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Change History

The following chart lists the revisions made to this document tracked by specification version. Use this to describe the changes and additions each time this document is re-published (both draft and final). The description should include as many details of the changes as possible.

#.# Change Description Date Author

0.1D Initial Version 18 March 2010 Robert Baudewyns

0.2D Master structure 22 March 2010 Robert Baudewyns

0.3D IPA Features 22 March 2010 Robert Baudewyns

0.4D Specific Water Office capabilities 15 July 2010 Robert Baudewyns

0.5D Minor corrections and new screenshots 23 February 2011 Robert Baudewyns

0.6D New chapter for data models introduction 24 February 2011 Robert Baudewyns

0.7D New chapter for business support 01 March 2011 Robert Baudewyns

0.8D Additional screenshots 29 March 2011 Robert Baudewyns

0.9D Additional screenshots 23 May 2011 Robert Baudewyns

1.0 Version ready for approval 25 May 2011 Robert Baudewyns

2.0 GE Marketing version 25 August 2011 Vincent Thomas

3.0 Layout improvements 26 August 2011 Robert Baudewyns



Table of contents

1 Introduction ......................................................................................................................... 7

2 Smallworld Core Spatial Technology .................................................................................. 7

3 Smallworld Office Overview ................................................................................................ 8

3.1 High level Goals .................................................................................................................. 9

4 Smallworld Water Office...................................................................................................... 9

4.1 Overall Benefits of Smallworld Water Office ..................................................................... 10

4.2 Value Proposition .............................................................................................................. 10

4.3 Water Business processes ............................................................................................... 14

4.3.1 Engineering Management ................................................................................................. 15

4.3.2 Operational Management.................................................................................................. 15

4.3.3 Business Intelligence ........................................................................................................ 17

4.4 Data Models ...................................................................................................................... 18

4.4.1 Data Model Concepts ........................................................................................................ 18

4.4.2 Water Supply ..................................................................................................................... 22

4.4.3 Drainage ............................................................................................................................ 23

4.4.4 Cathodic Protection ........................................................................................................... 24

4.4.5 Telecom ............................................................................................................................ 25

4.5 Product Features ............................................................................................................... 26

4.5.1 Applications ....................................................................................................................... 26

4.5.2 Flexible Views ................................................................................................................... 28

4.5.3 Cathodic Protection (CP) Manager ................................................................................... 30

4.5.4 Outage Management ........................................................................................................ 31

4.5.5 Call Before You Dig ........................................................................................................... 33

4.5.6 Longitudinal Profile ............................................................................................................ 34

4.5.7 Analysis Framework .......................................................................................................... 35

4.5.8 Hydraulic Modelling ........................................................................................................... 36

4.5.9 Drainage Inspection Management .................................................................................... 38

4.5.10 Time Series Management ................................................................................................. 39

4.5.11 State Visualisation ............................................................................................................. 40

4.5.12 ISO Lines and Contours .................................................................................................... 41

4.5.13 GeoPicture ........................................................................................................................ 41

4.5.14 Content Filter ..................................................................................................................... 42

4.5.15 Survey Point Management ................................................................................................ 42

4.5.16 Stationing Viewer .............................................................................................................. 43

4.5.17 Network Trace ................................................................................................................... 43

4.5.18 Route Manager ................................................................................................................. 44

4.5.19 Legend .............................................................................................................................. 44

4.5.20 Object Report .................................................................................................................... 45

4.5.21 Compliance Manager ........................................................................................................ 45

4.5.22 Address Locator ................................................................................................................ 46

4.5.23 Configurable Viewport ....................................................................................................... 46



4.5.24 Label Anchors ................................................................................................................... 46

4.5.25 Thematic Mapping ............................................................................................................. 47

4.6 Smallworld Integration....................................................................................................... 47

4.6.1 Design or Workflow Manager Integration .......................................................................... 47

4.6.2 Spatial Object Manager Integration .................................................................................. 49

4.6.3 Internet Application Server Integration .............................................................................. 50

4.6.4 GeoSpatial Server Integration ........................................................................................... 51

4.7 Common Office Applications ............................................................................................. 52

4.7.1 Manage External files ........................................................................................................ 52

