Getting to Know the Utility Network

[Music] hi i'm krista campbell thank you for joining getting to know the utility network before we get started and i would like to encourage you to post your questions we will have time at the end of the webinar to answer some of them the questions that we don't get to will be included it in our QA follow-up that will be posted on jeona after the webinar the webinar is being recorded you should receive a follow-up email with a link to the recorded webinar ok the webinar today will provide an overview of how the new utility network will support the water industry joining me today is David Topman water industry manager Mike Miller solutions manager and Andrew Hargreaves solution engineer David is going to discuss the history of the geometric Network and why we are introducing the new utility network mike has been involved with the development of the utility network since its beginning and he will discuss the data model Andrew is going to demonstrate how many existing editing workflows can be moved from arcgis desktop to arcgis pro and how utility network rules are used to ensure high quality data creation so we've received many questions about the utility model and we're going to try to answer as many as possible if you haven't submitted your questions yet please remember to do so during the webinar in the questions dialog box and as I stated before if we don't get to your questions we are going to create a Q&A document that we'll post online so David's going to get us started I hope you enjoy the webinar David yeah thanks Krista um so as you know Krista mentioned I just want to take just a couple minutes to kind of give the water review point on the utility network and the fact that really it is our from a network perspective it's going to be applicable to to all things you want for utilities but also our water resource side of things with a little bit of a twist but more on that later so I just wanted to talk a little bit about you know the the water viewpoint the water perspective on the utility network and then as Krista said we're going to go into more of the overview configuration you know what what are these asset packages and then you know most importantly to some information you know how to join and move on and I know we've already gotten lots of questions ahead of time which is which is awesome so the utility Network and and we don't have sufficient time to go into the history of network development uh you know we kind of definitely back in the day we use what a couple node attribute tables to to kind of be able to navigate and understand connectivity in topology and in a course with the advent of ArcGIS Along Came the geometric network which a lot of us to do you know the the tracing from you know from sources to sinks well this utility network is a whole new thing and you know you know why why did we go there why why have we developed the utility network well definitely it gives us you know much greater performance it can scale that's been some of the challenges that folks are wanting to you know put into their network millions and millions of assets of features and and you know we needed to be able to scale to those folks out there they're wanting to create what we call you know digital twins right they want to be able to have it be a synthetic model of real life and that requires a much more complex modeling of those features which the utility network will be doing and again you know kind of that performance from scalability and and be cross-platform also folks have been looking for kind of just a a straw dog if you will you know these industry models to something a little more prescriptive so they can get started right away and that's what you'll see with the utility network as well a really starting block and it's that data model that we can leverage that allows us to kind of you know make sure it works cross-platform so you're definitely going to see you know for water utility and water resource side on water utility even we are starting with with water so those folks that are dealing with portable water systems you know kind of that's our first model out the gate and and then we live all as we start rolling things out and you know again in the future you know water resources and just you know some cloths don't quote me on this but you know some of the thoughts on the water resource side we're looking to these national water models that would be best suited that everyone could leverage right so anyway I say definitely in the future on the water resource sites so you know what is this really meaning though to water I mean what will I have if I am a potable water distribution company you know how what do I get well I think in my opinion you know this is definitely a you heard us talk about any device anytime anywhere but this will really start bring that full platform functionality you know for network features and again you know it's it's going to be rolling out in phases just like any new feature you know it will evolve over time but this really is one of those things where if you wanted to do network tracing in the field you know you had to have basically client-server activities we could do a geometric trace in the field on a lightweight device you had to have server functionality back and forth and so this really gives us you know that capability going into the future introducing also kind of this non coincident connectivity you'll be able to connect things that they'll be I'll participate and they're really this kind of gets us into do I immediately was drawn to like master meters for apartment complexes you can have all the individual meters that you may have a master meter and you know for folks doing service points and things and even like you know inlets that may or may not with the storm water folks you know some reason let's we just we just have point features right now but I think there's a pipe I'm not sure but we can start doing connectivity with these disconnected if you will and then you know and a detachment that can participate immediately thinking of like press bla sucks on force names and you know whether I have rain guards on manholes or not and you know what what does that mean force official runoff on doing modelling at that at that micro scale and all sorts of things and then to me one of the most exciting things to definitely heal containment so these assemblies that we have in our future classes so you know pressure regulating bowels you know basically our valve pits and and of course wastewater lift stations and even as we go into plant I have this concept of containment the things that belong within others or things um well I see great you know functionality coming forward with that and you know the the this what I would call parametric crazier this parameter based tracing will be able to do tracing rather than from just simply sources and sinks you'll actually be able to add some additional intelligence so you know for vitreous clay pipe um for locals that are doing you know basically route saws and and or you have you know some of the new hydro jets with like Lumberjacks that you really don't want to use the same equipment say on PVC papaya I you know you build certain a cleaning algorithm there or simply obviously