GIS Solutions for Electric Utilities
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The GIS for Electric Utilities industry is in motion. Electric utilities face changes in every area of their business. They work hard to adapt to and leverage digital technology. Public web map services such as Google Earth and Yahoo! Maps have made basic mapping functionality and common data layers available to practically everybody who connects to the Internet. However, more sophisticated geographic information system (GIS) technology enhances the methods electricity providers use to consider variables in their line siting processes and is a means for accessing and sharing related geographic data throughout their companies.
- Data Management
- Electric Utilities or Electric Mapping worldwide use GIS to manage and map the location of millions of miles of overhead and underground circuits. Within GIS, your utility’s assets can be linked directly to your customer information system, allowing you to proactively monitor work orders, vegetation management, and outages.
- Planning and Analysis
- GIS enables Electric Utilities distribution to identify vulnerabilities that cause outages, to weigh asset investments, and to understand customer satisfaction. With a rich set of easy-to-use spatial analysis tools, GIS helps you determine the right location for new facilities and new technology such as smart grid sensors and smart meters.
- Workforce Automation
- Workforce automation systems allow you to more efficiently schedule and dispatch utility service staff. Your productivity will be even greater with a workforce automation system built with GIS technology. GIS shows you where crews are working and gives you the status of their work. In addition, street-level routing allows you to reduce fleet costs and gain additional scheduling time, giving you the ability to handle more service calls.
- Situational Awareness
- Through GIS-based graphic outputs and Web-based reporting, you can quickly demonstrate how your organization is meeting compliance requirements, responding to large outages, or seeing where you are spending your money wisely. Meeting regulatory requirements and keeping the public informed becomes less time consuming and easier to accomplish when you use GIS to communicate with regulators and the public.
- Asset Data Management
- Hardcastle develops high quality, cost effective data management solutions using the industry best breed of technologies and process innovations for managing assets. Our solutions are specifically tailored to our customer’s needs and help them face the challenges of handling their ever-growing assets, infrastructure and diverse business processes. Key services include:
- Records Conversion and Integration
- Establishing Primary/ Secondary Connectivity
- Data Conflation and Realignment
- Reactive Change-out & Field Order Forms Update
- Asset Condition Assessment
- Work Order Processing and Posting into GIS
- Hardcastle develops high quality, cost effective data management solutions using the industry best breed of technologies and process innovations for managing assets. Our solutions are specifically tailored to our customer’s needs and help them face the challenges of handling their ever-growing assets, infrastructure and diverse business processes. Key services include:
- Network Management
- Hardcastle leverages its unique ability of sythesizing domain knowledge with technical capabilities to provide focused solutions in network management. Our solutions help our clients in improving the reliability, integrity and traceability of their networks.
- T&D Network Mapping
- Duct Configuration & Station Modelling
- Geo-schematics
- ROW Vegetation Management
- LiDAR Data Mapping
- Data Readiness for Smart Grid
- Hardcastle leverages its unique ability of sythesizing domain knowledge with technical capabilities to provide focused solutions in network management. Our solutions help our clients in improving the reliability, integrity and traceability of their networks.
- Enterprise GIS
- Hardcastle develops custom applications to seamlessly integrate existing geospatial data with other business & operational support systems. We help our clients in optimizing their operational workflows thereby enhancing performance and service reliability. In case of complex projects, we specialize in developing smart in-house tools to enhance productivity, efficiency and achieve maximum quality compliance.
- Data Discovery & Gap Analysis
- T&D Data Model Design and Development
- CAD/GIS Integration
- Enterprise Asset Management Integration with GIS
- Technology Migration/Upgrade
- Hardcastle develops custom applications to seamlessly integrate existing geospatial data with other business & operational support systems. We help our clients in optimizing their operational workflows thereby enhancing performance and service reliability. In case of complex projects, we specialize in developing smart in-house tools to enhance productivity, efficiency and achieve maximum quality compliance.
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