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Enabling Your Business with

Utility-Scale Mobile GIS

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Chris McClain, P.E., Team Leader, Distribution Technology Solutions, Alabama Power Company

Jon Fairchild, Product Manager, ArcFM Mobile, Schneider Electric

Agenda

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Business Case

Requirements

Results

Business Case

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Mobile is not an app…

it’s an enterprise

strategy

•Our job: Support complex requirements and make it look

easy

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• Tools focused on needs of

user

• The latest data, quietly

automatically

• Ease of adoption

• Heavy UI, requires GIS

experience

• Disruptive and slow data

synchronization

• Frustration

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User Experience

Legacy Utility-Scale

• Simple installers

• Manage replication in a

single admin portal

• Low cost maintenance

• Complex implementations

• Multi-step replication

processes

• Months to deploy/upgrade

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Administration

Legacy Utility-Scale

• Scalable services-oriented

architecture

• Near real-time data access

• Multi-platform

• Database-oriented

architecture

• Complex data workflows

• Windows only

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Architecture

Legacy Utility-Scale

Fast and simple

Enabling the business

For any size utility

Utility-Scale Mobile GIS

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Requirements

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Southern Company Profile

4 operating companies

4.4 million electric customers

120,000 sq miles in 4 states

44,000 MW generation

143,000 miles distribution

27,000 miles transmission

ArcFM Mobile Pilot at

Southern Company

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Mobile deployment at APC

GIS investment

Customer expectations

Offline data processes

Financial constraints

Key Drivers

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Occasionally disconnected map viewer

Inspections (pro-active or reactive)

Redline mark-ups / map notes

Interface with other applications:

- Workforce Mgmt System (ARMS)

- Maintenance/Abnormalities (DARTS)

- Customer Linking Database

- Lighting Data

- Vegetation Management

Mobile Roadmap

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Results

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Goal: Evaluate offline sync and functionality of ArcFM Mobile

Configuration & Administration:

Simple and easy

Intuitive

No configuration files

Easy to support

Pilot at Georgia Power

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How does it work?

• One click to update replicas

• One touch to download deltas

Synchronization

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Download Metrics – Metropolitan Atlanta

* Your mileage may vary

Item Size Time

Metro East replica

(offline operational map)

667 MB 3-5 min

Metro East deltas

(operational map updates)

< 1 MB seconds

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Allow users to perform inspections

• Create custom tasks

• Create custom forms

• Use to collect info in the field

Tasks

Demo

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… at utility scale

Reduced admin effort

Frustration-free users

Scalable to your enterprise

Low total cost of ownership

Benefits of Utility-Scale

Mobile GIS

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Mobile is not an app…

it’s an enterprise

strategy

Our job: Support complex requirements and make it look easy