you know the cathodic protection and you know different ways to actually trace the network beyond just this connectivity model and and you'll have not only have we been doing you know username dates natural longest time you know what's kind of be kind of built-in standard issue is this lifecycle management you know is this a prelim pipe is a you know an active pipe is an abandoned pipe that concept of that lifecycle management is built into the models as well so it really sets the stage you know for you to to almost go into say this is operational view of your network and and and trace on all sorts of different operational parameters above and beyond just a you know geometric connectivity so I see this as a a great thing that's going to evolve time we definitely you know have this developed it was the energy the electric and gas folks especially the electric folks that were really pushing for this and and you know there's there's all of us together with electric gas water and wastewater and so we're all all evolving our models and it really is going to I think make a big difference but anyway I will kind of stop going on and on about that because you're probably really interested and see what does this thing look like and we've got some of our experts on line to talk about it so I am I think we're going to start off with a quick polling question but I'm going to turn it over to Mike Miller Mike take it away thanks David we're going to go ahead and launch the polling question before might get started so if you guys could quickly answer how aware are you of the utility network please select one not at all slightly aware moderately aware very aware extremely aware you've been following this for a while it just takes a second how aware are you of the unit ility Network just need a few more votes coming in so it looks like about 33% are slightly aware we've got a similar percentage for moderately aware 13% of you are reporting that you're not aware of utility network and I'm 7% of you are extremely aware so it sounds like there's of course some of you that's been following along thank you for answering the poll I'm going to go ahead and close that poll and we're going to let Mike get started Mike thanks Krista so what are we going through some of the high-level concepts utility network have a demonstration and/or Evander's showing some of the capabilities as well as dive into the data model and how we'll be delivering that now you know the beta is you know the beta is upcoming so the things just a warning that you know we things that we presented here may change by the time we get to release a lot of the concepts you'll see here whatnot so we're going to go through some of the high-level overview you dive into the fundamentals of you know water in the industry data models look at timelines and then discuss the next steps and we have some time to answer your questions so if he's the first time you're hearing about the new utility network the network manager project was put together to solve a number of key challenges or key enhancements one of the main areas is providing cross-platform support with the geometric network like we have today you know we have it we use arcmap as our primary tool for editing and not just geometric network but our geo database and some of the advanced capabilities for management utility network is built around the concept of allowing you to put to analyze and work with a network regardless of the application yes Pro will be our first client to utilize it but as the easily network project evolves you'll be able to start managing maintaining and editing data through the web browser through mobile apps as well as desktop applications like ArcGIS pro because the reason behind us is a new service based architecture your interaction your interaction with a your natural with utility network is strictly through feature services we talked about this a little bit more the capabilities of the network not just managing the data but the capability of the network such as tracing and analytics will also be available across the platform so it's not just exposing the editing to a larger number of clients it's also exposing that capabilities such as like an isolation trace or an upstream or downstream trace those those analytics not an hour let's and those capabilities are native to e to the network and are provided through the services architecture other things that are in progress that aren't isolated to detail network but capabilities such as the attribute rules so if you use the attribute system today or similar functionality archeiai RGS is going to be enhanced to have that capability in the geo database that's gonna allow you to utilize these attribute rules in a web as well as your desktop applications now one of the things to say one of the big changes is that archaea the utility network is going to take advantage of new optimized model and to store and access your data so it's a simplified model if you're using it today the simplified model is a set of predefined feature classes looking that we're going to dive into but the use and interaction through of those features or of those layers is all going to be through a services to do through the web map in the feature layers so when we dealt when we look at the layers that we have access to get the your the way you administrator or you store them in the into the actual enterprise to your database it's not going to be the way your users are going to interact with them because the web map the feature layers allow us to provide different layers to build the map products or require now the administrator you still be able to connect to the database and perform your passes and meze triggers such as adding fields or manipulating changing the settings of the of the utility network but all the interactions such as editing analysis dealing will be through that through the feature services and the layers to be published on top of them so with that I'm gonna have Andrew actually show you a quick demonstration of the utility network and some of the capabilities that you can do in protei Andrew thanks Mike let me share my screen here and hopefully everybody can see that I have octi is Pro here and as Mike hinted at just a few minutes ago the way that information is served to end-users these days is is different than it used to be previously that information comes in the form of services whether they be map services feature services and then they're essentially wrapped into the idea of a web map and then of course I can take that web map and I can consume it in any ESRI application that I need to do the job that I want to do and that's what I've done here I've brought the web map with data at the heart of it into arcgis pro and so now i can benefit from all of the capabilities that pro brings along with it and i'm not just talking about faster performance because it's 64 bit or multi-threaded but i can have a true desktop experience and create new content or new features regardless of where that information has to go back to so you can see there that pro is pushing that information back to wherever it lives it might be being served to me through portal it might be being served to me through online in a way pro doesn't even really care where