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Industry Solutions
Five sectors on one spatial intelligence platform — Energy, Construction, Real Estate, Logistics and Observations & Monitoring — and the engineering modules behind them by discipline.
Five Sectors. One Spatial Intelligence Platform.
One Spatial Intelligence Platform. Five Industry Solutions. One Connected View of the Real World.
Energy Intelligence
Solar, wind, storage, hydropower and the grid — from site screening to construction and operation.
Open Energy IntelligenceConstruction Intelligence
Terrain, earthworks, linear infrastructure, facilities and progress — planned versus actual.
Open Construction IntelligenceReal Estate Intelligence
Parcels, constraints, infrastructure and development scenarios for land and property decisions.
Open Real Estate IntelligenceLogistics Intelligence
HGV routes, vehicle limits, abnormal loads and project cargo to energy and construction sites.
Open Logistics IntelligenceObservations & Monitoring
Observe → Compare → Interpret → Alert & Report, for sites, assets and their surroundings.
Open Observations & MonitoringEngineering modules by discipline
The modules behind the solutions, with their methods, outputs and validation.
Energy & Grid
Resource, yield, layout, grid connection, cost and finance for renewable plants, storage and the lines that connect them.
Solar PV
Hourly yield, design and finance of fixed-tilt and tracker plants, from the typical year to the PVsyst hand-over.
| Module | What it does | Standards / methods | Outputs | Validation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solar yield, layout & cabling | Hourly PV simulation (fixed / tracker, bifacial), PVsyst-order loss diagram, IEC 61724-1 PR, P50–P99; automatic stringing, inverter matching (10 generic types + SAM / CEC import), fuses, combiners, DC cable sizing; terrain per block with slope-aware backtracking, pile reveal and grading; layout, DC / LV / MV cabling, block SLD, BoQ | NOAA sun position, Perez, Faiman, ASHRAE IAM, infinite-sheds view factors, Martinez electrical shading, Sandia inverter, IEC 62548-1; IEA PVPS uncertainty | Report with electrical design, loss diagram, PR, terrain & trackers, bifacial sections; Excel, DXF, PVsyst hand-over (meteo, horizon, parameter sheet), SAM TMY | +2.0 % vs a commercial yield assessment; −1.8 to −3.3 % vs NREL PySAM / pvlib; rear gain, clipping and backtracking match pvlib / PySAM (independent check) |
| Parcel, land → capacity, site comparison | Buildable area from zoning inputs; MWp / turbines that fit; side-by-side site scores | Planning rules, PVGIS, ERA5 | Report, Excel | — |
Battery storage (BESS)
Market dispatch, revenue stack, degradation, layout, BoQ, finance and economic analysis of battery storage.
| Module | What it does | Standards / methods | Outputs | Validation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BESS | Hourly dispatch on market prices, revenue stack, degradation and augmentation, BoQ, finance, LCOS, economics, delivery models | Dynamic programming on state of charge; World Bank economic method; NFPA 855 layout | 19-section report, Excel | Analytic arbitrage reproduced; 0.35 % below the PyPSA LP optimum |
Wind
Wind resource from long-term reanalysis or your own mast data, turbines, wakes, yield and finance.
| Module | What it does | Standards / methods | Outputs | Validation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wind yield | ERA5 10-year hourly wind or met mast / LiDAR data with QC and MCP long-term correction, shear, density, layout optimisation and turbine-count study, wakes, losses, uncertainty and P50–P99, turbine comparison | MCP (regression + residual noise, variance ratio, Weibull scaling), IEC 61400-12-1 density correction, Jensen / Park and Bastankhah Gaussian wakes, lattice + random-search layout | 17–21-section report, Excel | +5 % vs a published turbine yield; net AEP = PyWake within 0.004 % (Jensen) and 0.02 % (Gaussian) (independent check) |
Transmission & grid
Grid connection options, least-cost routes, line mechanics, substations, electrical studies and HVDC.
| Module | What it does | Standards / methods | Outputs | Validation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grid connection capacity | Nearest network, published hosting capacity and queues, grid score, options A nearest / B capacity / C fastest | OSM power network, published operator data (estimated where none) | Map, report section | — |
| Electrical studies | Load flow, short circuit, N-1, cable sizing, transformer loading / ageing, P-Q capability, grid code, STATCOM sizing | IEC 60909-0, IEC 60502-2 / 60364-5-52 style ampacity, IEC 60076-7 | 12-section report, Excel, SLD | pandapower: identical Ik″; voltages = pandapower / PyPSA |
| Line routing & mechanics | Least-cost route with 3 alternatives; weather cases; sag-tension; ampacity; clearance along the profile; tower spotting, classes, loads, quantities; optimum spotting by dynamic programming (tower heights and positions, weight / wind span and uplift limits, angle points, no-tower zones, ruling-span iteration) vs simple spotting; LiDAR clearances to ground, vegetation (growth allowance), buildings and crossings at maximum temperature and in blowout | IEC 60826 / EN 50341-style cases, state-change equation, IEEE 738 / CIGRE TB 601, CIGRE TB 273; dynamic programming (Bellman; Mitra & Wolfenden) | 15-section report, Excel (structure list, violations), profile with point-cloud strip, PFL-style / XYZ survey text, staking table, DXF plan & profile | Exact catenary: 8.530 m; independent Python sag-tension within 0.06 %; linerate IEEE 738 within 0.03 %; DP = exhaustive search |
| Transmission line and cable dossiers | Tower-by-tower and kilometre-by-kilometre engineering dossiers, HVDC vs AC | Country clearance rules, typical tower families, VSC / LCC configurations | 100+ page PDF, coordinate Excel | — |
| Substation estimator | HV / MV configuration → bays and cells → SLD → BoQ, CAPEX, land, programme | GIS / AIS, busbar schemes, cost split from reference projects | 8-section report, Excel | Awarded tender: 53.7 vs 53 k USD/MVA |
| Grid twin | Computable grid model of the plant connection with scenarios | AC Newton–Raphson load flow | Report section | — |
Engineering & Optimisation
Optimisers that work on the project you already have: routes, tower positions, earth movement, platform levels, plant design and storage size — and a project workspace that keeps every analysis, re-evaluates it with new assumptions and compares the results.
