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White River Electric Cooperative Implements Advanced GIS
Utility Automation Integrators Provides UAI Solution 2000 Software
Redlands, California—White River Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc. (WR), has implemented an advanced geographic information system (GIS) for optimized facility data management and operations. The company is using utility applications developed by Utility Automation Integrators, Inc. (UAI), an ESRI software developer, that provide an integrated automated mapping/facilities management (AM/FM)/GIS suite of applications that manages information across the entire utility.
White River deployed its UAI 2000 Software Solution, which consists of uaDispatch, uaField, uaFM, uaNetView, and uaSDEi software. UAI 2000 Software Solution was developed by Utility Automation Integrators using ESRI’s ArcObjects component technology for embedding GIS capabilities into custom applications. White River is using Microsoft SQL as their relational database management system. The UAI applications are completely integrated with ESRI’s ArcInfo 8 software and Desktop ArcView GIS, as well as the interactive voice response (IVR) system from Lucent Technology and CYME International engineering analysis software.
White River Valley Electric Cooperative has received an immediate payback in employee productivity gains and the elimination of contracted services. The GIS software is used for a variety of applications including seamless mapping, field staking and maintenance, engineering planning, work order management, outage analysis and reporting, and dispatching.
Prior to the GIS implementation, asset data was managed using paper maps and related documents, AutoCAD drawings, or as database applications housed on antiquated mainframe systems. With the installation of the UAI applications and ESRI software, the utility has experienced a tremendous growth in capabilities. WR uses GIS to manage facilities and operations, to perform accurate analysis for engineering and planning, and for outage management and crew dispatch. In addition, technicians working in the field can use GIS from their laptop computers. In the near future, the system will be expanded to include a dynamic device-switching capability that will be interfaced with their SCADA
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