Slides from the 2nd Technical Meeting of the Slope Project

1. Project SLOPE
1
WP 5 – Forest information system
development
Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 15

2. WP5. Forest information system development
Month 13 Meeting 19-21/01/2015
Progress of work package and planning
actions for M 13-18
Huurinainen Seppo &Plosila Veli-Matti
MHG Systems Oy
20 January 2015
Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 15

3. WP5. Forest information system
development
•Task 5.1 Database to support novel inventory data content – MHG
• Partners: GRAPHITECH, CNR, COAST, FLY, TRE, ITENE
• M08-M17
• Deliverable Name: Inventory module of the FIS
• Due date: 31.05.2015; in time
• Task 5.2 Platform for near real time control of operations–TRE
• Partners: GRAPHITECH, CNR, MHG, TRE, ITENE
• M11-M22
• Deliverable Name: Real-time supply chain module of the FIS
• Due date: 31.10.2015; in time
• Task 5.3 Online purchasing/invoicing of industrial timber and biomass – MHG
• Partners: GRAPHITECH, CNR, TRE, ITENE
• Del. number: D.5.03
• Deliverable Name: Platform for purchasing/invoicing
• Due date: 30.04.2016; in time
San Michele all’Adige
19 -21 January 2015

4. WP5T5.1 – Database to support
novel inventory data content
Task leader: MHG
Participants: GRAPHITECH, CNR, COAST, FLY, TRE, ITENE
Deliverable: D5.01 Inventory module of the FIS (Prototype)
Deliverable status: In progress (about 35%)
Delivery time: M17
San Michele all’Adige
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5. Task 5.1 Database to support novel
inventory data content
• Actions done: Veli-Matti´s presentation
• Completed (20.1.2015) 35 %
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6. Task 5.2 Platform for near real time control
of operations
•Task’s objective is to develop a system (MHG) for near real time control of
operations that integrates the information about the timber material origin,
quality and quantities being processed along the supply chain in order to optimize
procedures and avoid delay times in operations (i.e. manage transport fleet in
order to avoid saturation of storage areas at the cable crane landing).
This will be achieved by the implementation of a series of different interfaces to
access the FIS and allow a number of different operations
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7. Task 5.2 Platform for near real time
control of operations
MHG Biomass Manager:
• real-time operational management cloud service from stump end-user
point covering industrial timber and biomass. Below biomass value chain.
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8. Task 5.2 Platform for near real time control
of operations
•Actions done:
• Meeting in Boku (10/14); discussions of short, middle and long term
optimization and utilization of IPTIM software
• User rights of Biomass Manager to TRE (7/14), Boku (11/14) and ITENE (1/1),
the same with IPTIM to BOKU
• Pilot company found to manage their daily activities in real-time operations;
Hakevuori Oy (www.hakevuori.fi) (“Chip Mountain”)Seuraava dia
• Timber, pulp wood, energy wood for 10+ end-user points
• Massive own machinery fleet
• Outsourcing peak times: 30+ own workers&contractors
• TOP2 company in wood chips
• joined forces with a sister project, FOCUS, and Simosol Oy, developing a logistic
optimization model through Hakevuori as a pilot (benefits for T.2.5 too)
• Hakevuori also interested in mobile interface implementation as well as piloting
online Market Place
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9. Main Benefits of Real-time Management for Hakevuori Oy
One of the Largest Fuel Suppliers andTerminal Operators in
Finland
• Access to market – new partnerships with sawmills and pulp and
paper companies besides CHP plants
• Optimizing procurement, harvesting and deliveries to various end-
users based on fuel/timber quality and demand
• Storages, own fleet and contractors can be managed online
everyday along with easy-to-use technology
• Easy integration between MHG and accounting system
• Powerful reports for financials and authority reporting ........Biomass
ManagerEsityksetHakevuoriHakevuori_eng_28.8.2014.ppt
Markku Eskelinen
Biomass Business Manager, Hakevuori Oy, Finland
Tel. +358 400-952 377
Email. markku.eskelinen@hakevuori.fi
www.hakevuori.fi San Michele all’Adige
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10. Task 5.2 Platform for near real time control
of operations
•Actions done:
• further development of MHG Biomass Manager features and mobile interface
to match SLOPE requirements....WP5T5.2Harvesting instructions
_2015_18_01.ppt
• Actions to be done
• Translation of MHG Service platform into Italian, German and Spanish
• files to CNR, BOKU and ITENE asap
• Further development of electronic timber agreements and measuring
documents
• Apps for real-time feedback like documenting of timber assortments after
harvesting operation (Hakevuori)
• harvester´s report list under construction ........ASOIL
OPTIMUMMETSAPALVELUPUUKAUPPA2014mittaustosite 8 10 2014.pdf
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11. Storage and field work
management through Android
application. Map data is also
transferred to the application
for easy navigation to the spot
Depending on the business
model either contractor or
supervisor/manager does the
documentation of timber/
biomass storage (positioning,
photos, x,y, moisture %, weight,
etc)
Storage Management and Logistics
Everything Available via Mobile
