Distributech 2015 - Mobile Work management

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

Thanks!

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