Rolta Geospatial Fusion for Utilities

Geospatial technologies with a well-defined integrated approach play a decisive role for electricity distribution companies. They serve as a foundation for decision-making at operational and strategic levels by maximizing information access at all levels of the enterprise.

Inventorying, planning, designing and maintaining the transmission and distribution network are critical to the success of electricity providers. Integrated and geospatially-enabled operational and business systems can significantly enhance these functions and create a balanced view of related business information on network and services.

Electricity Distribution – Industry Challenges

Electricity distribution companies face fundamental challenges that include:

• Modernization of the distribution network to improve performance
• Demand-side management
• Improving the quality and reliability of power supply
• Compliance with regulations
• Improving customer satisfaction
• Ensuring real-time information

The Problem Areas

• Inaccurate meter reading or no meter reading
• Timely and effective resolution of customer complaints and improvement of service quality
• Better information access for field personnel
• Reduction of energy transmission and distribution losses
• Reduction in restoration timeframes and management of planned and unplanned outages
• Planning and simulating scenarios while designing the distribution system
• Optimizing the field workforce

Rolta Solutions

Rolta’s Geospatial Fusion solution provides network and landbase data transformation and information across deployed systems in a well-defined, consistent manner. It is based on configurable business rules that map the business processes of the utility. The solutions blend with the workflows of electricity distribution companies and enhance the efficiency of their distribution systems by improving the quality of power supply, increasing revenue by reducing T&D losses, minimizing outage restoration and ensuring enterprise-wide information access.
Geospatial Fusion represents a key enabling technology environment of integrated systems. It enables systems to cooperate seamlessly to plan, design, construct, operate, and maintain a distribution network.

Key Features

Geospatial Fusion offers a single `geo-centric’ interface that links all information stories, reports and documents across technologies and platforms and produces them visually on a map through an uncomplicated user interface. It maximizes deployment flexibility by making this interface web-based. Other features include:

• Attribute-based security
• Intuitive, no programming, easily configurable
• Multiple language support
• Links multiple data sources
• Links to any web page or web application
• Customizable user interface

Electric Enterprise Information Management System

Rolta provides comprehensive turnkey enterprise geospatial solutions and services for utilities. These solutions address the entire business value chain in power transmission and distribution – from setting up distribution networks and service connections to distribution load management, delivery of power and customer-facing processes.

Rolta provides end-to-end as well as point solutions and offers services and products that are compatible with standard operations and current and future business management systems. These help companies achieve effective automation and decision support in electric distribution management.

Key Features

The Rolta solution enables electricity service providers to design and maintain a complete network model. This helps them ensure seamless workflow between distribution business processes that deal with provisioning and sustaining a delivery network. Key features of this solution include:

• Storing the complete database of the transmission & distribution network, associated network components and maps/drawings in an open format
• Physical area map management (Land base)
• Consumer information and asset codification
• Comprehensive multi-state modeling and analysis
• `What if’ planning and bill of quantities
• Field data collection
• Work prints and reports
• Outage management
• Workforce management
• Integration with legacy systems and application customization

Benefits

• Rapid fault diagnosis and rectification, with a unified view of the network across the organization
• Effective asset utilization and optimum allocation of financial investments
• Faster and coordinated system enhancements, with improved decision support
• Improvements in the efficiency of work processes and support systems, which have a direct impact on customer service
• Reduced cost of maintenance and improved field crew productivity
• Operational savings delivered through improved efficiencies that result in direct overhead reductions or network utilization improvements that reduce capital expenditure