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ESB Networks receives international award

By Hugh Johnson

April 2, 2008

ESB Networks have received the Intergraph 100% Club Award for achieving full conversion of all paper network records into a digital model. This model is maintained in ESB’s application called DFIS (Distributed Facility Information System) and provides a full physical and logical (schematic) model of the ESB network at all voltages. The model is vitally important to many aspects of ESB Networks business. 

DFIS is at the heart of ESB Networks’ business

DFIS protects civil engineering workers by maintaining a record of physical location of buried plant.  The logical network model is used to plan the day-to-day switching operations in the network.  Network maintenance and renewal plans are based on the plant records held in DFIS.   Last year ESB processed over 90,000 customer applications for new connections – using network records held in DFIS.  Around 400 ESB Engineering Officers prepare designs for network changes based on the existing DFIS information.

Completion of a long journey

Reaching 100% conversion of the paper records to the digital model held within DFIS marks the completion of a long journey.  It is a journey that if measured by the total length of line and cable routes recorded in DFIS would take you round the World three and a third times.  It is a journey along which the DFIS data capture teams have recorded in painstaking detail the precise location and features of over 2 million points of interest including over 239,000 substations, 142,000 kms of routes, 118,000 mini-pillars, and 1,377,000 poles and masts (many inconveniently located across muddy fields or on the tops of remote hills and mountains).  It is a journey that started and finished with a team in Osprey House, Lower Grand Canal Street,

Dublin – but has also involved remote workers in India and Turkey who were part of the final push to digitize the last of the paper records.

_{Pictured left to right:
Tom Keenan, Geographic Data Services Manager, ESB Networks
Bob Stuart, Managing Director, IMGS
John Shine, Director, ESB Networks}

The Intergraph 100% Club

DFIS is based on advanced geographical information systems software from Intergraph Corporation – specifically designed for recording complex network model information.  The Intergraph 100% Club Award was presented by IMGS – the Irish distributor for Intergraph at a recent dinner to mark the occasion.  “I am very pleased to welcome ESB Networks into the Intergraph 100% Club.  It is only through long-term commitment, dedication and teamwork that ESB Networks could achieve this goal” says Bob Stuart, Managing Director of IMGS.  “ESB Networks also joins the list of 100% Club Award winners engraved in granite at the Intergraph head office in Huntsville Alabama”

A true milestone on this great journey.

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