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


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


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


Outcomes to understand

• The Right Solutions:

• The Right Information

• The Right People

• The Right Processes

• The Right Technology

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• To Enable:

• The Right Decisions

• The Right Outcomes


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)


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


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.


Asset Information

Where

Who

WhatWhen

Why

How

• What can we ask of our Asset Management

Systems (AMS)?


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


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:


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


GIS - Think Information, not just a map

Data

Source(s)


Business-wide Information (IT/IM) Strategy

Does your Information Strategy include ‘Location’?

Model

Business

Governance

External

Governance


StartHere Information Strategy


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


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


Building the Basics for a Location

Infrastructure


• 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)


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


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


Location Coding Standards – 2

UK Rail Industry

• Stations: National Location Code (NLC)

• Track: Engineers Line Reference (ELR)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2a/BR-logo.svg


Sometimes simple diagrams work!

Existing Modern

Infrastructure

Colour Coded

Interventions

Opportunity to

Rationalise activity

& closures

Image Source: John Woollett, Tube Lines


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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Cross-discipline Process Integration

Successful re-engineering requires a shift from projects and tools to

Service Delivery and Whole-life Information Management

Bespoke client

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the project

Functions are acknowledged,

but project-based focus

dominate

Processes, Service

Delivery & WLIM

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Function 2

Function 3

Business Function 4

Function 1

Stage 4 -

Business Function 2

Business Function 3

Business Function 1


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!


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:


Business Process Management (BPM)

Vs

Business Process Automation (BPA)


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


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:


Is there a new role?


Thank you – Questions?

Contacts:

• www.GeoEnable.com