Towards Geo-Enablement - Location Matters Seminar 29 Mar 2012

Towards Geo-Enablement –
For GIS Professionals

Steven Eglinton
Director, GeoEnable

29 March 2012
Microsoft, London

Copyright © 2012 GeoEnable Ltd. All Rights Reserved

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
•
• 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)


Assets and Network
227 escalators
71 lifts
207 miles of track
2,395 buildings and structures
251 trains
100 stations

1.75 Million Passengers each
Weekday

Approximately 2,100 employees

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
How

Why Who

When What

• 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
Think Spatially
Think Integration 1 2 3

GIS CAD
CAD
Geo
GIS Web

Geo-Centric BIM Geo-Enabled


GIS - Think Information, not just a map

Data
Source(s)


Business-wide Information (IT/IM) Strategy

Business External

Model

Governance Governance

Does your Information Strategy include ‘Location’?

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


We need Standards (& Codification)
• 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


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


Location Coding Standards – 1
The Tube

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 – 2
UK Rail Industry

• Stations: National Location Code (NLC)
• Track: Engineers Line Reference (ELR)


Sometimes simple diagrams work!

Existing Modern
Infrastructure

Colour Coded
Interventions

Opportunity to
Rationalise activity
& closures

Copyright © 2012 GeoEnable Ltd. All Rights Reserved 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…


Cross-discipline Process Integration
Successful re-engineering requires a shift from projects and tools to
Service Delivery and Whole-life Information Management Stage 3

Stage 1 Stage 2 Shared Information

Shared Information
P P P P P P Business Function 1
Function 1
r r r r r r
o o o o o o Business Function 2
Function 2
j j j j j j
e e e e e e
c c c c c c Business Function 3
Function 3
t t t t t t

1 2 3 1 2 3 Business Function 4

Bespoke client Functions are acknowledged, Processes, Service
and discipline- but project-based focus Delivery & WLIM
based tools run dominate drive the business
the project
Stage 4 - Shared Information = Single Source of Truth (SST)


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: Our BPM partner:
• The Right Processes
• The Right Technology
To Enable:
• The Right Decisions
• The Right Outcomes


Business Process Management (BPM)

Vs

Business Process Automation (BPA)


Steps to consider for IM-BPM:

• Communication (of business benefits)
• Customer focus • Competencies (define)
• Cash (savings) • Challenges (acknowledge)
• Cost Avoidance • Cross-discipline
• Champions (create) • Compliance (ensure)
• Collaboration • Common Goals (set)
• Common Data • Communication (ongoing)
• Common Tools • Create a Culture of Change
• Common Standards • 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


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