that information is so I can take advantage of other capabilities here and I can use edit templates to help me create rich data that is attributed accordingly so you can see here I just created a new lateral and if I show you information behind that lateral then we can see that the template added that it's it's size is one inch that it's material type is copper that this thing is in service and it's it's a residential lateral line and of course I can also take advantage of other desktop functionality things like snapping so I can create good quality information now of course you may be asking yourself why are we talking about editing inside Pro when we're really here to learn more about the utility network but Mike like Mike said the first place where you're essentially going to interact with the utilities network is inside Pro and you can see that I have one over here inside of my procession and if I highlight that in my table of content then of course Pro brings the appropriate utilities Network toolset to the front so that I have access to everything that I need and if I turn on those layers in my map then you can see that those tools were actually working in the background all the time there they were monitoring those new assets that I created because those features services participate inside of my utilities network here so the first thing that I have to do is validate my information I have to make sure that it's topologically correct so this is a capability that was in other parts of say achma or for data reviewer for example here it's just native to our GIS pro and you can see that I validated those things everything is connected everything is snapped which allows me to now do some kind of tracing so if I add a flag to that new media that I created there and if I ask pro to do me to you a network trace to see what else is connected we can see that this is done through a geoprocessing tool and again the studio processing tool is really just looking at the web map at the heart of this here it doesn't necessarily have to go back to where the source data is so you can see that I can't get very far I can't get past my lateral out onto the main and the reason for this is because unlike simple topology checks or connectivity that David hinted at at the very beginning with a utilities network we can get much more complex we can get much more fine-grained and what we can do is we can specify rules and rules might be more complex than just saying a line can only connect to another line with a point in between what we can actually do with rules of the utility network is we can specify individual asset types so that a lateral can only connect to a main with a fitting in between it and then we can even dig further beyond that and we can actually dig down into the specific attributes of each of those features so we could say that a one inch copper lateral can only connect to a 12 inch ductile iron main with a very specific fitting type in between the two of them and so if I go here and I add my I add my fitting in between the two of course I have to validate to make sure that they're connected but now I've hopefully satisfied the rule set that I have built into this geometric network we see right here so now if I do a trace I should be in compliance with all of those rules and you can see that now I can get beyond the lateral I can go through that fitting I can connect to the main and I can reach the wider network so the final thing that I want to show you is that I don't want to have to build each of these features individually just like you saw me do there the the the edit templates are useful they help me populate each individual new asset with the information that the rules were so for example the lateral isn't just a lateral but it's a one inch copper residential lateral but I don't have to build these things individually I want to be able to replicate some of the functionality that we've seen available through solutions that plug in to arcmap and again that functionality that is just native inside of of GIS pro so here I have what's called a group template and a group template is exactly as it sounds I have a group of different assets together which I can sort of pre populate with attribute information behind each one but essentially going to create me a whole little asset set here so I have my lateral you can see that this is one ancient copper it's residential I have that all-important fitting is part of this which my rules of my network require for connectivity purposes and they have a cut-off valve or a curb stop and I have a water meter in there too so what this allows me to do is to very quickly just create something like we we made a few minutes ago but with just a couple of simple clicks and you can see what I've built here I've built fittings I've built that service connection or that water meter I have my curb stop or my shutoff valve and of course I have the lateral in here and you can see that the lateral is populated with the information we asked it to be the size and the material type etc and you can see that this information is also connected topologically like we said earlier on so if I grab this fitting right here ah and if I move it around slightly you can see that this stuff is all connected just like it was in a geometric Network now so if I validate my information once again clean that up and then of course I run my my connected trace again all of those new features that we created with just a few simple clicks using the Edit templates in the group to let's satisfy the rules and participate inside of my utilities Network so this idea of rules allows us to get very fine-grained and create much more sophisticated tracing capabilities than the simple connectivity that I just showed you here for example we could include one-way valves that are passive on the upstream trace but stop flow on a downstream trace and all of these rules are really a function of the data model that underlies the utility network and to talk about the data model I'm going to hand this back to Mike all right Sandra so hopefully got a little taste of what the utility network is going to provide you have a lot of the capabilities that you're used to today but we'll start adding you know even provides more more functionality and even a better experience but just kind of go back to that point which you're seen there is as Andrew was being a user just like a user of the network take an advantage of ArcGIS Enterprise interacting with utility network through services and using one of the applications which happen to be Pro these capabilities as I mentioned will be available eventually throughout the entire stack now to realize the benefits of the utility network these are things you start thinking of if you want to take advantage of the beta or start participating or participate in the beta and start getting familiar with utility network we use a couple good requirements that we encourage you to start setting up so if you're not already an RGS Enterprise user or you're not utilizing the capabilities such as portal for ArcGIS server these are the capabilities you'll need to take advantage of the Ru of the utility network this to note you know utility network is not currently supporting the file geodatabase