Expanding the User Base of Smallworld Technologies at Sho-Me

Power CooperativeAndy Meyers – Sho-Me Power CooperativeMark Field – FCSI

Overview

• Brief Background on Sho-Me Power Cooperative

• History of Smallworld at Sho-Me• Recent Enhancements of Smallworld at Sho-Me• Technical Information of Enhancements• Future Plans

Sho-Me Power Background

• 1941 Power Transmission Cooperative…..– Cover approximately 1/4 of Missouri– Some Generation– ~1800 miles of Sho-Me owned transmission line

• 1997 Development of Fiber Infrastructure– Sho-Me Technologies LLC formed– Microwave Towers converted to Fiber (gov)– ~5000 miles of total fiber in system– ~2100 miles of Sho-Me owned fiber

Sho-Me Users of Smallworld

• Sho-Me Technologies (Fiber) – uses PNI database– Environmental Department• Water crossings• Bat studies

– Marketing• Electric Transmission (Sho-Me Power Electric

Coop)

Sho-Me Users of Smallworld Data

• Board– Heads of Distribution Coops

• Legal Department• Accounting– Data in tax districts

• One-Call• Maintenance – uses data to fix infrastructure

(equipment, fences, etc.)• External Users – Forestry, Contractors

History of Smallworld at Sho-Me

• 1995 Initial install of Smallworld • 1997/98 Model.IT• ~2000 Upgraded to PNI X3.1• 2005 Upgraded to PNI 4.0• 2008 Upgraded to PNI 4.1• 2011 Configuration Management Implemented• 2012 Enhanced Landbase & Electric • Smallworld continues to grow as integral part of

business development

Recent Enhancements of Smallworld Technologies

• Configuration Service from FCSI– Much more stable– Users more pleased – Management sees more reliability

• FCSI Power Line Elevations– More transmission line users– Faster initial evaluations of routes– Plan and Profile Sheet Views

Recent Enhancements of Smallworld Technologies (etc.)

• Shared Fiber – Electric Data (Landbase)– Common data = less data maintenance

• Business Data Integration– Pole/Structure information now available to users– Pole/Structure Problem data available

• Maintenance maps

– Gate Problems/Fixes (planned)• Electric Data Enhancements– More Substation Data – Better Circuit Definition– Support Double Builds

Technical Information: Configuration Service

• Configuration Service by FCSI– All code is source controlled GE Products, 3rd Party,

and internal source– Timely product updates (patches, new versions of 3rd

Party)– Reliable/Repeatable Builds

• User directory builds• Special Configurations Builds (laptops, test environment)

– Integrated Wiki– Integrated Tickets

Technical Information: Configuration Service (cont.)

• Examples from website

Technical Information: Power Line Elevations

• Automatic elevation source DEM download– User quote “That was the easiest import ever!”

• Automatic contour and label generation• Automatic elevation application to geometries• Elevation search functionality• Plan and Profile Sheet view of existing or

proposed transmission lines

Power Line Elevations Example

Technical Information: Landbase – Fiber – Electric Data

• Fiber Dataset– PNI database

• Electric Dataset– Sho-Me Power Data Model

• Expanded Landbase Data Set– Poles– Structures– Substation– Real world geometry and information

Fiber (PNI)

Technical Information: Landbase – Fiber – Electric Data (cont.)

• Electric & PNI pole data renamed to attachments to keep topology & existing functionality intact

Landbase

Pole

Electric

Pole Attachment

StructureStructure

Attachment

Pole Attachment

Structure Attachment

Technical Information:Business Data Integration

• Initially created “programmic” fields which externally connected thru SQL-ODBC– Programmic fields act like logical fields in

database, but configured with code• searchable and viewable in editors

– Select-Style functionality show pole problems graphically (examples…)

– Worked great but slow for large area or database searching

Technical Information:Business Data Integration

• Synching to Business Dataset– Created data model that matched business

database– Scheduled task starts synch image weekly– Much faster solution– Super join functionality– All business data available • New possibilities – reports/plots

Business Data IntegrationExample

Future Enhancements

• SCADA integration– Show live data within Smallworld

• Additional pole problem display• Display gate problems & fixes• Simplified Electric Application– Increase Transmission Users

• Upgrade to PNI 4.3• Corridor Management– Vegetation/Regulatory (Bats)– LiDAR Utilization

Increasing Smallworld Usageat Your Installation

• Smallworld Champion – key• Always ask where can GIS data be used• What is the “source of record” for data– Can it be within Smallworld?

• How can “external” data augment Smallworld data?– Filter data, drive styles

• Reliability (source control, defined tests)

Questions?/Contact

• Mark Field• mark@field-csi.com• FCSI Booth 19• Cell: 407-376-6105• @mbfbsae90• mbfbsae90