Systems With Intelligence: Enhancing Grid Visibility with TouchlessTM Monitoring

Angelo Rizzo, President and CEO, Systems With IntelligenceAngelo Rizzo, President and CEO
Whether it’s costly equipment or complex machinery, monitoring critical assets is undoubtedly a daunting task for utilities across the world. The aging grid and limited manpower for managing large-scale electric substations often results in operational nightmares, emphasizing the importance of robust utility asset management. Effective remote asset monitoring solutions provide utilities with visibility into difficult-to-access locations that help ensure the smooth functioning of the substation.

Additionally, such intelligent solutions offer real-time asset data to help utilities maintain the resilience and reliability of the grid through deployment of condition-based maintenance. Nobody understands this better than Systems With Intelligence.

Founded in 2010, Systems With Intelligence is a global provider of next-generation TouchlessTM monitoring solutions for critical assets that help utilities increase reliability and safety and reduce operations and maintenance costs. The company deploys its utility-grade solutions that are designed to withstand extreme environmental conditions and provide real-time visualization of remote sites, assets, and mission-critical applications. The TouchlessTM technology allows for round-the-clock monitoring of critical assets, providing operators with data and alarms to ensure the hassle-free operation of utility substations. At the same time, the company ensures that its monitoring system connects and aggregates data from other systems and provides actionable insights to help customers make informed decisions that prevent equipment failures and outages.

“We are an extension of our customers’ engineering resources, offering them automated solutions that provide realtime insights into asset health that seamlessly integrate with their existing infrastructure,” says Angelo Rizzo, President and CEO of Systems With Intelligence. As one of the founders of the company, Rizzo brings a wealth of experience in the protection and control of substations.
With over 100 years of combined experience in substation and industrial automation and utility-grade communications, the Systems With Intelligence team closely works with utility operators to develop analytics and algorithms for the transmission and distribution arena. The team takes into account how a system operates to identify gaps and develop tools to automate the process. “Our visualization software provides a complete view of the utility’s fleet in a single pane of glass that gives customers all the necessary information to optimize maintenance planning for the most performance and economic benefit,” remarks Rizzo.

The uniqueness of Systems With Intelligence can be perfectly demonstrated by its one-of-a-kind offering—a control room mechanism where a dedicated team understands and analyzes the nitty-gritty of applications that helps with analysis of any anomalies that could lead to system failures. Besides, the company’s turnkey TouchlessTM technology comes with mobile monitoring capability to help customers gain visibility into unmonitored locations and detect trouble spots.

  • We think outside the box. We work together to deliver a full end-to-end solution that effectively addresses our clients’ pain points


As a testament to the robust capabilities of Systems With Intelligence, Rizzo recalls their engagement with a large investor owned utility (IOU) in North America. They were experiencing interruptions to service due to faults in their aging equipment. Systems With Intelligence brought its technology onto their site and pinpointed where the anomalies were in just two hours. The client was then able to successfully repair the problem, prevent further outages, and realize significant cost savings.

Systems With Intelligence also conducts innovation sessions to uncover new ideas and develop a roadmap to provide advanced solutions that meet the evolving needs of the utilities. “We think outside the box. We work together to deliver a full end-to-end solution that effectively addresses our clients’ pain points,” notes Rizzo. Steering ahead, Systems With Intelligence plans to add more intelligent sensing capabilities to its portfolio of offerings with an aim to enhance grid visibility at higher transmission levels. In addition, the company has global expansion plans underway to establish its international presence. All in all, Systems With Intelligence will continue to do what it does the best—providing TouchlessTM thermal and visual monitoring solutions for remote monitoring and inspection of critical assets across the power grid.
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Systems With Intelligence

Company
Systems With Intelligence

Headquarters
Mississauga, ON

Management
Angelo Rizzo, President and CEO

Description
Founded in 2010, Systems With Intelligence is a global provider of next-generation TouchlessTM monitoring solutions for critical assets that help utilities increase reliability and safety and reduce operations and maintenance costs. The company deploys its utility-grade solutions that are designed to withstand extreme environmental conditions and provide real-time visualization of remote sites, assets, and mission-critical applications. The TouchlessTM technology allows for round-the-clock monitoring of critical assets, providing operators with data and alarms to ensure the hassle-free operation of utility substations. At the same time, the company ensures that its monitoring system connects and aggregates data from other systems and provides actionable insights to help customers make informed decisions that prevent equipment failures and outages.