S&C Electric Company, Intergraph Launch Strategic Alliance to Deliver Integrated Self-Healing Solutions

CHICAGO, Feb. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Intergraph Corporation and S&C Electric Company today announced a strategic alliance to deliver integrated self-healing solutions for the smart grid. By joining Intergraph's GeoMedia® Product Suite, an integrated set of geospatial processing applications, and the S&C IntelliTEAM SG™ Automatic Restoration System, the alliance supports creation of an interoperable smart-grid electric delivery system.

The fully integrated system dramatically improves the ease of managing large-scale smart-grid deployments for electrical utilities. Scalability and effective data management are critical to the practicality of smart-grid installments.

"As smart-grid deployments increase in scale and complexity, tighter integration of data on system assets and system device configurations is essential to provide a complete system supporting both distributed intelligence and centralized control," says Mike Edmonds, S&C's Global Smart Grid Strategies Director. "With the integration of GeoMedia, IntelliTEAM SG now can access and employ the most up-to-date asset data while minimizing database maintenance. This makes large-scale deployments of self-healing technology more economical."

"Strategic alliances between leading solutions like S&C's IntelliTEAM SG and Intergraph's GeoMedia enable utilities to get the best use of the assets they're using to build a truly smart grid," says Intergraph's Hank Dipietro, Vice President.

How it works

S&C's IntelliTEAM SG™ Automatic Restoration System provides automatic fault isolation and service restoration to utility distribution systems, allowing power to be restored in seconds. Using distributed intelligence and peer-to-peer networking technology, IntelliTEAM SG™ accomplishes restoration faster than any other software. Intergraph's GeoMedia offers the unique ability to access geospatial data in almost any form and bring an integrated geospatial view together, along with a broad set of powerful analytic and editing tools. This unique geospatial view supports better management and use of utility transmission and distribution assets by keeping data records current and accurate.

About Intergraph Corporation

Intergraph Corporation is the leading global provider of engineering and geospatial software that enables customers to visualize complex data. Businesses and governments in more than 60 countries rely on Intergraph's industry-specific software to organize vast amounts of data into understandable visual representations and actionable intelligence. Intergraph's software and services empower customers to build and operate more efficient plants and ships, create intelligent maps, and protect critical infrastructure and millions of people around the world.

About S&C Electric Company

S&C, headquartered in Chicago, is applying its heritage of innovation to address challenges facing the world's power grids and thus shaping the future of reliable electricity delivery. The mission of employee-owned S&C is to continually develop new solutions for electricity delivery, fostering the improved efficiency and reliability required for the intelligent grid. Additional information about S&C is available at www.sandc.com.

SOURCE S&C Electric Company; Intergraph Corporation