UK utility data integration: overcoming schematic heterogeneity

Beck, Anthony; Cohn, Anthony G.; Sanderson, Michael; Ramage, Steve; Tagg, Chris; Fu, Gaihua; Bennett, Brandon; Stell, John G.

doi:10.1117/12.812600

Cited by 6 publications

(5 citation statements)

References 12 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…During the last two decades, significant advances have been made in developing solutions towards the integration and interoperability of municipal IAM tools, which include the development of standards, frameworks and middleware (Halfawy et al 2002(Halfawy et al , 2003(Halfawy et al , 2006Halfaway et al 2006;Beck et al 2007Beck et al , 2008Vanier 2014;Carriço et al 2020). The complexity of data integration and interoperability (levels at which the data can be operated as a single entity) is especially pronounced at data storage and structure levels.…”

Section: Integration and Interoperabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Data-driven asset management in urban water pipe networks: a proposed conceptual framework

Okwori

Pericault

Ugarelli

et al. 2021

Journal of Hydroinformatics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Analytical tools used in infrastructure asset management of urban water pipe networks are reliant on asset data. Traditionally, data required by analytical tools has not been collected by most water utilities because it has not been needed. The data that is collected might be characterised by low availability, integrity and consistency. A process is required to support water utilities in assessing the accuracy and completeness of their current data management approach and defining improvement pathways in relation to their objectives. This study proposes a framework to enable increased data-driven asset management in pipe networks. The theoretical basis of the framework was a literature review of data management for pipe network asset management and its link to the coherence of set objectives. A survey to identify the current state of data management practice and challenges of asset management implementation in five Swedish water utilities and three focus group workshops with the same utilities was carried out. The main findings of this research were that the quality of pipe network datasets and lack of interoperability between asset management tools was a driver for creating data silos between asset management levels, which may hinder the implementation of data-driven asset management. Furthermore, these findings formed the basis for the proposed conceptual framework. The suggested framework aims to support the selection, development and adoption of improvement pathways to enable increased data-driven asset management in municipal pipe networks. Results from a preliminary application of the proposed framework are also presented.

show abstract

Section: Integration and Interoperabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The quantitative assessment of DQ using DQ dimensions is a limitation noticed in these frameworks. Interoperability issues, specifically synaptic, semantic and schematic heterogeneity of data for IAM as defined by Beck et al (2008), are also not addressed by these existing frameworks.…”

Section: Integration and Interoperabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Data-driven asset management in urban water pipe networks: a proposed conceptual framework

Okwori

Pericault

Ugarelli

et al. 2021

Journal of Hydroinformatics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…However utility assets are held in different data systems, structures and data models. Beck et al (2008) classified the heterogeneities into syntactic, schematic and semantic heterogeneity (see fig 2).…”

Section: Heterogeneity In Utilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The challenge here is to combine these multiple networks together into one single schematic representation. A solution can be found in combining different utility network models into one single homogeneous data model as proposed by Becker et al (2011) or Beck et al (2008) and then applying adapted generalization and aggregation algorithms based on the network topology as it is proposed by Cabello et al (2001) and Cabello & van Krefeld (2002).…”

Section: Generalization and Aggregationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Generalized Cartographic and Simultaneous Representation of Utility Networks for Decision-Support Systems and Crisis Management in Urban Environments

Becker¹,

König²

2015

ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

ABSTRACT:Cartographic visualizations of crises are used to create a Common Operational Picture (COP) and enforce Situational Awareness by presenting relevant information to the involved actors. As nearly all crises affect geospatial entities, geo-data representations have to support location-specific analysis throughout the decision-making process. Meaningful cartographic presentation is needed for coordinating the activities of crisis manager in a highly dynamic situation, since operators' attention span and their spatial memories are limiting factors during the perception and interpretation process. Situational Awareness of operators in conjunction with a COP are key aspects in decision-making process and essential for making well thought-out and appropriate decisions. Considering utility networks as one of the most complex and particularly frequent required systems in urban environment, meaningful cartographic presentation of multiple utility networks with respect to disaster management do not exist. Therefore, an optimized visualization of utility infrastructure for emergency response procedures is proposed. The article will describe a conceptual approach on how to simplify, aggregate, and visualize multiple utility networks and their components to meet the requirements of the decision-making process and to support Situational Awareness.

show abstract

“…After carrying out the survey with fairly acceptable accuracy in the compliance check, it is therefore necessary to set up a such a system (Chen and Cohn, 2011) and database (Royal, et al 2010;Malinowska and Hejmanowski, 2010) to at least identify the main layouts of the different systems. Despite the needs for efficient and effective city administration, the task is challenging in view of the different formats held and the long history of records that are not easy to be retrieved (Beck et al 2009).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%