Create a smarter network with UtonomyOne
Meet UtonomyOne – all the tools you need for the digital and low-carbon transformation of your gas distribution grid. The modular solution uses AI, machine learning and innovative hardware to create a smarter network.
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Quickly and easily monitor and control your entire network
Monitor your network, optimise network pressures and diagnose issues rapidly, all via a cloud-based data and software platform. With UtonomyOne, you can connect remote governor stations and data loggers securely via a 4G cellular network. With a variety of functions and modular design, you can choose the right solution to meet your network’s exact needs.
By providing smart pressure and feed-in management, UtonomyOne helps you achieve methane emissions reduction, operational cost savings and increased biomethane injection capacity.
Introducing UtonomyOne
UtonomyOne combines cloud-based software with innovative control hardware to create a smarter network. Our patented tech is retrofitted to the governors across your network and enables them to be controlled remotely. Remote governor stations can then be securely connected to a cloud-hosted software and data platform with minimum effort via cellular networks. Innovative software adjusts gas pressure in line with demand, thereby keeping average network pressure as low as possible while never going below the minimum.
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System Architecture
Thanks to UtonomyOne’s modularity, Ucontrol can be quickly and simply retrofitted to existing equipment without costly upgrades or downtime. Start with stand-alone pressure management running pre-configured daily schedules and quickly and simply add functionality whenever you need it. Uconnect provides secure communication, which, together with Uscope, gives you remote monitoring and control. Finally, add Upredict for smart pressure control.
PRESSURE CONTROL
PRESSURE CONTROL AND MONITORING
Ucontrol
Ucontrol is a solution for governor setpoint adjustment, suitable for use in Atex zone 0. Simply and quickly installed, motorised actuators can be retrofitted to existing governors. The dual channel design and watchdogs together with mechanical pressure range limits ensure security of supply. Additional sensors can be added via an expansion port.
UCONTROL ACTUATORS
Actuators are available as single or dual drive models for use in the most critical applications, such as single-stream governor stations. IP68 actuators are available for underground stations. Adaptators are available for many of the common pilot-operated governors. If not already available, additional adaptors can be developed.
A secure infrastructure for greater peace of mind
SECURE COMMUNICATION AND DATA LOGGING
Uconnect
Unlock UtonomyOne’s unique remote control and monitoring features.
Uconnect securely connects your governor stations to the Ucloud device and data management platform.
The gateway connects via cellular networks and can be powered via a solar power subsystem.
IOT PLATFORM FOR GREATER SECURITY AND RELIABILITY
Ucloud
Ucloud is UtonomyOne’s device and data management platform. This enables you to connect and manage remote devices, ingest data, and route commands and operations to devices. It also provides operational storage, user management, reporting, visualisation and system administration.
Ucloud is rapid to deploy and lets you start small and grow at your own pace. Highly scalable, it gives you the ability to cover the largest networks with a secure and reliable cloud service platform.
Applications
REMOTE STATION MONITORING AND CONTROL
Uscope
Uscope provides management dashboards within Ucloud, enabling users to understand the health and status of connected pressure management sites across their network. The application gives detailed information for each station.
Users are able to monitor alarms forwarded from remote sites and view detailed graphs of network pressures, including near-live and historical information, directly in Uscope or offline using exported data and reports. Authorised users can edit setpoint schedules to reflect the latest seasonal settings, react to anomalous weather events or perform further optimisation of network pressures. Updated schedules are then queued in the cloud for automatic upload next time the target station is online.
AI DRIVEN AUTOMATIC PREDICTIVE CONTROL
Upredict
Upredict uses machine learning to automatically optimise the pressure in the network to minimise leakage. Machine learning network and demand models are created and updated daily. These models are used to provide each governor with individual schedules.
With Upredict, the average pressure across the whole network is minimised while maintaining minimum levels at each of the extremity points.
Commercially available from Q1 2025
Your guide to UtonomyOne
Meet a more efficient way to run your network. UtonomyOne brings together cloud-based software with innovative control hardware to create a smarter network which provides emission reduction, greater operational efficiency and capex reduction – and more.
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