Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Brian Borg
GIS Technologist
16th November 2012
Agenda
GIS Overview
WSC Vision
WSC GIS Goals and Implementation
Practical Examples
GIS Overview
Geospatial data represent spatial locations and have
attributes (where? and what?) points/lines/polygons
Many Water utilities companies data is spatially
related
Spatial data typically stored within GIS
GIS is used for:
GIS Overview
Using GIS helps in managing water distribution
more effectively as well as planning and customer
care. Network represented with spatial features.
A GIS is more powerful and flexible than a CAD
system.
GIS stores both attributes and
images of pipes, valves, meters,
manholes, and so forth, as objects
with location coordinates.
Distribution system
Collection system
Population density
Zone boundaries
Urban development
Land features
Hydrographic data
GIS Overview
GIS create links (upstream and downstream)
between objects through a strong object-to-object
network connectivity model. (geometric network)
It is a true model of the network which can be
used to:
WSC Vision
Reduce data
redundancy
Improve accuracy
and integrity of
spatial information
Share data
efficiently and
quickly
Integrate GIS and
non-GIS
applications
Use GIS to analyze
data patterns
7
WSC Goals
Ability to manage water networks assets more
efficiently
Better decision making Better decisions about a
location or an asset.
Providing map-based views of assets
Create work orders / historical work orders
Trends
Improve communication
Maps and visualizations greatly assist in understanding
situations
New Language that improve communication
WSC Goals
Empower and improve Planned Maintenance
processes (Promote pro-activeness)
Assets aging / conditioning
Desktop
Server
Enterprise
GIS Professionals
create knowledge maps,
and models and easily
publish them for anyone
to use anywhere.
11
13
14
GIS/EAM Integration
GIS/EAM Integration
18
20
21
22
Leakage Management
Location?
Requires a combination
of management tools and
logical processes
GIS assists in leak
detection location
Addressing the WHERE:
Strategically positioned flowmeters and pressure sensors
(GIS/SCADA)
Pipe network subdivided into
zones and sub zones (GIS)
Methods like Step Testing will
be able to pinpoint the actual
zone (GIS/AMM)
23
24
26
27
28
SCADA
AMM
GIS
Live system
availability
Spatial data
representation
30
31
32