Established in 1993, CT LAB is on a mission to transform how the power grid is monitored and managed. The electricity industry is dominated by a handful of major players; their bespoke solutions created for a centrally managed grid paradigm.
More has changed on the grid in the past decade than in the century preceding it, and there is a tsunami of change that is challenging grid managers and engineers.
CT LAB is a company built on a steadfast belief in the revolutionary potential of fresh ideas. Our technologies have always sought to change the game rather than add to the market offering.
The VECTO System, CT LAB's flagship product, takes a unique approach to solving the problem of grid visibility — by placing processing power, using edge-computing, throughout the network, VECTO unlocks a host of practical benefits and provides visibility that no other system can. It is the world’s only scaleable, real-time, permanently time-synchronised, grid-wide monitoring and management platform.
It consists of a cloud based big-data store and a fleet of remotely installed, edge-computing based Power Quality Monitoring (PQM) and control devices. The bespoke real-time, rating and analytics engine offers unmatched big-data data ingestion capabilities and unprecedented insight into power performance over the entire electrical distribution network.
The pressures of climate change policies, technological advancement, COVID-19 and DC uptake means we are set to see a decade of change that eclipses this one.
The challenge of a more distributed, less dispatch-able network, powered by a mix of synchronous, DC, variable and behind-the-meter generation, can only be met by one solution: grid-wide, real-time visibility of Synchronised Waveform Measurements and a comprehensive set of electrical Power Quality parameters, converted into actionable, standards based information.
In VECTO, CT LAB has delivered a platform designed to give grid architects, operational managers and power engineers the tools, scope, resolution and quality of data they require to build a stable, manageable and predictable electrical power grid.
The VECTO System has all the building blocks for the next generation of ML based power system dynamics research, grid monitoring, operation, and control. Enabling the electricity supply chain and industry make the switch to dynamic renewable energy sources.
VECTO Grid OS is where the VECTO System comes to life. Designed with the power engineer and operator in mind, it delivers animated data visualisation of time synchronised data sets for analysis, consolidated real time alert monitoring, powerful, customised reporting and, tools for in-depth event analysis.
VECTO Grid OS's functionality is wide ranging, flexible and powerful.
Features include a configurable, reporting engine; time-synchronised to <100ns, electrical data from across your grid; and real-time, consolidated alarm notifications of events, via push notifications or emails.
1. Simultaneous, time stamp synchronised to <100ns, comparison of any electrical parameter, incl. power factor, load, harmonics (up to the 500th), across any selected device or group of devices on the grid.
2. Report on your pre-defined, rated parameters, on any device or group of devices, over pre-selected time-frames, scheduled and delivered directly to the email inboxes of your choice.
3. Configure event alerting profiles to your requirements and submit them across the grid for real-time, consolidated event notification alerts to the channels and [groups of] people of your choice.
The VECTO 3 is an IEC 61000-4-30 Class A Edition 3 (2015), edge-computing based Multifunction Waveform Synchronised, Enterprise grade Power Quality Analyser (PQI) [Synchronised Waveform Measurement Unit (SWMU)], Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU), Intelligent Electronic Device (IED) monitoring and control device that synchronises with every other VECTO permanent installation Power Quality analyser and monitoring device installed across your power network.
VECTO's edge-computing based Power Quality monitoring and control technology enables clients to collect coherent performance data, on a large scale and at high resolution. Rated at the edge and delivered as readily consumable and applicable management information.
Capable of rating and analysing over 9,000 electrical parameters in near real-time, VECTO Grid OS delivers online access to the data that power engineers and electrical system decision-makers need, via an easy-to-use web & mobile interface.
Building on the VECTO technology, CT LAB provides domain system expertise to customers.
As subject matter experts, CT LAB provides user training to help you develop the skills in your organisation to plan, manage and control your electrical grid.
At CT LAB, we operate our own system - we take our own medicine.
CT LAB currently manages and hosts one of the worlds largest grid performance data-stores, encompassing over 1,200 devices, from more than 65 individual customers. Our comprehensive electrical parameter big-data data-set spans over a period of 10 years.
CT LAB manages this network via a strong technical and IT support capability.
As the designers, developers and manufacturers of our products, CT LAB owns the intellectual property and possesses the skills required to implement product customisation. If your network requires a specific protocol support, requires integration of bespoke equipment or requires electrical or environmental parameters be rated to conform to a specific standard, we can work with you to provide those capabilities.
VECTO System is a solution with applications across industry, mining, energy sensitive enterprises and in all aspects of grid monitoring and management.
