Esri News for Electric & Gas Utilities keeps you informed with software news, events, and user stories showing how GIS brings the geographic advantage to electric and gas utilities worldwide.
Stories in this issue showcase how GIS helps utilities develop enterprise dashboards, renewable energy plans, and mobile applications for field inspections.
MLGW’s GIS Department manages: 3 utilities, plus
all of Shelby County’s addressing data
Data is stored in 10 datasets
ArcFM is implemented in a customized manner
Designer implementation prompted upgrade
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El Ayuntamiento de Móstoles implementó una plataforma Smart City utilizando ArcGIS para mejorar la eficiencia, permitir la participación ciudadana y gestionar los activos municipales en tiempo real. La solución integró toda la información municipal en una sola plataforma e incorporó sensores para supervisar servicios como el alumbrado público. Además, una aplicación permite a los ciudadanos reportar incidencias y el ayuntamiento responder más rápido, ahorrando costos.
ArcGIS Online es una plataforma en la nube que permite crear y compartir mapas, aplicaciones y datos geográficos. Los usuarios pueden publicar y almacenar servicios web en la nube, crear mapas interactivos a partir de datos como hojas de cálculo, y colaborar y compartir contenido con otros mediante grupos privados o públicos.
Rule-Driven, Fully-Configurable Asset Tracking with GISSSP Innovations
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Aena Aeropuerto Adolfo Suárez-Barajas crea potentes aplicaciones para sus cli...Esri
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Esri News for Water & Wastewater -- Summer 2012Esri
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For the last seven years MLGW has successfully implemented GIS using ArcGIS/ArcFM ™. The GIS serves as an enterprise backbone for a variety of business applications where utility assets play a crucial role: Inspection, Maintenance, New Construction, OMS, among others.To support the life cycle of MLGW’s assets, SSP has implemented a rule-driven and fully-configurable asset tracking mechanism built into the GIS. Rules specified by different business units determine: What network elements are to be tracked as assets. What attributes of those assets are to be monitored. How and when these attributes may change.
Aena Aeropuerto Adolfo Suárez-Barajas crea potentes aplicaciones para sus cli...Esri
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Esri News for Water & Wastewater -- Summer 2012Esri
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Stories in this issue showcase how GIS helps utilities manage stormwater runoff, improve billing and customer service, and mitigate flooding.
Esri News for Business keeps you informed with software news, events, and user stories showing how GIS brings the geographic advantage to businesses worldwide.
Stories in this issue showcase how GIS helps businesses make sense of big data and provides insight on the power of location analytics.
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The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has built a map service called EPA GeoPlatform on Esri's ArcGIS Online for Organizations to make geospatial data and tools more accessible to EPA staff. EPA GeoPlatform includes public and private cloud components to share internal and external data. It supports EPA activities like enforcement targeting and environmental justice screening. EPA sees benefits like increased access to decision-making tools and cost savings from standardization. EPA GeoPlatform serves as the agency's centralized hub for hosted map services.
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Hart Energy launched its extensive North American energy infrastructure dataset on Esri's ArcGIS Online platform. This allows Hart Energy customers to access high-quality GIS data on demand from anywhere using GIS tools. Hart Energy is the first energy data provider to use Esri's cloud service, strengthening its lead in the industry. Users can add Hart Energy's pipeline and attribute data to maps on ArcGIS Online along with other data layers. The dataset is continually updated by Hart Energy and provides comprehensive energy infrastructure mapping for analysis.
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Esri News for Electric & Gas Utilities keeps you informed with software news, events, and user stories showing how GIS brings the geographic advantage to electric and gas utilities worldwide.
Stories in this issue showcase how GIS helps utilities prepare for electric vehicles, improve billing accuracy, and manage network outages.
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Bolivian Pipeline Company Expands into Mobile Asset Management
The summary is:
1) YPFB Transporte S.A. (YPFBT) operates over 6,200 km of pipelines in Bolivia traversing difficult terrain.
2) Due to limitations of its legacy CAD system, YPFBT transitioned to Esri's ArcGIS in 2009 for improved data maintenance, mapping, and reporting.
3) YPFBT has continued expanding its use of Esri technology, improving workflow efficiency and safety monitoring of its aging pipeline infrastructure.
