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Trafisense

We have been friends for many, many years – closely following each other’s work. It all started a year ago when we initiated a discussion about a potential product that would combine our expertise. Constantinos came up with the idea and discussed it with me. It seemed realistic and achievable and most important – nobody seemed to have done this until now.
Existing solutions are monitoring a very limited set of temperature measurements and provide alerts only a few minutes or hours before the failure occurs. On top of this, maintenance today is a standard procedure not focused on actual needs. The result is a costly and ineffective and a large number of unresolved failures. Trafisense solves the problem of poor, misguided and redundant maintenance of dry-type power transformers.

Goals and challenges

We have had some major obstacles due to the lack of financial resources, it has been difficult to get feedback and validation from hard-to-reach customers, and identifying the best combination of sensors that would keep the cost down without sacrificing accuracy has been really time consuming.

But getting the initial customer feedback that verifies our assumptions and our solution, experiencing our prototype release and of course winning the INCESNe award – that is definitely something that makes the journey worth it!

The choice of FIWARE

The FIWARE technology is integrated in our system to process the data collected in the cloud and generate the reports and alerts. Using existing FIWARE components, we managed to quickly deliver our prototype infrastructure and do more work on our domain-specific problem rather than fighting implementation issues that FIWARE has already covered.
 -This has really provided us with a fast track forward!

Benefits and accomplishments

We expect to have at least 4 installations by the end of this year and develop and release the next version of our minimal viable product. This will lead us to financing opportunities and allow us to grow through strategic partnerships with utilities & transportation, sensor manufacturing and dry-type
transformer maintenance companies.