Industries · Utilities

Control remote access.

Vehicle keys, hazardous-area access, and centralized oversight.

Electric, water, gas, and oil — wherever distributed sites need controlled access.

  • Electric power
  • Water & wastewater
  • Natural gas
  • Oil & gas
  • Renewables
  • Public works

The problem

Distributed sites, uncontrolled keys.

Remote substations and hazardous areas need authorized access and a clean event history. When access delays restoration, the meter runs in lost load — key control keeps continuity auditable.

The cost of doing nothing

Reliability is regulated and metered. Access delays and uncontrolled keys show up on both ledgers.

ELM · FIELD RECORD
$0
Avg. unplanned outage, large customer [1]
$0
Cost of a 4-hour outage [1]
$0K/min
Reliability penalty · SDG&E/CPUC [1]
0+
U.S. water systems · distributed, access-controlled [2]
MIL-STD-810H · IP-65 · ELM-7220A

Cost of inaction

Run your numbers.

Adjust to your operation. This is what Utilities pays, every year, to stay manual.

ELM · COST MODEL
Annual exposure from access & key gaps

Operation parameters

sites
events
$
$/hr
$375,000
  • Access-delayed event cost$320,000
    your inputs: events × $/event
  • Key / access handling labor$55,000
    ≈250 access events/site/yr × 6 min × labor rate

Time cost in hours and labor

Key & access handling time1,000 hrs/yr
Time saved per year500 hrs/yr
Authorized fast access cuts key-handling time by half.
ELM-recoverable per year$187,500

Authorized fast access cuts about half the access-delay cost and half of key-handling labor.

Recover this — claim it in a field brief

Estimate only, from your inputs and the cited benchmarks below. Not a quote.

MIL-STD-810H · IP-65 · ELM-7220ACOST OF INACTION

The control loop, here

What it looks like in your theater.

  • Authorized key issue/return
  • Hazardous-area access control
  • Vehicle & fleet key handling
  • Centralized audit trail

Solve it for Utilities.

A readiness review maps your workflows, operational risks, and the best-fit control model.