Phones are technological wonders these days becoming slimmer, smarter and more powerful – now Apple has gone bullish and put a LiDAR sensor in their latest iPhone 12 Pro camera.…

Standing atop Crook Peak, the last high point as the Mendip Hills march west into the Bristol Channel, about 20 miles southwest of Bristol, England, provides a sweeping panorama over…

Challenges are everywhere in 2020. But the utility industry has a long tradition of service to the communities in which we all work, and that spirit of service seems to…

If you’re a database person like me, and you often stand up new geodatabases for whatever the reason, you already know that migrating permissions can be challenging, depending on your…

You need to maintain your SDE database. You just need to do it. Its more important when you have more edits, versions, states, data, etc. But everyone should do it…

Sometimes it’s a phrase you overhear whilst in conversation with someone else in the office or in the queue at a coffee shop. Other times, you are flicking through a…

SSP Innovations was recently contracted as the System Integrator (SI) for a major utility. Our customer took part in the Utility Network Advantage Program to assist in migrating from ArcFM…

The Gas Mega Rule became effective on July 1, 2020. Notable components of the Mega Rule are: updated laws on non-High Consequence Area piping, MAOP Reconfirmation, and Materials Verification. The…

Last year, SSP Innovations was approached by a utility in the Midwest to support field data collection needs for their various telecom sites. The utility was embarking on a major,…

SSP provides utility companies with multiple data-centric offerings such as work order posting, QA/QC, source record validation, and more. Lately, SSP has seen an increase in requests from companies for…

A TECTONIC SHIFT is underway in geospatial tech. The Utility Network is a prominent center-stage capability, far surpassing its predecessor in function and form. ArcGIS Portal cemented itself as a…

Transmission engineers often wear many hats at a utility, including performing regular inspections of existing facilities and new capital construction projects. At American Electric Power Transmission (‘AEP’), this used to…