Utilities refer to public utilities like Gas, Power, Telephone, Water & waste water management services. The use of GIS in utilities is a fast growing. AM/FM stands for Automated Mapping/Facilities Management and is a subset of GIS specifically for utilities management. Geospatial technologies have become an essential tool for the utility industry and have numerous uses for the sector. GIS provides a technology for providing operational efficiencies and the capabilities to measure those efficiencies. Nearly every utility process involves location, from finding where streetlights are out to locating gas leaks to spotting wind farms. So GIS is really a platform for better utility information.
Gas and Power
- Network map production & digitization
- Asset Management
- To map power grid
- Network analysis to facilitate asset management
Telecommunications
- * To map broadband gaps
- * Network planning & operation
- * Customer profile mapping to aid sales & marketing
Water & wastewater
- To track water service orders
- To map drainage network
- Hydraulic modeling of water distribution system
- Estimating node demands from land use, census data or billing records
