TE Connectivity and CNIguard are integrating their smart solutions for overhead and underground grid infrastructure. Together, the companies’ sensing and data visualization technologies offer customers end-to-end grid monitoring solutions to enhance grid reliability by providing real-time situational awareness, enabling predictive maintenance and rapid response when faults or other events occur.
TE’s smart grid solutions can retrofit onto existing equipment, leveraging CNIguard’s platform to offer added transparency and intelligence on real-time network conditions. This helps utilities identify safety and reliability concerns above or below ground, enabling them to pinpoint and repair faults, identify critical levels of gases, and find cable hot spots.
With this new partnership combining TE’s smart connectivity solutions with CNIguard’s IoT platform, utility customers are now able to access an end-to-end digital smart grid solution that can help transform their legacy power infrastructure into a future-ready network. Both TE Connectivity and CNIguard offer ruggedized, IP68-rated hardware to withstand harsh environmental conditions, and CNIguard’s digital architecture is secure by design and ISO 27001 certified for customer data security and integrity.
“We see strong global momentum in the smart grid sector with demand growing rapidly in the Americas, especially as more distribution infrastructure is added underground. Our utilities and industrial customers are looking for real-time data connectivity solutions to enhance grid reliability, optimize power distribution, and minimize downtime. With this partnership, we are adding a crucial piece to our offering — a powerful platform that simplifies grid management,” said Christian Pellon, chief technical officer of TE’s energy business unit.
“CNIguard’s platform provides advanced detection and analytics of hazards in utility underground confined spaces, one of the toughest domains in the electric grid, that affect safety and reliability, shifting our customers’ risk posture while maximizing value. Partnering with TE enables us to offer an advanced solution for electric power system monitoring and analytics,” said Chris Quire, chief executive officer of CNIguard.