GIS <> EAM Systems Integration for Northern Ireland Electricity Networks

Overview & Purposes

Client: Northern Ireland Electicity Networks

GISonLine participated in a key stage of the digital transformation of the Northern Ireland Electricity Networks, the electrical power provider for Northern Ireland. As a partner of Cohesive, we delivered systems integration services between the asset management system IBM Maximo and ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise, which was in the process of being implemented.

The project aimed to ensure a smooth flow of information between the two systems and to provide access to financial attributes of assets—managed within the EAM system—for the GIS-class system, which offers more precise spatial information about asset locations.
Among other benefits, achieving this milestone paves the way for further GIS development within this critical infrastructure enterprise.

The Outcome

The GIS <> EAM integration involved the following steps:

• Designing the separation of data managed by each system
• Defining attributes for synchronization and sharing
• Identifying key attributes that link the new GIS and EAM databases
• Defining attribute rules
• Publishing REST services, including symbolization, class mapping, and attribute mapping

Additionally, data quality control procedures were implemented:

• Data analysis focused on quality and data linking
• Automated data cleaning using Python