Carrie Berard, Lead Analyst, Gas R&D Steve Hope, Project Manager, GIS. ESRI GeoConX Conference October 17-20, 2016 Phoenix, AZ.

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1 Carrie Berard, Lead Analyst, Gas R&D Steve Hope, Project Manager, GIS ESRI GeoConX Conference October 17-20, 2016 Phoenix, AZ 1

2 Iberdrola, Avangrid, NYSEG, RGE Who Are We? Iberdrola SA (Spain) The world leader in wind generation One of the 5 largest utilities in the world (31k emp, 31 ml. cust) Holdings in US, Brazil, Mexico, UK and Europe Presence in 25 US States Avangrid (US Distribution) Companies NYSEG (NY) 880,000 Electric - 260,000 Gas RGE (NY) 370,000 Electric - 300,000 Gas CMP (Maine) 600,000 Electric MNG (Maine) 4,000 Gas NHG (New Hampshire) 1,200 Gas UIL (Connecticut) 328,000 Electric CNG (Connecticut) 155,000 Gas SCG (Connecticut) 165,000 Gas BGC (New Hampshire) 35,000 Gas 2

3 Natural Gas Explosion March 12, 2014 New York, NY - Gas Explosion collapses two buildings in Harlem, killing 8 and injuring 54. A crack in a plastic service tee coupling to the main line was found t The FDNY arrived Gas odor 3

4 Public Service Commission Investigation Result - 05/14 Soil undermining of the gas piping due to adjacent water facility leakage had caused sag in the piping. 36 inches of paving material from multiple road patches were covering the leak, instead of normal 18. It was found that the sewer undermining, road weighting and the failure of the poorly completed, poorly beaded gas fusion were co-contributing factors of the explosion. Review of all fuser qualification records uncovered many fusers had lapsed qualifications of up to a year. The fuser in this case was lapsed by 1 month and inspector lapsed by 6 months. Mapping for that section of piping inadequately identified the pipe material. Leak survey records could not be produced for that section of piping for

5 PSC Order Goes Into Effect PE fusion investigation of all NY utilities launched 6/14 identified widespread non-compliance with qualification protocols. A new PSC order was published 05/15. Second person qualified inspections were required starting 10/15 and work fully documented. Random samples of existing fusions were inspected across all NY utilities beginning immediately. Extensive training/re-qualification of personnel also took place in this period. Beginning on 01/16, the final step was to have an auditable, electronic database must be kept correlating the GPS location to the fusion and result of its inspection. This includes newly constructed fusions and any that are remediated. Fusion records and failures are to be submitted to PSC, including fuser and inspector information. The plan to accomplish this was due 09/

6 Plans for Accomplishing Electronic Fusion Data Short time to plan (3+ months) and implement (6+ months) an electronic data capture solution. Determined it was best to leverage our existing GIS system and field collection, as used in our Electric Storm Damage Assessment Program, which had been in production for approximately 1 year. Electric Storm Damage Assessment was using 300 Apple ipads with ESRI Collector dedicated for major outage events. It was decided that Gas would get 300 for their own use. 6

7 Leveraging Existing ESRI Solution Benefits: Experience working with ipads/collector Low Cost (esp. ipads) Ease of Use/Acceptance (ipad likeability ) Gas GIS map included in.tpk for offline Solution fairly quick to deploy ESRI GIS Database/Reporting Training overlap ESRI support/supplement internal IT Relationship with Verizon 7

8 Phase Timeline to Prepare and Deploy ipads Phase I June/July - Order & Setup Units, Develop Collector App Phase II Aug/Sept - Test Prototype, Prepare Training Materials Phase III Oct/Dec - Train Field Users, Deploy, Train Office Staff 8

9 General Challenges and Solutions Short timeline, holiday season 300 ipads no Mobile Device Management (MDM) in place Geography of service territory Combination of Contractors and Internal Workers New Order, reasonableness and perception of accomplishing data collection Benefitted from it not being construction season. Formed action team to setup devices, scripted and organized. Verizon VERY helpful. Consolidated meetings to main offices and piggyback to other meetings. Loaned internal units to contractors until they could acquire their own. Stressed this is the mandate and we must follow or face fines. Safety of public is foremost. 9

10 ipad and Collector Challenges and Solutions ipads purchased 16gb, need upgrade to 32gb for offline use ipads - Replica Syncronization Errors in 1Q IOS upgrades, security breach Contractor ipads Training issues Early swapout of devices during setup phase. Verizon extremely helpful. Worked with ESRI Support. No real resolve except upgrade of Collector version. Difficult without MDM. In progress Load.tpk for offline, need for basic online street map in cases where no.tpk is loaded. Photos captured with every point used to verify correct procedures. NEW QA/QC effort to clean data. 10

11 Gas Plastic Fusion System Process Configuration Reports (Excel-Sharepoint) ipads with Collector (Internal) ipads with Collector (Contractor) New In Progress ESRI DataReviewer And PhotoSurvey Company Database ArcGIS Online ArcGIS Online (View/Edit) Notifications AGOL Dashboard (Supervisor) 11

12 ipad Mini s with ESRI Collector 12

13 ArcGIS Online for Viewing/Editing/QA/QC 13

14 ArcGIS Online Dashboard for Summarized Data 14

15 Reporting to Meet PSC Requirements Fusion Reports by: Fuser Insp. Count Crew Reason OPCO-Div Contr. New Cons. NYSEG-Ith Contr. New Cons. NYSEG-Ith Contr. New Cons. NYSEG-Ith All Fusions SAP Number Fuser Inspector Areas * Customize, filter and sort for many other needs. 15

16 Failure Notifications to Supervisors 16

17 Questions Comments (begin Training Video) 17