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hello everyone my name is ly i'm sv apac bd manager i'm your host for today's webinar along with my colleague jeff allen an in-country colleague from svus and asia pacific offices jeff is actually global pipeline practice lead on bihar industry welcome to our webinar on the new era begins in pipeline network data management today we will introduce arcgis pipeline referencing and arcgis utility network tools in utility and pipeline data model with new exciting functionalities to help you in managing and analyzing pipelines seamlessly upping down your energy supply network next slide please now i would like to invite jeff to share with us the new excitement in linear reference and connected my network jeff over to you excellent thank you ly and thanks everybody for joining us this afternoon this is uh our first uh webinar for the apac region in in the apac time zone hopefully this is something we're going to continue on in the past this is a webinar that we've been doing kind of around the globe we do it here in the u.s we've done one in the europe region as well and it's really an interesting topic and we've got a lot of interest from from pipeline operators all over the supply chain around this topic and basically what's driving a lot of the interest around the world is that a lot of our customers are trying to build uh more and more detailed information models uh more details about the system of record of those pipeline facilities that are out in the field there's a lot of drivers for this obviously uh regulatory being one of them but really workflow efficiencies as the gis becomes that single source of the truth within the organization and we start to elevate the gis as sort of a tier one system within side organizations and start to integrate with other systems we need a more complete picture of what's out in the field we see this even more now today where we have uh remote staff working all over the all over the world on pipeline projects being able to see a detailed inventory of what's in the field without having to to make travel and go to those locations is more important than it ever has been and so that's why we at esri have been kind of working really diligently on this problem and and really what we're trying the problem we're trying to solve is how do we model this entire supply chain in a single enterprise gis and when we say the supply chain we really mean the upstream the midstream and the downstream segments both hazardous liquid and a natural gas transmission and distribution and gathering the simple story is that pipe is pipe whether it's offshore gathering or a large diameter transmission pipe or small pipes in the city streets we should be able to to model pipe the same way however we all know that if you've been in the industry long enough that there are different requirements in each of these segments and bringing this information together in one seamless way is really a difficult technical challenge as well as an operational challenge as well oftentimes we'll find organizations have data in multiple gis systems that aren't talking to each other maybe in multiple systems outside of gis like stored away in cad drawings or lidar image point cloud files and really our our challenge is how do we pull this all together and put it into one single enterprise geodatabase so that we can run analytics and optimize workflows around that so that really comes to the crux of what the webinar is today is showing you how we're doing that in the esri enterprise geodatabase and so be able to model that pipeline facility from the wellhead to the meter tip and everything in between we're really applying two separate software technologies on top of that single enterprise geodatabase and those two software technologies are arcgis pipeline referencing which allows us to do the linear referencing portion of the pipelines as well as the utility network which brings in some really interesting new capabilities around business rules on connectivity containment and diagrams and really what we're doing here is pulling the best of both worlds into both of these applications to manage pipe data so really you know when we look at the the overall solution the really the kind of new things we're bringing to the table beyond the linear referencing is is this idea of the utility network right this underpins uh the entire solution and brings us some some interesting new capabilities obviously mapping being esri that's that is the cornerstone of what we do but also alternative views of that data so i can take that map data and put it on to say an operational diagram or a schematic and represent that mapping information in new and interesting ways to my field staff we also introduce the concept of component or container views so i can basically build a gis within a gis so again as i start to build out these really detailed systems of record putting all that data onto the map is is very challenging so i can build now buckets or containers and build up components that get really down into the details of what's inside of these facilities obviously along with the mapping capabilities is to be able to answer questions about those facilities then we start turning to advanced analytics how can i trace my system how can i understand pressure and flow these are topics that we've been asked about for years in linear referencing the utility network really now starts to turn that on and bring that alive being able to look at both historic and planned facilities right so i can start putting my details of my new assets into the gis during that design phase we've got a lot of interesting workflows now around moving gis from planning to design and then from design back to operations and these historic and planned views allow us to do that and then the last topic that's quite interesting is the ability to visualize visualize all this data in three dimensions so taking these 2d maps and adding the z elevation to the components and then be able to view this at this data in a three-dimensional or a web scene is something that we can now do with this with this new capability one of the important things about both arcgis pipeline referencing and the utility network is we now see our software moving away from the traditional client server architecture into a more of a web services architecture when