May 2011 Oracle Spatial User Conference

Oracle Spatial User Conference!

May 19, 2011 Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center

Washington, DC USA

James Street President Epoch Solutions Group Inc.

May 2011 Oracle Spatial User Conference

Integrating GIS Platforms Across the Enterprise Using Oracle Spatial Salt River Project

May 2011 Oracle Spatial User Conference

About SRP •  Comprised of Two Entities

•  Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District

•  Salt River Valley Water Users Association

•  934,000 Electric Customers •  11 Major Power Plants •  Delivers 1 Million Acre Feet Of Water Annually •  Long History Of GIS Technologies

•  GFIS, Intergraph, GE Smallworld, ESRI and Oracle Spatial

GIS Systems at SRP

•  GE Smallworld •  Applications

•  Electric Distribution •  Electric Transmission, Telecom •  Land •  Maintenance & Inspection

•  ESRI ArcGIS •  Applications

•  Water •  Cartography

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Land GIS

GIS Technology Stack Pre-2006 May 2011

Oracle Spatial User Conference

Land GIS

Water GIS Cartographic GIS

Power GIS Telecom GIS

Pre-2006 Challenges

•  GE Smallworld GIS Technology •  Proprietary Database & Language •  App Development / Support Costs •  Resource Availability & Cost •  Obsolescence Concerns •  Limited Use of Emerging Technologies

•  Disparate GIS Data

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GIS Technology Stack Post 2006 May 2011

Oracle Spatial User Conference

Land GIS

Water GIS Cartographic GIS

Power GIS Telecom GIS

Oracle Spatial

Advantages

•  Enabling, Best-of-Breed Architecture •  Ability to Leverage Emerging Technologies •  Open Data Access •  Mainstream Development Tools & Language •  Increased Resource Availability •  Reduced Costs •  Simplified Systems Integration •  Consolidated Enterprise GIS Database

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Proposed Architecture

Power GIS Land GIS

Telecom GIS

Water GIS Cartographic GIS

Integration Bus (Tibco)

Business Applications, Reporting & Data Analysis, Cartography, Web Services

Oracle Spatial

Smallworld Insync Nightly Data Refresh

ESRI SDE Nightly Data Replication

Read/Write Only Spatial Data Repository

Architecture

•  Oracle Spatial 11g •  Glue to make this happen •  Geometry Functions •  Multiple projection support •  Network Model •  SDO_GEOMETRY supported by both ESRI & GE

Smallworld

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Architecture •  GE Smallworld Insync

•  Two Way Synchronization •  Customized mapping of data model

•  ESRI SDE •  Database Engine •  Supports Oracle SDO_GEOMETRY

•  ESRI ArcGIS Server •  Server based platform for producing web and

mobile GIS applications •  Produces map and geospatial analysis services •  Supports Map Tile Caching •  Adobe Flex / Microsoft Silverlight / Javascript API’s

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Architecture May 2011 Oracle Spatial User Conference

Challenges

•  Not all arc types supported in Oracle Spatial •  Join fields often complex and difficult to model

outside of Smallworld •  Geometry Cleanup needed •  Migration of symbology •  Text Geometries •  Multiple geometry support

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Solutions

•  Interpolate unsupported arcs to straight lines. •  Join fields solved by custom Insync mappings. •  Text Geometries exported as point and

appropriate control info added as attributes. •  Symbology created in ESRI ArcGIS. •  Views created for single geometry

representation of tables (assets).

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Applications May 2011 Oracle Spatial User Conference

Spatial Data Mart

LRIMS

Smallworld & Oracle Spatial SOM

Mobile GIS Adhoc Users Reporting

Water GIS

IBM Maximo & Maximo Spatial SRP Maps Online

SRP Maps Online

•  ArcGIS Server •  Version 1 Adobe Flex •  Version 2 Microsoft Silverlight

•  Corporate Wide GIS Viewer •  Google Maps “like”

•  Minimal training other than brown bags

•  Introduced non-traditional GIS users •  Street closures for construction

•  New applications •  Telecom trade show

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SRP Maps Online May 2011 Oracle Spatial User Conference

SRP Maps Online May 2011 Oracle Spatial User Conference

D E M O N S T R A T I O N

SRP Maps Online

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Oracle Network Model

•  Connectivity Data Extracted From Smallworld •  Smallworld uses same concept as Oracle

•  Links & Nodes •  Different Connectivity Models For Each Dataset

•  Data Model Modifications •  Need to bind the assets to connectivity records •  Allow tracing based on attribution

•  Switch Position •  Phase

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•  Prototyping •  Oracle MapViewer •  Java API •  SQL API

•  Oracle 10g In Memory •  Memory Issues

•  Oracle 11g On Demand •  Whole network traced

•  Web Services •  Adhoc Users •  Integrated into viewer

applications

V I D E O

Network Tracing

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Future Enhancements

•  Smallworld Inspection Application Replacement

•  Further Develop Network Tracing •  Oracle Spatial based system planning •  Maximo Spatial •  Outage Management

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