Big Data Analytics contributing towards 'POWER FOR ALL'

Electricity is an intrinsic part of people's life and businesses, and critical to sustainable development of a country's economy. Expanding industrial, commercial operations and urban spaces are exponentially adding to the rising dependency. These phenomena have established the operational efficiency in power sector as one of the key drivers of the economy and the nation.

Hitachi with IT x OT expertise has always been committed to helping societies, businesses and countries conserve resources, optimize productivity, consumption and profitability through superior original technologies and innovative solutions,

Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited (Tata Power- DDL), a joint venture between Tata Power, a highly recognized company in power sector and The Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi has been engaged in serving more than 7 million customers who rely on it to power their homes, businesses and industrial operations in the north and northwest parts of New Delhi.1 But, since the beginning due to lack of system reliability, Tata Power- DDL faced the seemingly insurmountable power loss that averaged at 53%!¹

Committed to ensure reliable supply and provide best in class service to its consumers by adopting, latest technological solutions and minimize fraud & loss prevention through superior power distribution solutions, revenue management, forecasting and load management, Tata Power-DDL engaged Hitachi Systems Micro Clinic Pvt. Ltd., a Hitachi group company as a strategic partner.

Being the first Business Intelligence solution for power distribution in India, Hitachi had to strike a balance and infuse confidence in the various stakeholders and ensure that the project's long-term strategic importance was realized in full.

To provide best in class service, Hitachi worked with the domain experts from Power distribution industry which would provide independent view on the implementation and provide their insights through consultative approach. During this engagement, Hitachi Systems Micro Clinic exhibited sincerity by focusing extensively towards the technical and operational arena providing detailed visibility about setting IT integration objectives, fine tuning plans, speeding execution, and optimizing outcome at every stage.

The analytics solution provided by Hitachi Systems Micro Clinic helped Tata Power - DDL enter a new phase to access, analyze, and manage vast volumes of data while rapidly evolving the information.

This resulted in improved customer service by gaining better visibility into individual customer usage patterns and use big data analytics to predict rise in demand.

By creating an advanced and reliable system architecture for big data analytics using IT X OT, Hitachi provided Tata Power-DDL with an operational advantage by focusing on: