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Mobile Work Management – What Do Utilities Dream Of? Darin Warke
GIS Supervisor at UniSource Energy Services
Jon Fairchild
Technical Product Manager for Mobile & Web, Schneider Electric
February 4, 2015
Agenda
●Utility Dreams – UniSource Energy Services
●Solution Dreams – Schneider Electric
UTILITY DREAMS - UNISOURCE ENERGY SERVICES
UNS Energy Overview
●Comprised of 3 regulated utilities●Approximately 657,000 customers throughout Arizona
●Tucson Electric Power (TEP) – 414,000
●UNS Gas – 150,000
●UNS Electric – 93,000
●Recently acquired by Fortis Inc. of Canada
●Using ArcGIS by Esri, ArcFM by Schneider
Electric and Smallworld
Current Field Solution
●Customized GIS Viewer with edit capabilities●Redlining and Inspections
●Cathodic Protection Annual Survey
●Elevated Pressure Bi-Annual Survey
●Electric and Gas line locating
●Customized searching, reporting and tracing functions
●Fully disconnected via local file geodatabases
●Field data edits synchronized through custom ArcGIS Server feature service
Dream Field Solution
●Reduce or eliminate customizations when warranted
●Robust out-of-the-box functionality
●Configurable for a variety of use cases●Rapid turnaround of user change requests●Disconnected and Connected workflows●Integrations to existing GIS and Work Management investments
●Seamless access to back office resources
Challenges
●Very rural service territory
●Corporate security infrastructure not ready
●Balancing user expectations
●Budget – Capital vs. O&M expenditures●The industry is driving us toward cloud based solutions
●Our IT infrastructure is currently driven by capital dollars
SOLUTION DREAMS - SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC
Mobile Business Drivers
Simple
Spatial
Secure
Simple…
●to deploy and configure for many scenarios●to use in the field with or without connectivity●to build workflows and integrations●to maintain and upgrade
Spatial…
●Leverages existing GIS investment●Allows spatial-based dispatch of crews●Shares GIS information with field crews
Secure…
●Consistency in security policy●Sensitive data must live on-premise●Authentication and encryption
Schneider Electric 15
Sensor-driven●Mobile outage response with photos
●Mobile design and as-builting with GPS
●Predictive maintenance with Schneider Electric ProRelay Box
OpEx savings of a Simple, Spatial, Secure Mobile Solution:
●Reduced maintenance costs for software and servers
●Reduced IT administration
●Reduced or eliminated printing costs
●Significant gains in end-user productivity
●Reduced fuel usage and drive time to work sites
●Initial implementation of solution in 2 days
●First field user trained in 90 minutes
●Data processing and reporting in less than 1 hour per week
●Multiple enhancement requests for product delivered in as little as 3 weeks
●Product quality improvements reduced LES data plan usage
OpEx Benefits at
Lincoln Electric System
Simple
Spatial
Secure
