Asset information visualisation for Scottish Water, an open source and agile project - Joanna...

Asset Information Visualisation:

Agile and Open

Tom StorkJoanna Whittington

Geospatial Viewersfor asset planning

Smallworld

GIS in Scottish Water is restricted

• Limited access• Corporate data• Existing assets• Excludes spreadsheet information

Suburb of Nowheresville - fictional town in the UK

RiverOverflowSewage WorksPumping StationRising MainGravity Sewer

Solution• Single repository

• New layers of information

• Product aimed at planners

• Browser-based, intranet-hosted

Apply layers to Nowheresville…

Reactive repair RiverOverflowSewage WorksPumping StationRising MainGravity Sewer

Reactive repairEnvironmental Pollution Incident

RiverOverflowSewage WorksPumping StationRising MainGravity Sewer

Reactive repairEPIInternal Flooding

RiverOverflowSewage WorksPumping StationRising MainGravity Sewer

Reactive repairEPIInternal FloodingKnown broken sewer

RiverOverflowSewage WorksPumping StationRising MainGravity Sewer

Reactive repairEPIInternal FloodingKnown brokenPipe Bridge

RiverOverflowSewage WorksPumping StationRising MainGravity Sewer

Reactive repairEPIInternal FloodingKnown brokenPipe BridgeOverland Sewer

RiverOverflowSewage WorksPumping StationRising MainGravity Sewer

Reactive repairEPIInternal FloodingKnown brokenPipe BridgeOverland Sewer

Planned Work

RiverOverflowSewage WorksPumping StationRising MainGravity Sewer

Reactive repairEPIInternal FloodingKnown brokenPipe BridgeOverland Sewer

Planned WorkIdentified Work

RiverOverflowSewage WorksPumping StationRising MainGravity Sewer

Kemeling Consulting developed a

Geospatial Viewer

for Scottish Water

Anything can be done in 6 clicks

Simple Functionality

Why Open Source?• Mature

• Stable

• Unrestricted licences

• Limited start-up costs

• Strong community

• Sophisticated products

Agile Project Management • Bespoke, user-driven product

• Limited functionality available quickly

• Lots of quick wins

• Change expected and managed

Successes• Intuitive to use

• Planning programmes built using the Viewer - £1.68bn

• Used during discussions

• Information is key to data-driven decisions

• A product that meets the client’s needs

• Not industry specific

In summary…• Single repository

• New layers of information

• Product aimed at planners

• Browser-based, intranet-hosted

And…

Shortlisted for…..

Data Project of the Year