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Enabling Your Business with

Utility-Scale Mobile GIS

Confidential Property of Schneider Electric

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

Jon Fairchild, Product Manager, ArcFM Mobile, Schneider Electric

Agenda

Confidential Property of Schneider Electric |

Business Case

Requirements

Results

Business Case


Mobile is not an app…

it’s an enterprise

strategy

•Our job: Support complex requirements and make it look

easy

• 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


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


Administration


• Scalable services-oriented

architecture

• Near real-time data access

• Multi-platform

• Database-oriented

architecture

• Complex data workflows

• Windows only


Architecture


Fast and simple

Enabling the business

For any size utility

Utility-Scale Mobile GIS


Requirements


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


Mobile deployment at APC

GIS investment

Customer expectations

Offline data processes

Financial constraints

Key Drivers


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


Results



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


How does it work?

• One click to update replicas

• One touch to download deltas

Synchronization


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


Allow users to perform inspections

• Create custom tasks

• Create custom forms

• Use to collect info in the field

Tasks

Demo


… at utility scale

Reduced admin effort

Frustration-free users

Scalable to your enterprise

Low total cost of ownership

Benefits of Utility-Scale

Mobile GIS


Mobile is not an app…

it’s an enterprise

strategy

Our job: Support complex requirements and make it look easy

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