The webinar will explore how one GIS project enabled MTEMC to transform the way GIS is used throughout the utility.

1. Driving Enterprise Decisions with ArcGIS Online
How to Become a Superstar
for Your Utility in 2 Weeks

2. Bill Meehan
Utility Solutions Director
Esri
Nathaniel Everett
GIS Technical Lead
Middle Tennessee EMC
Skye Perry
Founder & President
SSP Innovations

4. We All Use Maps

6. GIS is a “System of Record” Organizing and managing the geographic
context of your assets and resources

7. Is your authoritative knowledge
reaching everyone?

9. Modern platforms…
• Respect identity
• Work on any device
• Leverage external data
• Share data to other platforms
• Allow consumers to also be providers of
information
• Are always on
• Scale automatically
• Have security built-in
• Enable hybrid deployments to ease transition

10. The Nexus and GIS

11. Desktop Web Device
Server
Online Content
and Services
Portal

12. We All Use Maps

13. A New Way Forward – You can be the Superstar

14. Hero holding slide

16. Who is SSP
Focus on Electric, Gas, Water, & Fiber
 Utilities
 Telecom
GIS Services
 Product Implementation
 Customization
 Systems Integration
Skye Perry
 Founder & Principal Consultant

17. Taking Esri Platform to Market
SSP made a conscious choice to
 Embrace the Technology
Our opportunity is to
 Educate
 Demonstrate

18. SSP Platform Value Drivers
ArcGIS Online / Portal Initial Operating Capacity
 Use Cases
 Organization
 Configuration
 Security
Solve Workflow & Business Challenges
 Utilize Industry Knowledge
 Enable Existing Offerings

19. Why a GIS Superstar?

20. Becoming a GIS Superstar Isn’t Hard
Portal is the key exposure point for the platform.
 Lowercase “portal” implies ArcGIS Online
 Uppercase “Portal” implies Portal for ArcGIS
The same result will enable traditional GIS in new, powerful ways
How can utilities take their first steps with portal?
 Expose New Data to the utility
 Collect New Data from the utility
 Empower the utility thru Geoprocessing,
Systems Integration, Workflow, & Reporting

21. Expose, Collect, Empower  How?
Middle Tennessee Electric is
here to tell us about their
catalyst project…
Find Your Pattern and Use it as a Catalyst for Platform
 Choose a single pattern that will add value
 Use it to have all the infrastructure enabled
 You will then have the power of platform at your fingertips
SSP has implemented patterns at utilities/telcos across the country
 We’ll provide several ideas at the end of the presentation

22. Introductions
Nathaniel Everett | Middle Tennessee EMC
• GIS Technical Lead
• Covers ArcGIS / ArcFM / Designer
• Information Services Department

23. Business Drivers
Transformer Failures Occur Regularly
 Troubleshooter assesses transformer in the field
 Transformers are replaced
 Often up-sized to handle an overloaded scenario
(25 kVA to 37.5 kVA)
 Data is not available to see consumption / loading information
 Result 
 Inefficiencies in Network
 Cost Impact

24. Business Drivers
Engineering Asked For Help
 Desire to utilize consumption data to determine transformer sizing
 Provided an Example Report that would help
 Provided all Engineering Calculations

25. Business Challenges
 No DB relationship between Service Location & Transformer
 Network Traceable Relationship in GIS
 SAP CIS Consumption Data Not Available in GIS
 Current Monthly Reads, Use with AMI in the Future
 How Best to Expose Reports & Map to users

26. Current Data Model
April 24, 2014
Page 1
Service Point
Service
Location
Device Location
Meter
Service Point
Service
Location
Device Location
Meter
Service Point
Service
Location
Device Location
Meter
Transformer
Standard 3 House Scenario
Live Example Data
Live Example Data
Live Example Data
Single House
House
Service
Location
Device Location
Meter
Solar Panels
(GenPart)
Service
Location
Device Location
Meter
Barn
SAP Data Table