Photos from every single
storage improve quality work
thinking within suppliers
.
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12. Working instructions
with deadline and id on
the map. Field
worker/contractor can
navigate to the site and
give feedback..
Storage Management and Logistics
Everything Available via Mobile
Harvesting instructions
with restrictions note
due to biodiversity
regulation
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13. Calendar Feature Makes Multiple
Deliveries Easy to Manage and Plan
Calendar view enables look-up and
planning of resource reservations,
work orders and important delivery
deadlines for different end-users.
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14. Task 5.2 Platform for near real time control
of operations
• Role between MHG and TRE:
• MHG daily operational management
• TRE; control of harvesting operations
• Needs further clarification of functionalities of both providers
• process description of FIS system needed how different
components/modules are utilized
• 2/2015
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15. Task 5.3 Online purchasing/invoicing of industrial
timber and biomass
• Partners: GRAPHITECH, CNR, TRE, ITENE
• M19-M28
• Huge field for development!
• Del. number: D.5.03
• Deliverable Name: Platform for purchasing/invoicing
• Lead participant: MHG
• Due date: 30.04.2016
• Approach: From Slope Pilot Service to Global Service (WP8) taking
advantage of Finnish pilots already available
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16. T.5.3. Online purchasing/invoicing of
industrial timber and biomass
• Vision; Easy to use mobile applications linked with the Online service is a key
to bring matching timber and biomass more to market and fitting with the
requirements of end-users
• Role-based mobile apps
• MHG Producer; documentation
• MHG Purchaser; real-time matching information to purchaser
• MHG Contractor; real-time information and feedback
• To be downloaded free of charge for SLOPE users
• E.g. forest owners and others can document and
position easily onto the Slope system what kind
of timber/biomass they´ve to offer
San Michele all’Adige
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17. T.5.3. Online purchasing/invoicing of
industrial timber and biomass
• Actions done:
• Benchmarking of online service completed
• Discussions started with potential investors/buyers (WP8)
• MTK-Finnish Farmers´ Union (300 000+ forest owners)
• Hakevuori Oy also interested in piloting online Market Place to improve
matching of timber procurement
• 2 thesis students recruited for making questionaires
• One survey targeted at Finnish forest stakeholders (Mika
Kaihola/MAMK)
• Another to SLOPE major countries Italy, Austria and Spain (?) by the
help of partners (Esa Hiiva/LUT)
• different cultural and professional background
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18. Results of Benchmarking – TOP eServices in Finnish
Forestry
• Metsaan.fi Service; accurate forest management plans for purchasers and
contractors
• Free of charge for producers
• Purchasers and contractors have to pay
• Metsäverkko; metsaverkko.fi; MetsäGroup´s web and mobile service for
members, includes accurate forest management plans, earning possibilities, and
silvicultural needs
• Free of charge for active members
• esigning of agreements 2015
• UPM+Stora; Metsäverkko like services, mobile interface missing
• Free of charge for forest owners selling timber to them in regular basis
• Puumarkkinat.fi Service; timber trade bulletin board, forest management
associations offering harvesting sites to purchasers (forest owners not actively
involved)
• basic fee 100-500 € per year + user fee 0-50 € per year
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19. Task 5.3 Online Market Place – Good Tool to Create
Something Big for Mobilizing Bioeconomy
Face with brutal facts:
• The Online Market Place under construction will be a “Mickey
Mouse” tool as a final solution
• It will not fully satisfy stakeholders´ needs or wishes in
commercial sense
Actions to be done;
• Think big and start doing necessary measures = finding
funding partners in your country in parallel with SLOPE (WP8)
• Italian core partner?
• Irish core partner
• Austrian core partner?
• Spanish core partner?
• (In Finland MTK – Forest Owners´ Union)
San Michele all’Adige
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20. Implementation of the survey
Our proposal on how the survey will be implemented ....WP5HiivaSLOPE_Task
5.3_Survey questions_2015_12_01.doc
1. The survey will be translated into languages used in piloting areas
(Italian, German), and perhaps in Spain by CNR, BOKU and ITENE); TBD
• Timeframe: by the end of January 2015
2. The survey will be hosted centrally by MHG Systems using a third party
survey tool
3. Respondents are reached using:
• Link to the survey is added to partners’ websites; 1st week of February
• Invitation to the survey is sent to contacts from email lists provided by
partners; 1st week of February
4. Data from the survey is analyzed by MHG System
• By the mid of March
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21. WP5T5.1 – Database to support
novel inventory data content
Task leader: MHG
Participants: GRAPHITECH, CNR, COAST, FLY, TRE, ITENE
Deliverable: D5.01 Inventory module of the FIS (Prototype)
Deliverable status: In progress (about 35%)
Delivery time: M17
San Michele all’Adige
19 -21 January 2015

