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Mobile GIS for Mapping New Installations
Monica Ferrer and Alicia Farag, GTI Jerry Golden, 3-GIS
Overview • New Industry Standards • Mobile GIS Technology • High Accuracy GPS • Applications • Pilot Project Lessons Learned
New Industry Standards • Purpose
– Facilitate the use of standard unique identifiers that encode essential asset attribute information
– Algorithms that create unique tracking and traceability identifiers (16-digit alpha numeric code)
– Allow manufacturers to barcode pipe and fittings with a unique identifier
– Allow operators to document the precise location of specific assets
New Industry Standards • Distribution Pipe
– Complete
• Plastic Pipe Fusions – In-process
• Transmission Pipe – Under development
Distribution – ASTM F2897-11a - Standard Specification for
Tracking and Traceability Encoding System of Natural Gas Distribution Components (Pipe, Tubing, Fittings, Valves, and Appurtenances)
Distribution • Unique 16 digit
alpha-numeric code • Manufacturer
implementation through barcoding
Character Number
Source Description of Information
Character Information
1 www.componentid.org Name of component manufacturer
A Corresponds to list on www.componentid.org 2 C
3
Component Manufacturer’s lot code
Information which can help ascertain relevant traceability information upon request
5 Corresponds to the mfg lot number input of
1234567
4 b 5 a 6 n
7 Component production
date code per 5.3
Date of manufacture of given component
0 Corresponds to production date of
1/4/2010 8 6 9 C
10 Component material type per Table 3
Material used for component B PE 2708
11 Component Type per
Table 4 Component type 8 Electrofusion tapping tee
with a stab outlet 12 F
13 Component size per 5.6
Component size 2 Corresponds to size code of 2” IPS SDR11 x 1” IPS
SDR11 14 m 15 X
16 www.componentid.org Reserved for future use 0 Default value
Plastic Pipe Fusions
• Standardizes the output of parameter data from fusion equipment – Ambient temp, heater plate temp, soak time,
fusion pressure, current curve, etc.
• Submitted to ASTM
Transmission • Unique identifier to encode essential attribute
information – Diameter, wall thickness, grade, yield strength,
heat number, etc.
• Under development – Scope of the standard being finalized, algorithm
development complete in 2014
GTI’s Intelligent Pipeline Program • Provide technologies to transition away from manual, paper based data
collection towards automated, mobile, geospatially-enabled data collection
• Reduce the cost of compliance – Hardware and software – Data management labor
• Decrease operational risk
– Data quality – Asset performance trending – Tracking and traceability – Excavation damage prevention
Mobile GIS Technology • Architecture that provides . . .
– Low cost data collection devices
– Simple software
– Access to up-to-date facilities information
– Real-time data submittal from the field
– Minimal back-office processing
Mobile GIS for Mapping New Installations
• Technology – Tablet device with GIS-based data collection software – High accuracy GPS receiver – Application to convert barcode into asset attributes to
auto populate the GIS – Barcode scanner – Disconnected editing
• Pilot projects – Integrys, National Grid, and Avista – Opportunity for additional pilot projects
Mobile GIS for Mapping New Installations
• Automates the entire data collection process for documenting new installations • In less than one minute . . .
– Read, decrypt barcode on asset and create gas GIS feature (main, service, valve, fitting, CP feature, etc.)
– Populated asset attribute information (material type, batch number, etc. from barcode)
– Additional asset information automatically added to asset record from predefined job/work order
– Define asset position geospatially using decimeter quality real-time GPS – Post data in GIS in real-time
ASTM F2897
Decrypt
High Accuracy GPS • Integrated external high accuracy GPS
receivers with tablet computers – Decimeter quality data in real time – Real-time correction via satellite – New assets directly inserted into the GIS – Integrated receivers – Navcom, Geneq,
Trimble
Data Collection Workflow
Collect GPS Data
Manually Enter Asset
Definition
Manually Enter
Attribute Data
Bring Hardware
Back to the Office
Download Data
Post Process
Data
Integrate Data into
GIS System of
Record
Create GIS Asset in the Field
Post to GIS Version Integrate Asset into
GIS System of
Record
>Existing
>New
GIS Data Integration • Software built on ArcGIS with ArcServer → Data goes
directly into the GIS (with controls) • Data is not just collected, the pipe network is actually
being built in the field
Applications • Mapping new installations
– Reduces time required to get data into the GIS – Improves data quality through automation
• Asset tracking and traceability
– Reduces risk of manufacturer recalls – Reduces risk through asset performance tracking
Applications • Excavation damage prevention
– Reduces the risk of inaccurate locates and incorrect maps
• Update existing records – Correct GIS data from the field – Eliminate records backlog
Applicability for Gathering • Tracking and traceability standards have some
applicability for gathering operators if using the same assets and equipment as distribution operators
• Mobile GIS technology – completely applicable for gathering operators
Pilot Project Lessons Learned • Tablet computers
– Ruggedized? – Stability – Integration with external sensors – Screen size – Battery life
• Cloud computing
– More or less secure?
Pilot Project Lessons Learned • Software
– Simple, simple, simple
– The end-user defines simple, not the software engineer
– Must allow flexible workflows
• Ergonomics
– Don’t underestimate the importance of comfort and routine
– Remove barriers to user-acceptance
Pilot Project Lessons Learned • Training
– Interns vs “experienced” workers
– No such thing as too much training
Final Thoughts • The combination of tablet computers and mobile GIS is a
disruptive innovation for the pipeline industry – Mix and match hardware for flexible, customized
configurations – Intuitive software that requires minimal training – Low-cost hardware that can be deployed to the entire
workforce
Status and Next Steps
• Pilot projects on-going • Commercially availability in Q3 2013
Thank you!
Questions?