Utility Case Studies

Florian Brandi-Dohrn, AED-SICAD

ESRI User Conference 2010

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Overview

� Brabant Water, Netherlands

� Westland Infra, Netherlands

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� EDB, Belgrade, Serbia

� PBE, Belgium

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Company Structure

Dr. Thomas Englert

20%

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Dr. Thomas Englert

Shareholder

50%

30%51% 50%

Strategic Partner

International

Business Partner

Network

Werner Lück

AED-SYNERGIS

50%

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AED-SICAD: Key Facts

� One of the biggest GIS-Software Application Companies in Europe

� German Company (Offices Sites in Bonn, Munich and Berlin)

� More then 200 employees in AED-SICAD AG

� Employees with more than 20 years of experience

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� More than 10.000 licenses and >2000 customers all over the world

� > 40 000 GByte of data are managed by AED-SICAD software

� Financial situation

� Debt-free

� High liquidity

� Profitable

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ArcFM UT: Product Structure

UT Web

UT View

UT Alpha

UT Editor

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UT Base

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UT Integrator

UT Designer

UT Reader

UT Mobile

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AED-SICAD ArcFM™ UT and ESRI ArcGISU

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Successes - Overview ArcFM UT Customers

� 65 large

international utilities

have decided for

ArcFM UT since first

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� From the top 5

German Utilities, 3

are using ArcFM UT

� Most customers full

Enterprise

Implementations

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Brabant Water, Netherlands

� Main pipeline system 17.000 km

� House connections 1.100.000

� Inhabitants 2.4 million

� GIS ArcFM UT users

� 20 data editors

� 115 field employees: mobile users

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� 115 field employees: mobile users

� 175 geo data viewers in office

� 10 spatial analysts

� IT Staff

� 5 application developers

� 6 application operational management & service

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Brabant Water : Objectives

� Future proof solution: Long term perspective

� Water pipeline data management, viewing and analyzing:

� ArcFM UT Editor

� ArcFM UT Web (and GIS Portal)

� ArcFM UT Mobile

� ArcView

� 100% data conversion from

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� 100% data conversion from

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� Integration with billing/customer

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� Trained internal IT staff

� Avoid custom development

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Brabant Water: TracingU

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Brabant Water: Importing DXFU

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Westland Infra

� Supply of Western Netherlands with electricity, gas and CO2

� Year 2008: splitting of the company into two private limited companies:

� (a) Trade & Supply

� (b) Regional Grid Operator

� Networks: Electricity and Gas.

� 2.600 km of cables – 1.400 high voltage stations.

� Highly branched network because the region is dense building structure

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� Highly branched network because the region is dense building structure

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Westland Infra: IT Infra Structure, Tasks

� Editors: 9 / Viewers: about 50

� Project Phases:

� Phase 1: Electricity

� Phase 2: Migration of Gas, Telecom and Protective Tubes.

� Near future - interfacing:

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� Near future - interfacing:

� (1) Maintenance system for network components and

� (2) Connect GIS to SCADA system data

� Implementation approach

� Use of default ArcFM UT data model & functions

� Small project team

� Customization is limited, no dll’s, no coding.

� Conversion: FME and standard ESRI tools

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Westland Infra: First Data Results from Migration

� Migration from

Microstation

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ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION BELGRADE - EDB

� Service points 700.000

� Underground lines 6.500 km

� Overhead lines 9.500 km

� Transformer substations MV/LV 6000

� Total employed 1700

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EDB: Status Before Project Start

� Graphical data

� CAD drawings

� Raster maps

� IT subsystems

� Control

� Technical

� Business

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� Business

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EDB: Project Goals

� Need for GIS

� One database

� One data entry

� Web access

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� Decision for ArcFM UT

� ESRI – leading GIS software

� AED-SICAD – leading European GIS solution

� Easy integration with external IS (SCADA, NCS, CIS,SAP...)

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EDB: GPS Data Import

� Handheld GPS used

� 20 field teams collecting data of overhead MV network

� 25.000 collected poles (one year work)

� 35.000 total number of poles

� Data model expanded for GPS meta data

� FME data conversions

� Automatic construction

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� Automatic construction

of power lines

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EDB: 3D Scanning of Power Plants

� External documents in ArcFM UT

� Analysis of 3D scanning technology

� Providing technical documentation of electric power plants

� Alpha data in GIS

� Hierarchical vector data

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EDB: Next Steps

� Continuous data entry

� ArcFM UT – graphics & alpha data

� UT Web – alpha data

� Continuous education of users

� Integration with other (sub)systems

� CRM

� Network control system

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� Network control system

� Contact

� EDB – www.edb.rs

� Livona – www.livonagis.co.rs

� Project managers:

� EDB – Miladin Tanaskovićmiladint@edb.rs

� Livona –Ljubiša Adžemovićljubisa@livonagis.co.rs

EDB Project Team

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PBE in Belgium

� PBE Business

� Distribution area: See map

� Electricity (4721 km)

� Cable TV (1705 km) and telecommunication (287 km, fiber)

� Public lighting

� Turnover 2008:

~ 50 Mio EUR

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~ 50 Mio EUR

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PBE: Trigger for New GIS

� PBE has the same network documentation needs as other large utilities

� Trouble in the drawing room :

the current CAD solution does not suffice

� No multi-user editing file locking

� Difficult organisation and re-organistion of data use

� No integrated solution for asset management

� Difficult reporting

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� Difficult reporting

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� PBE needs a geobase - oriented solution

� Know-how often still in engineer’s mind and not in the database

� Regulatory requirements

� Plotting requirements

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PBE: Project Scope

� ArcFM UT

� ArcFM UT desktop (Editor) for Electricity and Cable TV

� ArcFM UT desktop (View)

� GIS Portal and ArcFM UT Web

� ArcFM UT Integrator

� Professional IT Services

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� Professional IT Services

� Projectmanagement

� Data Modelling

� Configuration

� Integration with AS400

� Integration with network calculation prorgam

� Specific plotting, reporting requests

� Specific Cable TV functions

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Thank you for your attentionU

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Florian Brandi-Dohrn

AED-SICAD AG

Lilienthalstraße 7

D - 85579 Neubiberg / Germany

Tel.: +49-89-45 026 - 217

florian.brandi-dohrn@aed-sicad.de