we move to web services we're publishing the data from low server which you're probably familiar with with web mapping applications we're actually consuming those web services in the editing workflows so now i can not only edit from my say pro desktop but i can also do those same edits for a web application or a connected mobile device this also brings in more interesting capabilities from the server because that server now contains a rule base that has business rules built into it and it's basically protecting that underlying data so regardless of whether data edits are being made from regardless of what platform they're coming in from all those edits need to pass our rule-based validation before they can enter the system of record and be viewable by the rest of the organization so as we start using these tools and move in this direction you'll see more and more tools from entry come out with this web services pattern this system of systems is is really the new generation of webgis architecture moving forward so we start thinking about the utility network we have a domain where we start layering information into the pipeline data model and so we have a number of domains and what i'm going to be focusing on here is what we call the gas or pipeline domain network this allows me to put in features into my network devices lines and pipelines and connect them together these then form the basis of my entire pipeline system so these are the intelligent devices that i now build into the rule base and so we don't put you into a specific pipeline data model so we support the industry data models i'll talk about that in a second but these are going to be the core feature classes and core configurations that we'll use to enable this new uh utility network information model within the arcgis platform sitting right next to the utility network information model is the arcgis pipeline referencing information model these would be the equivalent core tables and feature classes that we would add to the geodatabase to enable linear referencing on top of those pipes so the pipes would go into utility network and then we would add on top of that linear referencing capability to those pipes so if you've looked at this apr model in the past this slide is going to be very familiar to you but what you might have not seen before is really what i when i just transition the slide there is that in the the go forward model instead of having that traditional uh geometric center line that underpins my pipes the utility network pipe feature class is the center line for my linear referencing this will become more obvious when i do the demo but basically we lay down all our pipes we connect them together and then we drop linear referencing on top of those pipes to enable the full capabilities of the platform so if you wanted to see this in action these two information models are actually embedded into a larger pipeline data model and from esri we have the utility and pipeline data model that's freely downloadable for any of our customers this has got the utility network core objects it's got the core pipeline referencing objects in it as well as a lot of other information tables and feature classes around pipeline operations things like inline inspection integrity compliance asset inspections we basically handed off a template or starting point for which you can build a larger pipeline referencing or pipeline information model and so when you download updm 2018 or 2019 you'll find inside of that the pipeline referencing tables the utility network tables and now we're just about to release updm 2020 and it's scheduled for august 11th and that'll have more enhancements to the model more feature classes more attribute rules associated with with managing pipeline data now as well as being able to offer to the industry a template data model updm we also work with industry models as well our industry organizations i'm part of the pods open pipeline data standard and we've taken the core arcgis pipeline referencing tables and we've now embedded them into pods we also have a working group now to embed the utility network functionality into pods as well so those are two industry standards that are that you can use with these two tools i'm going to show you today but also doesn't prevent you from taking those core tables and implementing them to any schema so if you already have a pipeline data model you're using you can embed our core information model and turn on the networking and turn on the linear referencing capabilities inside your existing enterprise your database so let's talk about the rule base so what are these so basically what this does is ensures that the data that we're adding to the system follows not only geospatial rules like things are edge connected together and topology rules but really business rules as well so in the rule base what i'm able to say is hey when i'm connecting a flange a metal flange for example to a pipeline that pipeline also needs to be a metal or if i'm connecting two pipes of two different diameters i need some type of reducer or fitting in between so the rules kind of fall down into a couple different categories we've got junction junction how two devices or two junctions connect together junctions to edges how these how these devices and our junctions connect to the pipes and then the edge junction edge connectivity right how do two pipes connect together what needs to be in between and then containment rules when we start building up these objects and assemblies what can be contained with other objects when you download the updm model it comes with about 3000 rules already built into the model and then an endless combination of possibilities to add your own rules or modify rules that come on the template so this is really critical for keeping the data quality of that information that's going into the utility network no longer can somebody just open it up like an old geometric network and make a change and break it right it has to go through this validation before it enters the utility network basis i talked a little about containers this is an example of a pipeline container that i built for a pump station so here typically maybe i had just a point or i had a polygon on the map that represented this pump station now i can actually enter into that polygon or enter into that pump station and start layering inside