GIS for Wet Infrastructure and Utility Domains

1. Geographic Information Systems
GIS for Wet Infrastructure
and Utilities domain
Mukund Harne

2. Pain Points for Utility and Water
Infrastructure Domains
Utilities:
• Lack of Asset Information Systems
• Lack of Transparency in O&M Work
Water, Wet Infrastructure:
• Worldwide water crises
• Quality of Household Water Treatment and
Storage
• GIS data is not adequate or it is not properly
managed

3. What GIS can offer?
• GIS applications and maps can enable everyone
at the utility domain to interact with a
centralized source of data in the way the best
suits their daily work.
• GIS solutions will fulfill the need for a data
gathering effort to learn as much as possible
about the demographic, health, and water and
sanitation infrastructure status within the
region.

4. What GIS can offer?
• GIS allows for geographic locations to be
connected to relevant information about the
features shown on the map
• GIS solutions will enable the staff to work in
collaborative way, for e.g. group of civil
engineers can discuss, edit and share the
engineering drawing over the web using geo-
conferencing.

5. GIS Products and Solutions
• Proprietary COTS
– ESRI ArcGIS suite of products
– Rolta Geomatica GIS suite
– Integraph Geomedia Suite
• Open Source GIS Products
– Minnesota Map Server
– GeoServer
• OGC Standard Specification for GIS usage
• Geospatial Solutions, web based or standalone
and handheld applications

6. A Case Study: New Barrackpore Municipality,
West Bengal, India
 Link to web site: http://nbmonline.org/gis.html
Benefits:
 Better Municipal Administration and eGovernance using GIS applications
 Better Information management of assets
 Transparency in operations and maintenance activities
 Easy access to information for citizens of the municipality

7. Mapping and Managing Potable Water
Infrastructure Assets
 Link to web site:
http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/winter0809articles/mapping-and-managing.html
Benefits:
 Staff collected GPS points and edited GIS features in real time in the field
 With ArcPad, staff can access their GIS data wherever they drive,
and the map moves with them
 The process was so efficient that money remained in the budget
to continue the inventory for other areas
 After GPS inventory, aboveground features are accurately located

8. EGIS in Wastewater Management
 Link to web site:
http://www.esri.com/library/newsletters/waterwrites/water-winter07.pdf#page=6
http://resources.arcgis.com/en/communities/local-government/01n40000000t000000.htm
Benefits:
 Key to the enterprise GIS program is the integration of external
data systems, which maximize opportunities to visualize information.
 These links are extremely beneficial to effective decision making.
 Foundational elements, both data and application development tools,
have priority in managing and implementing enterprise GIS.
 The strategic focus of the EGIS staff has been to acquire and
implement the sewer geodatabase,
 Orange County’s parcel land base, high-quality aerial orthophotos,
and a GIS Web services software development tool.

9. Example: Operations Dashboard

10. Example: Operations Dashboard

11. THANK YOU…
Presentation by Mukund Harne