CASE STUDY: E.ON Bayern AG, Regensburg, Germany
FACTS AT A GLANCE
Company: E.ON Bayern
Web site: www.eon-bayern.com
Description: E.ON Bayern AG,
headquarted in Regensburg, is one of
the largest regional utility providers in
Bavaria, Germany. It was created in
2001 following the merger of several
regional utility companies. Its supply
network covers an area of more than
54,000-square kilometers, and includes
the Bavarian regions of Upper and
Lower Franconia, Upper Palatinate, and
Lower and Upper Bavaria. E.ON Bayern
is a subsidiary of E.ON Energie in
Munich. It is the world’s largest investorowned energy providers.
GERMAN UTILITY USES INTERGRAPH®
SOLUTIONS TO DIGITALLY MAP ITS
POWER DELIVERY NETWORK
Intergraph Tools Enable E.ON Bayern to Import Vectorized Network Data
into Geospatial System
IDENTIFYING GOALS
Delivering reliable power is the primary goal of any utility company. The ability to
respond quickly and efficiently to an outage is crucial. Formed with the merger of
several regional utility companies, E.ON Bayern faced the challenge of managing more
than 178,000 kilometers of power lines and cables. The German utility needed to
import data from six legacy systems to ensure standardized access to network
data across the company. A unified database was essential for more efficient asset
management. E.ON Bayern also wanted to raise the quality of network data by
converting all data to a vector format. This would improve productivity for more than
1,600 users across the enterprise, providing easy access to cable section data,
Revenue: $3.2 billion (Euro)
links to network resources, and more.
Employees: 3,000
OVERCOMING CHALLENGES
Industry: Utilities
•Optimize network management with a central database
Country: Germany
•Digitize raster data toward creating intelligent vector data
Products Used
•Support technical workflows, such as new design, maintenance, and
•G/Technology product suite
•G!NIUS
•GeoMedia®
•Improve efficiency of asset management
SAP integration
REALIZING RESULTS
E.ON Bayern uses geospatial infrastructure asset management solutions from
Key Benefits
Intergraph® to migrate network data from the legacy systems. Three of the legacy
•Standardized access to data across
the company
of scanned raster data.
systems had intelligent data (vector, attributes, connectivity), while the others consisted
•Increased transparency and faster
analyses with vector network data
Intergraph’s geospatial infrastructure asset management solution provides many
•Automated process accelerates workflow and reduces errors
to the field. E.ON Bayern started a data capture project to gather intelligent data from
sophisticated functions, such as traces, queries, reports, and a seamless workflow
all areas, including those where only raster data was available. To ensure high-quality
data, the utility requires outside data capture companies to use the Integraph solution
instead of a computer-aided design system. Intergraph provided the tools the companies needed to capture the data they would send back to E.ON Bayern. In addition,
Intergraph provided quality assurance tools to check the captured data against the
rulebase immediately and ensure all data are correct.
Today, field and office workers at each of the utility’s 19 network
MOVING FORWARD
The data capture project is scheduled to last five years and will
centers use the solution to input data changes and obtain
give E.ON Bayern intelligent geospatial data for its entire service
information about the power infrastructure. With its successful
area, allowing the utility to run all reports and queries against the
history with Intergraph solutions, E.ON Bayern expanded the
unified and centralized database.
partnership and is using Intergraph software to digitize its vast
network of power lines and cables. The utility wants to use the
digitally mapped data to convert its entire network to intelligent
vector data by 2013.
Intergraph’s geospatial solutions streamlines data access,
speeds decision-support companywide, and reduces operating
costs. More importantly, it effectively manages E.ON Bayern’s
delivery network, which serves more than two million customers.
Intergraph’s open architecture facilitates the seamless import
The scalability, open architecture, and mobile capabilities of
and export of data into a central database. Hybrid data, such as
Intergraph solutions will allow the utility to take its use of
scanned analog maps and plans, are vectorized and processed
geospatial data to a new level and continue to innovate for
seamlessly into E.ON Bayern’s geospatial management system.
future success.
For areas that still require mapping, the Intergraph solution supplies
data to service providers, who can then map the data in a
consistent format across the utility. Users can view the data in
real-time digitally, ensure elements do not overlap, and confirm
parallel network components are displayed properly. An automatic
quality control process verifies data accuracy and enables contractors
or E.ON Bayern personnel to detect errors and conduct tests
for specific areas. For example, a user can verify a house power
line connects to the correct cable in the right street. Intergraph’s
testing tools ensures the highest level of quality during the mapping
process. In addition, the utility can import new individual data
records in a few seconds, without having to interrupt workflows.
This process will allow the scheduled five-year time frame for
the digital mapping project to remain on track without
restricting productivity.
The unified structure of the data provides numerous benefits,
according to Peter Obermaier of E.ON Bayern. “Presenting data
in a intelligent vector-oriented format facilitates a whole range
of tasks, from network planning and maintenance, network
monitoring, and compiling statistics to network calculations and
providing information all activities we must manage in-house in
relation to the electricity supply network,” says Obermaier.
ABOUT INTERGRAPH
Intergraph is the leading global provider of engineering and geospatial
software that enables customers to visualize complex data. Businesses
and governments in more than 60 countries rely on Intergraph’s industryspecific software to organize vast amounts of data to make processes
and infrastructure better, safer and smarter. The company’s software and
services empower customers to build and operate more efficient plants
and ships, create intelligent maps, and protect critical infrastructure and
millions of people around the world.
Intergraph operates through two divisions: Process, Power & Marine
(PP&M) and Security, Government & Infrastructure (SG&I). Intergraph
PP&M provides enterprise engineering software for the design, construction,
operation and data management of plants, ships and offshore facilities.
Intergraph SG&I provides geospatially powered solutions, including ERDAS
technologies, to the public safety and security, defense and intelligence,
government, transportation, photogrammetry, and utilities and
communications industries. Intergraph Government Solutions (IGS)
is a wholly owned subsidiary of Intergraph Corporation responsible for the
SG&I U.S. federal and classified business.
Intergraph is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hexagon AB, (Nordic exchange:
HEXA B) and (Swiss exchange: HEXN). For more information, visit
www.intergraph.com and www.hexagon.com.
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