of it more and more details i can show the pumps the bypass piping and even the assemblies themselves can be containers so i can have containers with inside of containers so think of these as kind of mini gis's that are inside of the larger gis and allows me to stack these components so i'm not trying to look at 10 000 objects on the map i'm looking at the details as i as i traverse down through the stack the other really important part of the solution is something we call terminals so in the past what we've done is when we had a device along the pipeline we simply placed that point or those lines into the map and as long as they were topologically connected together we could see information flowing through them but now we've actually given these terminals or these devices intelligence and so with instead of just dropping a single point i can now specify how this object interacts with the pipes on either side so a great example of this would be a check valve right so a check valve depending on how that check valve is installed may allow product to flow one way or the other just a single point's not going to give me that that intelligence other examples would be things like isolation valves or pumps or compressors those would all have terminals and those are all to be defined so a pump would have a low low pressure and a high pressure side when i add those types of devices to the network i can start looking at things like flow and pressure within the system and i'm modeling those things based on the actual devices i'm not having to go in and just fill out attributes of my pipe these devices are actually controlling that logic within the model so here's a couple examples of what those terminal configurations might look like for example on regulators or reducing pressure valves i might have a high pressure going to a low pressure sometime i have generic flow so the product can flow in and out so like a wellhead source flange has an inflow and outflow to it um some things like like isolation valves can flow bi-directionally right so it has two generic ports that allow me to define which way the product flows or pressure increasing terminals like compressors and pumps going from low pressure to high pressure it doesn't really stop at the product flow as well we're using these devices to actually model and map the cp or the cathodic protection along these pipelines so not only can i see all the devices that are electrically are connected together by pressure i can see all the devices that are electrically connected together so i can connect my rectifiers my anodes my test leads my insulated flanges and be able to look at my system from a cp perspective as well as a pressure perspective now the interesting thing with these with these components is that once i've set these devices along the line and i've fired wired them into the pipeline i can then now see all the things downstream of these devices that are connected together right so we call these things sub networks and this is a good great example one of the one of the hierarchies in our system we defined as a pressure zone so basically what i do is once i once i wire in say a pump or a compressor i can then tell the system hey show me everything downstream of this point that sees the same pressure which in turn i can do interesting things like as i traverse a system show me the minimum maximum maop value for all that equipment and these pressure zones these are queries we've been able to do in pipeline in the past however we've had to maintain these as individual data elements whether they're range events or business attributes and any time there's a reconfigure this reconfiguration of the system we have to remember to go change these business values here all i have to do is add a new device and these sub networks automatically update based on that on those summaries of what they're connected to and this kind of leads into those more advanced analytics right so what that really is doing in the background is it's running a trace it's it's running a trace on the connectivity model that's automatically being built in the back end of the system and this trace now is the entry point from a lot of different analytics that we can run along the system i talked about the cp traces but i can do like isolation zones i can do pressure systems i can do business systems between meters source and sync there's a lot of different uh analytics that we can run that start as a trace collect up a series of features and then pass those features into it into the next stage of the process and then finally network diagrams right i talked about this at the um at the beginning this is an alternative i kind of refer to these as an alternative view of my maps right everybody can see these objects on a map but when i'm really looking at a network and looking at the devices and how pressure and flow is affected oftentimes the map is is not really my best mechanism for that so we now have the ability to take the map data and automatically create diagrams for that and those diagrams are also stored in the geodatabase they can be shared out through the system of engagement they're live linked to the map so if i see an object in my in my diagram and i want to see where it is geographically i can move seamlessly between those two two environments and i'll show you example of these diagrams when we get to the data set so that i'll um i'll leave off the slides just a reminder if anybody has any questions please fill them in and i'll uh we'll be answering questions when i come back from the live demo but one of the things i like to do when i do these demonstrations is not just show the same demo data set that we always show for our us operators so for this particular webinar what we did is we went ahead and built out a sample pipeline uh data set for the apac region so this is completely made up this isn't any any one operators data anywhere in the world this is uh the jeff pipeline that that i created but i created it with a couple of concepts that allow me to demonstrate uh some of the different utility network uh cadences so obviously i have a map and i have assets on that map and if i zoom in a little closer here we'll start and you can see what we've what i've attempted to do here is to some model some offshore pipelines maybe an offshore transmission line onshore to some some storage facilities