Ergon Energy to switch on spatial data collection project

Ergon Energy’s world first spatial data project provides a platform for future maintenance and planning.

Ergon distributes electricity across 1.7 million square kilometres — covering 97 per cent of Queensland and several Torres Strait islands — via its prime asset and major management challenge: 150,000 kilometres of transmission lines held up by about a million poles. It has about 1.5 poles per customer and covers more area per customer than any other power utility in the world.

General Manager of Ergon’s Remote Observation Automated Modelling Economic Simulation (ROAMES) Group, James Bangay is about to flick the switch on a spatial data collection project that will capture light detection and ranging (LIDAR) and photographic reference images of the whole network each year.

By Simon Grose (CIO Magazine) - 14 November, 2011

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