Automating Feature Enrichment and Station Creation in Natural Gas Utility Networks
TRC’s innovative Station Builder process utilizes FME Form and Flow to enrich features and establish regulator stations within a natural gas Utility Network connectivity model. This two-stage automation process begins by integrating GIS and asset management systems to generate new features at the precise locations of the original single station points. The second stage iterates through each station, systematically arranging features to construct a standardized Station Schematic. This process incorporates advanced logic to determine optimal station placement, ensuring minimal overlap with existing features. The enrichment and creation of assets allows additional data to be extracted to risk models and provides users with a more realistic representation of assets.
Automating Feature Enrichment and Station Creation in Natural Gas Utility Networks
- 1. Automating Feature Enrichment & Station Creation in Natural Gas Utility Networks TRC Companies The Peak of Data and AI 2025
- 3. 2025 The Peak of Data and AI TRC Companies & Intelligent Grid Solutions
- 4. 2025 The Peak of Data and AI M&R Data in GIS Meter and regulating is one of the more under-represented types of data in a GIS.
- 5. 2025 The Peak of Data and AI Challenges Modelling M&R • Lack of coordinate information. • Lots of assets concentrated in a small area. • Hard to determine sequential schematic information from flat tables.
- 6. 2025 The Peak of Data and AI Project Objectives ● Enrich existing GIS features with EAM asset data. ● Create net-new GIS features for assets without spatial representation. ● Create schematic-style features for simple stations. ● Integrate into Utility Network via associations.
- 7. 2025 The Peak of Data and AI GIS Data Enhancement Schema Map to UPDM Join to GIS Features ? Update GIS Data Connect & Read EAM Assets
- 8. 2025 The Peak of Data and AI New GIS Features Read in EAM & GIS Features “Borrow” GIS Location Based on Common Key Write Net-new GIS Assets to EGDB
- 9. 2025 The Peak of Data and AI Create Vectors w/ Offsetter & LineBuilder Create Schematic Station Offset from Line w/ Offsetter Slice Vectors & Create Points w/ Snipper
- 10. 2025 The Peak of Data and AI Station Palcement Avoid Intersecting with Pipelines ● Created Bounding Box ● Orient Station with Line Segment ● Employed Custom Transformer
- 11. 2025 The Peak of Data and AI Tying it Back to the Network Connectivity & Containment Associations ● Snip Mains ● Drop Junction Features ● Associate Between Junctions ● Output to Association Schema
- 12. 2025 The Peak of Data and AI Results ● Created > 50k new assets from EAM data with no prior spatial counterpart. ● Enriched existing GIS features with detailed EAM data. ● Created and placed schematic stations in automated fashion. ● Generated connectivity & containment associations for networks.
- 13. 2025 The Peak of Data and AI Reflections ● Identifying and Creating logical direction is critical. ● Additional strategy to get location for non-joined data. ● Complicated stations are a great challenge.