Lemur™ Resources

Critigen’s Lemur™ technology brings the power of business-centric mapping to the apps your team utilizes to get their job done. Business-centric mapping is the linking of business data and GIS data to provide workers the information they need, when and where they need it, all on a map.

These business-centered maps are based on Esri technology, but eliminate the need for you to do any GIS programming. Just add a new Lemur™ configuration or update the values in the existing configuration to add new map layers, define how to connect business objects (like Work Orders and Notifications) to GIS features, and define which features are shown and what attributes are visible.

Videos and Demos

Lemur™ provides a fast, low-risk way to add real GIS to your product. In as few as 100 lines of code, this platform can be integrated into your product and then re-sold to your customers to increase the value and competitiveness of your solution without you hiring a single GIS programmer.

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Case Studies

The Lemur™ platform seamlessly integrates with the applications you already use for day-to-day business, including asset maintenance and management apps, mobile apps, field data collection, and assessment apps.

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Mobile Asset Management for Electric Distribution

As part of a leading Canadian electric utility’s enterprise mobile workforce modernization project, Critigen implemented an enhanced map control with offline capabilities that allows workers to visualize and manage SAP assets and work locations. As part of SAP’s Work Manager™, the map seamlessly integrates with the mobile workflow to streamline work activities and better manage assets.

Working Smarter—Viewing assets on the map enables field workers to see assets in their true location relative to connected assets and customer locations. Crews can avoid unnecessary trips to assets that don’t require maintenance and they can also see other crew locations on the map for better coordination and mutual aid.

Better Information—GIS and SAP data is synchronized nightly and delivered via Critigen’s Lemur™ Geocache as an offline cache to the mobile device, allowing workers to click on the map for timely asset information. An enhanced as-built editing tool allows workers to update electrical asset information during installation.

Saving Time—With a single application for mapping and work, crews can spend less time on the screen and more time installing and maintaining electric assets. Office workers can spend less time re-keying information from paper forms, with a 6-month reduction in processing time.

Mobile Asset Management for Gas Transmission System

For a very large US-based combined natural gas and electric utility, Critigen delivered the GIS integration and Map Control for an asset management mobile application.

The application resulted in the 300 end users having a fully integrated, easy-to-use application that sped up their preventative and corrective maintenance programs for its gas transmission compressors. The application made it easier for the end users and it also had the benefit of increasing data quality, which resulted in making regulatory compliance simpler for the utility. Using Critigen’s Geocache technology, the end users were also able to work in remote areas in “offline mode” without any intervention on their part – it just worked.

Field crews commented, “Being able to see my work on an interactive map on my iPad as well as being able to start, work on, and complete my work orders made a huge difference to my workday.

Move to Mobile Hits the Mark for Hydro One

Hydro One has a long history in the electricity services industry. Starting in 1906, Sir Adam Beck's vision to supply electricity to southwest Ontario and Toronto, eventually led to the creation of the 450 megawatt (MW) Queenston Chippawa station at Niagara Falls. In its time, it was the largest power station in the world.

Today, Hydro One manages 30,000 km (18,641 mi) of distribution lines, and 1.6 million poles over a diverse territory of lakes and rivers.

Challenge—The challenge for Hydro One was finding innovative ways to increase system performance and reduce costs while keeping safety the number one priority. The current processes were antiquated and in need of updating. Completed work was also done on paper, requiring time consuming data entry. Data update time took months, and data input and integrity sometimes suffered. Lineman only carried maps for their operational area – if an incident occurred near them, but in another area, the paper maps that they had in the truck would not be useful.

Solution—The solution was the Move to Mobile (M2M) initiative, which involved the tight integration of SAP Enterprise Asset Manager™ (EAM) with Work Manager™ (WM), scheduling software, and Esri ArcGIS using Critigen's Lemur™ platform. Lemur™ acted as the glue, connecting the systems and automating the update of map data to field crews' tablets. The move to digital also involved connecting the field to the back office.

Results—By integrating best-in-class technologies, Hydro One replaced 40+ paper forms, modernized scheduling methods, and gave linemen real-time access to up-to-date SAP data and GIS maps. Linemen drive time was reduced each day, reducing costly windshield time. Using Lemur™ to automate the extent and frequency of map cache updates lowered the demand load on server architecture. There was a marked increase in the timeliness of data input and the integrity of field submissions, and data update time was significantly improved, from an upper end of 180 days down to just four or five days. Additionally, truck locations are now visible to schedulers, and crews can now see defects in the power system on their tablets, which allows them to report defects or address them on the spot.

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