and because of that service feature service the service base model you're interacting strictly through feature servers requiring that enterprise to your database on the back end so that christa we have one more poll question like the show yep we're going to go ahead and launch the next poll is your organization currently using ArcGIS pro oh yes or no so it should be pretty easy give you guys a few seconds looks like the votes are coming in is your organization currently using ArcGIS Pro so it looks like we have about 35 percent of the audience saying yes they are using pro few more votes are still coming in so we'll just give this another second about 65% are saying no we are not using pro all right well thank you guys for answering the whole mic back to you alright so with that let's dive into a little bit of fundamentals of the utility network we're not gonna be able to cover all the different all the different concepts and all the different capabilities in today's webcast we want to set the foundation for some of the key elements and these are things you cannot you know be able to learn upon throughout the year and as you start with using like utilizing the beta 1 is kind of the composition of the utility network when we think about how we model networks today we model them all as a complete system you Tony network allows us to start breaking these networks out and in a series of different domains so you think about that the utility number of Lexus model one or more domains inside of the utility network these is where they think about a domain is a domain is your water domain your sewer domain your motor domain or your electric domain is essentially all the features required to deliver a deliver or collect a resource there's inside of those domains we can also model different subsystems so in our picture in the bottom you can see we have a potable water domain and in there we have our system here that system could be the treated production the treated distribution or even the untreated or raw the collection side inside of each of those systems we can model different subsystems such as a pressure zone or an isolation zone or a DMM a inside of each of those zones we can have even smaller zones so allows us this hierarchical system to model and model the different zones inside of a different to me as I mentioned you can have one or more domains those domains can live side-by-side and if you want those domains to connect to each other you can take advantage of the structured network the structured network has a couple purposes one is the structure network is designed to model the features that support the DES me you know it's the easiest way to think about this is as well think about an electric domain we have a power pole or a utility that's supporting a transformer or the wire the pole itself is a structure doesn't pass any current through it but it supports all the devices that actually do get past the current through it you know when water we can look at say a plate in casing where a pipe casing actually doesn't have any flow in it but actually supports the pipe and that's what we can you how will you take advantage of these structure networks the other key area the structure network allows us to cross that is a connection point between our different domain networks so if we're modeling a sewer system and a storm system and we're up and we have a combined sewer in storm system in certain parts of the city you can actually use that structure network to go and trace between those different domains so in times of a rain event if we need to figure out there the path of a or CSO path we can actually trace between those systems now when we look at the structure network now this is the way we're representing or storing features in the geo database remember earlier that we store data in the database is not going to be a way we interact with it so don't let this deter you from thinking about how to take advantage of the structure network we were provided three different feature classes allow us to model the structures their align a point and I Paulo on a boundary layer an inside here we can represent all the different features that make up our structure Network when we look at a domain network we're modeling our features in the five different future classes this would be our devices the devices are the things that actually operate the flow or affect the commodity on the network such as valves and hydrants and meters the lines or the linear features in e toises our pipes and laterals and open channels in our sewer in storms and whatever systems the junctions are the things I provided connectivity between lines such as this may be a fitting assemblies are those complex features that David mentioned earlier such as we want to model what a PRV really is or a backflow preventor it's a collection of devices we can now model that that there's a single location and in that single location we can open it up and see all the different elements that NAM really that that compose that device and then there's a subnet line this is a system in paint line that is an aggregation based on your tier so as I said earlier you have a pressure zone let's sum that line we'll actually see how you will actually represent all the features that make up that pressure zone or in isolations and all the features that make it up so by you controlling and setting the appropriate values the system's going to maintain these different zones for you now if we look at the feature classes and how we can start modeling our utility data in these in these set of predefined classes there's a certain set of fields that are key and these are your asset group and asset type fields you can add any additional fields you want to this you can add any additional fields you want but this is going to how you allow you to model and represent all your different devices and assets so if we look at the asset group and answer type attributes in these fields these are really key important fields important concepts to understand not only do they not only do we let us to model the model the feature classes and all the different slices they also let us define all the different properties of the utility network so that's a group field this is simply you think of this like a subtype field in today's future classes but this is where you would actually map and represent all the kind of layers you have in your xisting network the asset type then is a unique discriminator or unique a unique feel or a set of values per asset group let's you let you model a nother level of classification of this thing others different devices are assets and defining the asset group so let's just kind of look at this so we look at a water device layer we may have what you see here on the left side and the devices these are all the different devices we have in the water system this is a very close to the list we have on our baseline data model we look at for instance we actually look at the asset groups or pressure valve you see they're divided in different types in these different types such as a pressure valve as pressure reducing that asset group asset type will allow me to specify additional utility network properties on it such as it may be a source it's the starting point of a