Highlights in Trimble NIS 21.2
Trimble Unity Network Manager - Ease of network management
View and edit electric, district heating, gas, and water networks with browser-based Trimble Unity Network Manager anytime, anywhere. Designed with the user in mind, the solution lets you view customer and maintenance data, analyze your network with pre-built Finder queries, and create PDF printouts.
In addition to more versatile network editing, you can also manage plans, areas, and drawings with Trimble Unity Network Manager. The network can be exported in different formats to other systems.
Better customer communication with Outage Map
We conducted extensive user research on the Trimble Outage Map, which resulted in improvements to the usability and style of the Outage Map. The results of the location search no longer show items from other countries, making the search more convenient and easier. You can also create information banners for end-users to display on the map. These messages can be about upcoming or ongoing interruptions, for example, or they can be general greetings.
Transparency for planned outages in water, district heating, and gas networks
Create tasks to carry out outage-related activities and assign them to field crews. Field crews can conveniently perform the tasks in Utility To Go, where the outage information is updated for both the company's own staff and customers. By moving from verbal and paperwork orders to digital ones, work safety and the flow of information between the field and the office is improved.
Facilitating the planning and execution of electric outages
Switching planning better supports the planning of multiple switching schedules in the same session. By default, the starting point of a switching schedule is the same as the closing point of the previous switching schedule, making the planner's job easier and reducing the possibility of errors.
Logging the execution of planned outages is facilitated by automatically connecting the switching in Utility To Go with the planned outage in the distribution substation area. At the same time, the corresponding action is marked as completed in the switching schedule.
Automation improves fault management in the electricity network
Fault location, isolation, and supply restoration automation (FLIR) has been made more efficient by making better use of fault indicators. This will speed up the restoration of electricity to customers.
Opening a switch in Utility To Go creates an outage, while trouble calls in the affected area are automatically associated with the outage. The outage start time is obtained directly from the first trouble call. Trouble calls can automatically be marked as processed when the associated task is closed. This streamlines the work and improves the flow of information between the field and the control center.
Security and efficiency in user management
The new AD integration simplifies the work of administrators and IT departments by automatically granting new users Trimble NIS and Utility To Go user rights. Existing users will have their user rights automatically expired. This ensures that only the right people have access to network data.
For more information on the new features, you can join our webinar What’s new in Trimble NIS 21.2 on January 11, 2022.