and onshore transmission lines as well and i'll kind of take you through through each of those locations what i want to do is really start with these offshore facilities because i think this is a really interesting use case for the the combination of the linear referencing and the arcgis pipeline referencing in the utility network because we've often tried to to put this pipe into a linear referencing model but there's lots of and you can kind of just see it here on the screen there's lots of use cases around connectivity and how these objects are sort of wired together in in the field so you can see i've got some some welds here with some that are connecting to some manifolds uh those manifolds then take those pipe and move it off to uh to a gathering uh position so we've got some more manifolds uh coming down here to the to the collection point and then we gather up all that product and move it through the uh through the transmission system back on onshore um but what i've done here is and this will kind of show the first capability is what if i wanted to see what was connected to to one of these offshore wells well because i've got the connectivity model behind the scene i can simply create a starting point for my trace and i'll just go ahead and zoom in here let's start on one of these offshore wells and i'll just click on that as my starting point let me get rid of these couplings so i'll just go ahead and i'll have to add this after a while now at at first glance it looks like that this is just a point sitting out in space but i've actually used a lot of the utility network to go ahead and wire uh this point into the network and i can demonstrate that if i just use run a simple connected trace here and this will show me everything that's connected to that particular well so you can see it's gone ahead and selected some of the lines in this field brought it into this manifold something's happening inside this manifold to take it down to that to that offshore gathering facility and so if i want to take a look at how i was able to do this those couplings really come into play so i'm going to zoom back into this this location here and you can see i've added a couple of couplings to the end of this of the end of these pipelines and if i look at my uh associations i've gone ahead and associated this coupling with this uh with this well head assembly right so that's that's how that is starting that process it comes down to this manifold and inside this manifold what i've done here is i've actually created this as a as a container so if i was to go ahead and enter this manifold as a container what this will do is this will expose more details inside of this component it'll open up the container for me and inside of this container i happen to have all the different couplings that are associated with this with this particular manifold and again if i turn on the associations i can see that i have this coupling coming in from that well tied over to here which then continued that trace on down the line to that offshore facility and then again that same same cadence is true if i continue to walk down the line i come on to the the uh fpso come into that facility again all those individual manifolds are then connected to their appropriate meter on on the facility then back out to a pump and that pump then pushes that product into my offshore transmission line to bring that product on shore so again no linear referencing yet these are all just connected models and devices the interesting part of this if i if i want to add some more details is i can bring other design information in the back so so all these pumps and all these facilities have have intelligence let me just exit the container here but it doesn't prevent me from bringing in more details of the model behind the scenes so here what i've done is just gone ahead and bring in a a cad model of that of those supporting structures and now you can see that that offshore device that offshore uh ship that's that's capturing all this information and pushing it on shore we can see more information about the manifolds and some of the other uh subsea information as well and if i make my way down to the device where i connect to my transmission system i then transition into the into this manifold and then to my onshore onshore transmissions offshore transmission system so at this point i have linear referencing information that i want to add to these pipes so these pipes have have begin and end measures to them potentially or pipeline length but in this case maybe i have inline inspection data or rover data that i want to associate with these lines so now i can go ahead and turn on my linear referencing system and so what we've done for that is just simply take those pipe center lines and add in routes and measures on top of them right so now what i have in my in my transmission system is a route measurement system that now sits on top of that pipe and if we zoom out further and come down here to the onshore system let me just go ahead and turn some imagery on you can see i've got routes and measures all along that transition system all the way to the onshore facility into my onshore meter system and then you can see i i entered this plant so here what i want to show you is not only do i have those offshore facilities but i can switch again coming off the linear referencing system into my what i would call inside the fence piping and in this case i'm coming off that transmission line into a pumping facility that's moving that product in and out of these tanks so each each line coming into the tank farm has a check valve that's again connected to these to these tank objects i can see those connectivities there and turning that product right back around and again you know from that connectivity perspective if i run that connected trace that i ran initially not only did we come in that uh off of that offshore platform but came into that transmission line oops oops i deleted that starting point just go back and set that again so i'll just start that set that starting point again so now when i run that trace and i go back to that onshore facility you can see that trace has come all the way in for my onshore line all the way into those pumping facilities discovered all those devices and then in and out of my tanks back out to my outgoing pumping facility and then again back onto