PACE

Field crews and asset engineers carry the consequence of every maintenance decision. PACE changes what their time is spent on, and what they can verify before they act.

Engineering time goes to what is new

Known partial discharge signatures are classified automatically, so scarce engineering hours are spent on the genuinely new anomalies instead of on repeat interpretation.

Fewer visits to assets that are sound

Inspection effort follows the ranking. Crews travel where measured condition warrants attention, rather than working a route that ends at healthy equipment.

Work ordered by risk, not by the calendar

Maintenance is prioritised on measured condition rather than a fixed schedule. Each ranking opens into the measurement behind it, so an engineer verifies the verdict rather than taking it on trust.

Diagnostics that inform safety-critical decisions have to survive an audit. PACE is built to be examined.

Scoring that can be audited

PACE runs on a deterministic, auditable pipeline. A score can be reproduced and reviewed, rather than accepted as an opaque output.

The decision stays with a person

PACE ranks assets and presents the evidence. The decision to intervene remains with the responsible engineer at every step.

An evidence chain from signal to verdict

Measurement, classification, score, and verdict are held together as one record, so any ranking can be traced back to the signal it came from.

Anchored to the standards you already work to

Partial discharge measurement follows IEC 60270. Quality processes are aligned to ISO 9001.

Prepared for NIS2 and the EU AI Act

PACE is designed for the obligations placed on critical infrastructure operators, and on the systems that support their decisions.

Data sovereignty where it is required

Operators who need it can run PACE inside their own infrastructure, keeping measurement data under their own control.

One unplanned medium-voltage failure is the expensive event. Everything upstream of it costs less.

Failures handled as planned work

Assets are attended to while the condition is still developing, so a developing fault is resolved on a planned outage rather than as an unplanned interruption.

Reliability performance you can report

Interruptions that never happen never count toward SAIFI, and their minutes never reach SAIDI. Network reliability is managed on evidence rather than estimated.

Replacement and budget on evidence

Assets are replaced on measured condition rather than on age, so sound equipment stays in service and replacement capital is committed where it is justified. Spend tied to ranked risk holds up in a budget review.

Three approaches are common in medium-voltage diagnostics today. Each of them stops short of the decision.

Manual handheld measurement and walking rounds

Crews walk the route with a handheld instrument and interpret the reading on site. Coverage is limited to what a team can reach in a shift, and the result varies with the individual. REDXGRID delivers drone-based cable inspection with one consistent, recorded analysis.

Analytics dashboards that stop at the data

General platforms present measurements and leave interpretation to the operator, so the engineer still has to work out what any of it means. REDXGRID returns a ranked verdict with the evidence attached.

Artificial intelligence that cannot be examined

A model that issues a verdict without showing its reasoning cannot be defended to a regulator or to a board. REDXGRID runs a deterministic, auditable pipeline and shows the reasoning behind every score.

Partial discharge is the earliest reliable indication that insulation is breaking down, measured to IEC 60270. This is the reasoning that stands behind a PACE verdict.

Measured where failure begins

Partial discharge activity in cables, joints, and switchgear is the signal that precedes insulation failure. PACE reads that activity rather than inferring condition from age or from service history.

Seven fault signatures, classified

PACE classifies the seven known partial discharge signatures. Recognised patterns are handled automatically, and anything that does not match is raised for engineering review.

Reasoning you can follow

Classification rests on how discharge energy distributes across frequency bands. The basis of a verdict is explicit, so it can be examined rather than simply accepted.