2026 - AVEVA World - Milan - Power & Utilities
SSEN Transmission: Real-Time Network Situational Awareness at Scale
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) and Capula outline how they partnered to break down OT and asset data silos to enable secure, real-time situational awareness across their Transmission business. With a strong data foundation built on AVEVA PI System and intuitive visualization, they improved data quality, accelerated decision-making, and empowered engineers, field teams, and leaders to act confidently—anywhere, anytime.
Industry
Power and Utilities
Company
SSEN Transmission
Speaker
Adrian Ferguson
An industry professional with 30 years experience, Adrian has built teams functioning as Operational Technology specialists. He also has extensive Cyber Security experience and is a Chartered Engineer. Adrian has over 25 years experience as PI System Manager.
Company
Capula
Speaker
Eduan Smit
Eduan is a chemical engineer, which started working with the PI system in 1995. He has since worked in a wide variety of industries globally, designing and implementing PI systems, focused on adding value through maximising use of any client's PI environment. Eduan now works for Capula, based in Stafforshire in the UK, where he is a solution architect and overall PI specialist, assisting in many PI related projects and actively training in the more deep-down areas of all things PI. Eduan loves pushing the PI environments to its limits