my transit transmission system so i can now discover from end to end everything from my offshore well all the way through my manifolds to my facilities and then don down to that to my onshore connected pipeline and eventually taking that product into the refining facility on the other end so now let me show you a little bit of that transmission facility so coming out of that storage facility and then back into the transmission system i'm back on to that linear referencing network and and i actually want to show you how i go ahead and set this so i'll go up here to this other end of the line because i've set my linear referencing system up into this mainline valve and i and i have just pipe here but no no linear referencing yet on this part of the system so remember the pipes are are in my utility network right so if i was to select this object you would see that that's part of the pipeline transmission pipeline feature this is in the utility network and remember what i said in the powerpoint that is becoming going to become the center line of my pipe and the only thing i need to do that for that is on that pipe record itself i've gone ahead and and priests pre-filled in the beginning and measure for this section of pipe so that's my begin measure my end measure uh and uh in meters for this particular pipe segment so to add linear referencing to this line i'm going to now switch over to my linear ref location referencing toolbar i'm going to select the create tool i've already selected the center line which is that piece of pipe so one selected here i'm going to select what network to put that within i'm going to put it in my engineering network i'm going to make that network active today i'll give it a line name and a route name and you can see it's automatically picked up the end measure from that underlying pipe in the utility network so this this linear referencing system is going to go from 0 to 60 36 and if i run that we should get a new route on top of that line and if i turn on the linear referencing system let me just clear that selection set i now have a linear reference system sitting on top of that pipe so there's all my measures if i wanted to add any data like ili or other facilities or inspections by measure along this line i can now do that and it now participates right on top of the connected model so i can discover those objects and i can actually dynamically segment the two systems together so if i had a linear event for say my pressure range and i want to intersect that with a pipe that's sitting down the utility network i can run a simple dynamic segmentation engine to do that or the flip side if i wanted to trace this network and find all the pipe and then find all the associated linear components with that they're all connected to the model too so i can go from the utility network trace side to discover the linear referencing objects or the linear referencing objects down onto the underlying pipe with inside of it so this is now very dynamic i can go from basically i can flip back and forth between stationed and non-station pipe and be fully connected from my offshore gathering offshore transmission onshore facility pipe and onshore transmission now you can see what i did here is i've actually used the pipe length to to to do the initial calibration of this new segment and so one of the nice things about arcgis pipeline referencing is that we only really need two calibration points to get started i have one here at zero and it will automatically add another calibration point for me at the end of the line so there's that there's that length measured there but obviously for for uh more detailed pipe modeling i would typically have additional calibration points along this line and a calibration point is simply a known location on the map that has a known location and a known measure okay and i can add as many of those additional calibration points as i want and every time i add a calibration point the linear interpolation of that point or linear interpolation of the objects along that line is going to change so let's go ahead and add a calibration point at this at this bend here so you can see from the from the initial measurement system uh this point uh is has been calibrated to be 1173 from the start and what i'm going to do is i'm going to go ahead and put in the their true measure of this location so let's say i have an as built drawing that tells me that the measure of this bend is 1190 right so it's a little bit longer than the 2d length and when i run this if you keep watching those measures you'll see everything been readjusted based on that new linear interpolation so now we've basically locked in one plus 190 to that bend and you can see the underlying value there if i just turn off that label really quickly that's now the measure of that point in that vertices is 1190 right so if i had a mainline valve like here once i add a calibration point to that mainline valve then i have forever locked location and the measure of that valve together right so that's allows me to tie those two systems together and then again i can go in and add any number of calibration points to the line to get that fully calibrated and typically what we see in most implementations is that we send you know we see every kind of major bend uh from the aspelt survey the horizontal and vertical bends along that line as calibration points but you can add as many calibration points as you need to really tie the linear referencing system to the underlying utility network pipes and then at this point it's simply i would just move on to start adding and loading in linear events on top of these lines so i would maybe i have an ili data set that's uh that's measured in odometer readings i could then calibrate those odometer readings to these engineering measures and then bring those points in the important thing to realize about both rts pipeline referencing and the utility network is that every object in here is a simple feature in the geodatabase right and so being a simple feature being a point or being a line or being a polygon i can easily share this information out with web maps and the rest of the organization i don't have to take this data and manipulate it to be able to use this information with the rest the rest of the esri stack i simply take these web same web services um that i'm i'm editing here in my pro