Utilities Industry Success Stories with FME

Oct 2014

Jeff DeWitt, Renato Salvaleon & Paul Schneider,Georgia PowerMark Stoakes, Safe Software Inc.

Agenda

Introductions

Examples from Georgia Power

Examples from around the world

Q&A

Today’s presenters

Paul

Jeff

Renato

Mark

Questions?

Steve

What we do.

Data Inclusion & Task Diversity

A diversity tasks for utilitiesThe inclusion of many formats for utilities

• Electric Transmission & Distribution• Gas Transmission & Distribution• Water & Sewer Distribution• Landbase

Poll?

• Where are you primarily working :– Electric– Gas– Water– Land management– Other…

Data Inclusion: Formats for UtilitiesDatabase & GIS formats

GE Smallworld Intergraph G/Technology ESRI Geodatabase & Schneider ArcFM AutoCAD Map 3d Enterprise (TopoBase) Bentley Electric Oracle Spatial Legacy formats:

Intergraph FRAMME VISION* (AUD) MGE

Data Inclusion: Formats for Utilities

CAD formats AutoCAD (many versions) AutoCAD Map 3D Bentley MicroStation

Others… JSON (CGI M3i ) ASCII (Oracle NMS MP ) CIM XML Other:

MultiSpeak, PLSCad (XML), CYME, GME, KML

FME for a Diversity of Tasks for Utilities• Data migration from a legacy GIS or CAD• Synchronising across GIS databases• Tying into external systems – asset management• Location Intelligence / Economic Development• CAD & GIS round trips• Connect real-time systems: DMS / OMS etc.• Data Validation• Working with Geometric Networks• Real-time GPS & Mobile

Georgia Power Overview• The largest subsidiary of Southern Company• Investor-owned, tax-paying utility • Over 8,500 employees • 2.4 million customers• Serves 155 of the

state’s 159 counties

Working with Text Files

• Converts text file and updates data in Oracle SDE database

• Parses text data into separate fields and combines data from nearby text lines

• Source data

Jeff DeWitt,jldewitt@southernco.com

Georgia Power

XML to SDE• Converts XML data file to SDE Oracle feature

class• Uses XML mapping document .xmp file to

parse data• Determines data that has been added,

updated, or deleted and writes appropriate changes directly to SDE

• Source data and mapping file

SDE to Email• Reads feature class from SDE Oracle database

and sends filtered records via email• Uses XML Templater to format email and HTML

Python Emailer to generate email

• Emails send out data to contacts in format they can easily update and return

Automated POI creationPaul Schneider

pschneier@southernco.comGeorgia Power

GeoRSS for new Issues

Ad Hoc

• ESRI Data to KMZ for display in Google Earth

• General Data Conversions

Environmental Best Practices for Transmission facility projects

Renato Salvaleonrsalvale@southernco.com

Georg1a Power

http://georgiapowerland.maps.arcgis.com/home/

CONNECT. TRANSFORM. AUTOMATE.

Environmental Best Practices for Transmission facility projects… GIS to CAD workflow with too many handoffs

Vendor Submittal

•Submits field collected data in GIS personal geodatabase format

Environmental Specialist

•Uses ArcMap•QCs the data•Weeds out unwanted data using Object IDs of each feature class

•Loads data in to SDE

GIS Analyst

•Converts data from CAD to GIS from SDE

Mapper• Adds Env

data to the plan QA

QA

QA

CONNECT. TRANSFORM. AUTOMATE.

FME enters into the picture… to automate the pieces

Vendor Submittal

•Submits field collected data in GIS personal geodatabase format

Environmental Specialist

•QCs the data•Weeds out unwanted data using Object IDs of each feature class

•Loads data in to SDE using FME.

GIS Analyst

•Converts data from CAD to GIS from SDE using FME

Mapper• Adds Env

data to the plan

QA

QA

QA

CONNECT. TRANSFORM. AUTOMATE.

SimplifyRemove the GIS Analyst from the submittal process

Vendor Submittal

•Submits field collected data in GIS personal geodatabase format

Environmental Specialist

•QCs the data•Weeds out unwanted data using Object IDs of each feature class

•Runs one FME workspace

Mapper• Adds Env data to the plan

GIS Analyst

Supports the workspace

CONNECT. TRANSFORM. AUTOMATE.

