Innovative Uses of GIS in the Pipeline and Gas Industries ESRI UC 2012 Innovative Uses of GIS in the Pipeline and Gas Industries Central Hudson Gas & Electric’s Field Sketching and Inspection Solution Kevin Burton – CHGE Jeff Puuri – GL Noble Denton

Central Hudson Gas & Electric Mid-Hudson region New York HQ Poughkeepsie Gas System – Transmission and Distribution 170 miles Transmission 1175 miles Distribution 5 Districts 75 thousand customers Mid-Hudson Bridge – Poughkeepsie, NY

Existing System Mainframe ArcGIS – SDE, Uptime CIS FOS – Field Operating System Inspections Field Tablets/PDAs Inspections Raster Sketching Paper forms Distribution, Transmission, Landbase Integrity analysis and compliance Off-the-shelf data models APDM ArcGIS Gas Distribution DM CHGE - SLIDE Central Hudson’s legacy system in an in-house mainframe based inspection and work management system called FOS or Field Operating System, developed during the early 1990s. Mainframe CIS and Inspection Management System: Custom Developed Difficult to Maintain Not very flexible Becoming Outdated – the pen computer operating system is no longer supported and cannot be replaced upon failure Field Tablets: Monochrome Raster Sketching Output Unable to update previously created sketches Asset data for Transmission and Distribution has been fully captured in GIS Necessary for integrity analysis and compliance SDE geodatabase Off the shelf data models and integrity software The two systems do not communicate to each other, would require more custom programming to integrate Need to integrate to access inspections and related documentation directly from GIS features But desire to use Off-the-shelf tools as much as possible to achieve integration

Project Objectives Replace current field mapping, sketching, and inspection collection system Paper, Raster, Mainframe Provide a light-weight map viewing software solution to support both field and office users Leverage GIS Investment, Electronic Maps to Field Electronic document retrieval from GIS features Hyperlink to Manuals, Sketches, Reference Maps Replace Compliance Monitoring Software Product-based – operate on Laptop/Toughbook or PDA Capture Editable, Re-useable Field Sketches during Inspection Activities Integrate w/Inspection Software for Point-in-time snapshot

Target Solution Viewer / Sketching SDE, Uptime Distribution, Transmission, Landbase Integrity analysis and compliance Mainframe – CIS Related Repairs Off-the-shelf inspection system Viewer / Sketching Replica/Document Servers Synchronization Field Tablets/PDAs or Back Office Map-based asset access Inspections Vector Sketching

Viewing Software - ArcEngine MXD Layer Properties Map Navigation / Search / Hyperlink

Viewing Software - Hyperlinks Hyperlink Tool Polygon Features Hyperlink Attribute Resulting PDF

Sketching Tools Scale Specific Custom Palette Per Sketch Geo-referenced

Sketching with Inspection Collection

Back Office - Supervisor Approval

Back Office GIS Update - ArcMap / ArcEditor Extension

Upon Back Office Approval – Sketches Are Generated

Replication and Synchronization Sketch / Resource Upd One Way Replication Sketch / Replica / Resource Updates LAN WAN GDB / MXD Editing Attribute Importer (Sketch Creation) Resource Cfg Field Work Inspections (FM) Sketch Editing South Road District Office x 5

Ability to Edit Existing Sketch – In Field Retrieve Existing sketch, use for: Further Updates Basis for new sketch Hyperlink attributes after sync:

PDA Support – ArcPAD Solution

Conclusion Satisfying project objectives Integrate Field Mapping & Inspections with GIS Implement Vector Sketching ESRI technology ArcEngine Geodatabase Replication + Synchronization Hyperlinking ArcMap/ArcEditor editing extension ArcPad Essentials Inspection software