Post on 27-May-2020
Igor Jungic, (Presenter) Queensland Urban Utilities
Igor.Jungic@urbanutilities.com.au
Peter Gill, Rushi Amin (Presenters) Esri Australia, Professional Services
pgill@esriaustralia.com.au, ramin@esriaustralia.com.au
Queensland Urban Utilities Our Location
Brisbane
Ipswich
Lockyer Valley
Somerset
Scenic Rim
Total 1.4 Million Customers
Our Assets
125 Water Reservoirs
40 Water Pump Stations
331 Sewerage Pump Stations
27 Sewage Treatment Plants
9, 028km Water Mains
9,185km Sewer Mains
Our Water Sources Sourced and treated by Seqwater
• Dams - Wivenhoe, Somerset, Enoggera, North Pine
• Rivers - Brisbane, Logan
• Creeks - Reynolds, Canungra, Kilcoy
Distributed by Queensland Urban Utilities
Network Access Team
Network Access Permit
• Process Network Access Permits
• Knowledge of all planned works impacting the water and sewer networks
• Avoid conflicts
• Create plans for isolation of sections of water and sewer networks
• Identify customer impacts and requirements for notification
• Identify wider network impacts
Isolation Plans
4 - Engineers 5 - Technical Officers 1 - Network Access Officer
Water Isolation Plans Draft, Review and Approve - Weekly
Review/Approve ~ 100 hydrant maintenance plans
Draft, Review and Approve ~ 40 plans
Include Reservoir Isolations
PRV/DMA Works
Trunk Main Isolations
Retic Isolations New Connections
Burst Main Replacements
Valve Repairs/Replacements
Manual Process Steps Required
Identify location
Conduct water trace
Label valves to be used
Label customers impacted
Secondary shut
Additional comments, special instructions, critical customers
Create table and map and export to PDF
Average time to complete 2-3 hours
Requirements for Automation Automate as many manual tasks as possible
Valve trace, valve labels, highlight customers, create layout, create valve isolation table
Additional features requested: Batch creation tool
Automatically create plans from a list of assets
Urbanview upload Upload proposed outages to the corporate GIS web based system
Allow status change from ‘proposed’ to ‘active’
Valve location tool Create a map with an aerial view for each valve used in the shut to
allow field staff to locate the valve
Building the Solution Esri Australia appointed to develop the shut plan tool
Used existing Esri and ArcFM Architecture
Tasks
Create desktop shut plan tool in ArcMap (flexibility)
Build a batch mode capability
Automate 90% of the shut plan document
Allow user to perform QA\QC before publishing
Upload to UrbanView
Change status of published shut plan
ArcGIS Desktop
URBANVIEW
Solution Architecture
Hyperlink to PDF version of Shut Plan
QUU Main Map Shut plan layer (Read Only)
Shut Plan Editor Map (Update attributes)
ArcGIS Server
ArcFM Trace Service Map Service Feature Service
Authored Shut Plan
Map Template
Read
Read/Write
Shut plan Map Toolbar (Add-in)
Isolation Trace
Publish Shut plan
Load Template
Functionality – Desktop Add-in
Create Shut Plan
Primary Trace – Run by Asset ID
Primary Trace Tool – Run by selecting asset on map
Secondary Trace Tool
Include Valve Tool/Exclude Valve Tool
Export Shut plan artefacts
Settings
Primary isolation tracing
Identifies initial set of valves to be closed
Identifies critical customers
Identifies and counts high density customers
Creates footprint for outage
Secondary isolation tracing Locates the
alternate valves
Extends the footprint of the outage
Identifies potentially impacted customers
Export Creates draft shut plan
document
Creates footprint of outage in Enterprise GIS with key attributes
Valve location map and address details for each valve
Batch Mode Load all attributes into a csv file
Use tool to load in csv file
User needs to Quality Assure each plan
Urbanview Real-time status update by
authorised users (Control Room, Network Access)
Other user (e.g. customer support) have read access to shut plan information
Shut plans (pdf version) accessible via hyperlink
Demo