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What is the Single Cartographic Panel?

The Single Cartographic Panel (PUC) is a web application used by Enel to manage, modify and maintain the national electricity grid, including customers. The PUC allows the georeferencing of each element of the electricity grid using GIS and Geoserver technologies. It is a system created to interact with other applications, tools and maps and which uses 3D technology to scan the territory and everything that could be around the ENEL network. Thanks to advanced virtual reality, it is possible to enter the transformer substations “physically” and remotely.

Exprivia Solution

The Single Cartographic Panel has three different Graphical interfaces that allow operators to schedule interventions:

• Design and Budgeting Platform: the purpose of this interface is to design the network in GIS-Driven mode and obtain the technical and commercial estimate on the SAP system (Enel Distribuzione’s ERP system, i.e. a management system for economic final balance). It is possible to estimate changes to the electricity grid through real interventions by a technical team. The interface also makes it possible to follow and indicate the progress of the maintenance work on the national electricity grid in the field for each project protocol and to update (i.e. publish them, making them definitive and permanent) the changes to the operating network through increments;
• Network Editing: In this interface, you can adjust the topology and information of the operating network. You can collect changes or adjustments to the network in a project (or “draft”) and save them for later resumption. These changes can then be validated and updated by permanently making changes to the operating network;
• Electrical Study: this interface, similar to the previous one, allows you to validate the correctness of adjustments to the electricity grid, for a further guarantee of the activity.

Single Cartographic Panel: perimeters of the Exprivia project

Evolutionary development project and application maintenance services of the system carried out by the ICT Infrastructure & Networks (I&N) Solution Center, as part of the process of Development of Networks, Grid Topology & Quality and GIS with geographical coverage of Italy, Spain, Romania and Latin American countries, with particular reference to the Platformization area.

The main technologies and frameworks on which the solution is based are: Geoserver, Java Microservices, Java Reactive, SpringBoot, Kubernetes, Docker and Cloud AWS.

The project activities are carried out in Agile rooms in the Platformization area and include:

• Backend development of the Single Cartographic Panel (PUC) focused on the creation of thematic maps using the properties of the electrical elements and on the implementation of backend services for the editing of the national electricity network;
• Porting topological data to the Platform and developing SpringBoot microservices for their extraction and aggregation. These microservices provide solutions with the network topology data they need for their use cases;
• Creation and maintenance of the CSM Italia incremental motor, to support electrical network design problems through the technical-functional analysis of the network; creation of massive remediation of the spatial data of the network and infrastructure elements; integration and migration of data between different platforms and heterogeneous databases;
• Analysis, design and implementation of microservices and business services related to the new infrastructure of Enel’s GIS platform; management of the cartographic catalogue and its integrations with respect to Enel solutions.

Results

Thanks to these tools, it is possible to implement a more efficient planning of the maintenance activities of the electricity grid , obtaining a real vision of what the operators will find on site. A mapping that makes it possible to assess the presence of any interference with other plants upstream and that supports colleagues in putting in place all the procedures aimed at ensuring the safe execution of activities.

Team technicians also interact with these technological systems: thanks to applications created for smartphones, they are able to view maps, changes made by colleagues and above all to know the characteristics of the network, knowing exactly where to intervene.

A set of tools, therefore, that facilitate and make possible the monitoring of the national electricity grid useful for ensuring more efficient and continuous electricity services .