Select to view content in your preferred language

HOW TO CONNECT LV SERVICES OF MORE THAN 40 FROM SAME BUILDING

770
2
Jump to solution
10-12-2023 08:00 AM
RomuldKiobya
New Contributor III

The attached document shows the physical connection of Electrical meters (LV Services). How to use Electrical Assembly  with those LV services

 

 

1 Solution

Accepted Solutions
RobertKrisher
Esri Regular Contributor

There are typically two approaches taken:

If you wish to draw each meter on the map, you would draw each meter as a device, connect each meter to a common electric junction (that is in turn connected to the LV line), and create a meter assembly to contain each meter device.

If your organization is ok with representing all of this as a single location in your GIS than you would create an electric device (meter) in your network, then connect it to the LV line. If you wish to track individual meters in the GIS then you would create them as non-spatial electrical junction objects that are contained within the device. Ryan's approach is an alternative approach of this where they use a junction instead of a device and do not model the meters in the GIS (instead relying on a link to the CIS).

View solution in original post

2 Replies
AnthonyRyanEQL
Regular Contributor

What is your actual use case? For the electricity distributor I work for, we only capture the LV service from the network to the block of land. We didn't care if it's a building/shed/whatever for the UNM. Our Customer/Metering application has that information.

Our LV service finishes at an Electric Device (Low Connection Point) which has a unique identifier and the customer system uses that id for integration/reporting to determine where a customer is connected to the network and the UNM uses it in tracing to see which/how many customers are being supplied by that part of the network.

The other reason to not go down to that level with the customer is because some of it is customer owned and could change at any time and don't want to waste time with changes at that level.

RobertKrisher
Esri Regular Contributor

There are typically two approaches taken:

If you wish to draw each meter on the map, you would draw each meter as a device, connect each meter to a common electric junction (that is in turn connected to the LV line), and create a meter assembly to contain each meter device.

If your organization is ok with representing all of this as a single location in your GIS than you would create an electric device (meter) in your network, then connect it to the LV line. If you wish to track individual meters in the GIS then you would create them as non-spatial electrical junction objects that are contained within the device. Ryan's approach is an alternative approach of this where they use a junction instead of a device and do not model the meters in the GIS (instead relying on a link to the CIS).