GO360™ Hosted Solution for Wardrop Engineering- September 03, 2009
The Problem
Wardrop Engineering required a cost effective, intuitive, easy to use web based solution to identify and map Ontario Electric Distribution Companies customers affected by long term electricity load transfer reconciliation.
Wardrop required the ability to view Ontario Electric Distribution Company boundaries, customer locations and all properties that are touching and adjacent to other electric utility company boundaries in order to identify customers that are candidates for transferring from one utility organization to another based on existing infrastructure and assets. The solution also had to be mobile and live meaning updates made in the field are immediately available for use back within Wardrop thereby saving time and money usually incurred when there is a transfer of data through multiple formats, human error and additional field trips.
The Solution
AGSI successfully configured and delivered a Hosted solution based on our core web service environment called GO360™, which includes full live and secure Mobile functionality. From determining requirements, designing the configuration and then implementation, AGSI was able to deliver a GO360™ production solution within 1 month. Wardrop can now manage information collected in the field and provide critical information back to the Ontario Government for customer electricity connection reconciliation.
The GO360™ web service application is hosted by AGSI and allows in-house and in-field users to view data within Ontario only. AGSI's geocoding solution assists in mapping account information supplied by the participating electric distribution companies, and then displays this customer account data on any web enabled device such as a computer, laptop, tablet, or smart hand held devices such as a phone.
AGSI's Search Engine component provides Wardrop the flexibility to search using different parameters such as Street Address, Municipality Name or GPS Coordinates. Users are able to select a location and view the customer and electric meter information as well as view a map ensuring they are at the correct location.
Wardrop in-field users access GO360™ in the field to view and immediately update customer data direct at the source, if needed. The GO360™ Mobile component has some key features that allow users to update the data displayed within the web application, and manage meter and supply point information to identify customers to be transferred between electric utilities. Once the customers have been updated, the user "re-draws" the electric utility company boundaries directly on a web browser. After the customer information has been collected and recommendations for retaining or transferring the accounts have been made, detailed maps are created and forwarded to affected elected utilities along with the transfer recommendations and utility company boundary changes.
This application is used by personnel who have detailed in-field electrical knowledge to determine the exact information required and the intuitive nature of AGSI’s GO360™ Solution allows the users to be trained and operational with an hour.