This document discusses how geographic information systems (GIS) can help electric transmission utilities manage assets and infrastructure, analyze planning and vulnerabilities, automate workforces, and provide situational awareness. GIS allows utilities to view, organize, and understand large amounts of spatial and asset data for transmission lines, facilities, and customers. It enables utilities to model routes, ensure regulatory compliance, dispatch crews efficiently, and communicate system operations and investments to regulators and the public. The document promotes Esri GIS software and services for electric transmission applications.
Wendy's, Arby's, and Culver's restaurants all use Esri location analytics software and data to optimize site selection for new locations and evaluate existing locations.
Wendy's implemented a new Esri-based solution to streamline site screening and market assessment. It allows viewing sales records, demographics, and reports on a map.
Culver's uses Esri Business Analyst data and maps to compare potential new sites to existing successful locations and evaluate customer demographics. This helps franchisees succeed.
Arby's uses Esri Business Analyst to more accurately assess trade areas and perform spatial analysis to guide decisions around growing locations and remodels
Esri News for State and Local Government Winter 2012/2013 issueEsri
The document discusses how Utah County, Utah updated its GIS data model using the ArcGIS for Local Government Information Model. Patrick Wawro, the GIS manager, decided to abandon his individual efforts to update the data model and instead model the data on the information model, which is built on best practices from governments around the US. This standardized and modernized the county's work. Using the information model also makes it easier for cities to take advantage of ArcGIS for Local Government templates and allows the county to easily adopt new technologies. The county is now taking advantage of templates for applications like an election polling places app and developing other apps based on templates.
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The City of Atlanta implemented a series of initiatives to improve its aging water infrastructure and increase system control. This included an ambitious project from 2009-2012 to inventory, repair, and document over 80,000 valves and fire hydrants using ArcGIS technology. To make full use of the collected asset data, Atlanta commissioned professionals to migrate the data to a GIS database. This allowed the creation of web-based maps and reports to better manage the water system assets.
A geographic information system (GIS) can help hydrographic organizations better manage and share their bathymetric and maritime data. ArcGIS for Maritime allows hydrographic offices to create, analyze, and produce more with their data by establishing a marine spatial data infrastructure to share accurate administrative, biological, and physical data. It also helps manage large amounts of bathymetric data by integrating it with other hydrographic data and metadata to derive and serve the data. Both civilian and defense hydrographic organizations can use ArcGIS for Maritime to expand their use of nautical data beyond safety of navigation to integrate seafloor mapping with water column and environmental data.
Hart Energy launched its extensive energy infrastructure dataset on Esri's ArcGIS Online platform. This allows Hart Energy customers to access high-quality pipeline and oil/gas asset data from anywhere using GIS tools in the cloud. As the first energy data provider to use Esri's cloud services, Hart Energy can now provide its comprehensive North American energy dataset to customers in a cost-effective and low-risk manner.
Portal for ArcGIS is a content management system that provides a framework to easily manage and secure geographic assets within an organization. It extends the reach of GIS to everyone in an organization, enabling better decision making. Portal for ArcGIS can be used to implement web GIS on-premises or in the cloud for organizations with specialized security requirements. It will be included with ArcGIS for Server Standard and Advanced starting at version 10.3.
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The document discusses ICWater, a tool developed by Leidos to predict the spread and impact of hazardous material releases in river systems. ICWater forecasts (1) where contaminants will travel, (2) if they will reach drinking water intakes, (3) when they will arrive, and (4) if concentrations will threaten human health. It interfaces with USGS stream gauges and databases on infrastructure to provide timely information to decision makers. ICWater successfully modeled the 2014 Elk River chemical spill in West Virginia to advise authorities and protect drinking water.
GeoCollector for ArcPad is a mobile GIS solution that combines Esri's ArcPad software with Trimble GPS hardware to improve the accuracy of collected location data. It provides field workers with a rugged tablet equipped with an integrated GPS receiver and ArcPad software for mapping and data collection. This solution allows organizations to make timely decisions based on reliable location information gathered by field staff.
