RRAD Geospatial Services

Stop Paying Twice for GIS

Here’s the reality with the legacy GIS vendors:

1. You pay them for their core platform licenses.
2. Then you pay again for 3rd-party solutions that only run on top of that core platform.

That’s double spend, every single year.

RRAD takes a different approach. Yes, our solutions have recurring license/support costs—just like any serious software offering. But here’s the difference:

• You’re not paying a base tax to a legacy vendor just to have the platform.
• Our solutions run on open source core technology—PostGIS, QGIS, GeoServer—no hidden platform fees.
• Every dollar goes directly toward the tools you’re actually using, not to keep someone else’s stack alive.

The result? Utilities get advanced GIS + engineering solutions with lower total cost of ownership, no vendor lock-in, and room to innovate without hitting a paywall.

Open source stacks backed by RRAD aren’t just cheaper—they’re smarter. They let you invest in capability, not in keeping a legacy platform afloat.

Coming in 2026: RRAD GridTruth

A self-healing, time-aware digital twin that reconciles your GIS with real measurements—then lets you replay reality and run counterfactuals, all inside QGIS.

Most planning and analysis tools assume your model is right. In the real world, connectivity drifts, phases go wrong, UPSECTION trails get stale, and studies suffer. GridTruth flips that script.

What it does

1) Sync & Diagnose (Self-Healing GIS)

• Fuses AMI voltage traces, OMS events, and SCADA/regulator moves with your GIS model.
• Auto-flags precise fixes: “Service Location 8459 should be on SECTIONNUM 18-142; phase B→C (confidence 0.91).”
• You approve → GridTruth writes back to PostGIS with full audit, versioning, and rollback.

2) Time Machine (Replay Reality)

• Scrub a timeline to replay an actual event hour: voltages, flows, energized islands, and customer counts.
• See what really happened during storms, switching, or peak days—on the map and the schematic.

3) Counterfactual Sandbox (What-If on the Real Past)

• Clone the measured state at time T, then try: open 19100, add +2 taps at R1, stage a 300 kW BESS, close a tie.
• Run QSTS on the actual load/DER traces from that period and compare deltas: voltage compliance, losses, customers affected, protection margins.
• Export switching steps and TCC updates into your coordination workflow.

4) Optional Safety Envelope

• Map-centric fault current and touch/step potential overlays derived from the reconciled model—produces focused crew job briefs.

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Why this matters

For Power Engineers

• Start from a model validated by measurements.
• Reproduce outages exactly, test fixes on the same baseline, and push curve updates with evidence.

For GIS Managers

• Replace guesswork with measured truth.
• Close the loop: suggested edits → review → commit → audit trail.
• Track hard metrics: % of meters tied to the correct transformer & phase, % of sections with reconciled UPSECTION, time-to-fix.

For Operations & Reliability

• Faster post-event analysis, cleaner switching plans, fewer truck rolls, clearer SAIDI/SAIFI/CEMI causality.

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Built for your stack (open, on-prem, practical)

• Platform: QGIS + PostGIS (on-prem).
• Engines: OpenDSS/GridLAB-D for replay and what-ifs.
• Data: Runs “light” with AMI + OMS; scales with SCADA, DER, and weather when available.
• Model Assumptions: Primary Conductor with SECTIONNUM/UPSECTION/FEEDER/PHASE, conductor impedance CSV, transformers and service locations (meter→xfmr linkage).
• Governance: All changes are explainable, queued for approval, audited, and reversible.

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3-step workflow

1. Pick Feeder → Sync & Diagnose. Review ranked suggestions and approve.
2. Replay. Drag the timeline; see reality on map & schematic.
3. What-If. Test alternatives against the real past; export switching/TCC/GIS change sets.

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