GIS the future of Utility Management P Sree Gayathri 1 , V Phani Kumar 2 1 PG Scholar, Dept. of CSE, V.R Siddhartha Engineering College, 1 E-mail:psreegayathri@gmail.com 1 Asst Professor, Dept. of CSE, V.R Siddhartha Engineering College, 1 Email: phanikumar.venna@gmail.com Abstract—Energy conservation is one of the burning issues now-a-days due to tremendous scarcity of electricity across the country. As a consequence the power sector role and overall growth of economy is important and critical. But transmitting electricity over distance and via networks involves energy losses. To reduce these power losses throughout the country and use the electricity in an efficient way, GIS can be used in possible applications to determine optimal path for transmission lines and locate fault transmissions. The broad scope of this study is to provide the information system on electrical assets for the electricity board users through Geographic Information Systems [GIS].This will be made available on query for tracking any asset in the entire network of a selected town or towns. Users can search the substation by its name, capacity, type, section name, etc., and also the system allows user to search HT, LT Lines, DTR’s and Poles based on the selected fields and values. System will also generate the reports for the substation, DTR, and Substation Elements as per the user choice. In this system the search is basically a non-graphic search and the final result will be displayed on a GIS map. Index Terms:- GIS, Utilities, HT, LT lines, DTR, non- graphic I. INTRODUCTION The power sector constitutes an important aspect of utility domain and the backbone of the national economy for any country in the world. Adequate electrical power with a high degree of quality and reliability is also the key to Indian economic growth. India is the 3rd largest producer of electricity in the world. Regardless of this growth in the generating electricity India is facing huge power deficit. In this overall development of power sector in India transmission and distribution system constitutes crucial link between the generating and consumption sources. However this distribution system has grown in an unplanned manner to meet the growing demands of consumers on an urgent basis which in turn contributed to very high Aggregate Technical and Commercial losses (AT&C) along with poor quality and low reliability of power supply to the consumers. The most challenging factor for many utility companies is to maintain, manage, model and map their distributed facilities and networks optimally to meet the customer expectations and industry compliance regulations. As the electrical utility networks continue to grow in complexity and size, the probability of two or more networks occupying a common right-of-way or intersecting each other keeps on expanding. Due to this there are some conflicts in fault management faced by the utility management sectors of the country. The existing ones are very time consuming and man power consuming which tends to loss due to frequent thefts and also insufficient supply of the electricity. By developing GIS based web mapping applications the electricity board users can effectively visualize and analyze the conflicts in the electrical network and resolve them by reducing the power loses. II. LITERATURE SURVEY A. Existing Electricity Distribution System in India: Power distribution is the most crucial link in the electricity supply chain and, unfortunately, the weakest one in the country segment as it has a direct impact on the sector's commercial viability and ultimately on the consumers who pay for power services. A big challenging factor is transmission and distribution (T&D) losses which are estimated nearly up to 30% overall. There are many technical and non-technical factors that are contributing to high T&D losses which were computed taking into account electricity bills issued to consumers as accrued income and not on the actual collection. The concept of Aggregate Technical & Commercial (AT&C) losses has been introduced in 2001-2002 to capture the difference between the billing and collection, which was not captured by the T&D loss figures. AT&C loss is given by the difference between units input into the system and the units for which the payment is collected. B. Reasons for AT&C losses: There are mainly two categories of reasons for these AT&C losses:  Technical losses  Commercial losses The Technical losses are due to following reasons:  Overloading of existing lines and substation equipment's.  Absence of up gradation of old lines and equipment's.  Low HT:LT ratio  Poor repair and maintenance of equipment's  Non- installation of sufficient capacitors. The Commercial losses are due to following reasons:  Metering Inaccuracies and error in meter reading.  Unmetered losses of very small load Vol. 14 ICETCSE 2016 Special Issue International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security (IJCSIS) ISSN 1947-5500 [https://sites.google.com/site/ijcsis/] 185 Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Computer Science & Engineering (ICETCSE 2016) V. R. Siddhartha Engineering College, Vijayawada, India, October 17-18, 2016