pressure zone another way to look at is this is the actual properties table that we provided in the utility network if we expanded a device you can see on the left-hand side all those different asset groups you can see the different asset types so for our control valves that they're type o say commercial residential or if we're looking at a flow valve let's check valve we see it's defined as a category and it has a dual terminal configuration these are additional properties you can specify on these these different assets by these two fields what are these properties you can define the one of some that there's some very important ones such as terminals terminals allow you to provide connection points to a device so you don't just connect a line you don't have to just connect a line to a point you actually can connect a line to a point at a particular terminal no I think check valves are easiest one to think about we've always struggled a model what side of a check valve is the upstream and what side of the check valve is the downstream so we're drawing that water main and we snap it to a check valve well you know we can actually specify it's on the A or B or the up side upstream or downstream side as Andrew mentioned and that Kate that device can then be honored as part of tracing the net which way flow can go through it you know more complex terminal you're seeing here on the rise like a diverter valve or not we can model where the pipes connect but we also can model the valid configuration but a is connected to B C is connected to D or D is connected to a and you can model these different configurations and these multiple terminal devices there's also categories we can define in these categories well shared earlier such as protective so that note that that device is a one-way or something we want to trace to all our protective devices these categories help us identifying and search and you know be able to affect our different tracing capabilities Network attributes are another capability and this is defined on a on a particular field in a feature class this allows us to uniquely index and monitor or use a value on a field I think is where I think about this is in if you're utilizing our existing isolation trace a solution in our water utility or what our utility network tool toolbar adding you have to go into the configuration file you have to specify the feature class name for your valves you have to specify the field name of which field is operable and you have to put in the values of 0 or 1 to determine which is a Oppel valve versus non opera or else the network attribute allows you to specify this at the utility network where you can predict a particular field such as operable and you can define its its type such as you know it's a it's a 0 1 it's a domain as a boolean yes like opener sorry true or false or open or closed and when you run when you build your traces your networks you can utilize them to help you to identify say stop it out my closed valves or stopped at all my non-operable valves lastly as Andrea really kind of showed earlier with the conductivity and rules so we can very can be very discreet and how we model the connection of our network we can model items such as a feature can only connect to another feature a line can only and can connect to a cap a pressurized mean connect to a fitting of type cap or a pressurized main can calculate you know lateral through a corporation stop or through a tab or tee you also need to find which features have attachments or which features can contain other features so this idea of containment where I can say that this complex assembly this complex valve has many features in it you can actually define that but you also can do that with items such as a pump station I can say that this pump station area polygon boundary can contain all these different assets now I'm looking at my data I might only see the boundary and then I could go choose to actually show which assets are actually inside of there lastly as we kind of touch the border don't tears and subnetworks we're going into how we set them up these allow you to model kind of sub portions of subsystems inside of your inside of your network these are defined by categories and the at and the terminals and really shows that a lot of these different pieces all come together to help you define some of the different sub zones in your network so this is kind of a quick tour through the properties and some of the capabilities of the utility Network but hopefully help start getting you start thinking about why these asset groupings asset type fields are very important and when we're setting up our data so your own beauty these two characteristics use two fields two values are what we use to actually define all the characteristics and control the functionality of our network now it's a lot to take in it's a lot to you know it's a little big change from how we currently MA auto data and to get you started at ESRI building a set of baseline models to get you jump-started just like we do with today's industry models now we're amplified configurations for a number of key areas and what we're going to start hearing is a term of asset package and I'll explain to you what this is we've probably models for water wastewater stormwater electric and gas now the initial data is going to provide water electric and gas and we'll be working on storm water and wastewater throughout the year now we're deleting those data models and what we call an asset package this isn't just a geo database that you can copy and paste into your tilde Network this asset package provides a schema for all the roads asset groups and asset types but the baseline set of fields you can start with but also provides all the different characteristics and capabilities such as you know what are the terminals in the system what are the categories how they are how they assigned to our fields what is it what are the tears in some networks and how we set them up so these are going to be providing a jump start or a starting place for how you'd model your water sewer storm electric and gas data in the utility network now we're providing them as a file to your database so this asset package is nothing new to you it's just a file geodatabase with a known schema or a predefined schema with all these different capabilities or all these things set up for a particular industry so if you want to eel kind of peruse it look at it before you actually set it up you can go ahead and just kind of break apart as components the nice thing is we allow you to model now to create utility network not just from one asset package but from any number so you could take a baseline asset package you could grab you could generate your own with additional fields additional capabilities additional asset groups and then our tools will either combine them into a single utility network there's a lot of number of reasons why you have this could be part your partners providing an add-on to our baseline they can provide that as an asset package you model the gaps you start doing a gap analysis being what the baseline provides and what you have in your current system such as you may have a field to integrate with a work order system definitely add that yourself really encourage you