4.7.2 Audit History ...................................................................................................................... 52

4.7.3 Event History ..................................................................................................................... 53

4.7.4 Object Editor ..................................................................................................................... 53

4.7.5 Batch Update .................................................................................................................... 55

4.7.6 Inventory Reporter ............................................................................................................ 55

4.7.7 Map Grid Plotting .............................................................................................................. 56

4.7.8 Additional Layout controls ................................................................................................. 56

4.7.9 Where Am I? ..................................................................................................................... 57

4.7.10 Export to Shapefile and DXF ............................................................................................ 57

4.7.11 XY/Lat-Long Export ........................................................................................................... 57

4.7.12 Water pipes crossing ......................................................................................................... 57

4.7.13 Template Manager ............................................................................................................ 58

4.7.14 CAD Tools ......................................................................................................................... 58

4.7.15 Area / Line Length Calculator ........................................................................................... 58

4.7.16 Dimensioning .................................................................................................................... 59

4.7.17 Flow Indicator .................................................................................................................... 59

4.7.18 Cluster & Proximity Analysis ............................................................................................. 60

4.7.19 Tooltips .............................................................................................................................. 60

4.8 Administration ................................................................................................................... 60

4.8.1 Configuration ..................................................................................................................... 61

4.8.2 Business Rules Manager .................................................................................................. 61

4.8.3 Annotation Manager .......................................................................................................... 62

4.8.4 QA/QC Toolkit ................................................................................................................... 62

4.8.5 Batch Job Processing ....................................................................................................... 62

4.8.6 Extension to Version Management ................................................................................... 63

4.9 Installation ......................................................................................................................... 64

4.9.1 Application Databases ...................................................................................................... 64

4.9.2 Model Generator ............................................................................................................... 64

4.9.3 Upgrade Manager ............................................................................................................. 65

4.10 Documentation .................................................................................................................. 65

4.11 Features Table by Version ................................................................................................ 66

5 Other Smallworld products ................................................................................................ 70



1 Introduction

This document describes the product Smallworld Water Office, version 4. 2

The information contained herein is the property of the General Electric Company or its affiliates and shall not be used, disclosed to others or reproduced without the express written consent of General Electric Company. The information contained herein is subject to change and not a guarantee in any way of a product contents and release date. The entire document is considered to be a living document and is subject to ongoing changes and enhancements.

2 Smallworld Core Spatial Technology

Smallworld Core Spatial Technology (Smallworld Core) is the foundation GIS product from GE that supports application products for Communications, Utility and Public Systems organisations. This revolutionary, object oriented, database-driven product provides a powerful, consistent architecture at the heart of every Smallworld application product. This application engine is the most extensible, scalable and open development environment available today, bringing benefits to your organization such as:

Low-risk investment and low cost of ownership

Rapid implementation and Fast return on investment

Future-proofed architecture

Smallworld Core Spatial Technology enables an organization to exploit spatial information as never before. Smallworld Core is the basis of all our products and is a robust, proven platform for application development for customers and partners alike. Smallworld software is used for such purposes as planning, designing and maintaining electric, gas, water distribution and transmission systems, designing telecommunications networks and evaluating strategic opportunities. The company‘s software integrates with other products that require spatial information, including systems for customer care, market analysis, network management and work management. The Smallworld application has the proven ability to deliver solutions for thousands of users managing terabytes of data across complex, distributed operations. Smallworld 4 is designed for remote access, providing the benefits of Smallworld technology to the workforce in the field. Timely access to accurate data in the field improves productivity, reduces wasted trips and enhances operational safety.

Low risk investment with a high probability of success. Smallworld has an enviable reputation for delivering reliable and stable solutions.

Fast and low-cost implementation. Smallworld‘s development environment ensures a

rapid and, consequently, low-cost implementation.

Rapid return on investment. Smallworld implementation times are measured in months rather than years. Our high out-of-the-box functionality, along with proven flexibility and customizability, result in a rapid return on your investment.

Scalability. The architecture of Smallworld Core is designed to grow as your company

grows, ―future proofing‖ your investment.

Cost Savings. Your ability to better manage and utilize your assets can result in a significant reduction in costs.

