After forty years in the utility business, I’ve been involved with every facet of the electric utility operations from generation to transmission and even retail. What I have found is that many professionals in electric utilities do not understand what other parts of the organization do, especially vegetation management. It’s a whole part of the …
LAS VEGAS, Nov. 5, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today the launch of Trimble® Field Designer, an innovative mobile staking and design solution that enables electric utilities to quickly design overhead and underground electric utility lines on mobile devices in the field. Trimble Field Designer leverages mobile technology from Trimble Business Partner, GeoSpatial Innovations, Inc. (GSI). It …
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This July, GSI assisted a large utility with their Engineering Best Practices team. I presented a user interactive station on soil probe analysis using a soil probe. This is a cheap alternative to boring analysis that is commonly used across many utilities’ distribution service area. The emphasis on this course is to make software users …
GeoSpatial Innovations, Inc.(GSI) is proud to announce national certification as a Women’s Business Enterprise by Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). According to Lisa Livingood, GSI’s President and CEO, “GSI is structured and operated as a woman-owned business since we founded the company more than 18 years ago. With this WBE certification from WBENC – …
This September at Esri’s GeoConX, I had the chance to meet an extraordinary group of women working in GIS. The organization hosting the event was Women in GIS (WiGIS), an international, professional, and social organization as well as an advocacy group for women serving in a variety of geospatial fields. About WiGIS: WiGIS is a …
The weather in San Diego during the DistribuTECH 2017 conference did not disappoint with sunny skies, 70+ degrees and it’s always wonderful dining experiences. Companies from across the globe sent a few fortunate employees to enjoy not only what San Diego has to offer, but an opportunity to see the next wave of technology, focused …
As I mentioned last week, we broke the performance and load testing down into a number of different phases so that we could initially focus on one interface independently to see if there were any bottlenecks before involving multiple interfaces. Performance Test 1 The first load test involved a large storm simulation that ran from …
GSI is excited to announce that Chuck Lang has joined our sales team as a Sales Agent covering the Northeastern part of the United States. He is based just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Previously, Chuck was the Sales Leader – Americas for GE’s Digital Energy Software business, responsible for Revenue growth for their Operational Technology …
It’s been a long time coming but the Department of Transportation and the FAA have announced that they have finalized the first operational rules for small UAS (drones). You can find a high level pdf and the full 600+ document below but here are a few highlights. Rules take effect in late August They are …
Did you know that GeoSpatial Innovations (GSI) is a women owned business? GSI is proud to be a women owned software company. In addition to the owners, women are throughout the organization in design, engineering, management, and technology positions. According to the U.S. census, in 1970, women represented only 3 percent of engineers, 14 percent …
