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Electricity is an essential part of our everyday lives. The electric distribution company is responsible to manage the power distribution system safely and efficiently, which deliver electric power from Area feeder to out service drops. In India, the main drawbacks of the distribution system are poor maintenance of the installed facilities, lack of planned network, lack of monitoring and prevent losses and manual updations of consumer records etc.. Today Electric utilities are realizing the benefits of GIS technology in the management of facilities for engineering, construction operations, maintenance and services purposes. Power distribution model supports these typical business needs by providing an implementation that focuses on operations and maintenance portions of the facility life cycle and provides a crucial visual component.

GPS – Global Positioning System which stands as an advanced surveying technology produces referenced co-ordinated data, which could be the basic and preliminary source for achieving the set of objectives. GIS- manages geographically referenced information by integrating database and mapping software and providing the tools for analyze the spatial relationships between events. Location of things and time, the only common characteristics between electric events. GPS tracks the locations and GIS integrates such information on these events. To make use of this advanced technology for a real world application, a project entitled “ Power Distribution Network based on GIS and GPs techniques” is being planned to optimize the search and query operations for spatial and non-spatial database in a GIS domain.

The GPS and GIS application is designed for electric utilities that manages the distribution system which deliver the electric power to out service drops, by providing a geographically oriented view of electric distribution structures. This application helps utility managers and administrators visualize, analyze and understand real-world engineering, business and customer problems and more importantly solutions.

The Power Distribution Network application provides a powerful new tool for utility solutions. The goal of this system is to provide operational efficiencies and customer benefits that transcends traditional GIS and mapping boundaries.

For this purpose, 33/11kv substation namely Medi City has been taken. Medi City area is a part and parcel of Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh state. From this 33/11kv substation levels, consumers can directly take electricity through transmission network system. So the study of one full substation, the location of poles and transformers collected from GPS instrument and network developed in GIS and a detailed application has been developed, capable of locating transformers, high/low voltage poles and no. of consumers, their service connection number, address, telephone no. etc., and the conductor network through spatial and non spatial queries. In addition to that, specific details like Meter No., SCNo, Meter make Load, Phase and Capacity about a particular consumer for searching of commercial establishments in a digital domain.