Building a Real-time Situation Awareness Map

Improving EPCOR Water Canada’s System ReliabilityUsing Performance Indicators

Natalie FisherManager, GIS

EPCOR Water Services Inc.

What is Situational Awareness

• Understanding our system

• Knowing what is going on sothat we can figure out what todo

• Responding to events andchanges in environmentalconditions

EPCOR’s State of

Readiness

StateofReadiness

WasteWater

Operations

WaterPlantOperations

WaterDistribution

andTransmission

Important Performance IndicatorsEPCOR Water Canada operates according to Performance Based Regulations (PBR) found in the City of Edmonton Water Bylaw.

■ SystemReliability

■ WaterQuality ■ Environment ■ Safety

System Reliability Factors Simplified

WaterMainBreak

MainBreakDuration

ResponseTime

WaterPressure

WaterQuality

PlannedInterruption

• Mainbreakidentification,confirmation,assessmentandrepair• Waterqualityreporting,samplingandresolution• Projectselectionandimplementation• Adequatecustomernotification• ManagingHazardousEnergyIsolation(closedvalves)• Transmissionmainshutdown• Plantshutdown

Solution Dependencies

Requiredabrowser-basedtool:• Easeofuse,access,andinapplicationdevelopment

Collaborativelyidentifytop10criticalindicators

Identifydatasourcesanddefinedataupdate

frequency

Solution Data

Outages WaterQuality Customers EPCORAssets

• Watermainbreaks

• Hydrantsoutofservice

• Plannedshutdowns

• Projectsunderconstruction

• Pressuremonitoringstations

• Pressurezones

• Waterqualitycomplaints

• Criticalandtop50customers

• Watermains,valvesandhydrants

• EPCORlocations

Solution - ArchitectureSCADASupervisory control and data acquisition

GISGeographicInformationSystem

IVARAAssetPerformanceManagementSystem

DataExtractionandAutomationTools

SituationAwareness

Map

Solution – Data Extraction Automation

5minutes

Daily

OnDemand

FMEWorkbenchView

Solution - Interface■ Browser Based Web Mapping Application

Solution - Interface

LegendLayerControl Edit Print

AllowsuserstocreatedatatosupportEOCoperations

Allowsuserstoprintqualitymapson

demand

Manageslayervisibility

Alignstolayerpresenceand

visibility

Benefits

• Improved ability to communicate situational awareness for our operations

• A dependable, predictable resource in place to support the emergency operation centers (EOC)

• A tool that is woven into how we do our work• The SAM synergizes our data, our work flow

processes – it is a symphony of information.

Thank you!

nfisher@epcor.com