Mapping and OMS Integrations with Third-

Party Hardware/Software

SolutionsAnderson Municipal Light & Power

Milsoft Midwest Product WorkshopMay 12, 2010

Energy. Innovation. Experience.

• Anderson Municipal Light & Power (AML&P) Profile

• AML&P’s Current Hardware/Software Architecture

• WindMilMap Integration

• OMS Integration

• Future

• Question & Comments

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Anderson Municipal Light & Power: Talking Points

• Customer Base: Approximately 36,000 meters – modeled to consumer level.

• Square Miles: Approx. 46 sq Miles

• Located NE of Indianapolis Approx. 25 miles

• Utilities are all Municipally Owned

• GIS System: ESRI ArcGIS 9.3.1

• Database: 2005 SQL Database

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Anderson Municipal Light & Power: Profile

• Milsoft Product/Hardware Suite – 1993

• ESRI ArcGIS – 2000

• Miner & Miner ArcFM – 2001-2009

• Star AMR System (Aclara) - 2007

• ACS (SCADA) – NA

• TeleNav (AVL) - 2009

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Anderson Municipal Light & Power: Past and Current Third-Party

Hardware/Software

• Porche – 1993

• WindMil & LightTable - 2004

• WindMilMap -2008

• DisSPatch -2010

• Telelink -2010

• SmartLynk - 2010

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Anderson Municipal Light & Power: Milsoft Products Suite

• Did clarify expectations of delivery of WindMilMap. Communication was not good between AMLP & MilSoft.

• Lack of insistence that Third-Party Software be Multispeak compatible

• Installing too many pieces at the same time:o WindMilMapo SmartLynko DisSPatcho AVLo Telelink

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Anderson Municipal Light & Power: Mistakes in Integration

• WindMil o Ran an importer to convert our Geodatabase into a

WindMil model.

• Miner & Miner – ArcFMo Main issue with ArcFM, not compatible with any

other software being used at AML&P. Glorified attribute editor in ArcGIS

• Needed a process to become seamless between our GIS data model and WindMil

• GIS is AML&P’s data and analytical foundation

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Anderson Municipal Light & Power: Before WindMilMap

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Anderson Municipal Light & Power: WindMilMap Integration Process

• Anderson Municipal Light & Power (AML&P) Purchased WindMilMap end of 2007 or beginning of 2008 to replace the Miner & Miner ArcFM product.

• Initial WindMilMap Model delivered to AML&P in July 2008 was in a Microsoft Access Data Model – Personal Geodatabase Model

• AMLP rejected the delivery due to the Access Model not being free flowing with our SQL SDE Geodatabases

Energy. Innovation. Experience.

Anderson Municipal Light & Power: WindMilMap Integration Process

• August 2008 Milsoft went back to the drawing board to look at a SQL based solution.

• Milsoft since August 2008 has begun and in the process of developing a couple tools, AssetPro (SQL based) and SmartLynk.

• WindMilMap delivered in Beta form in January 2010 without the AssetPro piece.

• SmartLynk – Connection to a SDE Geodatabase.o Pushes the circuit model and the external tables data to an

Geodatabase (SDE or File).o Data Pushes can be scheduled from every 5 minutes to 24

hours.

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Anderson Municipal Light & Power: WindMilMap Integration Process

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Anderson Municipal Light & Power: WindMilMap Integration Process

• AML&P is currently working with WindMilMap 8.0 Beta

• SmartLynk is currently also in Beta.

• The Milsoft customer support

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Anderson Municipal Light & Power: Before Milsoft OMS

• Porche

• Purchased Star from Hexagram (Aclara) to provide AMR

• Created Web Map Application through ArcGIS Server to display the current AMR meters showing as out, restored, back out in real time.

• Our processes dealt with a lot of paper work and took some acclimation to figure out the status of an outage at any given time

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Anderson Municipal Light & Power: Before Milsoft OMS

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Anderson Municipal Light & Power: OMS Integration Process

• Purchased DisSPatch in September 2009

• Loaded DisSPatch in January 2010 due to waiting on WindMilMap Model

• Went LIVE with DisSPatch on March 15th with IVR integratedo Spent a month with training on live data. Vital for

dispatchers.

• AMR (Star – Aclara) integrated as a strictly “ON/OFF” Alarm on March 22nd. This is not a Multispeak solution.o Currently the AMR is not being displayed in DisSPatch due

to bug

• More information being processed than ever before = big learning curve for dispatchers

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Anderson Municipal Light & Power: OMS Integration Process

• 3 components involved with OMSo IVR (Porche/Calls Manager)o DisSPatcho Crew Manager

• These 3 components are forcing AML&P to re-think our outage procedures.

• We are learning DisSPatch requires good communication between crews and the dispatcher for it to be fully functional as an OMS and reporting tool.

• Next steps in the next few months is to integrate SCADA and AVL into DisSPatch.

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Anderson Municipal Light & Power:Future

• Live connection between WindMilMap and a SDE Geodatabase

• DisSPatcho Integration of AVL(TeleNav with Sprint Nextel or another

vendor), SCADA and Weathero Push outage status to the web for public consumption on a

high level and have separate web portal for supervisors to receive a detailed view of outages from DisSPatch.

• Expand the functionality of Telelink to fully integrate with DisSPatch.

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Anderson Municipal Light & Power:Future

• Go mobile with our crew with the possible purchase of Unplugged.

• Add staking software for the Engineering Department

• Continue to help Milsoft push WindMilMap to bigger and greater things in the GIS Community in relation to Electrical Utilities.

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Anderson Municipal Light & Power

Questions & Comments

Contact Info:Jason Tuck, GISPGIS Coordinator

765-648-6555jtuck@cityofanderson.com

http://www.linkedin.com/in/jasontuckgisp