ELECTRICAL LOCATE SOFTWARE
Electric tickets are volume work. Speed matters, and the paperwork is where the time goes.
But a congested trench is also where a single sketch and a photo stop being enough. Three cables at three depths, owned by two different utilities, become one line on a hand sketch.
One point, one cable, one depth
In TerraFlow, each cable you locate gets its own record: its own position, its own depth from the locator, its own method and signal, its own classification and subtype.
Two cables stacked in the same trench stay two cables on the map.
What each point records
- Position, with the fix type and accuracy the receiver reported
- Depth, read from the locator
- Utility type, electric, with subtype where you've set one up
- Method and signal strength
- Locator and time, per measurement
- The sketch, drawn to scale from the captured points
It works offline and syncs the moment there's signal. The office sees it while the crew is still on site.
For electric utilities
Whether the locate was done by your crew or a contractor, the record arrives in the same format. You can see which crews document completely, find the areas that keep producing re-locates, and answer a claim with the record.
Every locate also checks your cable records against the field. Over time, that's a picture of where your cables really are, built from work that was happening anyway.
PUC Services in Sault Ste. Marie works this way now, with RTK receivers and TerraFlow connected to ArcGIS Online (Esri Canada).
For locate contractors
The sketch is roughly 90% done by the time the locate is. No wheel, no tape, no end-of-day write-up. That time goes back into tickets.
And the utility sees a record from your crew that it can actually check.
Works with your kit
Radiodetection, Vivax-Metrotech and Rycom locators. Trimble, Eos, Emlid, Juniper and Bad Elf receivers.