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Esri News for Electric & Gas Utillities—Spring 2012
1. Esri News
for Electric & Gas Utilities Spring 2012
Union Power Gets a Dashboard View
By Jessica Wyland, Esri Writer
The staff at Union Power Cooperative now has members throughout the five Southern indications. The cooperative’s GIS, based on
a comprehensive view of the electric distribu- Piedmont counties of Union, Stanly, Cabarrus, Esri technology, serves as the foundation for
tion network, with data from throughout the Mecklenburg, and Rowan. the dashboard.
company merged into one real-time, easy- Union Power Operations Dashboard The work was completed by Union Power’s
to-use map called Union Power Operations provides real-time and historical outage David Gross, manager of Operations and
Dashboard. information, data from the advanced metering Engineering Support, and Todd Harrington,
Headquartered in Monroe, North Carolina, system (such as voltage and momentary inter- GIS administrator.
the cooperative provides electricity and ruptions), up-to-the-minute work order type “We have taken the Electric Distribution
energy-related services to more than 65,000 and location details, and meter tampering [Operations] Dashboard template from
continued on page 14
Union Power crews maintain distribution lines.
3. GIS Means Business at Esri Electric
and Gas GIS Conference
By Barbara Shields, Esri Writer
Participants at the 2011 Esri Electric and Gas GIS Conference in Kissam invited the audience to visit SCANA Corporation on the last
Columbia, South Carolina, met to discuss the value of GIS for improv- day of the conference to see firsthand how the company has imple-
ing their operational and business processes. Attendance at the mented GIS.
conference increased by 25 percent from the previous year, and many Lisa Hightower, GIS manager at CenterPoint Energy, demonstrated a
people were first-time attendees. drive-time application that has improved customer service. Rob Brooks
Utility representatives attributed this increase to recent develop- of Esri showed GIS applications for Distribution Integrity Management
ments in Esri technology that have placed GIS into the hands of more Program (DIMP) administration. Theo Laughner of Tennessee Valley
and more staff via web tools, automated routines, and accessible Authority (TVA) challenged the audience members to consider the role
data. This has resulted in a growth of applications, many of which were of GIS in their 15-year vision.
demonstrated during the conference by GIS professionals and energy During the three-day conference, participants filled their agenda
company users. planners with best practice presentations, networking events, business
The GIS user base for many utilities has grown because of enterprise meetings, learning labs, and vendor product/service demonstrations.
hardware and software configurations as well as the Esri enterprise
license agreement program.
During a fast-paced Plenary Session guided by Esri’s Patrick Dolan,
27 speakers gave very short talks about new tools, trends, applica-
tions, and real-world stories. For instance, a power company manager
told the story of how 60 tornadoes downed transmission lines across Thank You to Our Sponsors
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responders to access the maps on laptops and iPhones.
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Jeff Meyers, former president of Miner & Miner, was awarded the
Contractors
first Esri Electric and Gas Lifetime Achievement Award. Esri’s director
of utility solutions, Bill Meehan, described Meyers as “the voice of the
Break Sponsor: Accenture
electric and gas community.” During his Keynote Address, Meyers Breakfast Sponsors: IBM, New Century Software
gave a history of GIS for utility facilities management and described
how the evolution of technology continues to advance data visualiza- Thank You to the 2011 EGUG Officers
tion, network analysis, and underground mapping models. Esri also thanks the Electric and Gas User Group (EGUG)
Keller Kissam, senior vice president of SCANA Corporation, de- officers for their participation in producing this event:
scribed GIS as a core technology of his business and gave examples of president Wayne W. Boone, Alabama Power Company; vice
efficiency work processes for valve maintenance. president Theo Laughner, TVA; and conference chair
“Everything that we do flows through our GIS,” Kissam said. “It is Wayne Meyer, SCANA.
the hub, and everyone uses it. The liabilities we face on a daily basis far
exceed the revenue that we can make on an annual basis. GIS reduces Welcome to the 2012 EGUG Officers
risk, gives us better knowledge of our system, and improves system President Theo Laughner, TVA; vice president Wayne
maintenance.” Meyer, SCANA; conference chair John Ziakas, Questar Gas
Company.
Mark Your Calendars
The next Esri Electric and Gas GIS Conference will convene
in Salt Lake City, Utah, October 7–10, 2012. Go to
esri.com/electric-gas to find more information about the
2012 conference and to access papers presented at the
2011 conference.
