Benton PUD Implements Telvent’s
Smart Grid GIS Solution
Municipality in Washington effectively using ArcFM, ArcFM Viewer, Redliner, Designer, and Fiber Manager
Telvent (NASDAQ: TLVT), the IT company for a sustainable and secure world, announced today that Benton PUD, a municipal corporation of the State of Washington headquartered in Kennewick, completed implementation of ArcFM, ArcFM Viewer for Engine with Redliner, Designer with a custom Workflow Manager and ArcGIS Server. They are currently upgrading to ArcFM 9.3 Rev2 and ArcGIS 9.3.1.
The implementation of the ArcFM Solution has provided the District with significant business value and is a critical foundational element for their ongoing Smart Grid development efforts.
Concurrently, Benton PUD has also completed implementation of Telvent’s Fiber Manager, an integrated solution for mapping fiber optic related assets, establishing fiber level connectivity, and building traceable circuits in a network. Expanding their use of Telvent’s Designer application to include fiber optic planning, Benton PUD integrated network designs into their current processes, which include engineering, cost estimating, as-built updates and work management. Benton PUD has been using Fiber Manager with Designer and their customized Workflow Manager, actively creating cost estimates and designs, since January 2009.
“Since deploying the fully integrated GIS and design platform, the District has experienced a reduction in work order cycle times, increased staff productivity, eliminated process redundancies, and improved cost estimate accuracy,” said Chris Folta, Benton PUD Manager of GIS. “With the ArcFM Solution, we are able to manage all of our spatial and related assets in a single enterprise, universally accessible database. We no longer have to maintain multiple systems and databases to store and access our data. We have certainly achieved our goal of putting data in the hands of the users, in the office and in the field.”
Additionally, Benton PUD will begin implementing Telvent’s Responder outage management system (OMS) in September 2009. They are also in the midst of an AMI deployment, with plans to integrate with Responder at the end of this year.
Telvent (NASDAQ: TLVT) is a global IT solutions and business information services provider that improves the efficiency, safety and security of the world’s premier organizations. The company serves markets critical to the sustainability of the planet, including the energy, transportation, agriculture, and environmental sectors. www.telvent.com/
Benton PUD, a municipal corporation of the State of Washington headquartered in Kennewick, Washington, was established in 1946. Today, Benton PUD supports transmission and distribution electric energy to more than 45,000 electric customers covering more than 900 square miles of service territory. Benton PUD manages 37 substations, approximately 90 miles of 115kV transmission line and 1,573 miles of distribution lines, and nearly 70 miles of fiber optic cables.
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