-computing sensors with advanced analytics to give deeper insight into what is happening on the power line and where abnormal disturbances occur. This enables operators to resolve issues more quickly and at lower cost than with traditional monitoring tools.

Distribution grid reliability is the ability of the local power network to deliver electricity to customers consistently, with minimal outages or quality issues. High reliability helps by reducing power interruptions, improving customer satisfaction, and lowering the costs associated with equipment damage and emergency repairs.

Utilities can improve distribution grid reliability by deploying smart sensors and grid analytics to detect faults quickly, automating switching to restore power faster, and using reliability data (like SAIDI/SAIFI) to target maintenance and upgrades where they will prevent the most outages.

AC & DC Power Lines (OHL)

Sentrisense

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