What is Wirescan Digital and how does it work?

Wirescan Digital is a complete decision support tool for low risk, cost and labour efficient operation and maintenance of power cables. It utilizes Wirescan’s proprietary LIRA and LIRA Live technologies for cable condition assessment and monitoring for energized and de-energized power cables.

What does it do: Wirescan Digital aggregates, stores and analyzes cable condition data and provides valuable cable health indicators/information. It can automatically detect anomalies in the measurement results, indicate local and global health condition, provide regular reports on status, notable changes complete with localization and severity, health indicator trending, ageing information, and recommended actions.

What it means for you: Wirescan Digital means a data-driven and predictive cable operation service for targeted/preventive maintenance, rapid decisions, knowledge-based flexibility, increased uptime confidence, and security of your power production, transmission, and distribution. Wirescan Digital follows your changing world: Wirescan Digital adapts to the user needs, targets, and new challenges by providing cable health indications in different contexts. Cable health data can be enhanced with relevant meta data such as map and weather data, and additional cable test information and health indicators from other sources as Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR), Distributed Temperature/Acoustic Sensing (DTS/DAS), Partial Discharge (PD), etc. Wirescan Digital is a complete cable condition service.

Will Wirescan Digital take much of you time? The opposite. The Wirescan Digital system is designed to free users’ time and resources by automatically providing relevant cable health information needed to decide and plan maintenance, operation, budgets and investments in your power cable grid.

How will you know: Automatic and scheduled reporting with executive summaries and detailed health assessment can be provided by email, or the user can actively use Wirescan Digital as an online tool to access everything from measurement data to analysis results to manually or automatically generated reports.

If an event develops at a critical rate or magnitude, e.g. an early stage failure, Wirescan Digital can immediately notify you with a notification with a report with status and location.
Should you want to go deeper, look at an overall condition of your whole global portfolio, a single cable, a phase, or a specific hot spot - the interactive dashboard with map-based visualization of data and analysis results is easily accessible through a web browser on your laptop or mobile device. Wirescan Digital has all the options.

Wirescan Digital will help you to:

• Reduce Costs / Reduce OPEX, CAPEX, penalty cost and loss of revenue

• Optimize Operations / Life extension, Lean asset management, Fast Fault Location, Decision Support

• Project & Plan / elective condition-based repair & replacement, Early Warnings, Risk reduction.

The Wirescan Digital is a cloud based system consisting of a back end and a front end. The back end is where the data is stored, processed and analysed. The front end is the Wirescan Digital Dashboard where data and analysis results are visualized. And accessed by a user. This dashboard consists of a Cable Portfolio view (map based cable(s) visualization a global view of all the data that is stored in the system, in an intuitive and easily navigable manner), Measurement Explorer (to quickly explore and compare measurement data on a cable/phase/spot level), Measurement Analysis (to take a deeper dive in cable condition, comparison, trending, ageing rate, etc.), Report View (to view automatically generated reports or create, edit and review reports; the report types currently available are detailed Analysis reports for a set of measurements or Time Lapse reports for all measurements taken on a set of cables during a given time interval).