I work for a small municipal electric utility in northern NY. The utility has recently started phasing out older HPS streetlights in favor of newer LED fixtures. Prior to the development of our utility maps, currently less than a year old, the utility would hire an outside company to come in and perform a lighting study on areas in question. Now that we have a functioning utility map it would be convenient to use it to perform a lighting study in house. Does anyone have any experience using ArcGIS in this way?
The main thing that I would like to do is find a way to plot luminaire isoline profiles on our map. That way we can see if the streetlight arm needs to be adjusted or replaced.
In addition, I've looked at several different lighting software programs, such as AGI32 and DIALux, which seem useful. however, the process of converting sections of our map to CAD and importing and adjusting in those programs is rather burdensome.
I am hoping someone with more experience and can give a recommendation.