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OperatorFabric

OperatorFabric is an open-source modular platform (operations management) for building and running real-time operations coordination and decision-support applications for energy and other critical infrastructures.

  • Modular, extensible web-based platform for control-room and field-operations coordination (operations management)
  • Timeline- and card-based visualization of operational events, tasks, and procedures (situational awareness)
  • Integration APIs for connecting Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), EMS, Distributed Memory System (DMS), and other OT/IT systems as data sources and sinks (systems integration)
  • User notification, acknowledgement, and workflow capabilities for Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) processes (workflow and collaboration)
  • Multi-tenant, role-based environment with customizable business logic and interfaces (application framework)

More About OperatorFabric

OperatorFabric is an open-source modular platform (operations management) hosted by LF Energy and designed to support real-time operations coordination in energy and other critical infrastructure domains. It targets control rooms, dispatch centers, and field operations teams that need structured, shared views of operational information and procedures. The platform focuses on HITL processes, presenting operators with time-ordered, contextual information that supports monitoring, analysis, and coordinated action across multiple systems and organizations.

The core concept in OperatorFabric is the use of “cards,” which represent operational events, alerts, procedures, or decisions within a time-based view (situational awareness). Cards can aggregate data from various upstream systems and present it in a standardized, consumable form for operators. A timeline view lets users see past, current, and upcoming events, along with their status, deadlines, and related actions. This structure supports routine operations as well as incident handling, planned outages, and other time-bound activities where coordination between systems and teams is required.

OperatorFabric provides integration capabilities through APIs and connectors (systems integration), enabling it to ingest and publish information to SCADA, Energy Management Systems (EMS), Distribution Management Systems (DMS), and related OT/IT platforms as documented by the project. External systems can generate or update cards, receive operator decisions, or subscribe to status changes. This integration pattern allows OperatorFabric to act as a unifying layer that aggregates operational context from heterogeneous systems without replacing them.

The platform includes features for notifications, acknowledgements, and collaborative workflows (workflow and collaboration). Users can receive targeted information based on roles, organizational units, or technical domains, and can acknowledge, comment on, or escalate cards as operations progress. Role-based access controls and multi-tenant concepts (access management) support deployment in environments where multiple organizational entities, such as grid operators and market participants, need to share selected operational information while maintaining separation of responsibilities and data.

From a technical architecture standpoint, OperatorFabric is designed as a modular web platform (application framework) that can be customized and extended. It offers configuration options for defining card types, business rules, and user interfaces that fit specific operational procedures and regulatory contexts. Enterprises can deploy it as part of their control room toolset to standardize how information flows between systems and human operators, and to bring together cross-domain data into a coherent operational picture. Within an enterprise technology directory, OperatorFabric aligns with categories such as operations management, situational awareness dashboards, workflow and collaboration for critical infrastructure, and integration-layer tooling for OT/IT coordination.