Outage Management Application

Sponsor: Tacoma Power

Mentor(s): Rich Barrutia, Wei Zhang
Conner Duffy, Justice Sibomana, Oliyad Beyene, Tucker Wilde, Michael Wiens

Background
Design
Tacoma power is a public utility company providing
power to local businesses and neighbors in Tacoma Future Work
and surrounding areas of Washington State. Severe Presentation Layer:
weather conditions can damage poles and power • Displays content and accepts input. • User authentication.
lines used for power distribution resulting in outages. • Allows for interaction with map. • Use general public outage reports to help
Tacoma Power handles outages and damages using Logic Layer: create assessor routes.
an Outage Management System (OMS) to report, • Process inputs and actions in order to react properly. • Automate navigation for assessors and repair
repair, and record them. Most of their damage and • Display only relevent information. crews.
outage documents are currently recorded manually. Data Layer: • Implement more information security.
Our project was to make this manual process more • Local storage on device.
efficient with the help of software. • Offline usage of the application.
Persistence Layer:
• Online database will persist data for all users.
Glossary
Objectives
Assessment Form: The current paper method
to store description of damage.
• Digitize the assessment forms.
Map: Geolocation information needed for repair.
• Ability to view poles on a map.
Route: A set navigation to find the source of
• Add photos to forms.
an outage.
• Offline capabilities.
• Autofill available form data.
• Easy to read interface.
• Simplified user interface.
• Make app user specific.
Acknowledgments

Impact Special thanks for the help and support

from Jose Delgado, Rich Barrutia, Wei
Zhang, and the rest of the Tacoma
• Complete overview of repair. Power team.
• Increase organization.
• Rapid updates for entire organization.
• Improve efficiency.
• Update system to the digital age.

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