towards geo-enablement - location matters seminar 29 mar 2012
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Towards Geo-Enablement –
For GIS Professionals
Steven Eglinton
Director, GeoEnable
29 March 2012
Microsoft, London
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Outcomes
• Consider the challenges we face
• Consider the opportunities the we have now
• Think about your ‘business’ challenges
• Steps to Achieve Geo-Enablement
• From Project to Process Focus
• Opportunities
• Conclusions
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My Involvement in Asset Management/GIS
• 12+ years in Geospatial Information Industry
• 4 years GIS Manager, Tube Lines
Now
• Director, GeoEnable
• Council Member/Director, AGI -
The UK Geospatial Membership Body
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Outcomes to understand
• The Right Solutions:
• The Right Information
• The Right People
• The Right Processes
• The Right Technology
•
• To Enable:
• The Right Decisions
• The Right Outcomes
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What is Tube Lines?
• Is an asset-management company selected by the UK Government to regenerate and modernize the following London Underground Lines:
– Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly (JNP)
•Tube Lines Ltd is now part of Transport for London (TfL)
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Approximately 2,100 employees
Assets and Network227 escalators
71 lifts
2,395 buildings and structures207 miles of track
251 trains
100 stations
1.75 Million Passengers each
Weekday
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Contract
• Performance Contract between Tube Lines and London
Underground.
• Tube Lines is contracted to improve the assets and the
service.
• Pain/gain based on five measurement criteria:
– Capability - Journey time minutes,
– Availability - Lost customer hours,
– Service points - Number of system faults,
– Ambience - Mystery Shopper Surveys,
– Stations delivery - Delivery of projects against set dates.
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Asset Information
Where
Who
WhatWhen
Why
How
• What can we ask of our Asset Management
Systems (AMS)?
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What (Where) is Geospatial?
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
• Building Information Modelling (BIM)
• Survey Activities (Laser Scanning & ‘Geomatics’)
• Remote Sensing (Satellite, Aerial, LiDAR)
• Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS/GPS)
• Location-Based Services (LBS)
• Web Maps & Web GIS
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What opportunities are there?
• Standards for Web Services - e.g. OGC
• Mainstream Location Information
• Automated Business Processes / BPM / Innovation
• BIM – Building Information Modelling (Process-centric)
• Sensor Web / Smart Networks
• Open Data
• GeoWeb
• Awareness and personal expectation:
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From Geo-Centric to Geo-Enabled
• From a focus on Geospatial Technologies & Tools
• To embedding Geospatial Information in Business
Processes
Geo-Centric Geo-Enabled
CAD
GIS
1 2 3
CAD
GISGeo
Web
Think Spatially
Think Integration
BIM
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GIS - Think Information, not just a map
Data
Source(s)
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Business-wide Information (IT/IM) Strategy
Does your Information Strategy include ‘Location’?
Model
Business
Governance
External
Governance
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StartHere Information Strategy
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Why ‘Geo-Enable’ Asset Management?
Combines AMS and GIS capabilities:
• Organise information by location
• Facilitate integrated planning
• Report project progress
• Visualise assets in context
• Identify patterns and trends
• Validate asset location
• Accessibility of CAD and survey
information
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Who’s information is it anyway?
• Metadata, Metadata, Metadata
what is it?
what is it about?
what can I use it for?
who created it?
• Needed for interoperability
CAD, Survey, GIS, Location Intel, BIM
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Building the Basics for a Location
Infrastructure
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• To define where we are on the track – need a coding
system
( Legacy system specified by London Underground)
– N124 = unique area code
– N = northern line
– EB = eastbound track
– LO = local track
– 101 = 101 metres along track in direction from start of an area
We need Standards (& Codification)
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Location Descriptions Before Robust Standards
‘EDGWARE STATION BETWEEN PLATFORM 2 & 3
FRONT OF P-WAY TOOL CABIN’
‘LCS CODE B097 – IMR - NORTH OF THE STATION
(NEAR THE MOSQUE)’
No use for our systems
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Provides consistent location references
– LUL Cat 1 Standard 1-035
- Location Coding System (LCS)
– Controlled single source of truth
– Unique for all track down to 1m
– Unique for all rooms and cupboards
We must use this for how we describe
locations in our asset register (Maximo)
Location Coding Standards – 1
The Tube
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Location Coding Standards – 2
UK Rail Industry
• Stations: National Location Code (NLC)
• Track: Engineers Line Reference (ELR)
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Sometimes simple diagrams work!
Existing Modern
Infrastructure
Colour Coded
Interventions
Opportunity to
Rationalise activity
& closures
Image Source: John Woollett, Tube Lines
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Benefits of Location Intelligence
1. Improved communication and interpretation
2. Adds context to data
3. Patterns and clusters become clear
4. Clashes/Opportunities for integrated works
5. Display trends and changes over time
But… It must be embedded…
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Shared Information
Cross-discipline Process Integration
Successful re-engineering requires a shift from projects and tools to
Service Delivery and Whole-life Information Management
Bespoke client
and discipline-
based tools run
the project
Functions are acknowledged,
but project-based focus
dominate
Processes, Service
Delivery & WLIM
drive the business
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Shared Information = Single Source of Truth (SST)
Function 2
Function 3
Business Function 4
Function 1
Stage 4 -
Business Function 2
Business Function 3
Business Function 1
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What is a business function?
• A process or operation that is performed
routinely to carry out a part of the mission of
an organisation
• In short – it’s what is done, tied to WHY we
are doing it.
• A process – has inputs and outputs
• How it is done, can (should) change and
improve!
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Business Process Management (BPM)
• The Right People
• The Right Information
+ The Right Solutions:
• The Right Processes
• The Right Technology
To Enable:
• The Right Decisions
• The Right Outcomes
Our BPM partner:
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Business Process Management (BPM)
Vs
Business Process Automation (BPA)
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Steps to consider for IM-BPM:
• Communication (of business benefits)
• Customer focus
• Cash (savings)
• Cost Avoidance
• Champions (create)
• Collaboration
• Common Data
• Common Tools
• Common Standards
• Competencies (define)
• Challenges (acknowledge)
• Cross-discipline
• Compliance (ensure)
• Common Goals (set)
• Communication (ongoing)
• Create a Culture of Change
• Continuous Improvement
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Opportunities for Change – with Location
• Standards for Web Services - e.g. OGC
• Mainstream Location Information
• Automated Business Processes / BPM / Innovation
• BIM – Building Information Modelling (Process-centric)
• Sensor Web / Smart Networks
• Open Data
• GeoWeb
• Awareness and personal expectation:
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Is there a new role?
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Thank you – Questions?
Contacts:
• www.GeoEnable.com