1. The new point-of-reference tool for
Electricity Transmission Asset and Operation Management
Integrating ArcGIS, IBM Maximo and CIM at Finnish TSO Fingrid
In 2010 the Finnish Electricity Transmission System Operator (TSO), Fingrid, initiated “ELVIS” - a
replacement of their entire grid planning, asset and work management IT system landscape. In order to
maintain its position among the most reliable and lean TSO’s, Fingrid needed a robust, flexible and fully
integrated grid, asset and work management system – data should be entered once and distributed as
needed.
The winning solution had ArcGIS as a cornerstone component. The ELVIS project was a rare opportunity
to build a fully coherent solution, combining best in class products, industry standards and stringent
architectural principles. As intended, it serves as a “point-of-reference” system for any modern network
utility.
For a TSO the most fundamental data is the electrical grid model. Based on the PowerGrid data model
ArcGIS provides the one version of the truth – both for the operational grid as well as the future
changes. One model – designed and maintained in ArcGIS and shared across applications.
The integration between ArcGIS and Maximo ensures optimized grid design and maintenance processes
and ensures data consistency throughout the asset life cycle from early grid planning to to the actual
decommisioning. This consist of a Webshere based service integration for replication of features, assets
and relationships between ArcGIS and Maximo combined with the Spatial product (delivered with
Maximo for Utilities) that provides a fully integrated ArcGIS map view of features, assets and work
orders from within Maximo.
Utilizing the Common Information Model (CIM) industry standard, the ArcGIS – PSS®ODMS integration
provides a standard way of delivering GIS grid models to electrical design, analysis and calculation
systems used throughout the industry - ensuring that electrical grid models are maintained centrally and
distributed efficiently using a common format. This allows the grid model to be enriched with loads,
actual switching states etc. and enables the grid model to be shared with the electrical calculations
system (PSS®E) as well as the Protection Management and Calculation components (IPS and CAPE),
again using the CIM standard.
Any transmission or large distribution company looking at ways of optimizing processes across GIS,
Enterprise Asset Management and Electrical Grid Calculation/Design should have a look at the Fingrid
ELVIS solution.

2. The ELVIS solution
The ELVIS project scope – the process view
The ELVIS solution delivers a consolidated grid design,
asset and work management solution. Centered
around the electrical grid model the solution supports
key planning areas such as project management as
well as grid and assest modelling thoughout the asset
lifecycle.
During grid operation ELVIS will support the grid maintenance processes including Outage-, Switching-,
Disturbance-, Vegetation- and Crossing management. Finally - built around the grid model -specialized
processes for relay management and electrical calculations are supported.
Application selection – and the role of the key components
The main driving principle behind the ELVIS
solution is that it should take full advantage of
capabilities offered by standardized packages
available in the market. Individually, the selected
components are all market leaders in their
respective field. Fulfilling their role in the solution,
they perform mutually exclusive roles, each
providing a distinct, core function of the system;
yet collectively exhaustive, with simple and clearly
defined interfaces and virtually no overlap of
functionality between them.
The ELVIS solution consists of 8 standard SW packages. The 3 key components used for managing the
electrical grid model and maintening the grid assets are:
IBM Maximo: The Maximo asset register is used as the repository for physical assets and their
relationship to each other in the location/asset hierarchy. The main functionality of the asset register is
to hold information about the Assets, their specifications, the costs for maintenance, and their
condition. The Location and operating function of the assets is maintained, enabling tracking of
individual assets between locations and functions. This also includes advanced grid value calcucaltions
as well as loadability and Harzardous Voltages calculations.
For work/maintenance management Maximo is used as a way of automating and orchestrating business
processes with relation to managing workorders and the associated resources, service providers,
schedules and cost, while capturing the resulting changes to condition or cost figures at the location or
asset level.
ESRI ArcGIS: ArcGIS supplemented with Schneider Electric ArcFM complements the Maximo asset
register as it used to build and manage the grid model (incl. connectivity) for all network assets, as well
as locating the assets on a map providing geographical as well as schematic views. In addition, ArcGIS
fulfills specific functions in areas of Right of Way Management/Growth clearance, management of
logical telecommunication topology (using FiberManager from Schneider Electric) and analysis of
lightning data for fault localization.
Siemens PTI PSS®ODMS: PSS®ODMS provides a comprehensive network modeling and analysis solution
with an open architecture based on the IEC CIM 61970 standard which facilitates easy integration with
ArcGIS (from where the grid model is obtained) and the surrounding components of the ELVIS solution.

