Our experience in data and systems integration stems from the beginning of our company in 2005. Since then, we have been recognized as an industry leader for helping utilities reach and maintain their enterprise visions. Our knowledge of utility systems, data, and integrations not only helps you achieve your data goals but extends your GIS capabilities within your current or future technology.
Our team has supported data readiness and completeness initiatives for a variety of systems and related technologies for our clients. The initiatives listed below demonstrate different use cases for data completeness that exist within the utility for two of our clients, PG&E and ENMAX.
Enhancing Gas Safety and Customer Service at PG&E
The Accurate Reconciliation of Meters and Services (ARMS) initiative served to accurately represent gas meter locations in PG&E’s GIS by establishing a relationship between gas services to customer meter records in customer care and billing using an offline dataset. UDC primarily performed Data Acceptance Testing (DAT) and audits for the project. We also provided PG&E with a process to maintain the datasets long-term.
The integrations provided PG&E with more complete data for its gas services and meters, enabling the utility to improve its emergency response, outage management, and inspections.
“The ARMS Project will integrate core information from CC&B (premise ID and meter information) to Service Locations in GD (gas distribution) GIS. This integration will enable a whole new level of understanding and analytics that weren’t possible or easy to achieve. Additionally, it will enhance emergency responses, gas outages, and improve our understanding of overall usage and loading. This next level of understanding is exactly what PG&E needs to become a safer, better utility.”
Jesse Jennings, GIS Solutions Manager, PG&E
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Ensuring Accuracy and Completeness of PG&E’s Substation Asset Data
For this initiative, UDC conducted manual and automated quality control and Data Acceptance Testing (DAT) on converted substation drawings, including data completeness, data model adherence, and cartographic compliance, in an effort to support the asset registry for PG&E’s electric transmission and substation production readiness. To support the regulatory and compliance requirements of the transmission project, PG&E needed to enhance its substation data as well as convert the drawings into a single substation database.
UDC leveraged its in-house quality tools throughout the project to verify spatial placement completeness of the substations.
Enhancing ENMAX’s Downtown Grid
UDC, in collaboration with Esri Canada, extended ENMAX’s legacy GIS system data and software in an effort to improve secondary outage management and visibility of the utility’s underground electric assets. UDC was instrumental in helping to design, develop, and implement the automation of the downtown underground system built on top of the GIS, also digitizing the utility’s underground asset inventory so the data could be consumed by the GIS.
Through this initiative, ENMAX now has a fully connected and manageable view of its downtown services and third-party assets which has enabled the utility to expand its fiber capabilities and better manage existing and new requests.
“Your team has done a tremendous job on the Downtown Secondary for ENMAX.”
Ron Lewis, GIS and Asset Records, ENMAX
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