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FME and Business Intelligence: Visualization of Electricity Consumption

Lassi Tani, Spatialworld

Agenda

!  Background !  Datasets !  Solution !  Results

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What many think FME is

It’s just another

conversion tool.

Our software can export data

in many formats!

FME is much more

Background

!  90 regional and distribution Network Operators !  In Helsinki City Area:

!  Geographical distribution area ca. 187 km2 !  365 000 customers (metering points)

Background

!  AMR (Automated Meter Reading) -> Hourly energy value from a customer once a day

!  Needs !  Automated runs according to the newest availabe

data !  Visualization with charts and maps !  Smart user interface enabling going deeper from one

report to more a detailed report

FME is the solution!

Datasets

!  AMR data in Excel !  City districts in Mapinfo TAB

41

Suurmetsä

7 221 5 427 5 319 4 192 3 476 2 621 2 474 2 868 3 221 4 305 5 224 6 096 1 126

906 883 714 711 648

Solution

Preprocessing datasets and merging

Solution

!  Important transformers

SlicedChartCreator

!  Custom transformer

Creating Map Legend

VectorPieChartAdder

PDF related attributes

!  pdf_tooltip !  pdf_url

!  Link to URL !  pdf_page_number

!  Features to different pages

!  pdf_frame !  Page consist of

frames

Results

!  Automated, monthly process on FME Desktop !  Easy to use user interface, and every computer

has Adobe Reader !  Result PDFs

!  12 month cumulative energy consumption !  Monitoring changes in % and MWh !  Monitoring changes in city district level

Thank You!

!  Questions? !  lassi.tani@spatialworld.fi

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