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Jefferson-Cocke County Utility District (JCCUD) is taking advantage of Esri's Small Utility Enterprise License Agreement (SU-ELA) program to improve outage response and better meet regulatory requirements with the use of GIS technology. The Newport, Tennessee, gas utility serves 7,300 homes and businesses in two counties. Before the move to GIS, field crews had to rely on paper maps that were costly to produce and often outdated. Now JCCUD can respond to outages equipped with laptops and up-to-date GIS-based maps. Within the GIS, utility staff can view the entire gas network along with customer information, proposed and as-built data, orthophotographs, topographic maps, and street centerlines.
Because the initial mobile GIS training session went so smoothly, JCCUD plans to make all work orders paperless by the end of the year.
Access to mobile GIS technology is also helping the gas utility in reporting for regulatory compliance. JCCUD crews will have the ability to input data from the field and synchronize with the home database to ensure accuracy of valve and regulatory station maintenance, as well as odorization and cathodic protection reports.
"Without the small utility ELA, we could not have managed this upgrade," said Larry Masters, engineering/GIS coordinator for JCCUD. "We cut $1,200 this year in the cost of printing map books, not to mention the hours saved working on the map books and returning to the office for sketches. When we looked at the cost of the ELA and what it would save our utility, we saw that we needed to do it."
Through Esri's SU-ELA program, small utilities receive unlimited deployments of Esri's core ArcGIS platform as well as maintenance and support for products, staff training, passes to the Esri International User Conference, and Esri's data models. The small utility ELA program is open to utilities with 100,000 meters or fewer.
For more information on the SU-ELA pro-gram and to listen to the SU-ELA podcast, visit esri.com/suela. To speak to an expert, call 800-447-9778, extension 2990
. ESRI newsletters "Energy Currents - Winter 2010/2011"
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