A simulated tour of the Flow line-digitalization suite — dynamic line rating, situational awareness & weather resilience, and AI-based advanced inspection on a fictional transmission corridor. Change the weather and load and watch the real-time ampacity headroom move against the static rating: the core DLR value of more capacity from existing corridors. Every corridor and number below is fictional.
Try it: on Dynamic Line Rating, pick a weather preset or drag the wind / ambient / load sliders and watch the real-time rating and unlocked headroom recompute (the binding span is highlighted on the corridor). Switch to Situational Awareness or Advanced Inspection, and click any flagged span for its finding.
Flow is Siemens Energy's overhead-line digitalization suite, delivering intelligence from above the grid across three solution lines — dynamic line rating / ambient-adjusted ratings (real-time ampacity from line-mounted sensors, so operators can safely exceed conservative static ratings, unlock hidden capacity and defer reinforcements, supporting FERC 881), situational awareness & weather resilience (icing detection, high-frequency vibration monitoring for galloping / aeolian vibration, extreme-weather transparency), and advanced inspection (helicopter, drone and ground missions with co-mounted Ultra-HD RGB, 3D LiDAR, infrared and UV/corona sensors — up to 100 GB per km, orthophotos to 4 cm GSD). Those solution lines, the measured parameters and every capability claim come from the official Flow brochure and one-pager deck; encrypted data feeds web dashboards with API integration into SCADA and asset-management systems.
The “Aldergrove–Kestrel 400 kV corridor”, its instrumented spans, every ampacity value, weather reading, conductor temperature, headroom percentage and inspection finding are fictional demo data driven by a deterministic illustrative model — no real utility, line, site or place appears anywhere. The Flow docs carry no ampacity numbers or rating formula, so the static rating, the real-time rating and the unlocked headroom shown here are demo values, not Siemens Energy specifications — they exist to convey the DLR concept, not a performance claim. The badge on the frame is rendered by the demo itself, so it can't be cropped away.