May 24, 2015

SEMO Electric Cooperative Gains Powerfu Tool from Futura

SEMO Electric Cooperative Gains Powerful Mapping and Analytics Tools from Futura Systems

Selection of four Core Esri, utility-focused GIS software solutions aims to drive efficiency, reliability for Missouri Cooperative

SEMO Electric Cooperative has selected utility-centric enterprise software from Futura Systems, Inc. to maintain and improve reliable, cost-effective electric service for its members. The four solutions – including FuturaGIS, FuturaStake, Catalyst and FieldPro – represent an upgrade from previous engineering and GIS software. The Futura solutions were selected for their ability to integrate with the co-op’s existing billing and customer records as well as their capacity to improve the utility’s ability to model the electric network and to manage assets and workers across the cooperative with a variety of mobile devices.

“We brought together a team including engineering, staking and operations, looking for a powerful tool that built on the Esri platform to provide a full-bodied solution useful in each department,” said SEMO Systems Engineer Brad Milam.

SEMO will use the tools to serve members across its service area, which extends from the western banks of the Mississippi River across 75 square miles of Southeast Missouri. The mapping and staking functions of FuturaGIS and FuturaStake will provide enhanced efficiency in maintaining assets and deploying field technicians for SEMO’s 16,000 members at homes, farms, small towns and businesses including large mining processing plants.

“Futura will provide training to show SEMO how to maximize the impact of the solutions’ specialized utility-focused tools,” said Futura COO Adam Dinges. “For example, the mapping features will allow them to map electric-specific features for asset management, operations and maintenance and the analytics features of Catalyst can help unlock meaningful patterns in data that can be used to improve member service, efficiency and reliability.”

Catalyst can, for example, overlay outages with lightning strikes to show better outage detection points and locations for lightning arrestors, display blinks along the electric grid to find possible faulty locations before outages can occur, and help plan the best place to locate remote payment kiosks (by displaying prepaid metering members on the map).

FieldPro’s core functions include search, view and identify, turn-by-turn GPS directions, and even network tracing. It is compatible with iOS devices.

Learn more about SEMO Electric Cooperative by visiting their website at http://www.semoelectric.coop/.

SEMO Electric Cooperative has selected utility-centric enterprise software from Futura Systems, Inc. to maintain and improve reliable, cost-effective electric service for its members. The four solutions – including FuturaGIS, FuturaStake, Catalyst and FieldPro – represent an upgrade from previous engineering and GIS software. The Futura solutions were selected for their ability to integrate with the co-op’s existing billing and customer records as well as their capacity to improve the utility’s ability to model the electric network and to manage assets and workers across the cooperative with a variety of mobile devices.

“We brought together a team including engineering, staking and operations, looking for a powerful tool that built on the Esri platform to provide a full-bodied solution useful in each department,” said SEMO Systems Engineer Brad Milam.

SEMO will use the tools to serve members across its service area, which extends from the western banks of the Mississippi River across 75 square miles of Southeast Missouri. The mapping and staking functions of FuturaGIS and FuturaStake will provide enhanced efficiency in maintaining assets and deploying field technicians for SEMO’s 16,000 members at homes, farms, small towns and businesses including large mining processing plants.

“Futura will provide training to show SEMO how to maximize the impact of the solutions’ specialized utility-focused tools,” said Futura COO Adam Dinges. “For example, the mapping features will allow them to map electric-specific features for asset management, operations and maintenance and the analytics features of Catalyst can help unlock meaningful patterns in data that can be used to improve member service, efficiency and reliability.”

Catalyst can, for example, overlay outages with lightning strikes to show better outage detection points and locations for lightning arrestors, display blinks along the electric grid to find possible faulty locations before outages can occur, and help plan the best place to locate remote payment kiosks (by displaying prepaid metering members on the map).

FieldPro’s core functions include search, view and identify, turn-by-turn GPS directions, and even network tracing. It is compatible with iOS devices.

Learn more about SEMO Electric Cooperative by visiting their website at http://www.semoelectric.coop/.