to build that as an asset package now you have a history you can recreate your your data model anytime so as I mentioned these encapsulate all the capabilities of the utility Network asset group says asset types all the rules appears associations account activity all the things that all the capabilities but to give me all the capabilities required to set that up for just a high-level view of how it's going to work as you when you need access to the beta you start working with your on creating new utility network our tools allow you take this asset packages apply them to your utility network optionally load sample data so if you want to play with our Naperville sample data with variety we can load that in there and you can output is a utility network that you start start editing just like Andrew was showing your earlier day so just uh just kind of end and we'll open it up for some questions here in a minute I'm just in the timeline you will see a beta one coming out very shortly within the next couple weeks or two they'll be a beta available for you and it will be it's you have to sign up to an early adopter or early adopter pages but this will give you access to the water electric you have data models so give you access to the utility network and a lot of its capabilities as well as the tools to lay down and kind of start manipulating and extending the easily network data model you'll see throughout the year another beta will be coming out without have additional capabilities such as the attribute rules these won't be in the beta one these actually rules provide a lot of attribute assistant like functionality and closer to the end of the year you'll see a final release of the software that will provide you know all the water or well in addition to what you provide in beta will have the sewer and storm water data models so some next steps you know a couple things that we know I was definitely start getting familiar with pro start using pro and see how you can utilize that evening current your current environment but get involved with the beta I mean the data model we've developed we've tried to we've tried to take a lot of the feedback we've heard over the years and incorporate that in their model some of the additional devices and the complexity and take Vantage of the new system to model the stuff that we've always struggled with an existing database so when we're at this point we really need your feedback you have to organize data do we need to add additional fields to that we're at a point where we can definitely still easily manipulate in on the model to make sure that at release it has all the capabilities you guys need to get up and running with detailing network so we definitely wanted to get your feedback on that and you can see the link there for the early adopter site you know dot jot that down sign up and again start working with utility network the other thing is you want to start thinking about is looking at going to find some of the areas you might want to you know put a process to improve your system data utility networks going to allow us the model more things maybe these are items you can start capturing today in your xisting database so as you make the transition these things are already and we're all ready to be loaded into the total network and you can be even a step up so thank you guys for coming hopefully you found this educational and valuable this isn't you know last one of these that we'll be doing we can definitely as throughout the year we can be providing up to more up-to-date information and giving you a dive into deeper but this is a hopefully a good start and a good high-level overview of what the Sun Network can provide you give you some of the you know some of the quick view into the underlying or kind of behind the curtains of the capabilities of the network so Kristin who have we got any questions come in I'm like yeah we have a lot of questions don't worry I'd like to start with a question or multiple questions really we've had several of the audience submit questions about how the utility network is used in reference to portal and ArcGIS online I know you mentioned that briefly in your presentation but there seems to be some confusion about what's required and how it interacts with ArcGIS online versus portal and or portal okay is there a good question so the utility network as I mentioned services only so when you great utility network your first step after setting up your database is to publish a set of services those services for the first release will require portal and ArcGIS you know the RGS server component of portal they're not going to be supported those services cannot be published in ArcGIS online once you create those services through your ArcGIS server in your portal environment you now have access to them through application so just like you would today in a hybrid model if you publish something ArcGIS server you can register that or utilize that in an ArcGIS online application it just arches online if not the hosting environment for the services and that same is going to be true with the utility Network now the first relief the utility network will have the access to the data will be through feature sources just like you have today but the advanced capabilities such as tracing and some of the other capability of utility networks going to provide will be will have rest services arrest end points but the RGS online JavaScript API the runtime SDKs will take time for those things to become native into those framework so it's going to be an evolution as the otoni network is released pro will be the first client that knows how to interact with those service endpoints but eventually the all the different apps and SDKs will also be able to interact with those endpoints so hopefully that answers your question that you can definitely still view the data through a web app and as an arch s-line just RGS poor-poor for chess no chess Enterprise are the publication environment for for that thanks Mike and we've also received several questions about how the utility network is going to work with CMS applications so something like a city works or even Oracle is there something you can talk about in reference to that I mean I don't really have a definite answer how other interact I mean the interaction with these other network is through feature services so if your current integration is through a kind of a client server database connection they will probably have to be you know looking at how that would be updated or expanded to utilize the feature services at the end of the day your features your restoring there are features in a geo database so the I mean I think the interaction could be very similar just without the details of how the communication or how the different systems integrate is really hard to answer but it definitely something we you know you know we should probably encourage you to reach out through there under determining yeah how we can best move each assistants communicating well Crysta I've got I've got you know some thoughts on that just as we've been seeing the utility you know Network evolve you know Mike was able to to cover a critical component is you know these asset groups and asset types I mean when we when we have conversations