Spring 2012 esri.com/electricgas 3
4. Powering Communities with
Clean, Renewable Energy
By Mitchell Garnett, Esri Canada
Over the past 15 years, greenhouse gas emis- Site Selection,
sions in Canada have risen over 35 percent, Project Management
making the country one of the largest emitters Finding optimal locations for development is
of greenhouse gas in the world. a juggling act in which many often conflicting
In addition to environmental and economic land-use issues need to be considered and
repercussions, the release of greenhouse gas balanced before a potential site is targeted.
emissions into the air can have a detrimental For example, it is essential that the grid
effect on the health of Canadians and lead to connection be cost-effective for the size of
increased risk of respiratory and cardiovascu- the proposed development and that the site
lar complications. People living in Canada’s does not encroach on conservation areas or
northern communities are especially vulnera- wetlands. Features such as roads and railways,
ble and face potentially serious consequences residences, terrain and slope, and existing
to traditional lifestyles, resource develop- infrastructure must also be analyzed for cur-
ment, and conservation. rency, accuracy, and completeness to identify
One of the keys to reducing greenhouse any potential conflicts or interference issues.
emissions is to replace traditional energy To conduct this analysis, Mainstream uses
sources with cleaner, renewable energy. In ArcGIS for Desktop and the ArcGIS Spatial
light of this, Mainstream Renewable Power is Analyst extension. Through Esri technology,
helping communities across the country fully an array of datasets can be overlaid to quickly
access their renewable energy assets. With analyze information and determine the feasi-
over 16,000 megawatts in the development bility of selected sites. Sites are then chosen
pipeline, they’re using GIS to locate potential where the resource is adequate, grid access is
sites for wind farms and solar energy power available, and there is an abundance of suit-
plants, as well as to manage projects as they able land. Map layers also enable Mainstream
progress through the development process. to identify areas considered undesirable for
development such as protected ecosystems
or national parks.
“Site evaluation involves an intensive
“Through meaningful research process that requires many ques-
tions to be answered: Where is the energy
maps, we can clearly resource? What is the structure of the terrain? The site was originally selected for its wind
communicate our due What are the constraining factors?” said Craig resource and available grid capacity, and the
Weber, GIS specialist, Mainstream Renewable project has since moved to the measurement
diligence to potential Power. “With GIS technology, we can answer phase. Esri technology is used to identify
stakeholders.” these questions through a straightforward suitable locations for erecting meteorological
layering process and identify sites that are masts and deploying measurement sta-
Craig Weber, Mainstream both technically appropriate and economically tions, providing a powerful planning tool for
Renewable Power feasible.” Mainstream’s Energy Analysis Group.
The 3D analysis tools in ArcGIS are also
Powering Homes in the Prairies used to conduct viewshed analysis. The
In Kindersley, Saskatchewan, Mainstream visibility of new sites should be as unobtru-
has secured more than 2,000 acres of private sive as possible, with minimal impact on the
agricultural land for a potential wind farm de- landscape. For the public, authorities, and
velopment. It is anticipated that this project, landowners involved in a project, this analysis
known as the Flaxcombe Wind Farm, could can be very helpful because it reveals how the
result in up to 60 wind turbines and poten- installation will look and will be integrated into
tially generate enough energy to power over the surrounding area.
50,000 homes.
4 Esri News for Electric & Gas Utilities Spring 2012
5. Case Study
Ñ A potential
development site is
identified through
ArcGIS.
“Without the participation of private land- local stakeholders and community groups to with the organization’s document manage-
owners, our projects simply wouldn’t move solicit feedback about the project. ment system. The integration of these two
forward,” said Weber. “Through meaningful “We believe that wind energy is a great systems will enable project managers, who
maps, we can clearly communicate our due way to supplement the income of farmers may be unfamiliar with GIS, to maintain and
diligence to potential stakeholders, identify and contribute to the economic development update data in a controlled and user-friendly
possible constraints, and assure landowners in rural communities,” said Steven Xuereb, environment.
that all necessary steps have been taken to Flaxcombe Wind Farm project manager.
ensure the safe and successful development “Typically, a project of this size would attract
of a wind farm.” more than 100 construction jobs and up to five
Visit esri.com/renewable.
Within the next year, Flaxcombe will enter permanent technical jobs, as well as provide
the environmental assessment phase of the substantial tax revenue to the municipality.”
