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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 • 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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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
• 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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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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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
• 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.