and and you know when I was at cars from Stila T's it was was always a struggle as you know having a CMMS or Enterprise Asset Management System and the G is the basically the asset classes asset hierarchies you know how how they would go hand-in-hand especially if you start them bringing in also your financial general ledger you know the just the buckets that were there and so what I see happening here though is you know the utility network with its asset groups and asset types will allow you to model better model your asset registry and and really that's half that vial and so once you get you know your asset registry working from a model perspective within the utility network that will really help set the stage for then working with any CMMS vendor of choice now yes as mike says you know the interface would be through feature services not traditional you know database calls where we're really extending that piece but the just the process of walking through building your your asset registry within the utility network you will you will overcome lots of hurdles there or in getting those things work through because you're going to use it an operational fashion and so I think you'll really set yourself up well for any CMMS vendor just by going through that process of making a very competent very usable very operational perspective asset registry thanks Damon Mike I know you discussed this a little bit during your presentation but we have a lot of questions about the attribute assistant and how that's being used now can you just may summarize how that capability is going to be made available with the new M utility network so I'll cover to both of the dispensary Adams now so if you're utilizing our current water utility editing an analysis solution you're probably familiar with the water network editing tools and the atratus system so both of those stench so the water network editing tools you know we're currently not looking at you know rebuilding that for ArcGIS probe there's a lot of these capabilities in there are not required or part of our GS Pro or part of the editing style we have that our chest Pro provides like the group template Andrew shred with drawing in the tap and lateral the valve and the service connection so you know as we get closer release we can definitely reevaluate the gaps with you know we're providing the utility Network and RTS Pro and look at it the same thing we need to fill but currently that is not under plans to be upgraded the same goes true for the attribute assistant I mentioned earlier the attribute assistant is an arc map editor extension works inside of arcmap in arcgis pro or will utility network editing is not constrained to the desktop anymore so building an add-in for pro is really we really need that capability of the attribute system to be available not just in pro but across this fact such as collective web applications as well as NGS Pro and the dev team currently under development at the project called attribute rules which will be available not with a beta one coming out on a few weeks but in the beta 2 that's going to provide attribute assistant like functionality is it going to have all the roles the attribute assistant provides answer's no so we'll have C and we'll definitely look at what the gap is or what you require and the rules you have today and what is going to be provided over the accurate assistant so if your attribute system user we have a good geo net blog out there where a lot of people contribute the rules feel free to go out there and also put up your rules we have a nice clip keep building that list of how everybody's using it today and what kind of that would help us understand what are those capabilities we need to provide with the attribute rules coming up and coming in ArcGIS thanks Mike and we also had several questions about moving from the geometric network to the utility network are there going to be support tools for documentation that helped you make that transition good question so in the beta one we're not providing any tools that assist with the data migration you can definitely it's just feature class at the end of the day you can use your processing and map your data over you can take advantage of you know partner solutions like data Interop or FME safe software workbench to do they may take migration as well so we have a great partner community that's already out there helping you migrate your data from the geometric network into the utility network one of the areas we are looking at providing is an enhancement to the data assistant of pro add-in this is currently out there and as part of our community parcels and community address solution you can use it today and this is actually what we're using internally to map our existing the geometric network data into the utility network but we're working on some enhancements to make it even better and take advantage of new capabilities to assist with moving our data from the to you know from from the GM to the UN so you know yes we're at the beta - we'll probably look at providing that and update that tool but today you'll just if you downloaded 81 will have the data already for it I'll load in there and if you understand different paths for migrating your data into utility network great we also had several questions about disconnected will this affect how our customers are able to work in a disconnected environment no this should only enhance how you can work in a disconnected environment because then you often life storage model beyond a pull your data offline will become even more efficient this is the way that and there's some new layer types coming to our chests that will optimize the way you interact with it so yes I mean being disconnected to one of those capabilities from the beginning that has been it is a requirement so not just disconnecting adding your data but all those capabilities will go offline with you so if you're all if you're out long if you're offline and say an explorer app and you're out using your your water utility network you have the ability to trace it on an ability to do someone's analytics is on the plan to be provided to your offline okay we also have several questions about ArcGIS Enterprise and the licensing and the technology stack that's required I think some of that terminology might be a little new to our customers can you just go over what Enterprise means and what the technology stack is going to need to be in order for them to implement this sure ten five you know the ArcGIS software went through a kind of a renaming in our GS Enterprise is the term that covers our TS server portal for ArcGIS and a lot of other capabilities that go into our GS server so our GS enterprises to stand is the software you would install on your environment be like before you would install portal and then a small server so our GS enterprise is really that same sulfur you're familiar with it just under a a new a new kind of moniker I - or some other some other key changes in there David do you have any comments on that oh it would help to unmute yeah no I mean that's that's pretty well covered because I think there's actually a couple more questions that as we're wrapping up and and just some final thoughts on some of the asset registries that last question