PRESENTATION
2017 - Users Conference - San Francisco - IoT
Success Stories in IoT
Reducing customer outage time is a cornerstone of DTE Energy's electric reliability and customer satisfaction strategy and the deployment of smart fault indicators throughout the distribution system has become a key component of that strategy. Smart fault indicators (SFIs) allow DTE to quickly detect and locate the source of damaging spikes in current on the grid, caused by things like fallen tree branches or failed equipment. In order to capitalize on the deployment of these SFIs, DTE has decided to leverage the PI System. As an Enterprise Agreement holder, it was a logical choice. This presentation will describe the architecture and processes DTE Energy has developed to gather, store, analyze, and react to SFI data from the field and the types of benefits DTE has seen as a result.
Company
DTE Energy
Speaker
Cameron Sherding
Cameron Sherding is a software and controls engineer with 13 years of professional experience, half of which has been spent at DTE Energy. Cameron received his bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2002 and was hired into DTE subsidiary, DTE Energy Technologies (\"\"DTECH\"\"), which focused on distributed generation technology. As a Controls and Communications Engineer with DTECH, Cameron and a small team of engineers built out a Systems Operations Center for distributed resources (DRSOC) that is still in use today. In 2006, he left Detroit for Chicago to pursue opportunities in other industries. In 2013, Cameron returned to DTE Energy as a Senior Software Engineer to continue his work with the DRSOC, which now manages data from a wide variety sources including customer facilities, distribution substations, distributed generators, solar arrays, wind parks, and smart fault indicators.
Company
RtTech Software
Speaker
Keith Flynn
As President and Founder, Keith is an integral part of the development of both RtDUET and RtEMIS. By trade, Keith is a certified Professional Engineer, with a B. Eng in Electrical Engineering, as well as a B. Science and Certificate of Applied Science. Though modest regarding the achievement, Keith is also a prestigious Sexton Scholar at Dalhousie University. With over 16 years of industry and OSISoft PI experience, Keith is also a principal partner at ADM Systems Engineering, an implementation partner of RtTech. This insight helps Keith and his product development team ensure that RtTech’s products integrate the latest technical capabilities and deliver the most effective results for our customers.
Company
JDI
Speaker
Martin Davis
Martin Davis is Vice President of Information Technology for the Moncton-based companies of J. D. Irving, Limited, which includes Irving Tissue, Irving Personal Care, Cavendish Farms, Midland Transport and Midland Courier. He has worked in IT for over 30 years and his career has included positions in the United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Martin’s experience spans global corporations and privately owned companies, and includes manufacturing, automotive, consumer goods and transportation industries.
Martin is a board member of TechImpact, the tech sector industry body for the Maritime Provinces and also a member of the advisory boards for University of New Brunswick Computer Science faculty and the Dalhousie Big Data Institute. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science with Mathematics from King’s College in London, UK and has an MBA from Warwick Business School in the UK