Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL)Mobile Workforce Management (MWM)

AVL/MWM Project History

• IT Standards Committee Survey – Emailed out on August 25, 2009 to all 25 Distribution Cooperatives– 23 Cooperatives responded

A B C D E Totals

Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) 13 5 2 2 1 23

Geographic Information System (GIS) 10 5 4 1 3 23

Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) 2 1 13 1 5 22

Mobile Workforce Management/Mobile Data applications 0 3 14 2 3 22

Outage Management Systems (OMS) 10 2 6 2 3 23

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) 1 4 6 2 9 22

Distribution Automation (beyond the substation) 0 1 8 5 8 22

Conservation Voltage Regulation 0 0 6 3 13 22

Other Smart Grid applications 0 0 8 1 11 20

AVL/MWM Project History (con’t)

• June 17, 2010 PSE presentation of ‘Strategic Plan - Mobile Work Management and Automatic Vehicle Location’Cellular-based AVL/MWM system is a “bridge

technology “• PSE proposal to manage the RFP

procurement project - $17, 500• Standards Committee decision to handle

this project with an AVL/MWM sub-committee

Tim Holtan Riverland OperationsChad Schauf Oakdale ITSteve Stroshane Polk-Burnett EngineeringDave Patterson Peoples IT Jeff Olson Pierce-Pepin IT, E&O, GISEd West Dairyland Information ServicesKen Graves Dairyland Communications

AVL/MWM Project

• AVL/MWM Proposal Review Process

• AVL-MWM Vendor Matrix 76 Services or system features were evaluated Top 10 (as identified by the Standards

Committee): Vendor or self hosted Satellite vs. cellular triangulation GSM/CDMA/Both Proprietary hardware Map Viewing Map Viewer Integration on users maps MultiSpeak compliance OMS Integration Initial costs Annual recurring costs

AVL/MWM Project

• 6 page document titled “Request For Proposal To Provide An AVL Solution”

• 10 vendors received a request on September 13, 2010

Sage-Quest Clevest Teletrac Navtrak GPS Insight Wireless Matrix

No response Xora Trimble Navigation Sprint Nextel GeoNav

AVL/MWM Benefits

Employee SafetyØ Safety timer alerts Ø Safety device monitoring alerts

Better response to R.O.P.E. events Optimize dispatching & shorten outage response time Line inspection records Fuel cost savings:

Ø Reduced mileageØ Idling

Reports/documentation:Ø “Bread Crumb” reportsØ Power Take-Off time is recorded / documentedØ Vehicle miles driven are recorded / documentedØ Accurate documentation for off-road tax reporting

Geo-Fencing

Thoughts

We have been working as a committee on the premise that if we could work together as a large group (DPC and all 25 member cooperatives) we could realize many benefits. Some of these benefits include:

not “recreating the wheel”demonstrating the 6th Cooperative Principle – “cooperation

among cooperatives”assisting Dairyland with technology projects by designing

once for all and not (potentially) 25 different times

Of course, the one big benefit would be the overall cost reduction of a project through a quantity purchase (and in other areas). We have seen this happen in this project.

Potential Savings

For one cooperative to go AVL alone they received a quote for 15 vehicles for the following:

First year costs = $ 70,110.00

Annual recurring = $ 7,300.00

Compared to the proposal just received (adjusted for 15 vehicles):First year costs = $ 33,000.00Annual recurring = $ 4,200.00

First year cost savings = $40,210.00 per Co-op or over $1M combined for all 25 dist. Co-ops

Annual recurring cost savings = $3,100.00 per Co-op

Recommendations

Standards Committee:

AVL/MWM System Standard:

Use a cellular based system as a “bridge technology”

Clevest Solutions Inc. is the “vendor of choice”

Motion approved by PP&SO:

“DMA encourages it’s members to adopt the recommendations of the Standards Committee for AVL technology deployment”

DPC Hosted(preferred method)

Solution Architecture

Communications Network

Daily Operations

R.O.P.E. Operations

Office Application

Geo-Fencing

Breadcrumb Reports

Post-Incident Reports

Vehicle Stop / Start report

Vehicle speeding report

Vehicle excess idling report

Text messaging report

PTO hours report –

indicates the duration of “bucket-up” status on bucket trucks

Ignition on/off Report

After hours usage report –

Indicates vehicle usage outside a predetermine time frame

WebAVLMore info at a glance (icon colors and shapes represent

different vehicle statuses) such as:- Bucket-up - Stopped - Idling - Out of coverage - In coverage and reporting - Moving (and which direction)

Satellite imagery or basic street map viewerSimilar features and functionality of Clevest office application

WebAVL“Hover” over icon for additional info…Ø Vehicle speed

Thank You