GIS / Field Inventory & Mapping

We put your system on a map
your crews can trust.

Some utilities have incomplete or outdated maps; others rely on staff knowledge where maps are missing. Records drift away from the field a little at a time and nobody notices, because the person who knows the system is still the one taking the call. Then the gap turns up on the worst night of the year, or the week after he retires. We walk the lines and capture what is actually out there at GPS accuracy: poles, conductor, transformers, services, and the connectivity tying them together, so what your dispatcher sees matches what the crew finds.

Your crews can trust what the map says, and the person who knows where everything is buried can retire without taking it with him.
Choosing an approach

How accurate field data pays off later.

Tribal Knowledge

Senior staff know where things really are, even when records don't match. It works until that person retires or isn't the one on call.

Defensible only as a temporary bridge while you build real field data.
Periodic Manual Updates

Records get updated when someone spots a discrepancy. The gap between updates is exactly when an outage or billing question exposes what's stale.

Holds up if your system changes slowly enough for periodic updates to keep pace.
GPS-Accurate Field Inventory

Field data maintained as a current system of record, accurate to where assets actually are, so outage response and billing review are fast.

What you need when a crew has to find the right pole on the first try, at night, in the rain.
How we help

What gets captured, and what it is good for.

01
GPS-Accurate Field Data Collection Poles, transformers, switches, and conductor captured on GPS with the attributes attached, built in ESRI ArcGIS. Where things actually are, not where a drawing from 1987 put them.
02
Custom Queries & Outage Reporting Structured so somebody can answer a real question under pressure. Which transformers are on this fault, what's the oldest equipment on this circuit, which spans got rebuilt last year.
03
Integration With Existing Records Reconciled against your existing records, including the discrepancies. A second map that disagrees with the first one just means nobody trusts either.
04
An Ongoing Update Process A system of record that stays current as the system changes, not a one-time snapshot that starts going stale immediately.
Engineering Review

Tell us what shape your current mapping is in.

We review what you send and follow up about what it would take to get there, and whether it has to happen all at once.

Request an Engineering Review →

You speak directly with an engineer about your situation and the next step.

  1. 1You send what you have
  2. 2An engineer sizes up the gap
  3. 3We tell you if it can be done in phases
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