Having a data integration plan is crucial for a successful distribution network, whether it’s for electrical, natural gas, or water utilities. Automated integration processes can preserve data quality, save time, and make information access effortless for everyone. In this webinar, we’ll showcase 8 ways real utility organizations are using FME to integrate and deliver information for tasks like: Asset management Emergency and risk management Design and planning Ensuring data quality Migrating data to other systems (ie. Esri Utility Network) UAV data collection and AR data visualization By automatically keeping systems and information up-to-date, you can gain significant time and cost savings, and enable actionable decision-making.

1. 8 Ways Utility Networks
Can Meet Data Demands
Trent Kading Mark Stoakes

2. Utility
noun, plural u·til·i·ties.
An organization that maintains the infrastructure
for a public service.

3. The diverse nature of
utility data can lead to
multiple applications,
scattered data, and
inconsistencies.

4. By using a single tool that is
robust and flexible, you can
integrate data across systems
and maintain data quality.

5. Our Mission
To help you maximize
the value of data
and of your FME licenses.

6. Today’s webinar will highlight
some of the ways real customers
are working with utility data and
solving data challenges.
A special thank you to all the customers involved!

7. We hope you are inspired by them
and see solutions to similar data
challenges.

8. 8 data strategies we
will review:
1. Asset management
2. Risk management
3. Design and planning
4. Data quality
5. Data migration
6. ERP planning
7. Ongoing integration
8. UAVs and AR

9. Data and Task Diversity
Tasks
● Engineering
● Base Mapping/Land Management
● Network Analysis
● Operations
● Facilities & Asset Management
● Risk & Emergency Management
● Customer Service
● Marketing & Sales
● Regulatory Compliance
Formats
● GE Smallworld
● Esri Geodatabase(+ Schneider ArcFM)
● Bentley Electric
● Intergraph G/Technology
● Oracle Spatial
● CIMXML
● Excel
● BI
● ERP Systems

10. FME®
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11. Who Are Utilities?
● Electric
● Gas
● Water
● Telco
● Oil & Gas midstream
● Municipalities

12. Demo
The Task
To fix issues that
occur within your
network (i.e.
watermain break) by
providing detailed
reports to service
technicians.
The Problem
The report needs to
include specific
details about the
incident and less
information that is
not relevant to a
technician.
The Solution
Use FME to build
incident reports
that include
important spatial
(and non-spatial)
details that
technicians need.
The Result
Issues can be fixed
faster, with less
manual data
collection, and
customers can be
better served.

13. Asset Management
It’s very important…
… But it also can be tedious.
Each utility has their own set of standards
and their own unique tasks. Management
can often be scattered across programs.
With FME, you can combine asset
information with other systems in a
single environment. Plus, you can
organize your data, and make it easily
accessible to stakeholders or the public.
#1

14. CCTV Inspection at City of Nanaimo
Used FME to organize data! Specifically to apply
video inspection data from an Access Database
and join it with their GIS.
Challenges:
● No standards for locations, folder structure,
naming conventions.
● Duplicate databases.
● Data was scattered and not easily available.
● Spatial data was in the form of a PDF map.
● End uses were frustrated!
More: tinyurl.com/FME-cctv

15. CCTV Inspection at City of Nanaimo
FME was used to:
● Remove duplicate databases
● Clean up attributes
● Merge with spatial data
● Format attributes
Results:
Data shared in a web interface is now readily
viewable from all departments and can aid in
determining future areas to be inspected.
More: tinyurl.com/FME-cctv

16. More: fme.ly/NMGC
Asset Management - New Mexico Gas Company
Original process
Construction order
- hard copy/ digital
collection
Compliance/ Work
Order Management
system
Scanned hand
drawn/digital
sketches mapped
into GIS system
New process
Work Order
Management
System
Construction
GIS
Author: Aileen Stuart-Mardahl
New Mexico Gas Company, USA
Goal: to streamline GIS
mapping of construction
orders by using a new mobile
construction order process.
FME was used to: apply data
from asset management
system to a REST web map
service and then push
collected data into our
compliance system.

17. Risk Management
Tries to mitigate external factors that
could degrade the overall health of the
utility.
This can include:
● Risk assessment
● Weather prediction
● Disaster preparedness
#2

18. Emergency & Risk Management
RiskFailure
= ProbabilityFailure
X ConsequenceFailure
More: http://fme.ly/GasRisk More: http://fme.ly/WildFires

19. Emergency Management - Powerlink
Develops, operates and maintains
~15,000km of transmission lines across
Queensland, Australia
Making use of weather prediction to
determine potential impacts on
electrical network such as bushfire,
severe thunderstorms, cyclone and
flood tracking
More: http://fme.ly/powerlink
Author: Aaron Amber,
Powerlink, Australia

20. BOM
JTWC
BOM
Cyclone
Workflows
BOM Responsible Area FIJI Responsible Area
TL
Early
Warning
Entered
Australian
Region
Cyclone
Preparedness
Cyclone
Monitor
Stage 1 & 2
Active
Impact
Post Event
Damaging
Destructive
Very
Destructive
Wind Areas
Asset Wind Rating Analysis with Wind Areas
FIJI
4
Predictive
Analysis
4
4
TL

21. Design and Planning
FME can support this stage by:
● Automating data delivery and
receiving
● Enabling data to be shared across
departments and use formats of
choice
● Perform data QA and validation
#3

