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Title: System Surfer - A Facility Map Navigation And Viewing Tool
Author: Ray Fischer, Mark Knox
Source: American Gas Association 1997
Year Published: 1997
Abstract: System Surfer is a facility map navigation and viewing tool designed and developed by engineers at Northern Illinois Gas as a low cost alternative to more sophisticated AM/FM systems. The system was created in-house and provides 70 percent of the functionality of an AM/FM system, but at a fraction of the cost and implementation time. The system basically uses a hybrid of electronic raster/vector map images which are directly linked to various operating databases and can be accessed through various index keys such as pressure facilities, customer address, valves and meter aumber. The system operates in a Windows environment and can access any ODBC compliant database from a stand alone personal computer, lap top or various network platforms. Using the system has allowed Northern Dlinois Gas to experience labor, material and equipment savings in both its engineering and operating areas. Northern Illinois Gas further believes that the system has commercial potential and has begun to use its sister company, NICOR Technologies Inc. (NTI), to market the system to local municipalities, utilities and contractors.

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