Enterprise GIS for Asset Management
Geographic assets such as pavement networks and utilities are best managed by a system that relates assets through maps
Why Spatially Enable an Asset Management System
Problem
An organization wants to know what assets are located near a specific asset at a street intersection. This is especially true for underground assets since you don't want to hit a water pipeline when digging for a cable.This simple requirement can be relatively hard to meet in tabular systems, depending on the way assets are related to street addresses.
Solution
Performing a spatial proximity search using a GIS for assets within or near the street intersection quickly and easily provides the location of all underground assets along with information about alternative routing.
Traditional asset management systems manage assets alphabetically or in arbitrary groups. But geographic assets such as pavement networks and utilities are best managed by a system that relates assets through maps and intelligent location processing.
Asset management systems integrated with a GIS allow municipalities to manage, visualize, analyze, and communicate information about intrastructure assets such as roads, bridges, water systems, wastewater systems, signage, meters, and equipment.
Optimal deployment of service and maintenance resources for work on the right equipment at the correct location using a GIS reduces costly maintenance mistakes, and increases the quality of service. Field technicians can use a GIS-enabled maintenance system to reduce the amount of time they spend looking for equipment that requires servicing as well as planning a more efficient route to maintenance locations.
Farallon's Infrastructure Asset Management GIS solutions provide managers with the system-wide spatially and temporally dynamic information necessary to maximize the capabilities, lifespan, and performance of expensive assets while simultaneously minimizing operating costs.
Basic Infrastructure Management Services
Many electric, water, wastewater, and transportation utilities can be conceptualized as a network of inter-related assets. Our Infrastructure Management solutions take advantage of this fact, and include:
- Pipeline Open Data (PODS) Asset Management
- Pavement Management
- GPS-based Field Asset Verification
- Network Routing and Tracing
Enterprise-level Services
To further ensure that our infrastructure solutions provide spatially accurate and current information, Farallon provides these Enterprise-level additional solutions:
- Enterprise Infrastructure Data Modeling and GIS System Development for ESRI ArcGIS and ArcSDE
- ESRI ArcPad Development and GPS Integration
- Linear Reference System and Dynamic Segmentation for ArcGIS and Oracle Spatial
- Dynamic ArcIMS Infrastructure Webmap Publishing
- Google Earth and Microsoft Visual Earth Infrastructure Maps
Farallon specializes in developing Infrastructure Asset GISs that meet the diverse needs of the electric, water/wastewater, and transportation utility managers.