3. ELVIS Integration Principles
Integration is essentially the glue which turns components into a solution. Two key principles applies to
the task of integration:
 Packaged integration modules, and
 CIM-based SOA
The most complex interfaces, which perform data synchronization between main components, are
based on specific out-of-the-box integration modules. The fact that such integration modules exist
reflects that the solution is made of components which have been integrated before, and significant
resources have been invested by others to harvest the best ways of making that specific point of
integration work seamlessly, before it has been wrapped into a packaged module and sold alongside the
main component. Where existing integration solutions do not exist, and where a looser coupled
interface is desired, integration is based on a Service Oriented Architecture, with the adoption of the IEC
Common Information Model (“CIM”) as the canonical data model.
PowerGrid data model – the home of the electical grid model
In the ELVIS solution the PowerGrid data model represents the central data repository
for creation and management of the electrical grid model. Based on ArcGIS, the
Powergrid data model, developed by Informi GIS, is based on 20+ years of experience
in the electric utility industry using ArcGIS.
Largely inspired by and adapted to the CIM standard, the Powergrid data model and
the ArcGIS solution support consolidated documention of the entire grid - including
Towers, overhead lines, earth wires, spans, cables, Substations, bus bars, bays, circuit
breakers, disconnectors, connectivity….
IBM Maximo dual integration with ArcGIS ensuring Advanced Work and Asset Management
IBM has implemented a two-way integration between ArcGIS and Maximo allowing needed data to flow
from ArcGIS to Maximo - and vice versa. When new grid features are designed in ArcGIS the integration
ensures correct generation of locations and hierarchical relationships in Maximo. And when asset data is
created or updated in Maximo the integration makes it available in GIS ensuring that date entry happens
once and that data consistency is maintained thoughout the system.
Furthermore, the Maximo Spatial integration package is
implemented which allows an ArcGIS layer based geographical
display of locations, assets and the location of work to be
carried out as well as enable spatial searches for assets,
locations and for work.
GIS-PSS®ODMS Integration - Extracting Data Using the CIM
Standard
In the ELVIS solution grid data is extracted from ArcGIS and the
PowerGrid data model to CIM XML by a tool developed by IBM
handling the complex task of aligning different models. This CIM
XML is subsequently imported into PSS®ODMS from where the
model is further enriched, used for transmission network planning
and analysis and exchanged with surrounding systems.

4. About the ELVIS presentation team
Fingrid Oyj
Fingrid Oyj is the enterprise which takes care of the functioning of the nation-wide high-voltage grid, the backbone of electricity
transmission in Finland covering 14.000 kilometers of transmission line and more than 100 high voltage transformer stations.
Fingrid transmits electricity continuously from electricity generating companies to distribution network companies and
industrial companies. Fingrid takes care of the cross-border connections and promote the functioning of the electricity market.
Over the next decade Fingrid expects to make grid investments of around 1,6 billion euro.
In the recent International Transmission Operations & Maintenance Study Fingrid was rated among the best electricity
transmission companies with regard to cost effectiveness and level of service/reliability.
Company Information: Presenter contact details:
 Fingrid Homepage: http://www.fingrid.fi/en/Pages/default.aspx
 Fingrid on Wikipedia: http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingrid
 ELVIS on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMM99tIYFBw
 Marko Juslin (ELVIS Project Manager):
@ marko.juslin@fingrid.fi, Phone: +358407413582
 Pasi Turunen (Fingrid GIS Team Lead):
@ Pasi.Turunen@fingrid.fi, Phone: +358303955154
IBM and IBM Maximo
IBM was selected as the prime vendor for the delivery of the Fingrid ELVIS project as IBM has a proven track record for
delivering similar robust, scalable and resilient IT solutions. As Maximo SW package provider IBM has an unmatched experience
in implementing and integrating Maximo in the utility industry in general and at TSOs specifically (e.g. Duke Energy and Oncor).
This includes integration with GIS, operational control systems, financial systems, project management and planning systems.
Based on strong technical and project management professions, IBM can deliver with local resources for project/vendor
management, system design, development, testing, implementation, maintenance and support complemented by worldwide
experts from the IBM Energy & Utility Center of Competence as well as the IBM Asset Management Center of Competence.
IBM Maximo is the only Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) product in the September 2013 Gartner Magic Quadrant for
Delivery Utilities EAM. Maximo has proven to be the preferred choise for asset, work force and work order management in the
industry.
Company and SW Information: Presenter contact details:
 IBM Smarter Energy:
http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smart_grid/ideas/?r
e=sph
 IBM Maximo for Utilities: http://www-
03.ibm.com/software/products/en/ibmmaximoforutilities/
 Christian Ahn Albertsen (E&U Industry Consultant):
@ albert@dk.ibm.com, Phone: +45 4120 0636
Nis Jespersen (E&U IT Architect):
@ nis@dk.ibm.com, Phone: +45 4120 8641
Informi GIS
Informi GIS has 20+ Years of Experience in Electric Utility Solutions. Informi GIS is based in Denmark and is a distributor for and
a partner with a number of leading companies including Esri, Schneider, Telcordia, ENVI and Microsoft. Our involvement with
this global network positions us in the forefront of technologic development and trends, as well as up-to-date in new
techniques in strategic counseling, project management, education, and marketing.
Through implementation projects and subsequent partnership with a large number of distribution and transmission companies,
Informi GIS has gained valuable knowledge of crucial business processes and use cases. The Informi GIS solutions thus in
intuitive ways support a large number of processes throughout the electric utility organization.
Informi GIS has been a central part in a large number of projects at electric utility companies, leading processes involving
clarification, migration, customization, training, implementation and support. Based on this we hold not only the right software,
functionality and data model but also skilled consultants with proven experience and ability to deliver in a field that is complex.
Company Information: Presenter contact details:
 Informi GIS Homepage: www.informi.dk  Jens Dalsgaard (Solution Strategist and Smart Grid
Specialist):
@ JensD@informi.dk, Phone: +45 2331 7889