Dashboards Turn Data Into Information

摘要

Union Power turns a surfeit of data into valuable information displayed to satisfy stakeholder needs. After conducting a full GPS inventory of its distribution system in 2008, Union Power Cooperative implemented an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) system in 2010. However, the utility realized it did not have a good way to sift through millions of records and tie the information together to make sense of it all. As data started to be delivered from the AMI, the geographic information system (GIS) administrator and the engineering and operations (E&O) support manager had their own separate problems. These problems converged. One problem was data manipulation. When E&O queried the AMI system, obtaining a file that contained momentary interruptions for the day, the file had to be delivered to GIS for manipulation so the data could be displayed on a map. This was the process every time an engineer wanted to see momentary interruptions, or high and low voltage, and how they related to the distribution system.