Solutions
Solution
Industry spotlight
.jpg)
Watch our latest video case study!
Check out how Colibri's partnership with Nomo Fintech has transformed their approach to data
Learn more
Success stories
Insights
Spanish Power Grid provides critical energy and utilities for the nation. The variation in geography and weather across Spain meant that power generators needed to provide stable output in a wide range of conditions, creating complex operational requirements for the company. Outages were highly undesirable and penalised by the hour by the national regulator.
They approached Colibri to explore a predictive maintenance and analytics solution. The aim of the project was to create a more data-driven approach to planning maintenance and engineering resources across the country, deploying engineers more intelligently and reducing waste from unnecessary part replacements.
Colibri implemented a cutting-edge, real-time Internet of Things (IoT) analytics solution for Spanish Power Grid. We began by ingesting data from all power substations, tracking readings from transformers, electricity sensors, and environmental sensors. This data was pulled centrally using an AWS data pipeline.
The data volume was enormous - there were real-time readings of power, voltage, draw, and more. Weather factors such as wind speed, direction, and temperature were also fed into the data lake and centralised. In addition, we helped Spanish Power Grid enrich its own data with open-source weather data.
With all data sources in place, we transformed, cleaned, and normalised the data before sending it to the business intelligence platform.
With the new analytics system in place, our ML engineers implemented a big data machine learning solution to predict failures and output fluctuations.
As a result, management and executives were able to draw insights like never before. We highlighted the top 10 issues across all substations in real time and predicted the likelihood of failure for all components over the next seven days.
We materially reduced outages experienced by the power grid and delivered a strong ROI through cost reductions on component replacements and engineering time.
Reduced to within 6-second lead time
Faster predictions on customers' needs and capturing new opportunities
+ 20 headcount in the data team
Unlock growth, efficiency and innovation through data and AI
Turning raw data into actionable, competitive insight
Modernise with purpose. Transform with data. Scale with AI
Intelligent solutions built for real-world business impact
Empowering cloud-first operations with confidence
Can’t find the answer you’re looking for? Please chat to our friendly team.