HAILEY, Idaho (March 10, 2015) — POWER Engineers Incorporated (POWER) delivered an integration between Schneider Electric’s Responder and RPU’s mapping application suite for Rochester Public Utilities (RPU), Minn. RPU needed to provide its customers with a web map that displayed current outage locations in its service territory. RPU was constrained by the need to maintain security on its on-premise data stores, yet, at the same time, also expose a map view of this data to the public. RPU was also interested ensuring that the map application could withstand the stress of numerous users querying the map during high-outage storm events.
POWER was able to provide the integration services and wired the data flow together – from on-premise outages stored in ArcFM Responder, to live outage data pushed to a GIS server hosted in the cloud on Amazon Web Servers, to a Web map hosted at ArcGIS Online, to the public-facing web application where the map was displayed. This design, initiated by RPU, provides an architecturally simple platform that created cost savings typical of cloud implementations. The stress testing performed ensured that the public-facing web site performed well during periods of exceptionally high usage.
According to Rachelle McGillivray, Consultant at POWER, “With a relatively simple integration, RPU was able to provide the public with an interactive map to view outages in the area. It is always great to partner with a utility like RPU and deliver solutions that provide real and immediate benefits.”
“From our first meeting to our final implementation, POWER Engineers has been an excellent partner,” stated Jay Forstner, GIS Coordinator at RPU. “POWER delivered a solution that met, or exceeded, all of our goals and well within our time constraints of the project.”
About Rochester Public Utilities (RPU)
RPU, a division of the City of Rochester, MN, is the largest municipal utility in the state of Minnesota. RPU serves 50,000 electric customers and 38,000 water customers.
About POWER Engineers
POWER Engineers is a global consulting engineering firm specializing in the delivery of integrated solutions for energy, food and beverage, facilities, communications, environmental, and federal markets. POWER Engineers offers complete multidiscipline engineering and program management services. Founded in 1976, it is an employee-owned company with more than 2,300 employees in 40 offices throughout the United States and abroad. POWER’s Geospatial and Asset Management Solutions group provides experience with industry-leading technologies and a wide range of solutions for electric, gas and water utilities and local governments. For more information, please visit www.powereng.com or contact rick.frymyer@powereng.com.