Electricity Network - Western Power Distribution

XML Electricity Network I n t r o d u c t i o n A collection of Microstation tools were need by WPD to speed up the manual digitization of there electricity networks. The tools were broken down in various sections: Placement, Verification & Validation, and Translation. D e v e l o p m e n t The majority of the tools were develop side-by-side to allow easier testing. The placement tools (WP27) were created so they would be easily understood and used by the digitizers and speed up the general task. The tools were also designed so they would be inteligent enough to prevent errors that tended to occur from manual repetition. The placement tools are easily configured and updated by editing text files. The verification tool (WP35) was used to detect corruption or incorrect placements in older files and report them to the user so they could be fixed easily. The validation part of the tool checks the connectivity of the digitization and from various rule files checks the logic of the network connections and reports any faults. T r a n s l a t i o n Once the data has been digitized correctly another tool was developed (RT02) to convert the connected network into XML form, so it the data of the network would be it easier to analyze and check, and be more flexible to use that a binary file. Other applications have also been developed to take advanatge of the XML version of the data. A DLL (WP47) was developed which is able to parse the XML networks and analyse the data in various ways and create reports, taxt based or graphically using SVG. The DLL was created to make the same functionallity available to Microstation and Windows Applications