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Smart Grid Solutions

Tollgrade Smart Grid Solutions LightHouse® 4.0 Platform with Predictive Grid® Analytics

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Tollgrade Smart Grid Solutions

Overview

Corporate Overview

Smart Grid Opportunity

LightHouse 4.0 Platform

Why Tollgrade?

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Tollgrade is a Trusted Partner

World Leader in Access Network Test Systems

Incumbent positions in many of the world’s largest telecommunications providers

Perform the automated test process for over +200 million copper access lines worldwide

Expertise in Algorithms, Data analysis, correlation and dispatch in large networks

Leading Edge Smart Grid Portfolio

Key Utilities – Duke Energy, CenterPoint, First Energy, Iberdrola, National Grid

International Expansion - Western Power Distribution (UK), Partnerships Latin America

Leverages large Telco expertise in fault analysis and data accuracy monitoring 200M+ lines



#1 Smart Grid Sensor Market Leader


http://www.cnbc.com/id/100612385

http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/prnewswire/press_releases/Virginia/2013/04/03/NE87889


Opportunity


Grid is a $360B Asset Little Visibility


Tollgrade LightHouse Platform

Software-Defined Smart Grid Sensors Integrated Communication & Data Plan

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Medium Voltage (MV) Line Sensors

Operations:

Low current operations to 3 amps Inductively powered, battery-free operation 4KV to 69KV Clamps directly to conductor (#6 AWG to 795 MCM) Operating temperature: -40C to +85C (-40F to +185F) GPS: location, timestamp, Auto-phase ID, Time Synchronization 20 Year MTBF

Measurements:

Current (0-17,000 RMS amperes) Nominal RMS current Fault and Surge current Conductor temperature Power quality (sags, swells, harmonics) Power factor Voltage (Electric field strength)

First Sensor to pass Homologation in Brazil



Lightweight, “Hot Stick” Deployable Solution



Sensor Management System (SMS) Software

Configurable Reporting, Actionable Intelligence

• Substation, circuit and sensor views • Google® Maps • Event summaries • Dashboard reporting • Waveform display

Remote Sensor Management

• Configuration templates / auto configuration • User defined thresholds / parameters • Diagnostics • Remote upgradeable firmware • Seamless integration via DNP3 to SCADA, DMS, OMS

Predictive Grid® Analytics

• Fault analytics: Fault detection, correlation and location • Event analytics: Peak current, inrush • Operations analytics: Vegetation management, cap bank blown fuses • Asset management analytics: Recloser counting, fuse operations • COMTRADE or .csv waveform export

Only Sensor with Predictive Grid® Analytics



Raw Data Capture

Classification

Planning, Reporting, Trending & Alarms

Predictive Grid® Analytics

4 Layers of Analytical Processing for Improved

Accuracy & Grid Intelligence

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SMS – The Intelligence Behind Our Sensors


Only Sensor with Predictive Grid® Analytics


Competitive Differentiator – Analytics Filtering

4-month period: 87 FCI Events

Only 6 True FCI Events Reduced False Alarms Accurate regulatory reporting Eliminate wasted time Faster location of faults

LightHouse Analytics Filtering:

81 Normal Operations Load Switching Capacitor Bank Operations Adjacent Phase or Feeder Fault



Why LightHouse Is a Better Investment LightHouse Sensors

Capture Data

Alternative Solutions

False Alarms Bloated Databases

More OpEX

SMS Filters Suppresses False Alarms

Only Real Events Shared via DNP

No Analytics; False Alarms Not Filtered

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Tollgrade LightHouse Architecture

Substation Monitoring

Fault Detection

Distributed Generation

Load Monitoring



“Highest functionality”

“Working better than other Fault Current Indicators”

“It is a complete and robust solution where others are lacking”



Why Tollgrade?

Good for Utilities Good for Consumers

Avoid Outages

Restore Service Faster

Better Quality of Service

Fewer Outages

Reduce OpEx

Lowers Carbon Footprint

Ensures Crew Safety

Better Customer Service

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LightHouse 4.0


Key Features

New in LighHouse 4.0:

Substation Monitoring Reporting

Enhanced Accuracy & Crew Safety Auto-phase ID

Sensor Time Synchronization

More Integrated Communications GSM sensors

International Deployment Update



Why Monitor Substations Transformers?

Helps Avoid Failure: • Avoid overloading • Aging transformer fleet • Monitor for phase imbalance

Business Case: • Eliminate truck roll • Have a record of events that are

leading indicators for failure • Replacing before failure costs less

than replacing after failure



Growing Risk by 2020

“The average age of transformers is rising worldwide. There is likely to be a significant increase in the number of failures by 2020”



Distribution Network




Why? • Prevent overloading failures • Detect phase imbalance • Have reports to show regulators (needed to replace substations prior to fail) • Aging transformers Benefits • Save operating expenses (reduced truck rolls, man hours) • Its less expensive to replace a transformer before it fails • Fraction of the cost of substation automation project • Deployable in minutes not days or weeks • Comms integrated (no fiber) • Immediate benefit, low investment, low risk



Configurable Reporting Dashboards



Enhanced Data Accuracy & Crew Safety


Distribution Networks Becoming More Complex

Human errors

Storm restoration

DMS systems require accurate data to automate switching and to speed restoration

Without accurate data, crews don’t know where to go

False positives / false alarms



Tollgrade Offers Best-in-Class Accuracy

Auto-Phase ID Sensors know what phase they are connected to

Utilities will know when their records are incorrect

Improves fault location, enhances crew safety, speeds restoration

GPS Time Synchronization System wide time synchronization of data using GPS

Precise coordination of interval measurements for accurate reporting

Key for integration into other back office systems



Integrated Communications Expands global footprint


GSM Expands Tollgrade’s International Footprint

Support for GSM Networks Expands Tollgrade’ footprint into international markets

UK & Europe Western Power – Project Falcon

Expansion in UK

Product trials in Europe

Latin America Deployments in Brazil and expansion in Latin America

Partnership with ELO (#1 Meter Manufacturer)

Homologation Certification for Brazil



Why LightHouse?

Only sensor to provide single fault location to DMS

Only sensor to operate in low current (3 amps)

Only sensor to provide location data

Only sensor to provide automatic phase ID

Easiest integration to SCADA, EMS or DMS over DNP3

Easiest deployment (e.g. can install before summer peak)

North America’s #1 Smart Grid Sensor Leader

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Low Risk Deployment for the Utility

Favorable costs when compared with other SG

No comms cost for 5 yrs with bundled offering No contracts to engage in for data service

No technology obsolescence Remote firmware upgrades

If a better technology comes around, use it

ROI captured 6 – 18 months

Unlike AMI, does not touch every customer

Mobile, so not a stranded investment. If substation retired or automated, reuse sensors elsewhere

Favorable maintenance contracts

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Conclusion: Smart Grid Sensor Leader

LightHouse is an award-winning platform

DA is next big growth engine; requires best-in-class accuracy

We are the #1 Smart Grid Sensor Market Leader

Proven deployments at world-leading utilities on 3 continents

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