{"id":4102,"date":"2015-01-09T08:19:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T16:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/?p=4102"},"modified":"2015-01-09T08:19:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T16:19:32","slug":"keeping-it-all-together","status":"publish","type":"insider","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/keeping-it-all-together","title":{"rendered":"Keeping It All Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Esri\u2019s 2015 Resolution for Vertically Integrated Gas Companies<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nThis time of year, it&#8217;s customary to settle on a New Year\u2019s resolution. That resolution often leads to a wish list.<br \/>\nCompanies\u2014especially vertically integrated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/industries\/gas\" target=\"_blank\">gas companies<\/a>\u2014have asked Esri to prioritize a special wish. Vertically integrated gas companies need a pipe-network feature that enables both a linear-referencing network and a geometric, or facility, network.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4110\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/files\/2015\/01\/G67115_NewYearsVerticalGasBlog_Illustrations_1-155.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"350\" \/><br \/>\nWe have some good news. Esri is rolling out two solutions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ArcGIS Location Referencing for Pipelines extension (ALRP)<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/solutions.arcgis.com\/utilities\/gas\/help\/utility-pipeline-data-model\/\" target=\"_blank\">Utility and Pipeline Data Model <\/a>(UPDM)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are three reasons we need ALRP and UPDM.<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>1.    Some Background: Linear Referencing vs. Network Models<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Transmission operators use linear referencing as their pipeline location language, generally. They don\u2019t tend to build network models. Distribution and gathering operators, on the other hand, do just the opposite. For them, network models are the norm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.    The Wrinkle: High-Pressure Distribution or Transmission\u2014or Both?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Let\u2019s add a wrinkle. Actually, regulations add a wrinkle. A recent change in US regulations subject some high-pressure distribution mains to integrity regulations as if they are transmission pipes. In other words, how a pipe is operated is not necessarily how it\u2019s regulated. Utility GIS needs to be flexible to accommodate this duality. This places a premium on the ease with which a vertically integrated gas company can modify its data, especially since further regulatory changes are likely.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.    Integrity Compliance: Event Data with a Voluminous Network<\/strong><br \/>\nSustaining asset integrity requires keeping accurate data on many factors, beyond those of the physical pipe itself. This is called event data. Event data includes information on natural and man-made environments, physical components (e.g., valves, coating type, wall thickness), and abstract designations (e.g., risk scores, depth of cover, road proximity). A pipeline GIS database typically contains a very large number of events.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nKeeping It All Together<\/strong><br \/>\nKeeping all this data together, while users edit databases and the network itself changes, poses utilities a challenge. In the past, an edit to the network wouldn\u2019t automatically update related events. Related events include those sharing geography, for instance. As a result, someone needed to manually relocate each event, not to mention subsequently adjusting measurements up the pipeline. For pipelines that have existed for any period of time, these manual edits add considerable labor.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nYour Solution<\/strong><br \/>\nThis year, Esri introduces ALRP and UPDM to help you. ALRP and UPDM run off an enterprise approach to data, in which network information talks to each other. Together, ALRP and UPDM give you exciting ways to do your work\u2014faster and better.<br \/>\nALRP fundamentally changes linear referencing and network modeling. It represents network components on a shared geodatabase, one comprised of point and line feature classes. It keeps everything together. When you reroute, for instance, ALRP relocates all coincidental events. Automatically. In addition, ALRP lets you define reactions to changes, such as those in route associations.<br \/>\nUPDM supports ALRP. It\u2019s what you know as a moderately normalized geodatabase model template. UPDM represents each physical network component\u2014from wellhead to customer meter. It does this in one table object, so your data stays organized.<br \/>\nSo here\u2019s to the year ahead. And keeping it all together.<br \/>\n<strong>Spoiler Alert: More in 2015<\/strong><br \/>\nIn late 2015, Esri will start releasing new capabilities for facility network management. These capabilities, which you can access across the platform from any device, optimize network performance. Look out for an enhanced information model and new productivity tools. We\u2019ll post more on this blog.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Esri solutions for gas utilities, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/industries\/gas\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[275862],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4102","insider","type-insider","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-focus"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Keeping It All Together<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/insider\/keeping-it-all-together\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Keeping It All Together\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Esri\u2019s 2015 Resolution for Vertically Integrated Gas Companies This time of year, it&#8217;s customary to settle on a New Year\u2019s resolution. 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