A Simplified, Automated task… using a single workspace

Vendor Submittal

Excel report

SDE data load

DXF Output

CONNECT. TRANSFORM. AUTOMATE.

Added QC for GIS data load … to prevent duplicate data loads for project

DXF Output

CONNECT. TRANSFORM. AUTOMATE.

QC Transformers … prevent project features to be duplicated in SDE

CONNECT. TRANSFORM. AUTOMATE.

Added MapTextLabeller… for more visually appealing labels and save time for the drafter

Without MapTextLabeller

With MapTextLabeller

CONNECT. TRANSFORM. AUTOMATE.

An improved tool to complete the task… using a single workspace but with QC and better CAD labels

Vendor Submittal

Excel report

SDE data load with duplicate checker

DXF Output with MapTextLabeller

Create harmony between data and applications

Q&A

Poll?• Who’s using FME

ATMOS Energy Corporation

One of the country’s largest natural-gas only distributors

3 million customers in 9 states

Marcin GoreckiGIS Specialist, Atmos Energy

marcin.gorecki@atmosenergy.com

Full Presentation

Problem:Migrate from a drawing based CAD platform to the GE Smallworld GIS

Goal: Transfer CAD to GIS with minimum data loss

Looks simple, but the devil is in the custom transformer details…- Snap and clean-up- Create areas- Match text

and more…

Validate:

Check the outcome in the Smallworld GIS: Important part of

checking outcome is also checking for data in editor window in SW

Of course the same process works the other way. Atmos are able to transform Smallworld objects to AutoCAD.

But that’s a story for another day…

For more information:

– Marcin.Gorecki@atmosenergy.com– Atmos Energy

Larry Wiebe GIS Data Specialist,

Manitoba Hydrolawiebe@hydro.mb.ca

Fire Proximity Awareness

Full Presentation

Pull daily fire maps from FTP site

Defined a set of critical electric/gas infrastructure

TransmissionStationsDistributionCommunicationsConstruction Corridor

Add real-time weather

Create clear, clean maps with symbology for fire locations and infrastructure

Weather Conditions

Display:

Display:

Supporting Data

Crew Location

Crew History:

Crew location points gathered every 5 minutes

UTC = temps universel coordonné

• Crew Tracks: Assembles points into lines based on UTC date/time sequence

• Time stampsassign UTC start and end times

Summary• Fire Proximity Awareness– Location Intelligence– Consolidate a diverse range of datasets – Appropriate transformation to simplify the data

analysis– Output to a suitable format for presentation &

display

Effective ESRI Geometric Network Tracing with FME

Established in 1889

355,000 Electric Customers

21,700 miles electric lines

314,000 Gas Customers

7,670 miles gas pipe

8 Hydro Facilities

GIS users since 1992

FME users since 2004

Vancouver, BC

Erika Jacobs, Avista Utilitieserika.jacobs@avistacorp.com

Full Presentation

Effective ESRI Geometric Network Tracing with FME

Problem Find all customers downstream of

gas fittings that must be replaced and notify them of

impending workSolution

FME’s Network Topology Calculator

Effective ESRI Geometric Network Tracing with FME

Be selective– Service pipe only– Selected work area

polygons– Filter by material

and installation date

Prep the data– Split complex edges– Clean data• Everything coincident• No self-intersects

Effective ESRI Geometric Network Tracing with FME

Create the Network

Match Points to NetworkAssign Network_IDs to tees and metersFind Downstream meters

Effective ESRI Geometric Network Tracing with FME

Other Examples• Find Number of Meters

served by each Gas Pressure Zone

• Find Emergency Shut-off Islands

• Network Health Checks

• Isolated Steel Pipe

Create harmony between data and applications

Q&A

More Brilliant User Presentations…Synchronizing AutoCAD® Map 3D Enterprise with

ESRI® ArcSDE®, Drew Burgasser, CAD Masters

ENMAX Supporting Processes and Improving GIS Data Workflows with FME, Sophie Duan & Terry

Magnusson , ENMAX Power Corp.

FME: Solutions for Utilities

Thank you! Jeff, Renato, Paul, Georgia Power

jldewitt@southernco.compschneid@southernco.comrsalvale@southernco.com

Mark, Safe Software Inc.

mark@safe.com

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