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Great River Energy GIS

John Auel United Services Group

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Background

• Bachelor of Science at the University of Wisconsin, Steven’s Point – Area of Emphasis – Cartography

• Currently employed at United Services Group for the past 12 years. • GIS Technician II

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Great River Energy • 28 Member Cooperatives • Second largest in the state of Minnesota • Serve 645,000 members/consumers or 1.7

million people • Own 12 power plants • Own and operate 4,600 miles of

transmission line • 100 transmission substations

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GRE GIS History • 1999 - Started with ArcView 3.X

– Main purpose was annual Wall Maps and Map Books

• 2003 - Switch to SDE in Oracle – Multiple editors to our databases

• 2004 - Started using PDF Map Books • 2005 - Started using ArcReader

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GRE GIS History • 2007 - System inventory • 2008 - Maps switch to on demand

– Map Books were printed less • 2010 - ArcServer Advanced

– Web service available in 2012

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Current Projects • Standard Web Viewer • Vegetation Management • System One Line • AVL (Automatic Vehicle Location) • Gopher State One Call

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Standard Web Viewer

• One stop shop to see all our system data – System Map – System One Line – Content Management (Oracle) – Asset Management (Maximo) – Drawing Management (Adept)

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Best way to use our data

• What do we want to do with the web service? – See the maps – See the data – Search for data – Turn layers on and off – Edit our data

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Widgets

• Decide on which way we need to go – ArcGIS Template Viewer for Silverlight

• Configure through .xml

– Silverlight Viewer • Programmers would have to do all the

customizing.

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Widgets Continued •Map Content •Bookmarks •Measure •GRE Query •Locator •Search Nearby •Redlining •Indentify Results •Streetview

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Standard Web Viewer • Issues

– Telling people it’s coming • Ten years or more

– Not knowing which is the right way for GRE to go

• Success – We finally have one with our data – Coworkers are finding the value of having

all the data

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Vegetation Management

• 2011 – Started looking into the process on how we

can help and use our data

– Corridor Software They configured their software to work with our vegetation workflow.

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Vegetation Management • 2012

– Going through the new software – Ordering the new hardware – Making changes to the data model – Pilot project

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Vegetation Management • 2013

– Implement to the field – Still training contractors

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Vegetation Management • Workflow

– GRE’s foresters go out and survey the corridors with the Corridor Software.

– Assign projects to Contractors – Contractors go out and do the work. – Contractors notify GRE the work is done. – GRE then checks invoices with what is on

the web service.

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GRE Foresters

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Contractors

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GRE Web Viewer

Green areas mean that work has been completed.

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GRE Web Viewer

Office workers then double check work with invoices turned in.

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System One Line • 2011

– Finished up the pilot project • 2012

– Entered in all the data that was in the old system one line

• 2013 – Hope to have a map book by the end of April

and a web service by the end of the year

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System One Line • Advantages

– Toggling between the system one line and the GIS

– Having the ability to see the system one line in its geographical location

– Generating smaller schematics • Cooperative Maps

– Exporting to CAD for future expansion

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System One Line

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System One Line

Being able to see large amount of data in a tight location.

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System One Line

Here is how the 28 cooperatives look in the new system one line.

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System One Line

• Issues – Tons of data – Exporting to new databases – Knowing the best way to use the schematic

extension • One drawing or multiple schematics • Draw or system, or let the extension run it

through a default.

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Containers

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AVL • 2011

– Pilot project • 2012

– 150 assets are currently being tracked • 39 Line Trucks 32 SUV’s • 26 Aerial Trucks 26 Pickup Trucks • 13 Diggers 6 Dump Trucks • 5 Semi’s 3 Cranes

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The data GRE is Capturing • Location of Mobile Assets • Hours Running

– Engine, PTO • Mileage • Speed • GRE’s Geophysical Locations • Locations of Emergency and Medical

Facilities – Clinics, Hospitals, Fire and Rescue

• Historical Data

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How is AVL Being Used? • System Operation Dispatch

– Uses the Google Earth application to view asset location in conjunction with GRE facilities

• Maintenance – Uses the hours run and mileage information to

streamline fleet maintenance • Supervisory

– View asset locations, reports and after hours alerts • Safety

– System Operations knows the exact location of all assets and can send the information to emergency crews in case of accident

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Web Application

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Google Earth

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AVL Going Forward

• Interface AVL with GIS System – Plans to go away from Google Earth and

into our Standard Web Viewer • Installation on additional assets

– Entering the new asset into our database

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Gopher State One Call

• Notification system established to inform all Minnesota underground facility operator of intended excavation.

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GRE’s Gopher State One Call

• To help GRE System Operations deal with requests we have created our own dataset that tracks our underground features.

• We have a feature that deals with polygons, lines, and points that could be at risk with Gopher State One Call.

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GRE’s Gopher State One Call

• Each feature is in it’s correct location on the system map.

• Description on what it is and where it might be going.

• Send update to Gopher State about every six months.

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GRE’s Gopher State One Call

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GRE’s Gopher State One Call

• Positives – Now we are part of the routing for work

orders. – Gives System Operations a reference

before dealing with the request. • Issues

– We updated all our switches which flooded System Operations with over a hundred calls in one day.

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GRE’s Future GIS Work • Mobile GIS

– IPods‘, phones, anything else we can get. • Integrate with Maximo Asset

management • Adept drawing management

– Have a link in our maps but want to edit or modify data.

• Model Telecommunication