Project Goal
The primary challenge being faced was that our Dam Safety Engineers (DSE) did not have an efficient way to view the condition of our dams in conjunction with the generation system and environment (such as unusual conditions, inflows and plant operations). The existing set of dam safety information tools required DSE and others (e.g. technologists and other engineers) to spend too much time searching and gathering information from multiple systems of record, leaving less time for the analysis, synthesis and problem solving necessary for better dam safety risk management.Business Problem Solved
It was necessary to find a solution to support dam surveillance activities, mobile field data collection and inspections, analysis of dams, slopes, and hydrological behaviors to enable response to anomalies, alarms and dam safety events, and to support project planning, including decision support on prioritization, while improving communication with stakeholders in engineering, planning, management, service providers, and the general public.
Technology Implemented
Our application primarily uses an ArcGIS Enterprise backend and an Experience Builder front-end with ArcGIS API for Javascript. ArcGIS Pro is used for map creation and data work.
Development Team Biography
A few of the resources who saw this project delivered include:
Forrest Wagner is a technical lead with project oversight experience who played a hands-on role as the project initiator.
Greg Brierley is a senior project manager at Fujitsu Canada.
Alejandro Mari is a senior GIS developer and architect at Fujitsu Canada.
Bill Johnstone is a systems and civil engineer, and a senior GIS consultant at Spatial Vision Consulting.
We had significant support from Dam Safety leadership (Bob Schubak) in working towards the vision of the principal engineer (Des Hartford).
Many others were involved, with a few mentioned here:
- BC Hydro Dam Safety current and previous employees (Christoph Klee, Kendra Gibbons, Hugh Spinney, Nicole Fink and many others)
- BC Hydro Technology (Gerard Kho, Eliza Yiu and more)
- Fujitsu GIS team (Derek Yee, Vern Danes and many others)
- TELUS, our infrastructure partner.