The document describes Encanvas, a digital city application fabric that can integrate data from sensors, drones, and other systems to provide holistic insights for administrators. It processes large volumes of data to help identify threats, emergencies, and bottlenecks. Encanvas was designed to anticipate events and make near-real-time decisions to optimize outcomes for digital cities and their large populations.

1. APPLICATION DATA SHEET
DIGITAL CITY ECOSYSTEM
GAME­CHANGING TECHNOLOGY FOR
THE OPTIMAL DIGITAL METROPOLIS
A digital city requires a technology ecosystem able to bring together a holistic
understanding of real‐time digital insights from sensor devices, drones, security
and monitoring systems, population and traffic flows.
Administrators need to identify what constitutes a threat, emergency or bottle‐
neck event, to predict and anticipate events that create sub‐optimal outcomes. To
do this they require tooling able to process large volumes of data and capable of
adapting to change rapidly. Encanvas DX was designed to serve these needs.
The Digital Metropolis
Our world is changing. We can expect in the next
decade to see the majority of people living in a
digital metropolis where they will work, rest and
play.
Population growth and technology are driving the
success of digital cities. The most successful will
attract the brightest talent from around the world.
There are over 1400 digital cities today. These
municipalities are facing a surge in data volumes as
transport, logistics and population facilitation
services embrace use of sensor‐based (IoT) devices.
Administrators and policy makers will be faced
with the challenge of having to make near‐real‐time
decisions. More than this, they will need technology
to anticipate threats, emergencies and bottlenecks
that impact on the effectiveness of the digital city
ecosystem to serve its citizens and visitors.
The Application Fabric
Each digital city will need to monitor, govern and
maintain thousands of digital assets, potentially
millions of drones, IoT devices and monitor
movements across its geography. What’s more they
will need to log events and use all of this data to
anticipate and act on potential risks before they
occur. Encanvas was designed for this world ‐ to
support the ultimate ‘digital ecosystem’ to manage a
digital metropolis.
We use the term application fabric to describe the
codeless over‐arching digital environment that
harvests data, processes it and serves output to
systems and decision makers.
Capabilities
Encanvas supports the following capabilities:
Live Wire­Frame code­less apps design
Code‐less computer‐aided near‐real‐time authoring
of applications to speed time‐to‐value and remove
bug creation/testing/tuning.
Intuitive data visualisations
In addition to the JSON integration capabilities of
Encanvas to harvest the best 3rd party data
visualization tools available, Encanvas includes its
own integral reporting and data visualization
tooling.
Drill­through reports
It’s not always possible to trust a dashboard or
graphical visualisation of data. All data presentation
tools used in Encanvas offer click‐through access to
source data to enable results validation.
Federated geo­data analysis
Encanvas offers a unique in‐build geo‐mapping
capability based on data management best practise.
Unlike legacy GIS systems, Encanvas does not
compose composite map files but presents data and
vectors as layers on a canvas. This approach is
essential for data mashup applications.
Ready­to­play solutions for asset control, traffic
flow and traffic information management
Encanvas has been used for over a decade by
private companies, digital cities and transport
authorities to manage assets, traffic information and
metropolis areas. This has resulted in a number of
ready‐to‐use digital city applications.
Why Use Encanvas as your Digital City
Application Fabric?
Add
Federated robot/IoT device
control system
Access to services 24x7 via a
comprehensive control panel
Cloud‐based scaling and control
Federated map views
Robotic functionality to
automate manual tasks
The ability to anticipate threats,
emergencies, bottlenecks, asset
failures etc.
Grow
Control and governance of
federated assets
Understanding of cross‐discipline
events and activities
Data security and integrity checks
over IoT feeds
Data accuracy by exposing short‐
falls in data quality
Meta‐data capture
Governance over activities –
Systematic rules are applied
consistently
Best‐practise innovation
Reduce
IT project risk, spend, overheads
on IT teams
Manual data processing tasks
Time‐to‐value of new solutions
Time to deploy on desktop and
mobile browser platforms
Remove
Manual data capture, input,
aggregation, cleansing, analysis,
reporting and publishing tasks
IT complexity
Support overheads

2. Feature Benefit
Code­less No coding, no errors, smaller IT, better apps
Federate views of digital city
geographies and systems
Powerful, federated map and data visualisations,
aggregating many subjects on the same canvas
Integrated robotics Automate manual operations
Data mashup and ETL tooling Encanvas has won awards for its multi‐threaded, multi
sourcing and multi‐linking technologies which means
you can pretty much connect to any data source and
harvest data. Use our ETL tooling to cleaning,
normalize, de‐dupe, transform and upload data
Served pages Maximize data security with Encanvas served‐pages,
ensuring that no web pages exist to be hacked
24­hour operation Higher up‐time
Scalable cloud architecture Affordably build hundreds of applications, scale data
to ‘cloud dimensions’, monitor millions of assets and
devices on a single platform
An integrated component of
the Encanvas DX platform
For class‐leading user identity management, group
and website administration, business analytics, data
security and applications customization capabilities
For more information
For further details about Encanvas visit www.encanvas.com.
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Encanvas® is a registered trademark. All other trademarks and trade names are acknowledged as belonging to their
respective owners. Encanvas® reserves the right to modify specifications of applications without notice.
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Data security provisioning
Encanvas is secure by design as a platform. We use
features like served web pages to make it difficult to
hack. We also do what we can to encourage
designers to produce safe environments for data.
Unrivalled data mashup and ETL
Encanvas is architected to author applications that
‘mashup’ data from different sources and present
holistic views. It offers a broad portfolio of ready‐
to‐use data connectors. It also includes powerful
extract, transform and load capabilities.
Robotics built­in
Encanvas includes technology components that can
mimic human actions such as key‐filling screens,
harvesting and sorting data, producing
spreadsheets, presentations, reports, documents
(etc.) and publishing.
Future­proofed applications
Encanvas is now in its third generation. When we
had success with the first generation, we realised
how difficult it was to maintain existing apps while
innovating the platform. So we invented Version‐
Rollback™ technology. It’s integral to our platform
and means your apps never go out of date.
Cloud scalability and replication
We created a cloud container ecosystem called
Remote[Spaces] almost a decade ago to make it
easier to create, replicate, maintain and update
private cloud spaces. It makes it easy to scale
applications and protect the data they hold.
Unrivalled performance
Encanvas is a code‐less platform with unrivalled
performance, security and dexterity. It has an
extensive library of data connectors to third party
sources. And it offers both desktop and server
based robotics to align IT solutions to business
needs – producing affordable, best‐fit‐outcomes.
Scalability that knows no bounds
Encanvas is used for some of the most demanding
RPA applications. Support millions of robots and
still experience blistering response speeds.
Encanvas is a cloud­deployed
application fabric. No client
installation is required. Private
cloud and host platform options are
available for in­house deployments
Host platform
Microsoft® Windows Small Business
Server 2003 through to Windows
Server 2016. Requires Microsoft® SQL
Server or Microsoft® SQL Server
Express (not supplied).
Supported formats
Encanvas acquires and presents data
sourced from front‐office files (like
.CSV and .XLS), back‐office systems
(like relational databases) and
Shapefiles (composite ESRI® format),
TAB, MIF (composites used by
MapInfo®), GML files (composite used
by MasterMap™)
Other applications
Live Wire‐Frame
Dashboards
Maps
IoT & Big Data
Digital Transformation
Robotic Process Automation
Business Intelligence
Life‐Cycle Dashboards