Increased Productivity. Smallworld helps you streamline your workflow, resulting in better labour productivity.

Improved Customer Service. When you improve access to operational information, you

dramatically improve your ability to provide the best in customer service.

Enhanced Efficiency. Smallworld enables you to automate critical business process, resulting in greatly enhanced efficiency.

Improved Revenue Generation. Smallworld helps you get right to the heart of the matter through better resource planning.



3 Smallworld Office Overview

The goal of the Office Suite concept is to provide utility specific GIS products for data capture of assets and applications needed by each of the utilities to help them with their operational, maintenance, and regulatory needs. The utilities include:

Electric Transmission and Distribution - Smallworld Electric Office (EO)

Gas Distribution – Smallworld Gas Distribution Office (GDO)

Oil and Gas Transmission – Smallworld Global Transmission Office (GTO)

Water Supply and Drainage - Smallworld Water Office (WO)

Lowering total cost of ownership and providing more productivity tools are a few of the guiding principles for the Office suite concept. With the first Office products being rolled out to customers smooth upgrades to future releases have a high importance as well as pre-integration of current and futures complementary included and add-on products. Some customer may want to customise the ―standard‖ Offices to their individual needs to make them even more productive. In return this means GE must provide customisation guidelines to allow smooth upgrade to future product release at the lowest cost. This document provides also detailed information on upgrade paths, customisation guidelines, licensing and system requirements.

The Smallworld Core Spatial Technology (CST) architecture was specifically designed to model geospatial information, processes, and structures that support utility operations in the real world. Leveraging this platform, GE Energy has developed leading utility products for outage management, engineering design, transmission corridor management, and network asset management that are in production at some of the largest utilities in the world.

However, Smallworld technology has been offered primarily as a ―toolkit‖ offering, meaning that GE Energy projects, partners, and even customers are required to configure, integrate, and customize the actual solution for individual utilities. The complexity of these individual solutions, compounded by the lack of a consistent release schedule for the individual products that make up the typical solution, has resulted in an extremely high cost of ownership for Smallworld environments.



Today, in response to these issues companies worldwide are facing, GE Energy has taken the next step in providing value to utilities by offering standard utility geospatial software suites. These utility suites, or ―Offices‖, address many of key trends in the industry such as:

Highly customized solutions are difficult and expensive to maintain by the utility

A ―Best of Breed‖ application strategy has not always succeeded due to custom, version-specific interfaces between products

System upgrades are expensive and time consuming, particularly where there are large amounts of customization

Mergers & acquisitions cause disruptive growth and call for more efficient methods of deploying corporate standard applications to large numbers of new users

By delivering a comprehensive suite of data models, applications, and integration products, the Office Suites effectively lowers the cost of ownership for any utility by eliminating the need to develop, test, and maintain a complex collection of applications and interfaces. Moreover, regularly scheduled Office upgrades are straightforward and supported as part of maintenance and support, allowing companies to plan for and successfully incorporate upgrades in order to take advantage of future product enhancements.

3.1 High level Goals

The high level goals of the Smallworld Water Office Suite program consist of:

Industry Standard Data Models The standard data models in Water Office offer a robust foundation for constructing and maintaining water supply, drainage and land base as well as cathodic protection and telecom networks. These data models have been developed in conjunction with industry subject matter experts and provide a supported base for the Smallworld Water Office environment.

Industry Applications The Offices provide several key applications that support the gas, pipeline and electric utility business process, such as standard mapping products, regulatory reporting tools, network tracing and query applications, and QA/QC tools

Enterprise Application Integration Smallworld Office customers can extend their enterprise by adding layered products that are pre-configured for integration with the Smallworld Office Suites, including GE Digital Energy products as well as other leading industry solutions.

4 Smallworld Water Office

The Smallworld Core Spatial Technology* has been the leading spatial solution for utilities to model their network since its creation, providing a rich toolkit that enabled extensive customisation for customer specific requirements.

Network owners and operators must continually improve their overall operational efficiency and reduce costs. Besides managing the entire lifecycle of their network assets, water & drainage utilities need to take care of safety, regulatory and public authority requirements.

