RRAD Geospatial Services

05/19/2026

Big milestone for RRAD and Arab Electric Cooperative in Arab, Alabama.

We now have MultiSpeak outage integration running live from Landis+Gyr Command Center / Emerge directly into Arab Electric’s RRAD outage stack.

That means outage and restoration events are no longer limited to waiting on a 5-minute meter status CSV file to tell the story.

This is event-driven outage intelligence flowing straight from the AMI system into RRAD’s open-source GIS platform.

That’s a big deal.

For Arab Electric, this gives their team a much faster path from meter event → outage map → internal dispatch visibility → operational awareness.

For RRAD, this proves something we’ve been pushing hard:

Utilities do not have to be locked into a single proprietary ecosystem just to get serious outage management, dispatch tools, public outage maps, executive dashboards, and real-time operational GIS.

This is running on the stack we believe in:

PostgreSQL / PostGIS
FastAPI
QGIS-backed data models
Open web mapping
RRAD-built integration logic
No ESRI dependency required

And this was not just “throw an API at it and hope.”

We built the receiver.
We normalized the MultiSpeak payloads.
We promoted valid outage/restoration events into the live outage posture.
We protected against duplicate outage records.
We kept the audit trail.
We made sure unmapped/no-GIS-anchor events don’t pollute the outage map.
And we validated it live against Arab’s existing outage workflow.

That last part matters.

This is how you modernize utility operations without ripping everything out and starting over.

You meet the utility where they are.
You respect the systems already in place.
Then you build clean bridges that make the whole operation smarter, faster, and less dependent on fragile file drops.

Proud of this one.

RRAD is building real utility GIS and outage solutions with practical open-source technology — not PowerPoints, not vaporware, and not license-lock sales pitches.

Just working software, running live, solving actual utility problems.

03/10/2026

Huntsville is in our DNA.

At RRAD Geospatial Group, being locally owned and operated is not a slogan. It is a business decision, a values decision, and a long term commitment.

We are proud to build from Huntsville, Alabama, the birthplace of the American space program. This is a city known for engineering, problem solving, and doing serious work with serious purpose. That mindset shapes how we approach our clients, our software, and our company.

We believe local ownership still matters.

It means decisions are made here, not handed down from a boardroom somewhere else.

It means our clients get direct access, real accountability, and a partner touch instead of a polished sales handoff.

It means we stay close to the work, close to the customer, and close to the reality on the ground.

It also means we are choosing to grow intentionally and gradually.

We are not building RRAD to flip it.

We are not inviting in outside private equity to force speed over substance.

We are building it the way we believe it should be built ... carefully, honestly, and for the long haul ... so we can stay locally owned and operated.

That approach shapes our technology too.

We build practical, field minded tools for electric utilities, fiber networks, and geospatial operations. We care about transparency, usability, and operational truth. The goal is not to impress with hype. The goal is to solve real problems for real people doing real work.

Huntsville taught us that innovation is not about noise. It is about discipline, engineering, and ex*****on.

That is the standard we want RRAD to represent.

Local ownership.
Intentional growth.
Transparent technology.
Partner first mindset.

That is RRAD Geospatial Group.

12/29/2025

RRAD LightFlow LITE is arriving January 2026!

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