FLISR / Self-Healing Grid
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FLISR / Self-Healing Grid

Fault detection by design. Automated restoration by nature. Built to help utilities reduce outage impact, improve reliability, and move toward autonomous grid operations
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Outages are no longer isolated events. They are moments where reliability, customer trust, and operational resilience are tested at once
Why this FLISR / Self-Healing Grid: Faster Restoration at Scale challenge?
From Fault Detection to Automated Restoration

Traditional outage management depends on SCADA systems, operator intervention, and field crew dispatches — approaches built for simpler grids with fewer connected assets. Today, renewable generation, distributed energy resources, electric vehicles, decentralized systems, and extreme weather are making distribution networks more dynamic and harder to restore manually. The challenge is no longer simply detecting faults — it is restoring service faster while minimizing affected customers and reducing operational intervention

Key benefits
When the Grid Restores Before the Outage Spreads

FLISR automates fault location, isolation, and service restoration — turning outage management from a reactive process into an increasingly autonomous operational capability

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Find the fault before crews roll

Intelligent devices, analytics, and automation identify network disturbances faster and with greater precision

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Isolate disruption before it travels

Automated switches and reclosers help separate affected sections from healthy parts of the grid

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Restore customers through alternate paths

FLISR enables service restoration to unaffected customers without waiting for full manual intervention

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Make resilience visible in real time

Field assets, substations, and control systems exchange operational data to improve outage response performance

How NTT DATA helps

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Prioritize the highest-value reliability cases

NTT DATA helps utilities identify where FLISR can deliver the strongest impact across reliability, resilience, cost, and customer experience

Prioritize the highest-value reliability cases
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Connect automation to operational systems

We help integrate intelligent electronic devices, automated switches, reclosers, DMS, ADMS, edge platforms, analytics, and communications networks

Connect automation to operational systems
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Design communications for restoration speed

Private LTE and 5G architectures support faster exchange of fault and switching information across large utility service territories

Design communications for restoration speed
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Enable distributed intelligence at the edge

Edge computing and secure operational technology connectivity help field assets support faster local decisions during network disturbances

Enable distributed intelligence at the edge
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Keep automation grounded in control

We don’t automate outage response in isolation. We align field devices, control systems, communication performance, and operating procedures around trusted restoration

Keep automation grounded in control
Faster fault location. Smaller outage footprint. Stronger self-healing grid performance
Proven impact
Faster fault location. Smaller outage footprint. Stronger self-healing grid performance
Results that matter
Measurable reliability outcomes from automated fault isolation and service restoration
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Reduce outage duration

SAIDI: 20–50% reduction

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Improve service continuity

SAIFI: 15–40% reduction and Customers Affected per Incident: 30–70% reduction

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Restore faster with fewer interventions

MTTR: 30–60% reduction and Restoration Time: 30–70% improvement

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Lower operational burden

Field Dispatches / Truck Rolls: 20–50% reduction and Outage Management Costs: 15–40% reduction

Turn outage response into a foundation for autonomous grid resilience

Scale self-healing grid operations with confidence

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