Utility Enterprise Integration: Utility Mapping, Hydraulic Modeling, and Managed Design Workflows for a Water Utility

Huntsville Utilities: Rob Getman, Project ManagerBentley Systems, Inc.: Jack Cook, VP Water & Wastewater Solutions

4/26/2011Huntsville Utilities, Huntsville, AL

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Outline

• Project Context• Huntsville Utilities• Enterprise strategy

• Joint Solutions Technology Benchmark• Defined• Objectives

• Integrated Geospatial Design Process Highlights• Summary and Conclusion

Who is Huntsville Utilities?

• Municipally utility owned by the City of Huntsville, AL

• 163,000 Electric, 86,000 Water, 47,000 Gas customers

• 600+ Employees• Headed by 2 Boards

• Waterworks and Gas Board• Electric Utility Board

Huntsville, AL

Three departments with three design and three mapping standards

Move  from…Pens, whiteout, and highlightersMicroStationFRAMME

To…An integrated computer-based mapping, design &

hydraulic modeling system

Huntsville Multi-utility Challenges

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• SAP was going to happen -- on schedule• Need a common design system for preparing work

orders - for all three departments• Avoid manual entry of bill of materials• 25 to 30 Users • Concurrent implementation with SAP – including

building an interface to handle:• Materials, Cost Centers, Compatible Units, Designs

Driver for Change

• Integrated design system for electric, gas, and water

• Common mapping system• Compatible units for in-house design process• Easy to learn (already know MicroStation)• Low cost• Excellent support

Huntsville Utility Requirements

Our Implementation

• Expert Designer – Design System• Electric, Gas & Water Designs• Design approval workflow

• ProjectWise – Data Repository• Work Requests come here from SAP • Data repository for designs and all work request related

information• SAP – Work Management System

• Work requests initiated within SAP• Designs submitted back to SAP

High-Level Information Flow

• New Orders created & sent to PW

• Designs received from PW

SAP

• Data Repository• Synced to SAP

and ED

ProjectWise• Create Designs• Compatible Units• Design Approval

Workflow

Expert Designer

Phase 1 – Completed August 2009

In coordination with SAP going live we launched: • ProjectWise V8i• Expert Designer V8i• Bentley Electric, Gas & Water V8i• 6,000 Compatible Units• Projects & designs interfaced with SAP

Phase 2 – Currently Underway

• Upgrade to SS1 (complete)• Conversion to Bentley XFM features in Oracle

Spatial from:• Electric – G/Technology (mostly complete)• Gas – FRAMME (complete)• Water – MicroStation (w/ MSlink) (complete)• Landbase – MicroStation (w/ MSlink) (pending)

• Migrate departmental workflows to new technology(While keeping interface with SAP working)

THE BENTLEY BENCHMARK

MicroStation and ProjectWise AssetWise

Facilities

eBConstructSim

Exor

sisNET

SUPERLOAD

OptramProsteel

Rebar

ProConcrete

Simulate Construct Operate

OnSite

ArchitectureAutoPIPEAutoPLANTAXSYS Bentley MapBentley Rail Track CADscript Descartes DESIGN ++ Expert DesignerGenerative Components

GEOPAKgINTHaestad Methods HAMMERHevacomp InRoadsLeap BridgeMXOpenPlantPlantSpace

PondPack promis●eRAMRM Bridge SewerGEMS speedikon STAADStormCAD Substation WaterGEMS

Lifecycle Server

Navigator

Why  Bentley  Needs  Benchmarks…

Buildings Rail and Transit Bridges

Government Mining and Metals Communications

Roads

Campuses

Water and Wastewater

Utilities

Power Generation

Process Manufacturing

Buildings Rail and Transit Bridges

Government Mining and Metals Communications

Roads

Campuses

Water and Wastewater

Utilities

Power Generation

Process Manufacturing

What is a Solutions Benchmark?• In partnership with motivated user

• Develop the baseline for future water solution development and regression testing.

• Challenge technology interoperability• Challenge the solution and find the gaps.

