Introduction to District Energy Utility Network Foundation

District Energy Utility Network Foundation can be used to accelerate district heating and cooling utility network implementations.

It includes a data model that configures ArcGIS Enterprise and the ArcGIS Utility Network to represent district heating and cooling networks. It deploys foundational services, simplifying the creation of additional web and mobile apps and provides a desktop data editing environment.

Starting with District Energy Utility Network Foundation means organizations don't have to spend their time and implementation budget on building custom data models and information products.

Deploy the solution

This solution can be deployed in your ArcGIS organization.

Deploy the solution

See Deploying a solution for more information.

Requirements

District Energy Utility Network Foundation requires the following:

• ArcGIS Online
• ArcGIS Pro 3.3

Note:

To deploy this solution, you must have an ArcGIS organizational account. After deploying the solution, you can download it from your organization and begin using it in ArcGIS Pro.

Information products

District Energy Utility Network Foundation includes the following:

Item	Description	Minimum user type
District Energy Utility Network Foundation	A zipped file with an ArcGIS Pro project package with tasks, a configured utility network in a file geodatabase, editor and auditor maps, and an asset package geodatabase	Professional

When you deploy this solution in your ArcGIS organization, you also get a solution item that organizes the key information products and summarizes all the ArcGIS items (applications, forms, projects, maps, feature layers, feature layer views, and so on) included with the solution. The solution item also illustrates any dependencies items have on each other.

Data dictionary

Review the data structure and descriptions of the layers included in the solution.

Name	Description
District Heating	A reference guide to the District Energy model that provides an overview of the data structure, field descriptions, and other metadata.

Release notes

The following are the release notes:

Version	Description
1.3 (Aug 2024)	The following updates have been made to the Utility Data Management Support toolbox version 3.3.1: An issue was resolved with the Simple Data Mapping tool that was caused by running the tool in a cloned python environment. A new option to generate a terminal pop-up was added to the Configure UN Layers tool to visualize terminal information. A new tool was added called Copy Fields and Domains From Mapping which uses the Data Mapping workbook to copy fields from the source workspace to the target asset package.
1.2 (Jun 2024)	The subnetwork definitions' summaries have been removed because they are not required and can slow down the update subnetwork process. If summary information is required, it can be calculated through a trace. The Lifecycle and Construction status domains have been updated to align with other utility network foundation solutions. The lifecycle domain codes have been reduced to a minimum set of codes, defined by bits, to identify if a feature is in or out of the subnetwork/trace. The construction status domain is used to defined additional states an asset may be in. The Lifecycle Status Network Attribute has been moved to Inline to reduce database queries through trace and update subnetwork properties. The Device Asset Group, Line Asset Group and Junction Asset Group/Type Network attributes have been removed because Network Categories or the system Asset Group/Type Network Attributes should be used for Tracing and Subnetwork Definitions settings. The Data Dictionary has been replaced with reports generated from the Generate Schema Report geoprocessing tool. A network category of Heat Exchanger has been added to replace the use of the Device Asset Group in the subnetwork definition. The subnetwork definitions' condition barriers have been revised to align with the code changes of the Lifecycle Status Domain and to use the Heat Exchanger network category so that the definition is valid.
1.1 (Mar 2023)	A new Utility Data Management Support toolbox to support ArcGIS Pro 2.9 and ArcGIS Pro 3.1. Attributes rules have been updated to support ArcGIS Pro 3.1.
1.0 (Nov 2021)	First release of District Energy Utility Network Foundation