project, and ArcGIS will be used to visualize To more effectively support project
bird and bat migration, as well as wildlife management around the globe, Mainstream
habitat and vegetation, to ensure the small- is currently moving toward a server-based
est environmental footprint. As the project GIS environment. ArcGIS for Server has been
advances, Mainstream will be reaching out to selected because of its ability to integrate
Spring 2012 esri.com/electricgas 5
6. Three Services, One GIS
By Arnisa Davis, GIS Project Manager, MLGW
Memphis Light, Gas and Water (MLGW), the ArcSDE database and a Citrix implementation. different data layers with the flood zones in
United States’ largest three-service municipal MLGW is able to interface with many external the background. A temporary ArcGIS website
utility, serves nearly 430,000 customers and applications from within ArcGIS. For example, was set up to allow crisis management and
creates the land base for the entire Shelby MLGW interfaces with its customized Banner engineering teams to view gas, water, and
County, Tennessee, area. MLGW has been customer information system (CIS) to improve electric facilities within different flood zone
utilizing GIS for more than 20 years to assist accuracy of addresses stored in both systems levels. ArcGIS was instrumental in providing
with meeting public safety goals and deliver- and accesses its document image system data via the Internet to communicate risk to
ing reliable service to customers. from within ArcGIS. executives and the crisis management team.
Most of the government agencies with The utility also implemented Esri’s ArcGIS
which MLGW shares data also use Esri Workflow Manager (formerly Job Tracking Water Implementation
software. MLGW had to convert data from for ArcGIS [JTX]). MJ Harden created nine The water implementation was completed in
its legacy format to shapefile format to share workflows for the Land Department. Workflow August 2011 and introduced new interfaces to
its land-base data with the Fire and Police Manager allows the Land Department to CIS consumption information and the creation
Departments and Emergency Management track commercial and residential jobs that of web reporting. Web reporting provides
Agency (EMA). The difficulty and length of need addresses or other street informa- MLGW with an opportunity to view flow test
time required to translate the files limited tion. The software allows operators to track and tap information from within the desktop
data publication to one time per quarter. project completion, identify which staff application or via the web utilizing HTML
MLGW decided in December 2008 to member worked the job, and target comple- pop-up windows. GIS also provides a way to
purchase an enterprise license agreement tion dates. It also allows the team leader to create map books for wells near addresses
with Esri and Telvent. MJ Harden, along with assign specific work request areas in the GIS and water tracing.
Ptarmigan and SSP Innovations, was selected based on highest needs. Once the other team
for the implementation of the Esri/Telvent members receive the work request by e-mail,
enterprise solution. the specific area is identified in ArcGIS.
A project with such great magnitude MLGW also implemented the Telvent tools
presented many challenges for MLGW. Utility with versioning that allow staff to utilize a lo-
staff researched products for three years. To cator, an attribute editor, a QA/QC tool, Map
succeed, vision teams were created, made up Book Explorer, and stored displays. MLGW is
of both nonmanagement and management able to create predefined map templates and
employees. The GIS Vision team researched generate maps based on grids with specific
the benefits of implementing an enterprise layers.
GIS. Team members performed cost analysis, Staff can view imagery by connecting to
analyzed return on investment, and presented ArcGIS Online and viewing world imagery,
results to upper management. The vision including data from Esri partner Pictometry.
teams empowered end users to take owner-
ship of implementations. Company IT experts Gas Implementation
supported and provided guidance when The implementation of gas and cathodic pro-
needed. Many of the team members visited tection has been the most challenging of all
other utility companies that had implemented the processes for MLGW. Nevertheless, gas
an enterprise solution. Requests for proposal was implemented in March 2011, and the GIS
were developed for software and implemen- tools have provided users with the benefits
tation, with the vision team members to create of map books, stored displays, and tracing
all the business and functional requirements. capabilities.
SSP Innovations created a custom cathodic
Land Implementation protection trace that colors gas lines based
In July 2010, MJ Harden converted and on whether the line is a node or rectifier. The
integrated the land information with an en- implementation of gas allowed MLGW to pro-
terprise GIS. MJ Harden, Ptarmigan, and SSP vide data for risk analysis for the Distribution
Innovations designed a data model based on Integrity Management Program (DIMP).
MLGW’s needs. The data was converted from During the 100-year flood that Memphis ex- Imagery and utility data can be viewed
Enghouse CableCad to ArcGIS with an Oracle perienced in May 2011, GIS helped staff view together.
6 Esri News for Electric & Gas Utilities Spring 2012
7. Case Study
MLGW staff can search features using GIS tools.
