ROAMES Project Team
Congratulations to ROAMES project partner, Ergon Energy on being awarded the electric power industry’s highest honour – the International Edison Award.
Well done to the Australian Research Centre for Aerospace Automation ROAMES project team, this is a great example of industry collaboration that has led to this disruptive technology positively impacting spatial and electrical markets.
Ergon earned the International Edison Award for developing and implementing the innovative ROAMES Virtual World Asset Management System. With a highly dispersed network spanning varying climatic conditions, Ergon was challenged in managing the network’s safe interaction with the surrounding environment, including vegetation, ground levels, buildings and storms. To meet these challenges, Ergon developed the ROAMES Virtual World Asset Management System—a commercially attractive solution around spatial intelligence and automated analytics designed to improve risk management, disaster response and safety performance, while reducing costs and enhancing its customer service and value proposition.
The ROAMES system allows infrastructure managers to investigate and monitor the condition and performance of the network in extremely high fidelity—all without the need to deploy workers in the field. This system improves safety and efficiency and lowers costs, all of which benefit customers.
“Ergon’s ROAMES system offers a cutting-edge solution to many of the challenges of managing the company’s transmission and distribution system, which spans across a vast and geographically harsh area,” said EEI President Tom Kuhn. This innovative technology will benefit customers and has the potential for broad application within and beyond the electric power industry. Ergon is truly deserving of the Edison Award.”
Find out more about ARCAA’s contribution to the ROAMES project here.
Original content sourced from Edison Electric Institute press release titled ‘Ergon Energy and SaskPower Awarded EEI’s’.
