GIS solution for New Zealand utility company by ESRI

GIS solution for New Zealand utility company by ESRI

Redlands, California-DELTA Utility Services Limited of Dunedin, New Zealand, has selected Eagle Technology Group to provide an ESRI GIS and Miner & Miner's energy applications. The solution will unify and modernize DELTA's systems, ensuring cost savings and improved customer service.

DELTA is an asset management company that manages the electrical networks of Dunedin Electricity Ltd. With a customer base of nearly 70,000, Dunedin Electricity is one of New Zealand's largest electricity distributors. Rated as New Zealand's most effective network company with a delivery reliability of 99.99 percent, Dunedin Electricity manages more than 5,200 transformers and approximately 4,300 km of line, of which 20 percent are underground.

In 1999, Dunedin Electricity purchased the line business assets of another New Zealand utility, Central Electric Limited. This purchase resulted in DELTA acquiring a significant increase in assets to be managed, a larger area to cover, and a second GIS that was not compatible with its existing system. As a result, DELTA issued a request for proposals for a GIS vendor to develop a solution that integrated with asset management information systems, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), field data access, and database management systems. Additionally, the system had to centralize information presently gathered at four locations across New Zealand-Dunedin, Cromwell, Queenstown, and Winton. .

Eagle Technology Group, ESRI's New Zealand distributor recommended ArcInfo 8, which will enable DELTA to make use of a single, integrated environment to manage and map multiple utility requirements. Future plans include DELTA utilizing ArcIMS to make online business-to-business transactions with suppliers and contractors. Currently the project is well under way and, according to Eagle.

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Miner & Miner (M&M) is deals in the development and implementation of GIS software for utilities Web site - www.miner.com