“Instead of polling the same data twice through redundant systems, Survalent’s unified configuration synchronized everything efficiently across all servers - dramatically reducing network strain and improving overall performance.”
The Challenge
A major transmission utility in the Middle East was managing some of the world’s largest substations, each processing up to 400,000 data points. High electricity demand driven by extreme heat and widespread air conditioning made real-time reliability critical. However, the integrators faced major issues with their substation automation architecture: redundant SCADA systems were polling the same data twice from protection relays, overwhelming the network switches and causing system failures.
The Solution
The utility deployed Survalent’s StationCentral to unify gateway and HMI functions under a single quad-redundant system. Rather than running two independent redundant configurations, StationCentral allowed data to be polled once and synchronized across all servers. This streamlined communication traffic, preserved network stability, and allowed scalable management of large substations – each with hundreds of thousands of data points – without loss of performance.
One of the largest electricity transmission operators in the Middle East, this utility oversees a high-voltage network spanning approximately 84,000 kilometers, with 1,093 substations and 3,465 transformers delivering over 424,000 MVA of capacity. Its infrastructure supports power delivery to more than 13,000 cities and villages, enabling reliable energy access across a vast and rapidly developing territory.