OREANDA-NEWS. July 04, 2012. Today Esri CIS, an exclusive Esri distributor in the CIS countries, the world's largest supplier of geographic information technologies, and the Russian Telecom Equipment Company (RTEC), manufacturer of trusted telecommunications equipment, announced the completion of the first phase of their project aimed at building a geographic information system (GIS) for the Federal Grid Company of Unified Energy System (FGS UES). GIS is based on ArcGIS Esri software which enables virtualization of large volumes of geographically mapped statistical data.  The GIS solution is deployed in the framework of RTEC's project of setting up a command and control center (ССС) and a complex automated security system (CASS) for FGS UES. 

 FGS UES is one of the world's largest electric power companies that manages the Unified National Electric Grid (UNEG). At the very first phase of the project, the GIS should become an important component of the complex security system of the Federal Grid Company resources. It will ensure timely provisioning of consistent digital data about territorially distributed UNEG objects, offer informational and analytical decision support for FGS UES management, as well as help to proliferate intelligent Smart Grids.

 The new geographic information system is designed for storage, collection, visualization, modelling and analysis of enterprise spacial data. The GIS solution includes basic spacial data (general-purpose maps and earth remote sensing data), as well as numerous specialized data sets ("passport" data for the objects of electric grid infrastructure, monitored data, current technical status data, real-time grid performance data, measuring and surveillance results, data from external sources, etc.). GIS will be integrated with other corporate and technological systems.  Besides, the ArcGIS-based solutions will be used at regional FGS UES command and control centers.

 The GIS solution will also be used to ensure comprehensive security of FGS UES objects, to monitor threats, and to build an intelligent system enabling timely reaction to planned situations and unplanned contingencies.  By providing fast special localization and modeling of emergency situations and their consequences, the geographic information system helps to minimize negative economic, ecological and other outcomes of failures, cutoffs and blackouts.

 According to Vladimir Pelymsky, head of the FGS UES command and control center, the GIS will become an integration platform for FGS corporate and technological systems.  He noted that the GIS based on advanced technologies should help the company to reach its major goals - reliable operation of the electric power backbone and stable uninterrupted power supply to consumers.

 "Security of electric power objects, early reaction to potential threats and fast decision-making - these are the key issues for any enterprise of the fuel and power industry," said Andrei Badalov, first deputy  director general of RTEC.  "Understanding the importance of those issues, the FGS UES management decided to install the complex automated security system (CASS) and the GIS as its component.  We hope that the geographic information system developed by RTEC together with Esri CIS will become a reliable assistant to our customer and ensure uninterrupted power supply to consumers."

 "Electric power companies that operate huge territorially distributed infrastructures are among the major users of geographic information technologies worldwide," noted Vassily Kupriyanovsky, business development director of Esri CIS.  "The Esri Corporation that has been operating in that market for decades can offer reliable, high-performance products with broad functionality.  Both customer and independent experts admit that our products most comprehensively comply with industrial requirements.  I am sure that implementation of such large-scale projects as GIS in the Federal Grid Company will largely promote modernization of local electric power industry in accordance with requirements of Russian economy, its citizens and businesses."