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Ubicquia launches AI-driven power-monitoring services
The service aims to help organisations predict and prevent emergency outages and reduce the operational and financial risks associated with poor power quality.
The Ubicquia platform helps prevent power issues by continuously monitoring more than 24 power-quality parameters
At a glance
Who: Ubicquia.
What: Ubicquia has announced the launch of artificial intelligence- (AI-) driven power monitoring services purpose-built for commercial and industrial (C&I) customers.
Why: To help organisations predict and prevent emergency outages and reduce the operational and financial risks associated with poor power quality.
Where: The platform is available for US commercial and industrial customers.
Ubicquia has announced the launch of artificial intelligence- (AI-) driven power monitoring services purpose-built for commercial and industrial (C&I) customers.
Powered by Ubicquia’s AI-driven UbiVu analytics platform, the service delivers 24/7 monitoring, real-time visibility, and predictive insights into business-critical power quality issues without upfront capital or operational disruption.
Preventing emergency outages
The new service aims to help organisations predict and prevent emergency outages and reduce the operational and financial risks associated with poor power quality.
Ubicquia reckons the service is particularly beneficial for commercial and industrial environments where power reliability is mission-critical including commercial and residential buildings, logistics and distribution centres, multi-location retail operations, manufacturing facilities, telecommunications infrastructure, and data- and energy-sensitive operations.
“With UbiVu enabling the customer and utility to see the same real-time data, we can predict and identify power quality issues before they become failures”
“You can’t have grid reliability without grid visibility,” said Ian Aaron, chief executive officer at Ubicquia. “We’ve taken the success of our UbiGrid distribution transformer monitoring and UbiVu analytics platform deployed at scale with major utilities and made it available to commercial and industrial customers, as a service with no upfront capital.
“With UbiVu enabling the customer and utility to see the same real-time data, we can predict and identify power quality issues before they become failures.”
A study conducted by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) estimates that poor power quality costs US businesses more than $145bn annually, driven by equipment damage, data loss, operational downtime, and increased energy costs. Without real-time visibility into power quality, businesses struggle to understand root causes, predict failures, or take proactive action to protect critical operations.
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Ubicquia claims it addresses these challenges with 24/7 transformer monitoring and AI-driven, real-time power quality analytics that translate electrical anomalies into “clear business impact and actionable insights”. Ubicquia’s service helps C&I customers prevent:
- Damage to sensitive and high-value equipment (caused by sudden voltage events)
- Equipment malfunction, overheating, and shortened asset life
- Data loss and operational disruptions
- increases in operating and energy costs
- Poor capacity planning due to unseen load growth.
Power quality issues affect all buildings, including modern buildings, frequently causing equipment to overheat and waste energy. Ubicquia helps prevent these issues by continuously monitoring more than 24 power-quality parameters – such as voltage disturbances, harmonics, and load changes – and applies AI-driven analytics to detect, predict, and prioritise issues in real time.
As part of the service, Ubicquia provides continuous monitoring and resolution coordination, working with both the customer and the local utility to quickly determine responsibility and accelerate responses.
“Ubicquia’s power quality analysis delivers insights that traditional power quality meters simply can’t,” said Melvin Liwag, senior engineer, system planning and reliability engineering, Orlando Utilities Commission.
“Shared, real-time visibility allows us to quickly determine whether an issue originates on the utility side or the customer side, coordinate resolution, and help protect equipment, improve reliability, and extend transformer life.”
Ubicquia’s AI platforms aim to make existing critical infrastructure intelligent to reduce energy consumption, increase resiliency, and enhance operational efficiency. Built on grid-scale deployments and billions of data points analysed daily, Ubicquia’s analytics platforms deliver actionable insights across utilities, municipalities, and now commercial and industrial customers.
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