Impact of GIS in Network Analysis and Optimization for Power Distribution – A Case Study of Noida Power Company Limited(NPCL), India
The Solution
InfoTech carried out following activities as part of this project:
- Study of the requirements of Noida Power Corporation Ltd. (NPCL)
- Roll out plan for building up the GIS - Spatial database
- Data modeling of the power distribution network
- Supply of the GE-Smallworld Core, GE-Smallworld Power ON and PTI
software.
- Development of custom applications for improving operational efficiency
and optimizing the network.
- Integration of the landbase and network data over the GIS software.
- Integration of the solution with other operational support systems.
- Training of NPCL staff for the operationalisation of the system.
- Complete assistance to NPCL in technical rollout and operationalisation.
The essential components of the software solution provided to NPCL include:
| S. No. |
Application |
Name of the software Product |
| 1 |
Operating System |
Small Business Server |
| 1 |
GIS |
Smallworld Core |
| 2 |
Network Analysis |
PTI Engines with Smallworld PTI Interface |
| 3 |
Outage Management/Trouble Call Analysis |
PowerOn |
| 4 |
Job Planning and Design |
Design Manager |
| 5 |
Internet Application |
SIAS |
| 6 |
RDBMS |
Oracle |
| 7 |
ERP |
Oracle Applications |
| 8 |
Billing Database |
FoxPro |
| 9 |
Customization programming language |
Magik/C++/VB |
| 10 |
Interface |
SCADA |
| 11 |
Source Database for migration (customer information) |
Visual FoxPro |
Solution Architecture
Figure 1 shows the schematic of the GIS based solution deployed at NPCL
Figure 1 : Architectural Overview of a GIS based solution provided to NPCL
