The document describes a technical solution developed using FME Form to analyze the distance to fire hydrants and available water supply for emergency response planning. The solution was created for the Safety Region of Utrecht to help coordinate fire brigades, medical facilities, and police. It filters and analyzes data from various sources on fire hydrants, roads, and housing locally on FME Form. Parameters can be customized in an Excel file. The solution overcame challenges of performance and flexibility by merging data in a SQLite database and performing intensive tasks last. It provides insights to improve fire hydrant coverage and policies.

1. FME Form for fire hydrants and water
supply

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Anne Jop de
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FME consultant
Tensing

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Agenda
1. Context
2. Technical solution
3. Conclusion

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Context

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Safety region Utrecht
Safety region Utrecht is tasked with
the coordination of:
Fire brigade
Medical facilities
Police

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Create a tool to analyze distance to a fire hydrant
and available water supply
Requirements:
● To run on locally on FME Form
● Adjustable for different housing types
● Distance needs to be on the road

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Challenges
FME Form locally:
• Performance
• Flexible for different data types

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Technical solution

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Basic set-up in FME Form
● Workspacerunners to run the process
● Different requirements parameterized in an Excel file
● Data sources of fire hydrants, roads and houses
● Output in SpatiaLite for further analysis in QGIS

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Schema of the technical solution
Data sources
FME Form SpatiaLite QGIS

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FME FORM
● Filter first on province
boundaries
● Filter failed/incorrect data
● Merge fire hydrants and roads
close together
● Create housing types with a
required water level
● Analysis of housing closest to
fire hydrants last

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Overcome challenges
• Merge data in a database(SQLite)
• Performance intensive tasks last
• Use Excel as parameter input file for
flexibility

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Conclusion

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To create a locally FME Form tool:
● Parameters in a separate file
● Create a sperate database for performance
● Filter first – analysis later
● Created together with the customer

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Improvements for safety regions
● Redundant fire hydrants are easy to spot
● Housing without proper fire hydrants supply in the picture
● Help for municipalities to improve their fire hydrants
policies
● Helps planning new fire hydrants in newly built
neighborhoods

16. ThankYou!
ajdejong@tensing.com