GIS/ADMS Integration

This integration is essential for utilities to manage their electrical grids more effectively, especially with the increasing complexity of distributed energy resources (DERs), grid modernization, and data influx from IoT devices.

GE Digital discusses the concept of network model orchestration, which is achieved through integrating GIS and ADMS. This creates a single network model across a standard data fabric, improving data quality governance and paving the way for a self-learning model for transmission and distribution (T&D). Such integration enables utilities to benefit from an end-to-end solution that evolves toward enabling network-level optimization.

Esri also provides insights into how enterprise GIS supports ADMS, highlighting the importance of leveraging enterprise GIS investment to deploy configurable GIS-ADMS interfaces and network analysis applications. This includes SCADA data acquisition, alarming, operational network model, integrated data engineering, and various network applications like unbalanced load flow, short-circuit analysis, overload reduction, restoration switching analysis, and more.

Integrating GIS with ADMS allows for a “Single Source of Truth,” where network connectivity using GIS-defined connectivity and unique ID assignment ensures that the same objects are consistently represented before and after mapping. This integration is crucial for utilities to manage their systems effectively, providing improved decision-making, system optimization, and operational efficiency.