At the new Chicago lab, visitors can go on Constellation virtual augmented reality missions, including using underwater drones to inspect potential cracks in a dam.
DEERFIELD, IL & CHICAGO, IL – April 26, 2022 – Oracle and Constellation Clearsight are joining forces to help utility industry customers create new opportunities and solve tough challenges at the Oracle Industry Lab. Opened today, the facility provides hands-on, simulated industry settings for customers to experiment, learn, and bring transformative technologies to life.
Constellation Clearsight provides safer, more effective inspections of critical infrastructure by using cutting-edge drone, robot, sensor, and software technologies to deliver key insights that reduce the total cost of asset ownership. At the lab, visitors will be able to discover how groundbreaking technologies and analytics can help companies efficiently capture, process, and act on data from hard-to-reach assets.
Ron Cardwell, Managing Director of Constellation Clearsight said, “We are honored to be a part of the Oracle Industry Lab – a collection of teams harnessing next-generation technologies to enhance energy infrastructure reliability and improve service to our customers and to our communities.”
The 30,000-square-foot Oracle Industry Lab brings customers, technology partners, and the entire Oracle portfolio of solutions and decades of deep industry expertise together to incubate and demonstrate new solutions across industries. Supported by Verizon 5G Ultra-Wideband, the Oracle Industry Lab will first focus on use cases in utilities, construction and engineering, communications, and manufacturing.
“Many industries are at a crossroads as they look to navigate increasing regulatory, environmental, and customer-driven demands,” said Burcin Kaplanoglu, vice president, Oracle Industry Labs. “We built the Chicago lab to bring together leading innovators like Constellation Clearsight so we can jointly help customers shape bold ideas into powerful solutions that improve productivity, operational intelligence, and sustainability.”
About Constellation Clearsight
Constellation (Nasdaq: CEG) is the nation’s largest producer of carbon-free energy and the leading competitive retail supplier of power and energy products and services for homes and businesses across the United States. Headquartered in Baltimore, its generation fleet powers more than 20 million homes and businesses and is helping to accelerate the nation’s transition to clean energy with more than 32,400 megawatts of capacity and annual output that is 90 percent carbon-free. Constellation has set a goal to eliminate 100 percent of its greenhouse gas emissions by leveraging innovative technology and enhancing its diverse mix of hydro, wind and solar resources paired with the nation’s largest carbon-free nuclear fleet. Constellation’s family of retail businesses serves approximately 2 million residential, public sector and business customers, including three-fourths of the Fortune 100. Learn more at www.constellation.com or on Twitter at @ConstellationEG.
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