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Abstract
Mobile GIS Solutions for Utility Operations Management
Track: Electric and Gas
Author(s): Christopher Stern, George Rofail
Competitive pressures continue to drive utilities to implement solutions for more efficient operations and improved customer service. To successfully achieve these improvements, organizations must implement GIS-based mobile applications that extend to their large "un-wired" workforce of mobile professionals and field service personnel. The recent emergence of technologies such as the wireless Internet, mobile Internet devices, and GIS and location-based services are allowing utilities to implement complete mobile operations management solutions. Using these systems, mobile workers can access mission-critical operating data and GIS-based maps and applications in the field on inexpensive wireless devices such as Palm-, PocketPC-, and WAP-based handhelds.
The purpose of this presentation is to illustrate the software and technologies available for implementing cost-effective mobile GIS solutions in service-based organizations with large mobile workforces. Specifically, this presentation will provide case studies that illustrate the wireless Internet, GIS and mobile device technology, location-based services, and strategies for successfully implementing mobile solutions.
Christopher Stern
Spacient Technologies
17645 Chatsworth Street
Suite 200
Granada Hills , CA 91344
USA
Phone: 818-831-2468
Fax: 818-831-7898
E-mail: chris@spacient.com
George Rofail
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
111 N. Hope Street
Room 1055
Los Angeles 90012
USA
Phone: 213-367-3295
E-mail: grofail@ladwp.com