GIS Benefit FM2: Asset management with location and proximity intelligence
This is one of a series of articles we have extracted from Eagle Technology's database of the many and varied capabilities and benefits provided by geospatial technology and GIS. The database is one of several tools we use to assist organisations to plan geospatial strategy documents. These articles focus on single use-cases one at a time, and drills down into the detail with examples and identifies the business benefits.
Often field assets can be difficult to find: they do not necessarily match well to street addressing and it can be difficult to determine if precisely the right asset has been found in the field (some identification numbers on the side of assets get obscured by vegetation or worn away by weather etc). Location data combined with GPS location resolves many of these issues by allowing field personnel to see precisely where assets are and which assets (or hazards or other work-teams) they are close to.
Examples:
Environment Canterbury is a local government organisation that had a lead role in the recovery following devastating earthquakes that hit the region in 2011. Geospatial technology played an important role in the recovery process for many of the lifeline utilities.
“GIS has been used to develop recovery strategies for underground utilities such as water and sewer mains,” says Joanne Golden, from Engineering Lifelines Coordination, “where damaged or weakened assets cannot always been seen from the surface. The ability to link asset data to above ground observations and knowledge of the experienced operators has been valuable.”
Tapping into the data collection, spatial analysis and smart mapping visuals offered by Esri ArcGIS tools has enabled electricity provider Powerco to ensure that the right assets are repaired or replaced at the right time in the right locations.
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Powerco needed to build a unique smart tool that would enable us to visualise what was happening across the network,” says Powerco’s Asset Fleet Manager Overhead Ken Pattie. “We wanted to be able to visualise the various types of materials and loading conditions (mechanical and electrical) to find out to what degree Powerco’s assets were performing correctly.”
The new efficiencies gained through ArcGIS have enabled Powerco’s renewal planning engineers to prepare a significantly larger portfolio of planned renewal projects with longer forward lead times that help to deliver procurement and delivery efficiencies. E.g. previously, Powerco could undertake 30 renewal projects annually in the overhead space (poles, conductors, crossarms), whereas now it carries out 120 such projects annually. The conductor modelling represents a step change in engineering insights available for this asset type. These new insights are informing changes in strategy which in time will improve safety and service level outcomes for consumers.
Dublin Airport uses geospatial technology to manage critical assets and recommend quick, accurate measures in case of any issues. The use this technology?to track and monitor various assets such as escalators, security system, lifts, baggage systems, car park, boarding gates, runways, and taxiways.
Dublin Airport spatial data manager Morgan Crumlish said: “Dublin Airport has more than 30,000 assets across the airport’s campus, so we needed a way to identify them quickly if a problem occurs.
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