Index Energy Systems Portland, Maine
How most small utilities run distribution today

A paper one‑line, and a phase label nobody trusts.

Index Energy Systems is building two tools for municipal utilities and electric cooperatives: one that turns your connectivity model into a one-line you can switch on, and one that tells you which phase every meter is actually on.

NodeFabric  ·  in development NodeWise  ·  in development Design partner slots open
Feeder 1204 · 12.47 kV · 18 metered services
An animated distribution feeder one-line diagram demonstrating switching restoration and per-meter phase identification.
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    Key

    Illustrative feeder. Switching, energization state, and phase assignment are simulated for demonstration.

    Two products

    NodeFabric

    One-line diagrams and switching

    Reads your existing connectivity data and draws a feeder one-line you can actually operate against. Step through a switching order before anyone touches a device in the field.

    • ModelMulti-feeder topology compiled from GIS or CSV exports, with tie points and normal open positions.
    • SwitchBuild an order step by step. Each step is validated against the current state before it is accepted.
    • TraceEnergization propagates from every source, so de-energized sections are visible immediately.
    • CountCustomers out per step, so you can compare two restoration paths on the same screen.
    Sized for feeders under 10,000 meters.
    Web based. No CAD license required.

    NodeWise

    Phase identification from AMI

    Uses interval voltage data you already collect to work out which phase each service is fed from, then writes the corrected labels back to your GIS.

    • InputInterval voltage reads from your AMI head end. No field visits, no injected signal, no new hardware.
    • MethodCommon-mode voltage is removed, remaining residuals are correlated pairwise, then clustered and matched to known anchor meters.
    • ConfidenceEvery meter gets a score. Low-confidence services are flagged for review instead of silently guessed.
    • Write-backResults return as a GIS-ready update file with a full change record.
    Best fit at 8,000 to 25,000 meters.
    Requires AMI with interval voltage.
    How they fit together

    Order matters. The model comes first.

    NodeWise does not replace your connectivity model, it corrects one attribute inside it. So at a given utility we sequence the work: build the topology, then fix the phase labels sitting on top of it. Either product stands alone, but together the second improves the first.

    STEP 01 · NODEFABRIC

    Build the connectivity model

    Compile feeders, devices, and service points into a topology that can be traced. This is the map everything else is written against.

    STEP 02 · NODEWISE

    Correct the phase attribute

    Run the AMI analysis against that model, review the flagged services, and push corrected phase labels back into GIS.

    Where this actually stands
    NodeFabric

    In build. Topology compiler and switching simulation are working on sample and synthetic feeders. Not yet deployed at a utility.

    NodeWise

    Algorithm is working end to end and has been validated against synthetic feeder models with known ground truth. It has not yet been tested on a real feeder, and that is the next thing we need.

    Who it is for

    Municipal utilities and electric cooperatives that own their distribution system and do not have a large engineering department. New England first, then wider.

    Who is building it

    Index Energy Systems is a small team led by someone who manages control center programs at a US investor-owned utility. The products come from watching this work get done by hand.

    Pricing

    Annual subscription per utility, with a fixed onboarding fee. Founding design partners get published pricing held for the term.

    Design partners

    We need one real feeder.

    Synthetic data got the method working. It cannot tell us how it behaves against a real AMI archive with real gaps, real meter swaps, and a GIS that has drifted for fifteen years.

    If you run an AMI-equipped system and you are willing to share a de-identified voltage extract and a feeder export, we will run the analysis and give you the results whether or not anything comes of it commercially.

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