rules it got me thinking on some other components okay so maybe you can finish the next question right we can spend some more time on that maybe in our update at the water you see meeting ok so another question came in about the values and how we are going to manage 3d in the new utility network and in ArcGIS pro yes so part of the util network is data is automatically easy aware how we visualize and interact oh that in the 3d space I don't have experience with so I can't answer that but the data is by default zo znm aware so can't give you a definite answer or something duh we can find out and follow up and get more details on at a later date ok thanks Mike so we also had some questions about hosted feature layer views and what technicians can see or not see based on views and editing can you discuss that a little bit yeah as I mentioned you know our just align is the other gesso line currently is where we support use of data the portal technologies might take advantage of that yet so as that capability is being evolved and applied to portal these are just feature services that same capability should be able to be applied to provide different views of that data to restrict or control access okay there are also several questions about the file geodatabase and concern about versioning okay well I mean without Judea is a color first as I mentioned it's not supported with utility network so simple one there with versioning there is a new version model be honest I'm not the expert on the new version mo model that's being incorporated so it'd be something we have to follow up and get a better answers for you on how the new versioning model works within the utility network thank you we also had several questions asking about hydraulic modeling and how this new network might impact the use of hydraulic modeling software have you had any grants there now it's very good question and something area we need to work with our partners to ensure that they can you know perform their models on top of this new data structure you know it is a it is a new is a new data designer new data structure the utility network and the capabilities but the underlying features are just simple features so it's we don't have it going to have a concrete answer but it's not we need to you know ensure that our partners have their software being ported over to take advantage of doing the analysis on top of these setup with the utility network keep your classes yeah Christa I guess a comment on them bottling and and we we see that in some other other regards but as we get into all the you know the the H&H side of things even like our we've tried have been very careful with our current even you know management solutions we have all these information products that that we do what we do well and we kind of let the user have the science of their choice to to do whatever modeling they want to do to get us to let's say a flood inundation polygon so you know but there there are expert systems in the field that do the modeling side that we you know we just take the results of that and I see that same thing happening somewhat with the utility network as Mike just said you know there still features behind the scenes a lot of the services piece is the interaction with the model for editing in that for for hydraulic modeling typically we do an extraction of that of the asset infrastructure and connectivity that's guaranteed through a rule then when they start to run linear regression in other other you know calculations they're doing that in their model space anyway and then coming back so you know yeah there will be as Mike says there be working with the partners but you know I see a still a traditional thread carrying over into the new utility network but but definitely something that will probably even be able to do webinar on when the time comes you know as we evolve and get to that point thanks David so going back to the software required for the utility network there are several questions about the software and the versions of the software so Mike you mentioned ArcGIS 10.5 this is required to run the utility network correct yeah always went back to the timeline stride am I am I not sharing my scope I'm not sure my screen anymore Christa um that's all right I'll I'll go ahead and let you sure yeah so if you look at the timeline which you'll see is that beta 1 the beta 1 is going to be based on 10.5 and Pro 1.4 so these will be overlays or tensions essentially you add or in a service pack or stall you would set on top of these so for the beta 1 you'll need 10.5 and pro one for one or one for one of these for the second beta this would be based around ten five one approach well and then going forward the first release you'll see it be 10.6 and pro 2.1 so hopefully this answer is that you know these were the versions required for you to take advantage of the utility network throughout the beta in the release on a schedule thanks Michael for this I think we have time for one more question we had a couple questions from our current Park gif Pro users about the symbology so I know andrew in his demo we saw some of the symbology there is their standard symbology built into the utility network or is this something that's in ArcGIS Pro we're still really hashing all that out but the standards in geology won't be built into the utility network but we'll be providing that symbology with our data models just like the data models aren't built into the same network but we're providing them as part of the total network you know you'll have these different industry configuration you can select one them so we also have maps and it's an area that we're still finalizing how to best provide them but yes there will be some standard symbology including symbology and maps included with those data models great well I think that's about all the time we have thank you for joining us today as I mentioned earlier we will create a QA document that will be posted on mine I know a lot of you submitted questions that we didn't get to so please keep an eye out for that also M please join the water team at the user conference for our Sunday every water meeting hey Chris Akkad I've got a Larry unhappen to send me an email just to follow up on things so he did say that single-use to your databases so will be supported at a later date so the kind of question if can we use this kind of a filed your data is with their be constantly single usage at your database will be used at a later date and then for the 3d space you did say that there will be connectivity at the XY & z levels you can actually define connectivity not just by do they overlap but do they overlap at the XY & z space so thanks Larry for giving those updates yes thanks Larry and I'm Larry is going to be joining us at our water UC meeting and presenting on the utility network as well so we do have other resources and coming up at our UC so you can find out more and as David mentioned we're going to hopefully bring use some additional webinars that will keep you up to date on what's going on with utility network thank you for joining us today I hope you have a great evening or afternoon depending on where you join us from [Music]

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Published: Mon Apr 10 2017