Canadian firm Carl Data is working with Think-QA to develop predictive maintenance IIoT technology for the renewable energy sector.

Carl Data is a developer of big-data-as-a-service (BDaaS) for data integration, business intelligence and industrial IoT applications.

Think-QA provides quality assurance and quality control inspection services for some of the world’s largest electrical utilities. It has identified an opportunity to use machine learning, AI, data collection and monitoring of critical field level electrical components within solar parks to optimise preventive maintenance, thus representing a significant RoI for its clients.

Carl Data will provide its time-series, IIoT technology and AI cloud platform in collaboration with Think-QA to reduce maintenance costs for its clients. Partnering with Think-QA provides Carl Data direct access to some of the world’s largest renewable energy companies to test and calibrate this new offering.

”Think-QA is the perfect domain expert partner with specific subject-matter experts for our foray in the renewable energy sector,” said Jean Charles Phaneuf, CEO of Carl Data. “Think-QA has provided us with a distinct set of problems, costing clients millions of dollars. We have a partnership with people who are not trying to boil the ocean, but rather focus on providing a specific solution to a particular problem, exactly what we are looking for. Think-QA is the perfect complement to our market growth strategy in smart connected spaces, using preventive and predictive analysis to create value-add.”

Tim Dufour, CEO of Think-QA, added: “We are excited to partner with Carl Data to deliver innovative solutions to very costly problems for our renewable energy clientele. Carl Data offers proven solutions to complex problems, resulting in major cost-saving opportunities for our clients. We believe Carl Data will provide a level of service and support for this vast market opportunity that in our estimation no other AI platform service provider can achieve. After a thorough evaluation, we are convinced that Carl Data has all the required ingredients for an extremely successful venture in this market.”

Think-QA, with offices in Kelowna, British Columbia, and Henderson, Nevada, provides third-party quality assurance and quality control inspection services that meet ISO standards. It has a range of power line and power substation inspection QA and QC offerings for large utility power transmission and distribution users.

Carl Data provides collection, storage and analytics for data-centric organisations. Through its subsidiaries Astra Smart Systems and FlowWorks, it helps clients analyse and model environmental data through an end-to-end network of custom sensor arrays combined with SaaS-based monitoring, reporting and predictive modelling applications.

The company works with cloud-based mass storage services and machine learning analytical tools to provide the scalability required to monitor vast amounts of data collected by government and industry. The software suite can save time and money by aggregating information from any sensor or source to create a real-time decision support with deep insights into protecting infrastructure and assets.