Adaptive Grid
Demo: New service design
Adaptive Grid create a new service design from the field.
See how a designer can pick up a new service design in the field after as-building an underground residential distribution loop back at the office using IQGeo’s utility network model management solution.
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IQGeo Adaptive Grid is the new approach to managing the entire lifecycle of electric grids. Feel free to reach out if you'd like to see other examples of network design from the office to the field or to see your own network data in Adaptive Grid. Today we're going to look at how a designer can pick up a new service design in the field after as-building an underground residential distribution loop back at the office. So Adaptive Grid can be loaded from our Anywhere iOS app or directly in the mobile browser. And a built-in QR code facilitates a seamless transition to pick up right where I left off on my design on the computer on my iPad now. So you may find it customary while this loads to design your networks in your, sorry, your secondary networks in conjunction with the primary facilities and I don't disagree with you. But in my experience, I've had multiple developers lose steam mid-development, get bought out by another company who changes the lot layouts, building plans, everything's different. So let's see what a house at a time approach might look like. So now I'm using an external mouse on my iPad so that I can take advantage of Apple's pointer, Halo and my screen recording so you can see where I'm at. But I'd like to point out that everything I'm doing here on the iPad with the pointer can be done just as easily by tapping with your finger on the screen. So I'm going to complete another quick design here with my underground point and span wizard to install underground triplex secondary. Probably had a hand hole and then I'm going to add a new premise with a 200 amp meter to serve this customer. So I've drawn my new underground route from the secondary transformer to the property. Going to go ahead and define the secondary span. This will default to the rest of them if I don't change it. Click the edit pencil. You'll see that the editor does look a little bit different on the iPad. It's more of a pop up window that you can move around. It inherited my B phase transformer already. I don't have to do anything with the connectivity. And all looks good there. So I will go ahead and save. So next, remember I said I might want to add a handful. So at this point, let's go ahead and add an underground structure so that we're working on the other side. So that we're ready to connect the customer to the north. Next time we come back, everything's there. I can just come straight out of the handful rather than going all the way back to the transformer. Make it a 24 inch hand hole. Standard loading. I could assign CUs here. I'll show you that in a little bit. And finally going to add the new premise. I have the saved as a macro. And then I'll go ahead and add the new metering equipment. So when I click save, notice that data validation just kicked in again because I've left an address field blank. So I'm going to click the edit button. Go ahead and put a placeholder address here on Sinclair Ave, I believe it is. And I can also go back and use the macro. I think I had it as the meter before. So there we'll go ahead and update the address. Yeah. So here I can assign a CU. So you can click assign CUs on any feature throughout your design. And as you add those, we can bring those over. If you have a general CU catalog, we can have that all integrated. Save it. And then that will be factored in. I'll show you what the output of that might look like later on. So everything looks good. And go ahead and click save. And basically how the tool is working here. So it's adding your structures. And then from your structures, it's going to add the route in between. It's going to add your equipment. It's going to drop your conductor in. And then you'll see it here in a second. When I click, it's also added an automatic offset geometry that you can use to drill down. If you have multiple conductors in this structure to structure network, for example. All right. So let's just click on the meter, do an upstream trace, verify that we have connectivity back to the source. And that looks good. So now that we're done there, I'm going to demonstrate how we can progress the state of the design as it moves through the various design life span stages with configurable approval steps as needed all the way through completion. Or I can then merge all my design deltas to the as built network. So I just moved it over to complete. I close out of the design. I can see how the system will now look to other users such as an engineer or field tech out investigating potential issues maybe or future customer requests. So this is going to be the as built network here. Sorry, I am actually uploading, I'm merging the design. So those 41 changes have now been applied to the as built network. And again, I'm still on the iPad. So close out of the design here. And I can drop my little Street View man. So with our built in Street View layer and AR plugin, adaptive grid blends the network model and the real world into one so that users are presented with an intuitive visual that they can easily understand and act on. We actually had tons of awesome feedback from customers on this feature. It's invaluable on trouble tickets during like night hours when they're out working in the dark, trying to find manholes and other pad mounted equipment. So very powerful example of how this can be used in the field very intuitively. IQ Geo adaptive grid is the new approach to managing the entire lifecycle of electric grids. Feel free to reach out if you'd like to see other examples of network design from the office to the field or to see your own network data in adaptive grid. Thank you.



