Power Generation and Utilities

Better Remote Facility and Personnel Management

With just a single new tool — RealityVision^® — Con Edison is improving a wide range of systems, including remote surveillance, personnel tracking and damage assessment. Here are just some of the ways Con Edison and other utility companies can use RealityVision today:

• Damage assessment

  The first field employee at the scene can stream real-time, GPS-tagged video of a damaged installation directly to the operations center using virtually any camera source.  Better data can mean a faster, more accurate diagnosis.

• Employee and customer safety

  When an accident or emergency occurs, an employee can push a single button to trigger an immediate alert at the operations center.  Depending on the user’s device, the alert will automatically cause the cell phone to stream its GPS coordinates and send live video or initiate a hands-free phone call to a defined phone number at the operations center or elsewhere.

• Incident management

  As operation center supervisors assess a remote situation, they can push critical information—such as maps, schematics and environmental data—directly and securely to the response teams without any intervention on their part.

• Fraud detection and prevention

  Temporary wired or wireless network cameras can easily be added to the system to transmit live video to the operations center when valuable equipment or resources are at risk. And GPS time stamps and video can efficiently document theft and fraud.

• Tracking field personnel

• When an urgent situation arises, it is critical to know where your personnel are at all times. GPS tracking and instant two-way communications make this easy.

To learn more about RealityVision® and how it is being used today by Con Edison,click here or visit our Products page.