Electrical Grid Monitoring Launches Transformative Power Fault Detection Technology Capable of Reducing Customer Outage Times and Utility Maintenance Costs Up to 80%
Electrical Grid Monitoring (EGM) today announced its patented Accurate Fault Location and Detection™ (AFLD) solution as the first technology that can accurately locate both the time and location of power distribution‑grid faults to within a single pole‑span distance, capabilities which could reduce U.S. customer power outage times from 3-5 hours to approximately one hour, and related utility crew-time costs by 80% from $7 billion annually to around $1 billion annually, based on published industry outage statistics.*