27. The Solution
Engaged with SSP Innovations to Design and Develop
 SSP is the in house Esri / Schneider Electric support vendor
SSP & MTEMC Broke the Effort into Three Phases:
1. Establish Maintainable Relationships from Xfr to Service
2. CIS Consumption Load & Aggregation
3. Reporting & Visualization

28. Phase 1 – Xfr to Service
 Schema changes on Service Point
 Track Xfr Company Number By Phase
 Initial script to establish relationships
 Trace via Electric Network
 SQL Script to Not Impact Versioning Performance
 AutoUpdaters to maintain relationship

29. Phase 2 – CIS Data Usage
Chose SSP Nightly Batch Suite for Fast Batch Apps
 Series of three integration applications
1. Load the raw CIS consumption data into GIS
 Applied Engineering Calculations
2. Aggregate max consumption to Transformer Unit (by phase)
 By Month & Season
3. Create Summary Feature Points for Each Xfr Asset

30. Phase 2 – CIS Aggregation
Three Phase Aggregation

31. Phase 3 – Reporting
Utilized SQL Server Reporting Services
 Out of the Box Web Reports
 Provided Query Screen to Engineers:

32. Phase 3 – Reporting
Three Level Report – Level 1 Shows Transformer Unit

33. Phase 3 – Reporting
Three Level Report –
Level 2 Shows Adjusted Meter Consumption

34. Phase 3 – Visualization
Utilized ArcGIS Online –
Created Thematic Map Showing Xfr Load vs. Capacity

35. Phase 3 – Visualization
 Exposed via ArcGIS Online as a WebMap
 Troubleshooter uses their phone or tablet
when they arrive on scene
 Zoom via GPS in the device
 View transformer loading data by color
 Click any transformer to view details
Demo…

37. Business Benefits
Operations
 Empowered Engineers & Troubleshooters with New Data
 Provided Real Time Data Access in field from ANY Device
 Allows for educated decision making
 Engineering Can Review Existing Xfr Installs Against Usage
 May reallocate network
 Net Result is Cost Savings, Better Efficiency,
& System Awareness

38. Business Benefits
IT / GIS
 Demonstrated capabilities of ArcGIS Online
 Have fully functioning DMZ / internal ArcGIS Server architecture
 Ready for additional data publishing, editing, and collection via
ArcGIS Online
 Includes Active Directory Authentication and SSL (https)
 Will Allow for Other Patterns to be Implemented
 Quickly & Easily

39. SSP Client Success Stories
MLGW
Meter Data Collection
Hart EMC
Field Asset Inspection
Energy United
Web Viewer Replacement
 Automatically Targeted
Field Inspections
 App for collecting Pole,
Xfr, Meter, SW Inspections
 Workflow for generating
follow up WO’s for failures
 Field App for GPS, Data,
Image Capture
 Data feeds to ArcFM GIS
and CIS
 Reporting/Tracking for
Management
 Was utilizing an outdated
custom ArcIMS app
 Web AppBuilder to create
new web viewing apps
 Basic data collection for
field redlines

40. SSP Client Success Stories
Nsight
Telecom Data Collection
Large City Telecom
Conduit Tracking App
Burbank Water & Power
Web Outage Map
 New enterprise GIS
installation
 ArcGIS Server and Portal
expose the data
 Allows new internal app
development
 No previous GIS in place,
manual as-builts used
 New telecom data
captured in ArcGIS Online
 Data loaded from addt’l
purchased telcos
 Expose power outage
areas via web
 Utilize existing Responder
outage data
 Provide easy ETR
messaging for the public

41. Expose, Collect, Empower  GIS Superstar
Find Your Pattern and Use it as a Catalyst for Platform
Implement the platform infrastructure
 Use best practices for exposing existing data
 Implement recommended security patterns
 Do it right the first time
 Two weeks on average
Use Esri Platform to Allow GIS to become a System of Engagement!

42. Questions?
Skye Perry
Principal Consultant
SSP Innovations
skye.perry@sspinnovations.com
Nathaniel Everett
GIS Technical Lead
Middle Tennessee EMC
nathaniel.everett@mtemc.com
Bill Meehan
Utility Solutions Director
Esri
bmeehan@esri.com