Dear Readers,
Welcome to this Special Issue on Next-generation asset management: Monitoring, AI, and predictive maintenance.
Across the articles slated for this edition, there is a narrative shift. While topics range from interoperability standards to predictive analytics, the subtext is united by a call for engineering discipline over hype. The energy transition cannot be solved by plugging in new technologies and trusting algorithms to figure it out. Next-generation asset management draws resources to confront the hard physical and operational limits of our evolving grid infrastructure.