What’s Next? central repository during an emergency or
The utility is currently working on converting disaster.
the primary/secondary electric and streetlight Overall, Esri and Telvent provided MLGW
features from CableCad to ArcGIS. Downtown with an enterprise GIS solution that allows the
network electric and telecom are being utility to share data with external customers
converted from paper or AutoCAD, to be im- and police, fire, EMA, and other emergency
plemented this year. MLGW also implemented entities. Internal users are able to interface
ArcGIS for Server and ArcFM using Silverlight with other applications that store data in
and a mobile application for field crews. relational databases. MLGW staff are excited
Through a joint venture with the University about the new tools that enterprise GIS will
of Memphis, the utility is also creating a bring to the company.
shared portal for the six-county Urban Area
Security Initiative (UASI) to allow emergency Contact Arnisa Davis at
agencies and police and fire departments to
access critical infrastructure data from one adavis@mlgw.org.
Spring 2012 esri.com/electricgas 7
8. Q&A with Sean Flatt
Sean Flatt is the GIS mapping coordinator for Middle 2. What do you plan to do with GIS?
Tennessee Natural Gas (MTNG). Recently, Esri writer We are currently using GIS technology in the planning and construc-
Jessica Wyland interviewed him about his utility’s use tion of all new mains, as a decision-making tool for our engineering
of GIS. department, and to perform ad hoc analysis for a number of company-
wide objectives. All MTNG personnel have access to an internal web
1. What attracted you and mapping application running the Flex Viewer API, which provides
MTNG to GIS technology? access to maps of our system and allows some basic GIS tools and
The challenges of managing an underground utility network have functionality. In the coming year, we are planning to expand our GIS
made GIS technology an incredibly beneficial tool for many natural program into additional mobile applications. By utilizing ArcGIS Server
gas utilities. At MTNG, we serve at least part of 21 different counties and the ArcGIS Online platform, we are going to be sending our GIS
in rural middle Tennessee. With such a large service area, maintaining applications into the field with Esri apps for the iPhone and iPad. Not
detailed maps of our system can be challenging. GIS provides the only will this be a mobile access point for our maps and GIS data, but
ability to efficiently and accurately map our natural gas system, as well we will begin using these iPads to perform various reporting and data
as detailed basemaps. We are also facing the challenge of having to entry for our yearly system maintenance projects. This will provide a
replace an experienced work force over the next several years. Many powerful tool in the field for our service personnel, allow us to easily
of our operations personnel have worked at MTNG for over 21 years monitor the progress of these projects, and also eliminate the need
and have tremendous knowledge of the industry and specifically our for manually entering this information into a database later. The ability
system. Although that knowledge cannot be replaced, by ensuring the for our end users to essentially be an active part of our GIS program
most accurate and detailed information possible is available to our new and to be able to not only easily access our maps and data but also
employees, we hope to be able to continue to safely and efficiently contribute information and data will open doors to a number of practi-
provide natural gas service to our customers. cal applications.
8 Esri News for Electric & Gas Utilities Spring 2012
9. Case Study
Esri on the Road
3. How did the small utility ELA make this possible? IEEE PES Transmission and Distribution Conference and
The ELA has helped our GIS program take a huge leap forward. With Exposition
the ability to use the full suite of Esri software and extensions, we May 7–10, 2012
have been able to not only investigate but actually implement many Orlando, FL, USA
products that we would have previously not even considered because www.ieeet-d.org
of cost and scale. Not having to limit our number of GIS licenses also
means we don’t have to limit our number of GIS users. The ELA makes Mindshare 2012
it possible to let even the most occasional user have access to the May 8–10, 2012
software and hopefully increase not only their familiarity with GIS but Orlando, FL, USA
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Springer Handbook of Windpower
June 3–6, 2012
Geographic Information Atlanta, GA, USA
www.windpowerexpo.org
World Gas Conference
A newly released research and application-oriented text, Springer June 4–8, 2012
Handbook of Geographic Information, features a chapter written by Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Esri experts regarding the use of GIS for energy and utilities. The wgc2012.com
chapter was coauthored by Esri director of utility solutions Bill Meehan,
former Esri gas and pipeline industry manager Rob Brook, and Esri Smart Electricity World
writer Jessica Wyland. July 2–4, 2012
Springer Handbook of Geographic Information is organized in three Melbourne, Australia
parts: Basics, Geographic Information, and Applications. The book is www.terrapinn.com/2012/smart-electricity-world/
written for scientists at universities and industry as well as advanced
and PhD students. 2012 Milsoft Users Conference
June 12–14, 2012
Nashville, TN, USA
milsoftuc.com
Springer Handbook Esri International User Conference
of Geographic July 23–27, 2012
Information. Kresse, San Diego, CA, USA
Wolfgang; Danko, esri.com/uc
David M. (Eds.),
1150 p., 688 illus.,
116 tables. Springer-
Verlag, Berlin,
Heidelberg 2012.
