The Experience Team is currently working on new designs for Utilisphere's patrolling (aka breadcrumbing) feature. If you have any expertise in this area (ground or aerial), we'd love to include your feedback in the design process.
The presentation was very clear and did an excellent job explaining the new product. It was easy to follow, presented at a comfortable pace, and it helped me clearly understand the tool’s usefulness.
I do have one question:
Is there an “in‑progress” view that someone in the office could use to see where each person is during their patrol? For example, this could help identify if an agent is falling behind schedule or spending more time at a specific location.
Having this type of visibility might allow supervisors to proactively adjust routes so that stops at risk of being missed could be reassigned to another agent who is ahead of schedule.
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Craig Cramerposted
3 days ago
I think this is a great start! At Western Coop, our idea of patrol is a little different. Our linemen, either as the work they are doing for the day, or on the way back in from the field (we have locations that are 1.5 hours from our main office), will follow our line looking for issues: floaters, broken insulators, broken cross arms, etc., that haven't been caught since they haven't caused an outage. When they get back into the office, they use a highlighter (with each sub feeder having a specific color) on a paper map to highlight what they patrolled. We use this to guarantee at least one patrol for all of our line once a year, with a record of what they did. So if we had our line maps in the Patrol system in Utilisphere, would we be able to mark it somehow as our guys patrolled it, like an ad hoc patrol in the system? The attached photo shows how the map looks as we progress, with sheets indicating the color per sub, when it was started, and when it was finished, plus notes for areas of the map (in this pic, one shows a note that the area is too wet to inspect). I should add that these maps are printed from our GIS using ArcPro.
The Experience Team is currently working on new designs for Utilisphere's patrolling (aka breadcrumbing) feature. If you have any expertise in this area (ground or aerial), we'd love to include your feedback in the design process.
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Our team will be jumping into the comments to discuss ideas with you directly.
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Thomas Sturmer posted 3 days ago
The presentation was very clear and did an excellent job explaining the new product. It was easy to follow, presented at a comfortable pace, and it helped me clearly understand the tool’s usefulness.
I do have one question:
Is there an “in‑progress” view that someone in the office could use to see where each person is during their patrol? For example, this could help identify if an agent is falling behind schedule or spending more time at a specific location.
Having this type of visibility might allow supervisors to proactively adjust routes so that stops at risk of being missed could be reassigned to another agent who is ahead of schedule.
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Craig Cramer posted 3 days ago
I think this is a great start! At Western Coop, our idea of patrol is a little different. Our linemen, either as the work they are doing for the day, or on the way back in from the field (we have locations that are 1.5 hours from our main office), will follow our line looking for issues: floaters, broken insulators, broken cross arms, etc., that haven't been caught since they haven't caused an outage. When they get back into the office, they use a highlighter (with each sub feeder having a specific color) on a paper map to highlight what they patrolled. We use this to guarantee at least one patrol for all of our line once a year, with a record of what they did. So if we had our line maps in the Patrol system in Utilisphere, would we be able to mark it somehow as our guys patrolled it, like an ad hoc patrol in the system? The attached photo shows how the map looks as we progress, with sheets indicating the color per sub, when it was started, and when it was finished, plus notes for areas of the map (in this pic, one shows a note that the area is too wet to inspect). I should add that these maps are printed from our GIS using ArcPro.
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