and i can go ahead and move them right into the right into my web maps and my in my mobile applications so kind of back to my initial uh demonstration of that trace one of the interesting things i can do with that trace is uh is find all those objects and then using some of the utility network capabilities create a diagram for those objects so what i did is i just simply ran a trace of this entire network and then i created a new diagram for those selected objects so i'll just switch over to that diagram view now so this is that entire system from the offshore wells through all the manifolds through the through that ship that's contained the product push it out through into the way uh into that um into that tank farm out of the tank farm the other side and down that transmission line into that facility on the end so much different view of how that looks and you can see if i go back to my network diagram tab here i've got all kinds of interesting diagram layouts that i can apply force direction geo positioning smart trees this one i happen to run as a mainline tree because i thought it really demonstrated the look and feel of what i was after for this but as i said all these things are are connected together so if i'm interested in for seeing in particular what this inbound check valve is and where it lock where it's located i can select simply select that here for the diagram apply that back to my map and i move back to my map and if i zoom in there's that object coming from the schematic so tied together you know oftentimes i see users having these views side-by-side right so i can have my my you know using the side by side pain view being able to see my my maps and one side my diagrams and the other and everything that's available to me in the map from an attribution standpoint these are the same objects right so i have the same business attributes that i can query and edit and maintain from the diagram view or from the or from the map view so one of the other requests that we've gotten is you know when we get down inside of these facilities like say down into these into these buildings here often time there's there's other information locked away in other third-party systems whether it be lidar files or three-dimensional cad drawings there is an as built or a bim file for these types of facilities now that doesn't mean you have to load that entire bim file into the utility and efforts to make it go you can see here i've got these flanges a meter a valve and a couple of pumps i don't really know where they are physically inside these buildings i just laid them out here from a from a purely a schematic point of view and then use the association tool to tie them together right so if i was to click on if i was to modify my associations let's say i click on this pump i can see that that pump is is on the low pressure side right so remember this pump has an in and out to it so the weld on this side is tied to my low pressure in and my high pressure out is tied to the weld going out the other side so that's showing kind of that connectivity model and the terminals working sort of side by side but if i wanted to really dive inside this building i've got another sort of demonstration here where i've i've kind of created that container and i've used the 3d drawing or 3d as built to actually build out logically you know or physically inside the building where all those devices are you know i can view the connectivity here and you can see it gets quite quite interesting or quite hard to understand exactly what's going on because i've got a lot of vertical stack inside this building but all these objects that are in in this utility network layer are have been modeled with z elevations to them and once i have that z i can take all this information inside this facility and i can throw it onto a 3d scene so now i'm looking at that same utility network layer arcgis pipeline referencing layer in a 3d scene i can see my above ground pipe here so i can see the launch receiver assembly coming out of the ground i can see my bypass piping if i was to turn the ground off i'd see all the underground piping in this facility right so i can see i now see where that pipe goes below ground 90s up vertically into these valve assemblies and here i've actually got the 3d drawing of that building so this came from a bim file from the as built to this file of this building and if i peel away the roof you can now see where all those utility network objects came from so i literally went into my 3d scene view i'm sorry about that i went into my 3d scene place that again side by side with my my 2d scene and then just place these objects on top of the representative objects in the 3d scene so now i've got a real digital twin that kind of shows me what that pump and what those valves look like but i've got that utility network smarts or connectivity embedded in there as well so now as i traverse and tr and go through this model i can see what it physically looks like if i turn this off i can see how the objects in the utility network are laid out in 3d space and again these are queryable discoverable i can trace on these objects i can connect them together so uh that's where we're heading right is to be able to to not only go into the onto the pipeline center line but eventually build out these really detailed 3d models because when you think of tying the gis to say an information management system for work orders there's clearly work that needs to be done inside these buildings there's clearly devices inside these buildings that contain pressure that i want to make sure i discover if i did a trace of this facility so this brief this now brings together linear referencing network modeling 3d modeling all in one shared geodatabase all being able to be discoverable and shared out with the rest of the organization so with that we've got about 10 minutes left i'll go ahead and switch it back and lie i think we'll kind of open it up to any questions from the audience right um joe do you have the questions from your site yeah let me pop it open so the first question over there uh posted um jeff is that can we get a sample data and tutorial file to get tested out i presume the answer is yes for that absolutely that's one of the reasons i kind of built this new demo data set from scratch so i can share it with you guys so my idea was to kind of put this