Abstract

GIS and Asset Management: a Cost Efficient Enterprise Solution
Track: Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater
Authors: Ming Zhao, Geoff Stevens, Geoff Stevens

Utilities are facing significant challenges and opportunities in developing cost effective business processes for managing infrastructure and assets. Central to that task is the development of accurate and easily accessible asset related information. Whether it is cost, criticality, condition, life expectancy, or decision support - GIS tools and technologies are at the core of the design. This paper will explore building an Asset Management System by expanding the existing water model which facilitates the horizontal assets to integrate our vertical assets on top of it. This combined data structure provides a GIS centric data management system. In addition, we are expanding the realized business process improvements and implementing it on ESRI mobile technology to allow the field crews to create work orders on assets seamlessly in the field. Last but not lease, GIS provide tools to make cost efficient business decision.