Spring 2012 esri.com/electricgas 9
10. Field Inspections on an Android
By Jozef Kaslikowski, TCEMC
For several years, Tri-County Electric
Membership Corporation (TCEMC), which
serves more 53,000 members in central
Tennessee and southern Kentucky, has been
moving GIS into more areas of its operation.
One of the last untouched processes was
inspection of field equipment.
Until recently, inspections were tracked on
paper. Staff would have to deal with lists of
poles made at the substation or more recent
printouts of circuits. The process was inef-
ficient and frustrating to both the operations
personnel and the engineering staff who had
to interpret the notes. Often, follow-up trips
were needed to identify the correct facilities
with issues. This delayed the turnaround time
on corrective actions. Given the large amount
of data collected in this way, reporting and
tracking were not practical.
The paper process endured due to one
main reason: ease of use. Until now, mobile
devices and software have been awkward
Completed Pole Inspections with Issues
Identified by Department
and cumbersome to use. It can be difficult to
train users who are unfamiliar with computers.
The equipment tends to be expensive, not
to mention the issues of battery life and data
synchronization.
However, the new iOS and Android tablets
make an entirely new platform on which to
build easy-to-use solutions that can be oper-
Android Screen Shot of the Pole Inspection Form ated with two fingers and are cheaper than a
laptop.
ArcGIS API for Android made it possible
to package the entire basemap of TCEMC
and all the equipment to be inspected into
an Android tablet so that any member of the
crew can perform inspections in the field.
Each device contains a GPS to show current
10 Esri News for Electric & Gas Utilities Spring 2012
11. Case Study
the equipment, and any issues that were iden- separately resolve its own issues without
tified during the inspection. At the end of the affecting the other.
day, when network connectivity is restored, The completed inspections are stored in
the completed inspections are automatically a SQL Server database that can be used for
uploaded to the GIS database. reporting and analysis. Since all the informa-
The administration of the system is minimal, tion is time stamped, the progress of the
and every effort was made to automate tasks inspection cycle can be observed using the
when possible. The pending inspections are new query layer and time-aware layer features
identified by comparing GIS data to the list of of ArcGIS. By storing the equipment attrib-
inspections that have been recently com- utes at the time of inspection, users can see
pleted. The routing of the identified problems movements of GIS data as well as changes in
to the appropriate department is done equipment between inspection cycles.
automatically. TCEMC has taken advantage of newly avail-
A web-based application was created to able hardware and Esri’s APIs to provide an
manage the resultant corrective actions for easy-to-use yet powerful inspection tracking
the departments and to incorporate the infor- system. By building on common consumer-
mation into the engineering staking package. based equipment, TCEMC has many choices
Engineering staff can be assigned individual of vendors and several different price points
or bulk tasks based on territories. Operations available. The advantage of the Android-
supervisors can manage their corrective based solution is the freedom of custom
actions based on service areas. Correction app deployment and the use of a standard
tickets can be printed with an included map Windows PC for development.
provided by the same ArcGIS for Server
service that the tablets use. Each assignment
is tracked, and additional notes can be added
Contact Jozef Kaslikowski
at any point. Finally, each department can at jkaslikowski@tcemc.org.
Connecting ArcGIS to the
Android Platform
Free App Now Available
location and cameras that can be used to
document problem areas. Google Android users can now access data and mapping capabilities on their
ArcGIS for Desktop is used to create a smartphones with the ArcGIS for Android application, which lets users find and
basemap, which is then converted to a tiled share maps as well as deploy GIS data and functionality on Android devices. The
map cache by ArcGIS for Server. That informa-
free app is now available and can be downloaded directly from Google play
tion is then automatically downloaded to each
Amazon Appstore.
tablet daily along with pending inspection
requests. The inspections are overlaid on the
basemap using touchable graphics in the
ArcGIS for Android is built on ArcGIS Runtime Software Developer Kit (SDK). This
inspection app. The user simply touches each SDK lets developers create custom, spatially enabled applications for Android
piece of equipment that requires inspection, devices and is designed to use web services available from ArcGIS. ArcGIS
and the appropriate form is displayed to Runtime SDK for Android is now available for free and can be downloaded from
record the report. The inspector’s name is the ArcGIS Resource Center.