together and continue to build on it but i can actually take this file this geodatabase and export it to a file geodatabase and and make it available as well yep and then some others like how do we manage the linear events such as the sections of a pipe that require um refining or rust monitoring so what was the last part of that line how do we manage the linear events such as sections of a pipe that require refined or rust monitoring yeah that's that's really interesting so you know when we think about the pipe itself we we think about a couple of different things that are actually all interacting together you have the larger pipe segments like where we have this similar characteristics like od wall thinness grade manufacturer we typically put those in as as pipe segments then we have what we call the pipe lengths which are the individual 40-foot joints that make up those larger pieces and then between those joints we have the welds and so the way that we've modeled this is we have the pipe the larger pipe segments in the utility network and we're modeling the pipe lengths as individual ranged events on top of that on top of that pipe with those welds in between so if i ever wanted to get back to say a heat number or a joint number i could simply query that pipe segment linear event or pipe length linear event and then see and dynamically segment that back with my pipe and the utility network to get the characteristics so we're modeling pipes as lengths larger pipes is utility network objects and then welds on top of that okay the next um quick question is that is it compatible with the ppdm data model absolutely so we we would like to say that the the utility network and the uh arcgis pipeline referencing are data model agnostic right so they don't need to be in a specific pipeline data model but they do however need their set of feature classes configured in a way that are compatible with those tools so we call those the core information model right those are small those smaller pieces uh of the larger pipeline database that need to be implemented and then obviously you would put the rule base on top of that as well so you can build a utility network and an apr information model from scratch using the the toolbox tools that we deliver with both products great next question is that can we set rules with another layer for example hybrid electricity network and how to do that yep absolutely so one of the ways that the utility network is is quite interesting is because we have the ability to have what we call domains so i was demonstrating the pipeline domain but multiple domains can exist in the same geodatabase so you could have a water domain or an electric domain that has different rules and different components using that same cadence of connectivity and then you can actually trace domains together so for example i can do an electric trace and tell me all the pumps that are going to fail if this electricity supply goes out and then jump onto the pipeline and say tell me all the pipes that are going to be impacted by these pumps that just failed because they no longer have electricity so there's some really interesting cross-domain stuff we can do there as well great um the next one is the um how does asset spanning multiple mga projection zone get handled yeah so so the the projections are typically handled through the core esri projection engine so most of the customers i work with we're using some type of common projection system for the for the pipe data now we can store the geometry of the pipelines in unprojected geographic coordinates and have the measures in the linear references system and the pipe lengths be there be their true you know metric linear metric measurement so we can mix and match the two together uh most customers nowadays are going to to storing their pipes as as you know in lat long and having the measures be in a measured in a measured system okay great the next one is that when creating a point along a pipeline for linear referencing is it considered also the terrain elevations of pipeline underground think that you have covered that yeah so so really what happens is the the ability to take in the the concept of terrain comes down to the pipe itself right so the pipe itself will have x y and measure they can also have x y z and measure right so if i want to introduce a terrain into that model as well i could then and i've actually done this where i've taken a utility network pipe and draped it on the terrain and then dropped it for two meters of cover and then that's my that's my elevation and then i can put my pipe measures on onto that as well obviously all things being equal you know if you had a very uh accurate as built survey the three-dimensional lengths and your measured should be fairly pretty equal but because of historical reasons and different ways we measure pipelines we really give you the ability to have z and measure working independent great thank you um did i miss any question jeff sir it looks like i think we got them all right excellent great well my contact informations on the slide lies as well either one of us please reach out to if you have any follow-up questions you want to ask offline a lot of questions you know one maybe that didn't come up but a lot of people ask is how do i get started right so there's a lot of different ways uh whether it be a proof of concept or a pilot project or are different methodologies for for getting started to start to build these networks up but there there's a lot of great information from ezra available on how to get started and really there's a lot of great knowledge sitting in the esri distributor community and partner community in the apac region so we've got a lot of people that have utility network experience linear referencing experience uh in the asia pacific region that can help you out with your specific uh requests but we're from esri inc we're always here to answer questions for you as well great so excellent um i think that's um that's all the time that we have today so if you have more questions like jeff mentioned please reach out to us and do reach out to your actually contact in your aesthetic respective country as well so i hope that you find this webinar sharing useful and will benefit your great work in your organizations all the best and talk to you 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