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Self-sufficient field unit — no reliance on the very supply it is monitoring.
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Tranxwatch-Solar.
A solar-powered sensing and telemetry unit that gives distribution utilities continuous, remote visibility of transformer condition across dispersed networks — hardware, cloud and app developed in-house.
Wholly indigenousSolar poweredAndroid app included
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Tranxwatch-Solar — distribution transformer health monitoring.
A solar-powered sensing and telemetry unit that gives distribution utilities continuous, remote visibility of transformer condition across dispersed networks.
Distribution transformers fail expensively and often silently: overload, oil degradation and tampering typically surface only after an outage. Continuous monitoring shifts maintenance from reactive replacement to planned intervention — extending asset life, shortening restoration times and protecting revenue.
Wholly indigenous technology. The complete solution — IoT node hardware, cloud infrastructure, interface software and Android application — was designed and developed in-house by Flant Automations in Lagos, Nigeria.
Local development means the platform is engineered for Nigerian network and grid conditions, supported directly by the team that built it, and can be extended or customised to a utility's requirements without dependence on a foreign vendor.
Continuous condition data
Load, thermal and integrity signals streamed from dispersed transformer sites.
Cloud & Android app
Interface software and a mobile application built in-house for field and control-room users.
Planned intervention
Move from reactive replacement to scheduled maintenance — longer asset life, faster restoration.
Common questions
What clients ask us first.
Why solar rather than powering it from the transformer?
Because the moments you most want telemetry are the moments the transformer is not supplying anything. A node powered from the asset it monitors goes dark exactly when it matters. Solar keeps it reporting through the outage.
What does it detect?
Sustained overload and duty profile, phase imbalance, oil temperature and level trends, and enclosure access or tampering events. It does not replace dissolved gas analysis, and it will not foresee a lightning strike — it catches the failures that develop, which is most of them.
Can we start with a pilot?
We recommend it. Twenty units, six months, including a control group of healthy transformers so you can quantify what the programme found rather than argue about it.
Want to pilot transformer monitoring on your network?
Tell us the feeder count and where your failure history is concentrated. We will propose a first tranche and a way to measure whether it worked.