Pöyry is a world leader in the analysis and modelling of electricity markets. The company’s sophisticated models involve long-term projections of both the physical characteristics of electricity plants and financial information. It turned to OCC to create an outward-facing user friendly interface.
OCC developers working with National Grid engineers have developed a suite of software tools providing fast and accurate modelling of the thermal stresses in circuit components. Allowing transmission operators to respond to system operator requests for a temporary heightened load, without compromising reliability or safety.
Using research software developed by the University of Southampton for modelling thermal properties of cables in tunnels OCC developed a software tool for National Grid Asset Engineers. This enabled the engineers to understand the thermal effects and safe loading limits when planning new cable routings.
An app developed by OCC enabling more accurate validation testing of gas meters is helping National Grid in their programme to save costs by reducing metering errors.
The new ContrOCC Remote Financial Assessments app. Designed for financial assessment officers and social workers, ContrOCC Remote enables the user to manage appointments, record details of clients’ income and expenditure, assess eligibility for benefits wherever they are.
ESPRC Impact Acceleration funding awarded to Oxford University enabled their researchers to begin commercialisation of software for predicting adverse heart complications in early stage drug candidates. They turned to OCC to transform their early stage software into a package for today’s user expectations.
One of the most significant sources of Big Data is social media: a continuous feed of unstructured, unvalidated, near real-time information about what people are experiencing. As part of the European EmerGent project., OCC is developing a cloud-based emergency management service to gather and mine social media.
All gas in the UK passes through National Grid’s high-pressure transmission system on its way to customers.
IMS Health is the leading supplier of information, services and technology to the healthcare industry around the globe. They turned to OCC to give their web site a unique style based on original designs.
An EU project to provide personalised rehabilitation via telemedicine for the major motor impairments caused by Parkinson’s disease.
As part of its ongoing commitment to asset management, National Grid is re-establishing live-line working – working on overhead power lines while they are still charged to hundreds of kilovolts.
Predicting the thermal stress on high-voltage buried cables is crucial to the running of the national electricity network.
National Grid contracted OCC to provide software to model the tension and sagging of overhead lines under different conditions including span length, creep, temperature, wind speed, ice loading and the profile of the ground.
OCC has been providing software to National Grid since 1999 and has built up expertise in modelling the capability of critical components in the network to take electrical load.
Elmhurst Energy's clients range from large organisations filing thousands of surveys each month to individuals who only file a few surveys a year. Billing such a large and varied customer base efficiently and accurately required an automated system.
Sport England selected OCC to develop an interactive web tool to help those delivering sport better understand their markets.
Engineers at National Grid’s National Control Centre in Wokingham are responsible for balancing national supply with demand on a minute-by-minute basis.
National Grid chose OCC to develop and support TRALC2, a desktop application that models the performance of high-voltage transformers as they are subjected to heavy electrical loads.
In response to certain visual cues, some Parkinson’s disease patients experience ‘kinesia paradoxa’ – a sudden disappearance of the major symptoms, greatly increased mobility and a subjective feeling of well-being.
As part of the EU REACT research project, OCC developed new technical solutions to assist emergency services operators in the command and control room.