Opportunistic Context• Challenge solution breadth – Mapping, Design,

Analysis, Publishing• Spatially managed engineering content

• Unifying GIS and infrastructure design• Web Publishing• Hydraulic analysis

• Motivated Early Adopter (ELS)• Moving to WaterGEMS hydraulic modeler• Intent on Bentley Water to Oracle Spatial data

migration

• Energized to QC configuration and internally train

Benchmark Overview• Joint commitment between Huntsville

Utilities and Bentley • Ideally, the initial Phase of 2 or 3

Phase benchmark• Show how simulation workflows can

complement the design system in place at Huntsville Utilities

• Regularly scheduled weekly meetings (commencing early 2010)

• Commitment from Bentley cross-functional & organizational leadership

Benchmark ObjectivesValidate:

• Integration and management of a real water dataset in Oracle Spatial

• Real world  design  and  “as-builting”  workflows• Real world operational workflows facilitated by Oracle

Spatial• Desktop• Web • Dispatch

• Real world modeling scenarios and workflows using Bentley  “intra-operability”  planning  and  design  of  utility  expansion and rehabilitations

Benchmark ObjectivesValidate:

• Real world utility mapping workflows based on integration of new plat data from developers.

• Real world utilities land-base creation and maintenance workflows

• Real world use of web publishing in utilities• Dashboard for publishing water

information• Vehicle for data sharing with city

agencies (fire department)

Benchmark Project Management• Jointly Staffed

• 7 Huntsville• 17 Bentley

• Program Development• Project Plan• Resource & Budget

• Schedule and Resources• Deliverables

• Workflows• AVIs• Executive Presentation• Solution CD

Benchmark Scenario & Location• McMullen Cove• New Development East

of Huntsville• Adjacent to Hampton

Cove and Robert Trent Golf Course

• Located on Flint River• 1200 Acres Parks• 8 Miles Walking Trails

Benchmark Allows Access to DataContributed under data agreement:

• Landbase • DTM• Orthophotos• McMullen Cove Subdivision Plat• Bentley Water V8i DGN/XFM GIS +

Schema• SCADA data for project area• Meter route data for project area• Expert Designer configuration (with

compatible units)• Hydrant flow tests

Benchmark Scenarios• Hydraulic Model Creation

• Create and extend the GIS interoperability mapping configuration

• Terrain modeling for pressure • Pump and valve models• Load Demands• Calibration Exercise

Benchmark Scenarios• McMullen Cove Engineering Lifecycle

Simulation• SAP Integration (Simulated) through PW and

ED• Design Process Workflow Automation• Capacity & Service Request• Design of System Expansion

• Landbase and Web Publishing• Existing Orthos, DGN, Address Database,

Esri (Assessor) data migration via Bentley Map

• Maintenance and trouble tickets

• Create Designs• Compatible Units• Design Approval

Workflow• Capacity Service• Size:

• Pumps• Pipes• Storage

Sustainable Design Workflows

SAP

Expert Designer

WaterGEMS• Water Utility

Mapping• Land-base• Model

synchronization

Bentley Water

• Content Repository:• Design Projects• Hydraulic Models• Web PublishingOracle

Spatial

ProjectWise

Creating Water Models

• Extract WaterGEMS from Bentley Water

• Mapping clean-ups• Pipe split candidates

• Duplicate nodes

Example: Adding Camp Ground Road Extension

Modeling Design in Bentley Map

Hydraulic model update from GISAs a separate scenario to document design changes

Modifications to Hydraulic model

Hydraulic model – Manages Two Scenarios

Hydraulic Model Design

Before Modifications

Proposed

Existing

C

Child Alternative

Analysis within Design Platform

Design Environment: Expert Designer

Design Placement

Expert Designer – Design Assistant

End-User Benefits• The following accrue to Huntsville Utilities:

• Parallel execution validates lets Bentley serves as quality assurance vanguard.

• Provides a forum for direct input to the Bentley product and solution development processes at a detail level.

• Offers the opportunity to work directly with Bentley staff to obtain additional Bentley technology knowledge and exchange ideas.

• Establishes Huntsville data as the baseline for future solution testing.

• Receives informative reports and analysis of the benchmark results.

• Opens a door for deeper implementation of Bentley solution stack.

Concrete Results:

• Several bugs and gaps logged around function and interoperability

• Certification was able to fully exercise solution stack around live data

• Reviewed and tuned HSV Water schema during their development

• Identified and addressed geo-coordination workflow issue

• Helped guide Bentley Water solution early adopter toward success

Summary

• Bentley Solution Benchmarking yields:• A working example of the solution in an educational

format.• A vehicle that facilitates feedback to Bentley for the

utilities solution.• A more robust solution based on real world

requirements .• Better tested software.

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