AI-Powered, Fleet-Wide Asset Intelligence
Critical Infrastructure Does Not Fail Suddenly. It Fails Unobserved.
VIE provides continuous transformer intelligence that detects failure signatures months before the failure event, at fleet scale, without de-energizing a single asset. Electric utilities, data centers, oil and gas operators, and renewable energy developers use VIE to close the monitoring blind spot where transformer failures develop.
Two Layers of Intelligence. One Platform.
Monitoring tools give your technicians data. Dashboards give executives summaries. VIE is purpose-built to do both, simultaneously, autonomously, and at fleet scale.
For Field Teams
VIE surfaces the specific assets that need attention, ranked by severity, with fault classification and trend data your technicians can act on without expert interpretation. The VIE platform replaces routine inspections with targeted dispatches. Field teams spend their time on the assets that need them — not on scheduled check-ins that produce no findings.
For Executives
Every transformer in your fleet, visible in one risk-ranked view, updated continuously. Rate of degradation trending converts VIE from an alarm system into a planning tool. Fleet-level risk data informs capital planning, maintenance budgeting, and regulatory documentation from a single platform.
Non-Invasive. Autonomous. Fleet-Wide.
Non-Invasive
VIE sensors mount to the external surface of the transformer tank. No penetration of the oil system. No modification to internals. No de-energization required. Installation takes one technician under 30 minutes on most transformers and under an hour on the largest units.
Autonomous
VIE does not require a domain expert to interpret its findings. The platform processes vibration, thermal, oil quality, and weather data continuously and surfaces the assets that need attention. Alerts are actionable without specialized training. The monitoring record builds automatically.
Fleet-Wide
A monitoring program that covers your 15 highest-risk transformers and leaves the other 485 unmonitored has not solved fleet-level blindness. It has documented it. VIE deploys across every transformer in the fleet at a cost that scales.
By the Numbers
Sensor Reliability
Gateway Reliability
Prediction Accuracy
ROI in months (KPMG-validated)
To machine health baseline per asset
Built for Critical Industries
VIE protects the assets that power grids, data centers, refineries, and renewable energy portfolios depend on.
Electric Utilities
Aging transformer fleets are absorbing load variation and extreme weather stress they were not designed for — while NFPA 70B-2023 mandates continuous condition-based maintenance documentation.
Data Centers
A single transformer failure costs $2 to $5 million and takes 80 to 120 weeks to resolve. An independent KPMG study found that failure events occur every 33 days across an unmonitored fleet.
Oil & Gas
Transformer failure in upstream, midstream, or downstream environments does not produce an SLA credit. It produces a production stoppage, a safety incident, or an environmental event — and a bill no maintenance budget fully covers.
Insurance & Risk
The KPMG study found a 1.79% annual transformer failure rate across an unmonitored fleet. That is the risk underwriters and capital market participants are pricing without continuous condition data.
Renewables
Utility-scale solar farms cycle transformers daily under high ambient temperatures and harmonic loading — at remote sites where a single failure becomes an emergency logistics problem before it becomes a maintenance issue.
How VIE Works
Install
One technician. Under 30 minutes per transformer. Sensors bond to the external surface of the tank wall. The transformer stays fully energized. No oil system contact. No IT involvement. No outage.
Monitor
VIE builds a virtual model from each transformer's geometry and refines it with every sample. The platform processes vibration, thermal, oil quality, and weather data continuously — across every monitored asset in the fleet simultaneously.
Act
When VIE detects a deviation from expected behavior, it surfaces a prioritized finding with fault classification, severity ranking, and trend data. Months before failure. Enough time to plan, source parts, and schedule intervention on your terms.
The Question Has Changed
For decades, the question about transformer monitoring was whether the cost was justified.
That question has been answered. A single catastrophic transformer failure at a critical facility costs $2 to $5 million, according to an independent KPMG study. A 500 MVA transformer in a transmission corridor has a replacement lead time measured in years. Regulatory penalties for unplanned outages are increasing.
The question is no longer whether to monitor. The question is how much visibility you are willing to give up.
Can we afford to keep making multi-million dollar decisions based on quarterly DGA tests and scheduled walkdowns?
VIE vs. The Alternative
Online DGA is the most widely deployed form of continuous transformer monitoring. It is also an invasive, threshold-based, point-solution approach that becomes cost-prohibitive at fleet scale. The utilities and operators that have deployed it have done so on a small fraction of their fleet — and accepted that the rest is unmonitored.
The assets that fail unexpectedly are rarely the ones being watched. With online DGA, most of the fleet is not being watched at all.
Proven Results.
Case STudy
How a Refinery Identified Critical Transformer Risks Across a Substation—Without a Single Outage
The Core Challenge:
Aging refinery substation transformers with no continuous visibility into developing faults. Periodic testing was catching problems too late, well after damage was underway, creating unacceptable failure risk in a live production environment.
The Solution:
VIE Technologies deployed continuous, physics-based transformer condition monitoring across all five substation units during a three-month pilot (February–May 2026). No outages. No invasive procedures. Sensors mounted externally and monitored at several samples per hour.
The Ultimate ROI:
Two transformers flagged for immediate maintenance action, one placed on long-term watch, all while the fleet stayed fully online. Risk was ranked, prioritized, and tied to specific confirmatory tests before a single failure occurred.
Case STudy
How an Electric Utility Discovered Hidden Risk in 3 of 8 Aging Substation Transformers—Months Before Any Failure
The Core Challenge:
A fleet of decades-old substation transformers with no continuous condition visibility. Periodic testing was providing snapshots, not trends. With replacement lead times exceeding two years, a failure event wasn't just operationally painful — it was potentially a multi-year service disruption.
The Solution:
VIE Technologies deployed continuous condition monitoring on all eight transformers across five sites (October 2025 – March 2026). No outages required. Physics-based models were specifically adapted for 1960s transformer design characteristics — a first for this fleet.
The Ultimate ROI:
Three transformers flagged for targeted attention — one high risk, one elevated, one risk-level — before a single failure event occurred. The maintenance team now has a prioritized action list, confirmatory test recommendations, and a calibrated monitoring baseline for the entire fleet.
Case STudy
How GETCO Caught 8-10x Insulation Degradation Months Before Failure—and Avoided a Costly Emergency
The Core Challenge:
Critical transformer degradation was going undetected by periodic testing. With replacement lead times exceeding 50 weeks and several tens of thousands in diesel backup generation costs for a 3-day outage, GETCO needed to know the real-time condition of its fleet—not a snapshot from the last scheduled inspection.
The Solution:
VIE Technologies deployed the MyVIE continuous monitoring platform on 50 oil-filled transformers under a 3-year service agreement (December 2022). AI-powered, non-invasive sensors required no access to internal components and no disruption to operations.
The Ultimate ROI:
Four transformers flagged for attention within the first six weeks of monitoring. Electrical tests confirmed 8-10x insulation degradation in two units. Oil tests confirmed IEEE Condition 4—immediate shutdown required—in three units. One transformer was replaced proactively in April 2023 before it could fail in service. Backup generation costs, EPA exposure, and cascade failure risk were all avoided.
Ready to See It?
The failure signatures are already there. VIE finds them months before they become failures.
VIE is deployed today across 800+ transformers globally, from 500 kVA dry-types to 500+ MVA. 99.95% sensor and 99.99% gateway reliability since launch.