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| Data requires interpretation, analysis, and correlation with other data to become useful information to the utility. This may involve real time, daily, end of the month analysis, either of internal utility information or regarding key accounts. Proper information management is key to making this data useful to the daily operation of the utility.
Any automation project requires the utility to address how the information is presented, accessed by users, and applied for various purposes. Some users will access the information using specific client application software provided as part of SCADA, Energy Management System (EMS), Distribution Management System (DMS), and Outage Management System (OMS) solutions. Other users will want to access data with Internet browser software or other common desktop PC applications (e.g., Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access). Some users will want to use a Geographic Information System (GIS) or products such as Oracle Forms or Visual Basic. Whatever software is used, managing the wealth of information and getting it to those who need it is the key objective.
PSE is experienced with addressing enterprise integration issues. We can help design and specify solutions to integrate applications, warehouse data, protect information assets, and improve the overall business process. Some of the PSE team experience includes:
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- GIS: PSE has helped design, specify, and select integrated GIS solutions.
- Business Process Improvement: PSE can contribute to business process redesign that supports service order and work order management, proposed and as-built changes from automated staking software, and data exchange between various systems including GIS, automated staking, work management, engineering analysis, inventory, and accounting systems.
- Data Historians: PSE is familiar with and trained on data historian technology required by some mid-size and larger utilities wanting to store and access large numbers of data points frequently and permanently. For example, with this technology, a utility can store every scanned data point brought in by a SCADA system without selectively choosing which information to keep or discard.
- MultiSpeak: PSE is knowledgeable about and has experience designing MultiSpeak compliant solutions. MultiSpeak is an integration approach for applications (e.g., GIS, CIS, OMS, SCADA, automated staking) typically used by rural electric cooperatives. It is based on the XML protocol, which PSE is familiar with.
- Common Information Model (CIM): This is an interface standard that defines the data formats to exchange information between utility applications needing electric system model data such as connectivity, impedance, equipment, load, and geographic location. CIM can be used to support exchange of this type of information between GIS/mapping, electric system load flow software, and on-line distribution and transmission power flow applications, including state estimation.
- AutoCAD-based Mapping: PSE has implemented and supported AutoCAD based mapping for smaller utilities.
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