Profile: Lincoln Electric System provides power for over 117,000 customers in the city of Lincoln and surrounding areas. This is the third straight year LES has presented a new problem for Design Studio to tackle, and we have been up to the challenge.

Problem: LES has an interactive voice recognition system that matches telephone calls about power outages to customer accounts and their respective addresses. This information is stored in a database and presented in a powerful geographical information system. However, only LES technical operations staff has access to this GIS system. In order for managers and public relations staff to get information about a power outage, they must personally call the operations staff.

Solution: We are providing LES with a way to view the outage information over the web. LES managers and PR staff will be able to see a map showing the concentration of power outages in the Lincoln area. The map can be viewed to show the current or previous outage situation, and there will be an animation feature that will show outages over time. There will also be a page showing various power outage statistics. Additionally, we are providing LES with a desktop alert system that will alert LES managers and PR staff when an outage is occurring.

Technologies:

JAVA (Applets, Swing, SWT)
XML
Oracle Database
JAVA3D Library