| Module | What it does | Standards / methods | Outputs | Validation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corridor routing | A → B least-cost path for overhead lines and pipelines, alternatives | A* on a cost surface (slope, settlements, water, protected areas, crossings) | Route options, KML / GeoJSON | — |
| Line routing & mechanics | Least-cost route with 3 alternatives; weather cases; sag-tension; ampacity; clearance along the profile; tower spotting, classes, loads, quantities; optimum spotting by dynamic programming (tower heights and positions, weight / wind span and uplift limits, angle points, no-tower zones, ruling-span iteration) vs simple spotting; LiDAR clearances to ground, vegetation (growth allowance), buildings and crossings at maximum temperature and in blowout | IEC 60826 / EN 50341-style cases, state-change equation, IEEE 738 / CIGRE TB 601, CIGRE TB 273; dynamic programming (Bellman; Mitra & Wolfenden) | 15-section report, Excel (structure list, violations), profile with point-cloud strip, PFL-style / XYZ survey text, staking table, DXF plan & profile | Exact catenary: 8.530 m; independent Python sag-tension within 0.06 %; linerate IEEE 738 within 0.03 %; DP = exhaustive search |
| Mass haul optimisation | Optimal earth movement between cut, fill, borrow and spoil; fleet, duration, fuel, CO₂ | Transportation problem (successive shortest path, Vogel + MODI), Brückner diagram | 10-section report, Excel, map arrows | Same optimum as OR-Tools |
| Terrain Design Studio | Platform level alternatives A–D, batters, retaining walls, swell / shrink, haul, cost | Cut / fill on a grid, batter slope by soil and rock class | 14-section report, Excel | — |
| Energy hub | PV + wind + BESS + electrolyser + H₂ store + backup for data-centre, industry or H₂ demand; hourly dispatch and sizing | Hourly dispatch over 8,760 h, grid search + refinement, LCOE / LCOH | 9-section report, Excel | — |
| Project workspace | Every save and re-evaluation of a project kept as an analysis record (date, version and build, inputs fingerprint, key results); re-evaluate with new costs, prices, FX, escalation, equipment or capacity, or add a BESS; compare any two analyses; updated report and Excel comparison | Headless re-run of the BESS, substation, hydropower, electrical and finance engines; other modules re-run manually, opened pre-filled | Updated project report (PDF, PowerPoint, HTML), Excel comparison | Unit tests (history, comparison, re-evaluation) |
Construction & Infrastructure
Terrain, ground, drainage, water, quantities and progress for civil and infrastructure works.
| Module | What it does | Standards / methods | Outputs | Validation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ground model & excavatability | Geology + soil + boreholes → rock-head, fresh rock, groundwater; excavation classes, equipment, duration; borehole plan | Macrostrat, SoilGrids, rippability by P-wave velocity bands, IDW to boreholes | 13-section report, Excel, map | — |
| Hazards along routes and at sites | Per tower / pipeline point: ground class, seismic site class, fault, earthquake, liquefaction, landslide, flood, wind, ice, frost levels; foundation type; relocate proposals | Global DEM, OSM, active-fault data, USGS, ERA5 extremes, SoilGrids, GloFAS; Vs30 from slope (EC8) | Report sections, map | — |
| Terrain hydrology & site drainage | Fill, D8, accumulation, streams, Strahler, catchments, TWI, ponding; design flows; ditches, pipes, detention | Priority-flood, Kirpich / SCS lag, rational method, IDF, Manning | 12-section report, Excel, map layers | Hand checks (unit test) |
| Water & fire-water networks | Network hydraulics with pumps, valves, tanks, 24-h simulation; pipe, pump and tank sizing; fire main, hydrants, fire pumps | Global Gradient Algorithm, Hazen-Williams / Darcy-Weisbach, NFPA 24 / 13 / 850 / 855 | 12-section report, Excel, map | EPANET 2.2: max 0.0003 m |
| Storm sewers | Sub-catchments, pipe sizing, inverts from terrain, HGL, design storm, routing | Rational method, Manning, Chicago / alternating-block storm, kinematic routing | Report section, Excel | SWMM 5: 862 vs 860 L/s |
| Point cloud & survey | Outlier removal, ground classification, DTM / DSM / nDSM, accuracy QA, stockpile and progress volumes | Simple Morphological Filter, IDW, NSSDA | 10-section report, Excel, GeoTIFF, LAS | Ground recall 99.98 %, RMSE 0.07 m |
| Progress and payments | Weighted progress, actual vs planned S-curve; interim payment certificates with retention and price adjustment | Earned progress from the BoQ | Excel, PDF | — |
| BoQ, programme and budget | Quantity take-off by project type, priced BoQ, estimate class, escalation, contingency, budget vs actuals | Estimate classes 5 / 4 / 3 with accuracy ranges, earned value (CPI, EAC) | Excel, report sections | — |
| Logistics | Truck routes with height / weight limits, abnormal-load checks, trip conditions with hourly weather | Valhalla routing, OSM restrictions, curve radii and grades | GPX / KML / GeoJSON / CSV | — |
Study level: concept, feasibility and early design. Detailed design stays with your design tools — see scope and limits. Every module and its validation: capability matrix, validation report.