What is SAR Electricidad?

SAR Electricidad is a specialized software that provides an advanced package of completely integrated tools for planning, operation, electrical studies and company management in general oriented to Medium and Large-sized Distributors.
SAR allows the performance of numerous Technical / Economic Analyses to help the technical, commercial and management areas enhance quality, allocate investment resources correctly and manage the distributor in general terms.
Developed with the latest technologies, SAR Electricidad is built on a module structure that allows the Distributor to incorporate only those modules it is interested in and add the remaining when it deems it is appropriate.
GIS Technology, graphic interface, speed and robustness, ease of operation, broad functionality, continuous support are but a few of the features that have turned SAR into the ideal solution for the management of Power Distributors.

Who need SAR?

Any Power Company that needs to enhance its operations, optimize the use of resources and assess their behavior.
Due to the deep transformation the power sector has been going through where profit margins are increasingly smaller and the demand for quality service increasingly greater, it becomes essential to rely on comprehensive tools that allow the objective and systematic evaluation of the company's performance, the diagnosis of the system's sensitive points and the identification of enhancement alternatives through the optimal allocation of investment resources. There are no margins for errors.
SAR as a whole focuses on the accomplishment of those goals.

What objectives are reached?

Unification and standardization of Cartography (detail level, scales, etc.). Continuous map.
Geo-reference of the company's assets - Creation of unique Models
Collection of the experience and knowledge typically scattered.
Answers to questions like: Where is and which are the characteristics of the network? - Where should growth be oriented? - Which clients are affected by an outage? - Where is the demand? - How is the debt distributed? - Where should service be interrupted when payment terms are not complied with? - What area registered the higher number of claims? - etc.
Corporate access to the information historically handled by a few experts
Determination of hidden behavior patterns
More agile decision-making processes
Reduction of the planning, operation and maintenance costs of the network
Enhancements of the Distributor's general management
Better positioning before new demands
Better Quality of Service that improves the corporate image.

What Technical / Economic benefits are obtained?

Money and resources are saved!
Any decision, whether operational or planning, involves technical and economic resources. Our software has been designed taking those aspects into account!
As from the use of SAR, your Distributor will be able to:

Improve the Distribution Networks

Reduce losses
Reduce voltage drops
Balance the loads
Extend the life span of facilities
Optimize the array of switches

Set short, medium and long-term plans

Improve planning tasks allowing capital expenditure reduction or change
Relate the technical and economic analyses so as to find solutions at the lowest cost
Assess alternative expansion plans (lower costs)
Design the layout of new feeders and substations
Optimize the transformers lot
Evaluate projects (materials and costs) with no field tasks

Optimize the operating tasks

Analyze configuration variants to face possible contingencies
Accelerate the decision-making process due to its speed and ease of operation
Identify the users to be affected during maintenance tasks
Identify the "lowest cost" task in terms of Quality of Service in case of a scheduled outage

General Characteristics

Security scheme with access and permits controls
Continuous map vector model capable to incorporate raster images
Centralized storage. All information of the electrical model, both graphic and alphanumerical is saved in the same database increasing reliability, integrity and security.
Windows Platform
MapInfo Corp. GIS Technology.
Technical Database: SQL Server 2000, Oracle, Informix
Multiple branches
Module and scalable conception
Oriented to all areas within the company
Capable to integrate with the remaining corporate systems (Commercial, Scada, etc.)
Continuous evolution in accordance with the new market standards.
Widely spread. Its different modules have been implemented in over 200 distributors worldwide.
Multiple branches. Ideal for any company and Control Organizations.
It allows users to analyze networks not only from a technical point of view but also from an economic point of view.