Traditionally water & drainage utilities companies & municipalities use CAD or GIS tools to plan and document their networks and a variety of other not necessarily integrated tools to meet the individual needs of their business. This could include, but is not limited to integration with ERP systems, mobile solutions and very process specific applications such as outage management, network analysis or rights of way/parcel management.

The Smallworld Water Office (WO) has been designed to provide water supply & drainage utilities with applications and comprehensive data models specific to meeting their current and future business needs. They also provide a platform to further reduce IT costs while improving efficiency. The standard water & drainage data model provides structure for the network to meet the customer demand for a full water supply production, transmission and distribution industry spatial asset management solution, provided by GE.



4.1 Overall Benefits of Smallworld Water Office

The single source covering water production, transmission and distribution solution reduces total cost of ownership through integration and powerful software administration tools, while enabling almost immediate productivity

The water & drainage T&D specific data models can reduce time to ―go live‖ by significantly shortening the database design phase

The product reduces administration and integration effort through its pre-integration with additional solutions from the Smallworld Portfolio e.g. Design Manager and SIAS

The standard application code and standard data model provides a significant basis to ensure that future update costs are reduced to a minimum.

Product provides applications for outage management, call before you dig, reporting and others to support key business processes

Product builds on a variety of standard utility applications to increase productivity and reduce administration costs

Product supports multi-utility environment via integration with other products from the Office suite.

Fully scalable solution with long term support

Upgrade path security at future product releases.

Class A product fully supported through the Help Desk

4.2 Value Proposition

Smallworld Water Office provides the customer with a suite of water T&D applications with comprehensive global data models designed to meet the needs of water & drainage utility



customers and the demands placed on them by their owners, customers and regulatory agencies. The requirements for Smallworld Water Office are driven by the water & drainage utility industry‘s need to cope with industry challenges and meet regulatory requirements.

The suite of applications allows a water and/or drainage utility company to leverage their GIS data and maximise the return on investment in geospatial data by using smart applications and integration with key business processes. Water Office gives the customer a single source solution for their needs. Smallworld Office Suites focus on business issues, not IT issues. Smallworld Office Suites isolate companies from database technology, GIS upgrades, and development environments.

Building on a standard industry proven data model

The Water Office is delivered with supported data models for water supply production, transmission and distribution, drainage, cathodic protection, telecommunication and land base. These models have been developed and optimised in conjunction with utility customers over a number of years.

The standard data model and its openness to support multiple data format and applications provide customers with utmost flexibility, while reducing the effort to build and maintain customer-specific data models to a minimum.

Transparent information on the water supply & drainage networks

The application provides significant support to provide cost effective and optimised processes to optimise the use of data. Current requirements from regulators dictate that a utility must be able to trace their network by voltage level, network length, distribution or transmission line and other criteria. When an outage occurs, the affected customers have to be identified for notification, outage reporting and other purposes.

For work execution, the work area needs to be isolated from the network. The work planners must know where, upstream or downstream, switching operations should occur to isolate the work area.

Adding new customers to the network is a sophisticated job. The engineer has to take care of flow and pressure, which means they need to know the relevant details of their existing network assets to add new customers or modify existing customers in the most efficient and most accurate way.

Water Office allows customers to trace the network along water & drainage utility specific criteria, reducing tracing effort to a minimum through pre-configured network tracing options.

Efficiency is driven by data quality

The level of data quality drives the efficiency of customer business applications to a high degree. The integrity of geospatial objects, their connectivity or other key business rules must be met, to ensure a high data quality and hence provide the basis for optimal results from applications accessing the database.

Water Office improves data quality and consistency through its QA/QC configurable framework for on-demand and schedulable tools for checking object integrity, connectivity and other pertinent business rules before an alternative is permitted to post.

Workflow Management

Following their organisational structure and business processes, utility companies need tools to manage their internal approval processes for typical transmission and distribution operations such as repair, replace, relocate or data updates.

The built-in Workflow Manager allows Water Office (WO) customers to manage their internal workflow and approval processes, minimising administrative burden and violation of internal workflow rules.



Utility Network mapping for various levels of customer care

Water supply T&D and drainage companies need to generate standard plots along typical themes, borders and templates to serve individual needs of both internal and external customers.

