Optimise, decarbonise and grow your city’s grid with our real-time Digital Twin

With our real-time Digital Twin Platform, we create a digital copy of your complete grid that runs in real-time, combining geographical, weather and sensor data with physics-based models and AI. It provides insights for your entire network - even for places where you don’t have data or smart meters. This lets you optimise your grid and run simulations of future situations for a more efficient operation.

District Heating grids
need to transform

From high to
low temperatures

Low temperature systems are more efficient and help reduce CO2 emissions as well as minimising operational costs.

From few to multiple sustainable heat sources

Enabling your District Heating grid to incorporate multiple new, more sustainable low temperature heat sources makes it future-proof.

Turning low efficiency
into high efficiency

By optimising your complete District Heating system, overall performance and security of delivery from source to end users goes up while operational costs go down.

Traditional District Heating
software only delivers limited
optimisation and simulation

Partial optimization

Partial optimization with tools focusing on either sources, hydraulics, or end users, but not the integrated view.

Low performance

Low performance with legacy core modules that lack computational power needed for large and complex DH systems.

Rigid models

Rigid models that can only be updated by means of extensive and costly efforts by external consultants.

Optimise your District Heating grid
in real-time

We have developed a unique end-to-end software solution that is fit for the challenges and complexity of District Heating systems today and tomorrow.

Single integrated modelling solution

Covering heat sources, users and the distribution network in between.

Maximise value from available data

Combine different types of data sources, sensors and smart meters to create a digital copy of your network - even with limited data available.

Smart physical
models

Use your live data in dynamic thermohydraulic models to compute the heat propagation in your network.

Fill in the blanks
with AI

Use AI to complete the missing sensor data, optimise your system in real-time and forecast future network states, based on historic patterns.

Make your District Heating grid more reliable and efficient with our real-time Digital Twin Platform

Single end-to-end solution

Simulate the whole system from production to network and end users in real-time.

Built for scale and complexity

With proprietary hydraulic solvers and optimisers working at multi-core cloud systems.

Always up-to-date model

Due to efficient data loaders and high service SaaS.

‘What’s important is that you link the digital twin with real data sources from the environment and are able to update the twin in real-time.’

Partner - McKinsey & Company
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Optimise in real-time

Optimise temperature, hydraulics, dispatch & peaks of your grid in real-time.

Design and simulate the future

Make dependable, impactful decisions by running simulations of future situations.

Helen has been a customer of Gradyent since 2021, using the Digital Twin to build an energy platform of the future. Maximising the opportunities for District Heating is crucial to making the energy transition work. Gradyent’s unique software will play a key role in making this happen.

Timo Aaltonen
SVP, Energy Platform and Production Solutions, Helen

Our real-time Digital Twin Platform
puts you in control with six solutions
that matter

Temperature
control

Accurately predict and set optimal temperature levels across your grid. Control forward temperatures individually for each source, buffer, substation or other location in the grid.

Pressure
control

Confidently meet the challenges of hydraulics control. Improve your hydraulic efficiency while at the same time increasing security of supply, detecting and solving (hidden) bottlenecks in your network.

Production scheduling
and control

Optimise your production schedule for heat and electricity in real-time during the day and for upcoming days, across all assets and source locations in your network. And further optimise conventional CHP's (gas, coal, biomass) and boilers or modern sustainable heat sources such as heat pumps, waste heat and buffers.

User
control

Connect, clean and combine all your available user data in our real-time Digital Twin Platform, revealing where and when forward temperatures are too high or too low, where the return temperature is too high and the delta T can be improved and more.

Issue detection and
predictive maintenance

Keep your network running smoothly with operators and field crew communicating seamlessly. Combine and integrate data from various sensors and sources on our real-time Digital Twin Platform to identify complex issues and leakages more quickly and prevent them.

Design and
simulation

Enhance decision-making around the introduction of low carbon sources, system changes and extensions through analyses and realistic simulations of new designs with actual network data.

Leverage all real-time
Digital Twin Platform features
Get maximum value

Measurable results and fast payback

Delivering the quantifiable value that you need from the start.

Guiding smarter business decisions

Accurate simulation and insights on network transformation.

Easy on your organisation

Seamless integration with existing systems and minimal operator effort through automated control that works with limited data.

Better results
Right from the start

We've already successfully applied our real-time Digital Twin Platform to District Heating grids across Europe, with measurable results of up to:

Heat loss saving

CO2 emission reduction

Savings on fuel cost

Faster issue
detection

Lower
CAPEX

Increased security
of heat supply

Our customers are reporting
strong and measurable outcomes

Reduction of grid temperatures

through live setpoint control of heat sources and substations.

Up to 4-6 percent points improved profit

after live dispatch optimization of CHP/boiler systems.

Successful heat pump integration

after the system failed to operate for 2 years.

>€10M CAPEX reduction

after dynamic scenario modelling proved that the pump station was redundant.

Become fully digitalized with our
real-time Digital Twin Platform

Build a real-time Digital Twin

Our world-class team of experts will build and implement your real-time Digital Twin Platform solution for your entire system, in close cooperation with your team.

Obtain real-time insight in your grid

A digital copy of your complete system combines geographical, weather and sensor data with physics-based models and AI.

Analyse optimization potential

Optimise your grid in real-time and run simulations of future situations to improve performance and be in a position to make smart business decisions about challenges.

Exploit potential with automated control

Automated dynamic optimization and controls enable you to achieve excellence.

Build a real-time Digital Twin

Our world-class team of experts will build and implement your real-time Digital Twin Platform solution for your entire system, in close cooperation with your team.

Obtain real-time insight in your grid

A digital copy of your complete system combines geographical, weather and sensor data with physics-based models and AI.

Analyse optimization potential

Optimise your grid in real-time and run simulations of future situations to improve performance and be in a position to make smart business decisions about challenges.

Exploit potential with automated control

Automated dynamic optimization and controls enable you to achieve excellence.

Let’s upgrade your District Heating grid

Ready to optimise, decarbonise or grow your grid? We would love to set up a call, a meeting or give you a personal demo of our real-time Digital Twin Platform.

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