22. BPGDesigns
Attempt to generate Fiber Designs that pass validation and produce a Geodatabase
output within 2 days of Permit.
Shift current workflow to a more automated workflow through the use of FME. 10-12
step process changed to a 1-2 step process.
Basic Existing Workflow
More: http://fme.ly/BPGdesigns

23. Ensure Data Quality
Bad data costs time and money and can
even have catastrophic impacts.
Data needs to be verified and validated
before it’s used.
Example:
GIS ↔ CAD
#4
Register for our upcoming webinar:
Ask Me Anything About Validating Data

24. Data Quality
City of Henderson
CAD Standards
CAD Drawing Submittal via Web
CAD data validation
CAD data loader to Geodatabase
Author: Kalvan Hone,
City of Henderson, USA
More: http://fme.ly/Henderson

25. Data quality is key to
successful decision making.

26. Consortech
Consortech needed to migrate client
data from various systems.
They used FME to perform the extract,
transform, and load functionality,
migrating sewer lines and points, water
lines, road centerlines, and road
surfaces into the destination GIS.
safe.com/customers/consortech/
“Getting data into the new
system, it’s important to know
the data you’re going to be
working with and have really
good quality data. FME really
helped in managing that.”
Allison Hughes, Consortech

27. Data Migration
“The process of selecting, preparing,
extracting, and transforming data and
permanently transferring it from one
computer storage system to another.”
Although it’s often a one time
migration, it can take a lot of time and
pose many challenges.
FME can help automate this process
and ensure data quality.
#5

28. FME for Smallworld to Esri Water Data Model -
Migration and Consolidation
Two water companies in the Netherlands decided to migrate their assets to a common
structure using the ArcGIS for Water Utilities Data Model template.
FME was used in all aspects of the data migration and validation workflows, including:
● Reading the Smallworld data
● Evaluating and validating the input datasets
● Creating reports on the data validity
● Sending automatic notifications to key stakeholders about the migrated data
delivery via FME Server.
Itay Bar-on | fme.ly/tensing

29. FME & Esri Utility Network Migration Training
This self-directed resource has three parts:
Part 1: FME Workbench Basics.
Part 2: Key Transformers.
Part 3: Utility Network Migration FME
Workspaces.
Find it at safe.com/community

30. “There is no better tool for
migration than FME.”
Itay Bar-on, Tensing

31. “Lift and Shift: Moving 20 Million Features with ArcGIS
Data Interoperability”
The task:
To move 20 million features from 26 databases
into a standardized database model.
The process:
Leverage the Data Interoperability Extension to
automate complex mapping between legacy and
updated water network enterprise databases.
The result:
A successful data
migration that took under
20 hours.
George Scharein
Matt Lott & Melanie Hammond
More: fme.ly/magnoliariver

32. Data Migration
Used FME to migrate from
Smallworld to the Esri Utility
Network for a more unified
network.
Included:
● Schema consolidation
● Data extraction
● Data validation
● Data integrity
● Data loading
Migrating into Esri Utility Networks
Author: Itay Bar-on
Tensing, The Netherlands
More: http://fme.ly/Tensing

33. Enterprise resource
planning (ERP)
Manage and integrate business
processes.
● Limit the need for manual
processes
● Prioritize truth and data quality
● Maximize technology investments
#6

34. ERP Integration
Open Data site using ArcGIS online, that is
maintained with multiple FME queries.
Results:
● Live updates made available in a public
web application.
● Self-maintained GIS records
● Automated attribute updates
● No duplicate entries
Author: Langdon Sanders,
City of Sandy Springs, USA
More: http://fme.ly/SandySprings

35. Perform ongoing
data integration.
Migrations don’t have to be a one
time task. They can be automated
and ongoing.
Example:
Red Planet Solutions used FME to
migrate data from a mobile data
collection platform into the Desktop
Core GIS and then onto a web GIS
platform.
#7

36. Ongoing
Integration
Author: Humzaa Sheriff
Red Planet Solutions

37. Consider UAVs and
Augmented Reality
Utility networks don’t have to remain
traditional when they use FME.
Some cutting-edge options for utility
companies are utilizing drones and
augmented reality.
Download FME AR
#8

38. Working with UAVs
UAVs or Drones are perfect tools for utilities to use to
safely assess the condition of infrastructure.
Example: Mission Planning
● Identify sections of transmission circuits that are
fly or no-fly routes
● Provide dispatchers with appropriate maps
Author: Renato Salvaleon, Esri, USA
More: http://fme.ly/DronePlanning

39. Augmented Reality - JACOBS
● Mix of 2D and 3D data and various
softwares
● Create 3d Model Design & Existing
Services
● Able to perform Clash Detection
● Operation Dashboards
Author: Daryn Treganowan
JACOBS, Australia

40. Watch the webinar:
FME AR is used to:
● View pipes behind
walls
● View underground
assets
● Annotate
● Perform QC
safe.com/webinars

41. Meet the demand for energy
and resources with FME.
Preserve data quality, save time,
and make information access
effortless for everyone.

42. Which task will you
try next with FME?
1. Asset management
2. Risk management
3. Design and planning
4. Data quality
5. Data migration
6. ERP planning
7. Ongoing integration
8. UAVs or AR

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