Presented at the 2013 Esri Southeast User Conference. User case story showing how ArcGIS Online was used to publish a public-facing outage map for an electric utility. Presented at the 2013 Esri Southeast User Conference in Jacksonville, FL.

1. Leveraging ArcGIS Online
for Public Utility Information
David Speight
True North Geographic Technologies, LLC
www.tngeo.com
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2. • User Story
• Business Problem
• Technical Challenges
• Solution in Action
• Why is this relevant?

3. Business Problem
We
Need a
Map!

4. Business Problem
• Outage Data
• Telvent OMS
• SQL Server
• ArcGIS for
Server Standard
• SQL Server
• ArcGIS for
Desktop

5. Initial Idea
We use the Flex
Viewer
internally….
…let’s use it for
the public.

6. Technical Problems / Concerns
• Opening the firewall
• Server capacity
• Server performance
….do we need to buy more licensing?

7. Usability Problems / Concerns
• Keep users on the corporate website
• Mobile device compatibility
• Needs to work like the rest of the web
• What information / level of detail do we
expose?

8. Alternative Approach
CEMC
OMS
ArcGIS
Online
Online Outage Map
• Feature services
• Web maps
• Templates / apps /
embed code
Desktop
GP

9. Data Prep
• Geoprocessing
• Convert tabular data to feature class
• Limit attribute output
• Aggregate data by grid
• Publish to Server or AGOL (new at 10.1)
• Ready to publish?

10. Wait….….we’re still at 10.0
(I don’t have a Server Publishing toolbox)

11. for field in fieldnames:
element = str(field)
value = str(row.getValue(field))
attributeDict[element] = value
# Create the geometry object 'feat'
feat = row.getValue(shapefieldname)
poly = feat.getPart()
for allRings in poly:
for coordPair in allRings:
xyPair =
[coordPair.X,coordPair.Y]
allPairs.append(xyPair)
replaceRingsList = allPairs
geometrySyntax['geometry']['rings'][0]
= copy.deepcopy(replaceRingsList)
# place the geometrySyntax dictionary
that was created above into the cumulative
inputGeometries list
geometrySyntax['attributes'] =
attributeDict
geometrySyntaxDeepCopy =
copy.deepcopy(geometrySyntax)
Workaround

12. Final Solution
• Python GP scripts
• ETL script exported from Model
Builder
• Load data to AGOL via feature
services
• Executed as scheduled task
• 24 x 7 every 10 minutes
• Web Map
• Symbology
• Generalized data
• Popups
• Embedded to corporate website

13. Final Solution
• Feature Service Updates vs. Republishing
• FS approach was faster (< 5s)
• Lose the overhead of republishing service
definition, resharing, etc.
• ArcGIS Online Organizational Account
• Level 1 (5 users / 2500 credits)
• In production since November 2012
• Almost no credit consumption
• Free to use AGO for other uses

15. Solution in Action

18. Summary
• Publishing data to ArcGIS Online
• Eliminated security concerns
• Eliminated server capacity concerns
• Purchase AGOL Organizational subscription
instead of more hardware/software
• Kept users on the corporate website
• Maintained compatibility with mobile devices
• Easy to modify & add content

19. Thank you…
David Speight
True North Geographic Technologies, LLC
dspeight@tngeo.com
615-890-7728
www.tngeo.com