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GIS/NE Cable cut management
As my NE group was looking for some opportunity, they were exchanging thoughts with the national backbone engineering&operations group about the estimated downtime &efforts required for restoration of a broken cable in remote backbone in Hi-ways. Leaders who earlier worked in BSNL/ MTNL indicated that it may take days together for identification of the break point and their coordinates are the main challenge and time consuming. They also added that once the spot is approximately known, then the difficulty arise for the tracing of duct and the cable/fiber pairs and characteristics-to decide whether that stretch requires a replacement or a simple joint will do. That input gave the team enough dope to dream!
Milind as top leader always ably assisted by Jaydip developed a written process and brought to me.
Myself , being an auditor by nature thoroughly scrutinized that draft and gave some value additions.
Keeping that as start point, they wrote a flow diagram and identified what parameters in GIS database are required and what external network data and alarm contacts should trigger this application and how the overall output can be shared with the ultimate stake holder and what inputs are essential for him to carry out the cable cut maintenance and restore ASAP.
As this team including Don& Michael were systematic in database domain generation and accumulation of field construction data in terms of Lat/Long co-ordinates for backbone trench alignment, cable characteristics including type and number of fibers, uploading the corresponding test certificates, cable length from MCN to MCN (Nodes in back bone), where the loop provisions are made while laying the cables, color and location of duct in trenches where that cable is drawn etc. in GIS database. All these came handy for this application development. They interacted with operations & maintenance group and introduced an intelligent device which can emit laser beam to travel along this cable fiber. As laser has got the specific characteristics of returning to origin itself whenever there is break in its travelling path, that phenomenon was effectively utilized in this cable cut management application. Next came how to measure this laser travelling distance? With that device manufacturer they directly interacted and got introduced a counter.
With that they had all the requisite inputs available in GIS database. Thereafter, they devised the mathematical logic and arrived at an equation. The laser beam travel distance was co-related with the linear cable distance in that stretch of trench taking into account all the slag and loops etc. That data was further analyzed to arrive at the trench length and corresponding GPS coordinates. Once that application was developed , we tried that in actual field in various states. To our satisfaction, the results and accuracy factors of field execution and data collection etc. have got validated using that tool. While commissioning, wherever the operations team found attenuation of signals causing them weak, they took this team's help to investigate and rectify them in field &updated the database.
Then came the question of how to generate and issue the ticket to concerned maintenance stake holder
and what all data are essential to him. We established a link to SAP database with GIS database and developed a work order development. End result: What it used to take several hours/ days earlier has been brought down to flat 12 minutes!! We ensured that the WO for that coordinate will identify the responsible stake holder and help him with complete cable data and location coordinates where the break has taken place etc. The location accuracy was +/- 11Mtrs. This discrepancy range was mostly dependent on field data accuracy what construction team furnished. But since we were providing service to customer(maybe internal only) we took that precaution.
Entire management and all stakeholders from business/ operations & maintenance were overwhelmed with this innovative application development. People took only maximum 4 hours for restoration of cable failures, which used to take days together in earlier days.
Contd....
Key Aspects :- Accountable, Communication, Initiative, Innovation, Leadership, Opportunity,
Proactive approach, Technical issue, Team building, Recognition
GIS/NE Cable cut management
As my NE group was looking for some opportunity, they were exchanging thoughts with the national backbone engineering&operations group about the estimated downtime &efforts required for restoration of a broken cable in remote backbone in Hi-ways. Leaders who earlier worked in BSNL/ MTNL indicated that it may take days together for identification of the break point and their coordinates are the main challenge and time consuming. They also added that once the spot is approximately known, then the difficulty arise for the tracing of duct and the cable/fiber pairs and characteristics-to decide whether that stretch requires a replacement or a simple joint will do. That input gave the team enough dope to dream!
Milind as top leader always ably assisted by Jaydip developed a written process and brought to me.
Myself , being an auditor by nature thoroughly scrutinized that draft and gave some value additions.
Keeping that as start point, they wrote a flow diagram and identified what parameters in GIS database are required and what external network data and alarm contacts should trigger this application and how the overall output can be shared with the ultimate stake holder and what inputs are essential for him to carry out the cable cut maintenance and restore ASAP.
As this team including Don& Michael were systematic in database domain generation and accumulation of field construction data in terms of Lat/Long co-ordinates for backbone trench alignment, cable characteristics including type and number of fibers, uploading the corresponding test certificates, cable length from MCN to MCN (Nodes in back bone), where the loop provisions are made while laying the cables, color and location of duct in trenches where that cable is drawn etc. in GIS database. All these came handy for this application development. They interacted with operations & maintenance group and introduced an intelligent device which can emit laser beam to travel along this cable fiber. As laser has got the specific characteristics of returning to origin itself whenever there is break in its travelling path, that phenomenon was effectively utilized in this cable cut management application. Next came how to measure this laser travelling distance? With that device manufacturer they directly interacted and got introduced a counter.
With that they had all the requisite inputs available in GIS database. Thereafter, they devised the mathematical logic and arrived at an equation. The laser beam travel distance was co-related with the linear cable distance in that stretch of trench taking into account all the slag and loops etc. That data was further analyzed to arrive at the trench length and corresponding GPS coordinates. Once that application was developed , we tried that in actual field in various states. To our satisfaction, the results and accuracy factors of field execution and data collection etc. have got validated using that tool. While commissioning, wherever the operations team found attenuation of signals causing them weak, they took this team's help to investigate and rectify them in field &updated the database.
Then came the question of how to generate and issue the ticket to concerned maintenance stake holder
and what all data are essential to him. We established a link to SAP database with GIS database and developed a work order development. End result: What it used to take several hours/ days earlier has been brought down to flat 12 minutes!! We ensured that the WO for that coordinate will identify the responsible stake holder and help him with complete cable data and location coordinates where the break has taken place etc. The location accuracy was +/- 11Mtrs. This discrepancy range was mostly dependent on field data accuracy what construction team furnished. But since we were providing service to customer(maybe internal only) we took that precaution.
Entire management and all stakeholders from business/ operations & maintenance were overwhelmed with this innovative application development. People took only maximum 4 hours for restoration of cable failures, which used to take days together in earlier days.
Contd....
Key Aspects :- Accountable, Communication, Initiative, Innovation, Leadership, Opportunity,
Proactive approach, Technical issue, Team building, Recognition
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