UNITE Innovation Summit Highlights

Southern Company hosted peer UNITE utilities in Atlanta over the summer to discuss innovation projects and topics.  Here is a presentation showing highlights from the event.



http://it.southernco.com/innovation/iwov-resources/Documents/UNITE%20Innovation%20Summit%20Final%20Highlights.pdf



Thanks!



-Karen Sabatino

Ideation Hackathon of Three-part 360 Video Series

Here is a link to the ideation hackathon segment of our three-part 360 video series.  It is a short video explaining showing footage from an ideation hackathon and explaining the concept and how it can help creatively address business challenges.  We hope to schedule more of these in 2020!


https://powertube.southernco.com/Lph23x8b



Enjoy!



-Karen Sabatino

Technology Innovation at Your Doorstep

Technology Innovation at Your Doorstep



Corporate Communications kindly created a video of our Traveling Technology Showcase at Mississippi Power. Please take a look!



http://sotoday.southernco.com/highlights/articles/2019/to-technology-showcase.html



Thanks!



-Karen Sabatino

Robotics Testing in Plant Daniel Substation

MPC’s Chris Litton and our intern Sun Kim recently conducted robot testing in a Plant Daniel substation.  We created a case study video of their findings.

 

 Robot video

 

Please contact me if you wish to do similar testing, want contact info for the robot vendors, or have any other questions. 

 

Thanks!  

 

-Karen Sabatino

 

Announcing Three-part 360 Video Series

I’d like to announce the first installment of a three-part video series. We are using 360^o video to bring a glimpse of our innovation activities to anyone interested. The first installment posts today:

   https://powertube.southernco.com/BkDGJYbd

It is a highlights version (18 minutes) of the Technology Showcase presentation (usually 45 minutes). Parts two and three are coming soon and are about our hands-on technology demonstrations and highlights from an  Ideation Hackathon.

Happy viewing!

-Karen Sabatino

360 Video for Plant Operations Training

We are proud of Plant Scherer’s success with 360 degree video for Plant Operations Training.  We are even more proud that this idea came from one of our Ideation Hackathons and the project started off in our Incubator!  Here is an article on GPC Citizen explaining the great work at Plant Scherer:

 

http://soco-sites.southernco.com/extaffairs/CitizenOnline/Pages/News/2019/Plant-Scherer-uses-360-degree-cameras-to-create-virtual-tour-of-plant-.aspx

 

Thanks and please feel free to contact me if you would like to learn more about how an Ideation Hackathon could help you better apply technology to solve your business problems.

 

-Karen Sabatino

EAC Augmented Reality Knowledge Sharing

1/30/2019

EAC Augmented Reality Knowledge Sharing

Members of the Technology Showcase team partnered with the EAC to create a knowledge sharing session on Augmented Reality. We recorded it on Skype if you’d like to watch:

 https://powertube.southernco.com/YrMipNDT

Thanks,

Karen Sabatino