Camlin Group
Optimising Critical Infrastructures with Data-Driven Insights

In the current scenario, the asset management capability required to optimise cost, risk, and performance is far greater than ever before. With sectors like energy and rail accelerating transformation—the value chain is growing in complexity. The ageing infrastructures, the drive to incorporate renewable and embedded generation, and the adoption of disruptive technologies all intensify the pressure on utilities to develop new methodologies for maintenance, expansion, and modernisation of their operational assets. In addition, with no compromise in safety and service standards for the customers, utilities are faced with challenges to do more with less. "As we experience the disruptive effects of new technologies and need to replace out-dated utility assets in operation, it is necessary to leverage them for not only maintaining existing performance but also improving and optimising assets," begins Michael Cunningham, Managing Director at Camlin Energy. As investment in assets has implications decades into the future, utilities need to understand and manage the entire life-cycle of cost, risk, and value of assets to maximise this expenditure. Since 2008, the Camlin Group has provided its customers with innovative and intelligent monitoring products and services to deliver data-driven insights that enable operators to improve the safety, reliability and efficiency of electricity and rail networks. The company's vision, optimising the critical Infrastructures all around us, is embedded in its deep-domain expertise and the harnessing of a wide range of technologies, including AI and machine learning, data engineering, software, material sciences, electronic and mechanical engineering, and much more. These in-house capabilities are aligned with an intense customer focus in order to create solutions that drive the success of tomorrow's energy grids and transportation networks.

Camlin aims to bring intelligent solutions in network and fault management, cable health and real-time asset monitoring to allow operators to optimise the performance, flexibility, reliability and sustainability of their infrastructures.

The company combines cutting-edge capabilities in advanced analytics with the vast experience of a multi-disciplinarian technical support team to transform data into actionable insights. This crucially enables our customers to gain real-time and deep visibility and control over their current investments while creating new solutions to future challenges. Camlin's extensive range of solutions has been developed in partnership with its customers, delivering critical insights into asset health, focusing on safety, reliability and quality for transformers, generators and circuit breakers. Its Condition Assessment Service combines online and off-line monitoring data with on-site inspection and lab analysis to offer the customer a complete picture of asset health, generating actionable insights to effectively manage risk and make increasingly informed decisions. Furthermore, the company's Global Services Department plays a vital role in supporting a customer throughout the asset monitoring journey from product conception, installation, training and most importantly, support and aftercare.

On the rail network side, Camlin's train monitoring and signalling power solutions enable railway operators to maximise the availability of their rolling stock fleet and optimise a digital railway strategy. The company also provides the world's first fully automated three-dimensional wayside pantograph inspection and monitoring system - the Pantobot 3D. A unique, cost-effective toolset combined with advanced machine-vision and analytics allows rail operators to schedule predictive fleet maintenance by delivering diagnostics without manual inspection costs, service disruption, and safety risks. In addition, Camlin's Signet solution offers an automated reconfigurable signalling power system to help railway operators reduce the impact of faults on service continuity for railway network operators and maintain supply continuity during extreme fault conditions.

"The company's purpose is deeply embedded in the laser-focused alignment of its technological solutions with an in-depth understanding of the requirements of the customer to deliver added value," explains Cunningham. With every journey of customer onboarding being unique, Camlin strives to maintain the integrity of its ethos of constant communication and transparency with multiple project stakeholders to ultimately deliver a high level of customer satisfaction and added value. Over the last 12 months, the pandemic has allowed the Camlin Group to reset its corporate strategies and focus on its drive towards digitalisation and sustainability of the energy industry by evolving from a manufacturer of products to a supplier of solutions. As the COVID-19 crisis highlighted the need for flexible business strategies, the company adopted new systems to provide real-time remote training to drive knowledge sharing and inform its customers of best practices. Looking ahead, Camlin plans to stay at the forefront of delivering innovative solutions to its customer base by investing in its multi-disciplinary team of operational, engineering and technical experts. The company is also fully committed to working with its customers to create greener and smarter networks. "Sustainability is paramount for all our futures; and the critical infrastructures of Power and Rail are central to that sustainable future. Camlin aims to develop and deploy a vertical data pipeline, which would provide deep-expertise with continuous artificial intelligence learning for current as well as the future asset monitoring models seamlessly in a cyber-secured environment. With our experience, in-house technical capabilities, and customer mindset, we feel we are uniquely placed to partner our customers on this exciting journey in the coming years" concludes Cunningham.