FME Server - In the Cloud and on the Ground!

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FME Server – In the Cloud and on the Ground! Kumar Pancholi FME Server – in the Cloud and on the Ground!

Outline

!  Introduction

!  Example one Surveyors and Poles

!  Example two tracking the Mongol Rally

!  Dust off your zipster and get in touch

Sterling Geo

!  A Geo Solutions business built on the principals and heritage of ‘Sterling Group’ Engineering Company.

!  Innovation. Flexibility and an Enduring engineering ethos to ensure what is delivered is fit for purpose.

!  Linking data together and exposing accurate, actionable information to those who need it most.

Key Competencies

!  FME Reseller !  EO and airborne image processing software (ERDAS

IMAGINE) !  Enterprise and web data management and distribution

software ERDAS APOLLO) !  GIS Software (Hexagon Geospatial) !  Mapping and Aerial data supply (OS, Aerial Imagery) !  Ground Survey – Topo, Utility Tracing, GPR !  Asset survey and condition inspection UAV and GPR !  Online map services !  Web Portal development

Company Structure

Up and down

What’s all this cloud business about?

And relax .. The Workbench

Project scope !  6 month programme of wood pole inspections

for an electricity network operator in the UK. !  2 weeks to stand up a supporting map system

and portal to enable !  Administrator !  Project Manager !  Condition Inspectors – In the Field

!  Potential extension to include data in and out of the field

!  Potential extension to include the Asset condition information

!  Potential tracking the surveyor in the field

Rapid Solution Development

What we did !  Confirmed the FME Server setup requirements and use

in this way – many thanks Craig Vernon for his support !  Stood up on a secure portal all the OS mapping – used

under licence from the energy company to ensure we stuck to the data licence requirements

!  Created a simple portal using Open Layers for access, printing of mapping , pdf creation and pole identification

!  Portal was designed for use on mobile phone

!  And all within 2 -3 weeks, very fast!

Aim was to build a portal

Project Activities and facts ! Dealing with a ramp up of 5 – 30 ground

surveyors so at anyone time use of the system could vary

! Over the 6 month project 5,000 maps were printed for administration

!  The portal was accessed over 40,000 times during the project

! When the portal was temporarily taken down the first call was apx. 8 minutes after this occurred!

!  60,000 wood poles were duly inspected and reports submitted in a timely and efficient manner

FME Server utilised

Will the real workbench please stand-up

Workbench copy write and WMS requests

Workbench time stamp and map scales

Stick it on the Cloud

How do you get everyone to use FME? you don’t tell they are, you give them an app powered by server

Adaptations being considered

!  Attached to database output (condition assessment inputs or outputs)

!  Attach a billing system to automatically generate invoice once completed area surveyed

!  Route planning to improve inspection programme in future

Singing in the rain.. Maybe not

!  Having a cloud is brilliant !  Having a flexible approach to FME Server is

brilliant !  Walking around in cow fields and tapping wood

poles in pouring rain , well perhaps not so brilliant but if we can speed it up at least the inspectors will have a chance to be drier for longer

FME Cloud, a Mongolian rally, a Sterling Geo Pi, in a Fiat Punto 1.2!

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So time for video

http://www.mongolianrally2014teamscrumptious.co.uk/

If you would like to get involved and show your support:

http://www.mongolianrally2014teamscrumptious.co.uk/

I almost forgot .. The workbench, shame on me ! Data Loader

I did not really forget, more workbenches : Data Cleaner

KML Creator

Lets look at the KML in Google Maps Engine

Don’t forget about your Zipster,

!  Email or tweet your pictures in! @sterlinggeo

Thank You!

!  Questions?

!  For more information: !  Kumar Pancholi !  Kumar.pancholi@sterling-power.co.uk !  Sterling geo !  @sterlinggeo !  @kkpancholi www.sterlinggeo.com

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