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Distributed Electrical Sensing (DES)
Need better visibility of your network? Distributed Electrical Sensing (DES) is a precision measurement technology that allows power system operators to protect and monitor their networks with unprecedented flexibility. Learn more about our passive sensor technology...
Mixed Circuit Protection
Synaptec are a world leading innovator in power system instrumentation, and the inventors of the world’s first and only distributed electrical sensor technology, which was designed to improve the visibility and control of complex medium-to-high voltage power...
About Synaptec
The evolution of Synaptec
Learn more about Synaptec from our Managing Director, Dr Philip Orr.
Why is Synaptec different?
Learn more from Dr Neil Gordon, our Head of Power System Technologies, who describes Synaptec's brand new technology which allows you to reach out over long distances over one single-mode fibre and gather in many measurements from a wide area, completely...
Synaptec’s role in the energy transmission
In the power industry, we talk a lot about the decentralisation and decarbonisation of that industry. What this means is distributing cleaner forms of power generation, like renewables, across that system and also distributing energy storage devices around that...
Our technology
How Synaptec meets the needs of an evolving grid
The power sector is undergoing a large change at the moment from massive centralised generation through transmission down to distribution to homes and businesses to a model where you have distributed generation plugging into that network at various locations....
Capabilities of Synaptec’s technology
Synaptec's technology is a platform technology for instrumentation of power systems. An operator can mix and match a range of sensors on that network – current, temperature, strain and vibration. This means the network is adaptable and extendable. Learn more...
Innovation through automation
Operators around the world re trying to find out how best to digitalise substations. Synaptec worked on the FITNESS programme with Scottish Power Energy Networks to reduce a substation by 25% by eliminating tonnes of copper wiring and having everything...
Synaptec and the T&D industry
Synaptec’s role in the transmission market
The transmission market is critical because this is how energy is generated and delivered to entire countries, and how it is generated and consumed is fundamentally changing. So the challenge for transmission operators is to find that balance of supply and...
How Synaptec meets the needs of an evolving grid
The power sector is undergoing a large change at the moment from massive centralised generation through transmission down to distribution to homes and businesses to a model where you have distributed generation plugging into that network at various locations....
How power systems operators can visualise critical assets
The existing level of deployed technology today, to use an analogy, would be a doctor using a stethoscope which provides an occasional sample of the heartbeat of the system. The latest generation of montioring devices based on synchrophasers provides quite a...
Synaptec and offshore wind
Synaptec’s role in offshore wind
Developers and operators of offshore wind farms face unique challenges, as they generate energy from distant locations out at sea, often difficult to access. Synaptec's technology is ideally suited to automate the visibility and control of those turbines and...
How does Synaptec answer the unmet needs of offshore wind?
Today, when a fault occurs in an offshore array cable, typically an entire string of wind turbines are taken out of action for days, weeks or months. In order to find that fault in the first instance, typically an engineer must be sent out in a boat to the...
Utilising data to prevent faults
For protection purposes our technology has the speed and the accuracy, but the additional range and number of locations that can be built in - a critically important part of the system. Once these passive sensors are installed, they are constantly streaming at...