The team will work with CKDelta to provide predictive maintenance models that can improve efficiency.

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin are teaming up with software company CKDelta to address the efficiency and sustainability challenges facing the utility sector using AI.

CKDelta, headquartered in Dublin and part of CKI Innovations Opportunities Development (CKH IOD), is providing funding of €865,000 to support the appointment of a postdoctoral researcher and a number of doctoral students, who will work on a range of research projects.

The students will be supervised by Gregory O’Hare, professor of artificial intelligence and director of Trinity’s School of Computer Science and Statistics, and the collaboration will last four years in total.

The collaboration aims to provide predictive maintenance models that provide better information for informed decision-making, rather than the current situation where maintenance is often driven by customer complaints and logging issues as they occur. ‘they arise.

CKDelta experts will provide the platforms on which Trinity researchers can study data, as well as offer engineering and data science support.

The research projects will focus on two main areas: predictive maintenance and early warning systems.

Predictive maintenance is a data-driven approach that uses AI to monitor assets and predict when they will need maintenance or replacement. This means maintenance can be scheduled at the optimal time, avoiding unnecessary downtime, reducing operational expenses and improving safety and reliability.

Meanwhile, early warning systems represent a set of tools and methods aimed at detecting, monitoring and predicting potential threats or disruptions to utility companies.

The research program also aims to develop an anomaly detection system to identify near real-time differences from expected behaviors, which can be adaptable to other situations.

Commenting on the announcement, O‘Hare saidThe scale of the challenges also means there is also “significant opportunity” to improve sustainability and efficiency in the utilities sector.

“We believe our data and AI-driven approach offers great potential to take a tangible step forward,” he said. “We hope that this collaboration will form the basis of a lasting, trusting and mutually beneficial relationship. »

Joe Parker, CEO of CKH IOD, said: “The partnership will generate new streams of knowledge transfer, with cross-pollination of skills, perspectives and specializations that may otherwise be impossible.

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