Clients
GPS Field Data Collection Case Studies
Bay Area Air Quality Management District - Geospatial Components Integration With Mobile Field App
Challenge
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is responsible for maintaining air quality standards within the nine San Francisco Bay Area counties. BAAQMD needed to develop and integrate geospatial functionality into backend applications for permitting, engineering, and enforcement used for daily operations. They also wanted to build and integrate a mobile application into their system to support inspectors in the field.
Solution
Farallon developed and integrated geospatial functionality into the District's customer facing permitting application and internal SharePoint portal that contained all of the District's spatially related data. Farallon also developed an Android-based mobile application and integrated it into the District's production system to support coordination between inspectors in the field and managers in the District's office.
TKT STPR iPhone & Android App helps avoid parking tickets in San Francisco
Challenge
General Eyeballs was in process of developing an iPhone & Android application to help drivers avoid parking tickets in San Francisco as well as other major urban centers. No central database of citywide parking regulations and restrictions in San Francisco existed so one had to be created that could intelligently integrate sophisticated spatial and non-spatial data.
Solution
Farallon Geographics integrated a variety of data sources from the City of San Francisco including point datasets for parking meter locations and non-spatial (i.e. tabular) datasets such as time restrictions and street cleaning schedules using sophisticated geospatial processing techniques to correctly position all the data on the right street segment and on the correct side of the street.
Mobile Data Collection Application using Android
Challenge
A Bay Area city needed a comprehensive and accurate storm drain geodatabase and geometric network to support their stormwater infrastructure planning, operations, and maintenance. They wanted it efficient for field crew data collection of 12000+ storm drain features, and real-time trackable by office managers.
Solution
Farallon developed an Android-based workflow-driven mobile data collection application to streamline the process of data collection and synchronize with the City's central database in both network connected (3G or Wi-Fi) and disconnected environments. Managers in the office track real-time progress using a simple Google Earth interface.
Farallon Helps Caltrans Improve Accuracy of States County Route Postmile System
Challenge
The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) wanted to improve the accuracy of the county route postmile system by accurately determining locations where highways cross county lines.
Solution
Farallon helped Caltrans to determine locations of the intersection of highway centerline and county boundary crossings for selected sites, within 5 meters of true, using three different technical approaches to determining highway centerlines.
MTC SAFE’s Bay Area Freeway Service Patrol fleet management evaluation
Challenge
MTC SAFE's Freeway Service Patrol Program uses an Automatic Vehicle Locator (AVL) system that allows the California Highway Patrol to verify that tow service trucks are at their designated locations. The FSP needed a comprehensive diagnosis of their existing telecommunications network, especially the AVL system.
Solution
Farallon examined the current software, provided diagnosis, made recommendations for technical and logistical improvements, and to develop and implement a fleet management program, as well as integrate with external incident management systems.
Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) Oracle Spatial Transportation Asset Management
Challenge
UDOT maintenance division had developed an Oracle database with tabular reports to track and analyze Utah's 5,900 miles of roads and 250,000+ transportation-related assets. UDOT wanted to integrate this with a web-based map interface to make spatial and business data more accessible and allow for field verification techniques.
Solution
Farallon worked with UDOT to create an enterprise-wide spatial database building on their existing Oracle infrastructure. This allowed UDOT to pilot a spatially enabled transportation asset management system, without having to deploy a new or separate GIS.
San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District Brings Enterprise GIS to the Fire Truck
Challenge
The San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District provides fire and ambulance service to a rapidly growing population from two cities. New land development meant that the District's GIS maps, CAD system, and records management system had to be integrated to allow fire fighters to quickly find homes in new subdivisions and confirm that nearby fire hydrants were connected to functional pressure zones.
Solution
Farallon helped the district implement a web-based system that links GIS with CAD and records management databases, providing dispatchers and fire fighters with a consolidated and near real-time view of dispatch, hydrant, and logistics (best access to remote rescue areas). The geodata can be forwarded directly to the responding units via the onboard mobile data computers in the vehicles.