logged for each inspection, as well as the last
good GPS coordinate, the time the form was Visit esri.com/android.
submitted, the current known attributes of
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12. Accolades to the Map Gallery Winner
The winner of the 2011 Esri Electric and Gas GIS Conference Map “Without the ability to analyze voltages on a large scale, service
Gallery was Application to Analyze Distribution Voltage Levels, cre- personnel would have had to make several inspections documenting
ated by Roxana Giusca and Lynn Maniaci of Pioneer Rural Electric voltages in the area to create an overview of the conditions,” said
Cooperative in Piqua, Ohio. Maniaci, substation and automation engineer at Pioneer Rural Electric
The map shows a snapshot of voltages at electric meters for 11 coun- Cooperative. “Utilizing GIS technology has greatly improved the effi-
ties within the Pioneer Rural Electric Cooperative service area. The con- ciency of our field crews and enhanced the reliability to our members.”
cept was to verify voltages during peak periods of usage to maintain
industry standards and validate engineering analysis voltage modes.
Contact Roxana Giusca at
rgiusca@pioneerec.com.
12 Esri News for Electric & Gas Utilities Spring 2012
13. Esri News
Esri Online
Listen to New Podcasts
Visit esri.com/podcasts to see the latest Speaker and
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Join thousands from around the world in an online com-
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Follow Esri and participate in conversations on Twitter with
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• Follow Esri’s utility industry writer
Jessica Wyland: @EnergyGIS.
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Bill Meehan: @bill_meehan.
Join the EGUG LinkedIn group.
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Tune in to the latest videos, such as those from Esri describ-
ing step-by-step instructions for using arcgis.com. Visit
youtube.com/esritv.
Esri Career
Opportunities
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Apply your industry expertise in a challenging new way at Esri. We
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The Electric and Gas resource center is the place where
Learn more about career opportunities you can find ArcGIS maps and apps that help you manage
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web maps. Visit resources.arcgis.com and click the Electric
esri.com/utilitycareers.
and Gas link.
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14. Union Power Gets a Dashboard View continued from cover
Esri and made it work for us,” said Harrington. faster. Within the first week the meter tamper-
“The dashboard provides “We added data from Oracle on the ing widget was live, it recovered over $3,000
more information to our customer information side and automated in meter tampering that we may have never re-
metering data in an Oracle database, Milsoft covered or [would have] taken the next billing
employees and is much data on SQL Server, and some GIS data on cycle to discover.”
faster and easier to use SQL Server along with Esri’s web services.” The dashboard has also saved the utility a
So far, Harrington said, management is very considerable amount of time. Since every-
than our existing digital excited and pleased with the dashboard. thing is automated, personnel are no longer
maps.” “We learned that the dashboard not only tied up with the time-consuming tasks of
provided more information to our employees extracting data, cleaning it up, and producing
Todd Harrington, Union Power
but was much faster and easier to use than maps.
Cooperative
our existing digital maps,” said Harrington. “It Harrington has trained field service person-
has helped us discover meter tampering a lot nel, all customer service representatives, and
14 Esri News for Electric & Gas Utilities Spring 2012
15. Using the dashboard, Union Power can find faulty equipment before it fails and causes an unplanned outage.
dispatchers on the dashboard. He also plans
to train the linemen and set up data connec-
tion in the crew’s trucks.
The utility community has responded
Watch the Video:
with excitement to Union Power Operations
Dashboard. Last year, Harrington spoke about
Electric Distribution Operations
it at the national Esri Electric and Gas User Dashboard Template
Conference. He and Gross also presented
An electric or gas operations manager can use the Electric
their work at the TechAdvantage Conference
in conjunction with the National Rural Electric Distribution Operations Dashboard template to quickly
Cooperative Association’s annual meeting. answer questions. What is the current operational status of
“Based on feedback from other utilities, we the network? What incidents or outages are occurring, and
have developed some very innovative con- where? Are there any external environmental events that can
cepts,” Gross said. “This project will continue impact operations? The template can be used as a guide
to evolve, adding value to our members as it for implementing a common operating picture to improve
places the efficiency of advanced technology operational decision making in response to outages and
at employees’ fingertips.” other service-impacting events.
Check out the video and download the template at
Union Power Operations Dashboard esri.com/dashboardvideo.
provides an outage overview that keeps
management, the communications
department, and customer service
representatives aware of how many and which
customers are out of power.
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