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Project Goal
Kissimmee Utility Authority’s (KUA) goal was to leave behind our antiquated GIS solutions and position ourselves for the future needs of the utility with innovative GIS technology. We needed a true enterprise GIS solution that was capable of supporting electric GIS, utility design, field viewing, web viewing, reporting, outage management and interfaces with engineering analysis, CIS, work management and IVR technologies.
The ability to have a single SQL Server database driving all of these applications was necessary to achieve our goal and eliminate the endless import and export process. We also needed the client software to be intuitive to the many users of our long-established CAD-based GIS applications. It was important that any new GIS deployment at KUA allow the ability to extend the core and electric applications through mainstream programming languages. This would allow us to support such functions as fiber optic management, vegetation management, outage management reporting, as well as the ability to expand our core electric applications.
The most difficult requirement we had was to perform the conversion and implementation entirely in-house. The conversion project could only run a maximum of nine months for all of our electric applications and included all the capabilities we had previously deployed on our CAD-based platform, and it all had to be done in rapid succession. It was believed that extending the completion date beyond nine months would greatly impede the ability of the GIS team to properly support the utility.
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Business Problem Solved
For KUA, the choice was clear - ESRI technology as the core with Miner & Miner’s ArcFM Solution for the suite of electric applications. The concept of a single geodatabase that would feed all of our applications eliminated the endless data migration that was required with our older applications.
Now a modification made in the GIS can instantly be made available to all GIS applications. Users were able to utilize the applications with limited training or follow-up. The GIS team was able to deploy all of our applications in the allocated window of opportunity (nine months). The final application deployed was the Responder Outage Management System (OMS) that went online December 31, 2003 at midnight. This application took center stage in the summer of 2004 when KUA’s service territory was devastated by hurricanes Charley, Frances and Jeanne.
With the OMS in place, KUA was able to quickly identify outage areas, send damage assessment teams, schedule the repair work and restore power to 58,000+ customers in a controlled, orderly manner.
Technology Implemented
ArcSDE 9x (currently)
ArcGIS 9x
Miner & Miner’s ArcFM Solution (ArcFM, ArcFM Viewer, Designer, Responder, Conduit Manager, Network Adapter)
ArcIMS
Advantica’s Stoner Software (SynerGEE Electric, Solver)
SQL Server
Milsoft’s Porche IVR
Development Team Biography
The complete support of upper management on all GIS ventures is one of the keys to the success of our project.
James C. Welsh - President and General Manager
Ken Davis - Vice President of Engineering & Operations
GIS Team
Ken Beville – Manager of GIS (20 years at KUA)
Mark Coffman – GIS Software Technician (2 years)
Eddie Buckman – GIS Technician (23 years)
Neyva Hernandez – GIS Technician (14 years)
Steve D’Auria – GIS Technician (9 years)
Fisher Gibson – GIS Technician (4 years)
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