building a real time situational awareness map
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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 - 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.