22. T5.1 Objectives
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• Design the database to support inventory and
spatial data
• Implement database to relation database
management system (RDBMS)
• Design and implement interfaces to this
database
• Construct deployment platform for database
and service modules
• Deploy prototype to the deployment platform

23. T5.1Timetable and completed tasks
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M07 M08 M09 M10 M11 M12 M13 M14 M15 M16 M17
Start M07 – End M17
Database v1.o
design
Database v1.0
implementation
Web Service
design

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T5.1 In one picture
Specified in System Architecture Specifications

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Designing of the database
Check out the model from SLOPE dropbox (Work Packages/WP5/T5.1)

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Database implementation
MySQL implementation (with spatial extensions) of the database, specifies data type

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Design of the web services

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Work plan
• The database model should be tested to support all needed operations
and data -> update model if needed
• Special operations need to specified (outside of create, read, update and
delete)
• Implement designed data services with using standard Java API and Java
EE patterns to keep implementation agile and light weight.
• There will be SOAP implementation (JAX-WS) and REST implementation
(JAX-RS) of the services
• REST implementation will support both JSON and plain XML format
• Spring framework for DAO (Data Access Object) level implementation and
FIS database connections

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Work plan
• Use version control system to manage FIS Service source codes and
share codes between partners.
• Purchase and construct cloud platform for deployment
• Deploy database and services to the cloud platform
• Process will be done iterative and will produce different versions for
deployment
• Deploy GeoServer to deployment platform for spatial data operations
• Service Implementation (and iterative deployment process) will start
January 2015 and deliverable is ready in May 2015

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Summary
• Work process is currently in good shape
• Finalizing this deliverable needs good communication between all partners
involved
• Implementation of this task will make system architecture specification more
accurate
Thank you!

31. Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 15
T5.2- Platform for near real time
control of operations
Objective:
Develop a system that allows for the near real time control of operations .
Participants: Graphitech, CNR, MHG, ITENE
Delive-
rable
Number
61
Deliverable Title
Lead
benefi-
ciary
number
Estimate
d
indicative
person-
months
Nature
62
Dissemi
- nation
level 63
Delivery
date 64
D5.01 Inventory module of the FIS 5 18.50 P PU 17
D5.02 Real time supply chain
control module of the FIS
9 15.00 P PU 22
D5.03 Platform for
purchasing/invoicing
5 17.00 P PU 28
D5.04 Short-term optimization
module of the FIS
6 14.00 P PU 27
D5.05 Long/mid-term optimization
module of the FIS
5 12.50 P PU 27
Total 77.00

32. T5.2 Overview
• Access to planning information (type and number of harvesting, location of
machineries and transport equipment, storage locations and their space
requirement etc..) (TRE, GRAPHITECH).
Planned Activities
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33. RTFI
“Real Time Forest Intelligence”
Treemetrics Existing Platform for Near Real time control of
operations

34. RealTime Forest Harvest Control:
100% 2Way Communications via Satellite & GPRS
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35. RTFI™
Installation of Harvester Device
Harvester Computer Automatically Communicates & Sends DATA to RTFI Device

36. Live harvester data
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37. Track Harvester Progress
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38. Tracking Production Progress
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