Water Office (WO) provides water and/or drainage companies with optimised availability of digital maps allowing quick and efficient reporting whenever required ensuring highest possible levels of customer care.

Keeping the network up-to-date

In order to keep network data up-to date after valve operations, water utilities need smart circuit management tools to ensure the water flow is propagated to topologically connected assets when a permanent change occurs to a transmission or distribution main.

Key Business Process Support

Water & drainage utilities need to support key business processes throughout the network asset life cycle. These processes include planning, design and building of new networks or network changes, to commissioning, operating, monitoring, maintaining and refurbishing.

These business processes require mobile solution support, integration with ERP systems like SAP or Maximo, work management, web-solution support to share geospatial information at least costs throughout the enterprise.

Water Office and tightly integrated Smallworld applications support critical business processes and improve operational efficiency while keeping integration cost to a minimum.

Efficient Outage Management

Network outages are registered by a customer support desk. The settlement of outages is important and critical process. To deal with outages, spatial information of the network is in most cases essential. Maps of the network (paper or digital) are used by the crews in the field. Field systems containing spatial network data are very useful for the settlement of outages.

Outages stored in the GIS (geo-localisation) and related to the network, can be spatial analysed. Spatial patterns, distributions, cohesions and relations can be recognised and analysed.

On the other hand, the GIS can perform network traces to determine the location of a leak or to advice on how to close the network segment with valves.

The Water Office (WO) outage management application allows water supply utilities running outage analysis and reports against it, to manage the utilities network at utmost efficiency.

Integrated Call-before-you-dig support

Constructors and other people or organisations that intend to dig, have to inform utility companies about their activities. The utility company will provide them with information about their network infrastructure. This process of information requesting and providing is managed by the CBYD centre. Information requests are collected and forwarded to the utility companies. The utility companies have to find out if they have infrastructure near the building site and will provide maps to the constructor. This process is heavily dependent on the data and functionality of the GIS. The communication of requests and responses are becoming increasingly digital (e-mail, Web Map Servers).

Water Office and tightly integrated Smallworld applications support call before you dig business processes and improve operational efficiency while keeping the network safer.

Minimising Integration Effort

Complex utility solutions require tight application integration to further optimise business process support while reducing administration and maintenance cost of interfaces. Bespoke interfaces and integration are cost intense and difficult to maintain. Not all applications are coming necessarily from one single vendor, which means the integration effort becomes even more complex.



WO provides pre-integrated interfaces to a number of Smallworld applications to minimise installation and administration costs for such application integration. It is the clear strategy for Water Office to expand pre-integration to other GE products like mobile, FFA and selected 3rd. party applications like SAP and IBM Maximo. The pre-integration is a key component of any future development work and ensures the integration is being synchronised with the release schedule of the Smallworld product portfolio.

The pre-integration of layered applications with WO reduces integration efforts significantly and provides integration solutions synchronised with the Smallworld product portfolio roadmap.

GIS everywhere

The GIS has passed departmental borders and integrates with business processes across the enterprise. Many functions inside an organisation need access to geospatial information, not just maps. In many cases, non-GIS experts require this information, which means the information must be easy to access. Because no full GIS client functionality is necessary, this information must be accessed at lowest cost possible.

Water Office comes with built-in Smallworld Internet Application Server (SIAS). SIAS is targeted at customers that need to design or manage a network of water & drainage assets, in particular those organisations that have highly dispersed working practices. SIAS is ideally suited for this task, providing cost effective access to valuable GIS Spatial and network data.

The built-in Internet Application server allows easy access to, and low cost distribution of, geospatial information across the enterprise.

Cost savings through Standardisation

Bespoke solutions are difficult and expensive to maintain. In many cases, organisations cut themselves out from innovation, because the costs to upgrade their bespoke solution to a new operating systems, to new third party applications and upgrading all interfaces are simply too expensive.

Water Office delivers a standard solution, which is easy to install, administrate and maintain. Water Office comes with standard data models, removing the effort of data model design. Integration to other applications comes pre-integrated with Water Office, which minimises the integration efforts at the customer.

Water Office supports operating systems being supported by Smallworld Core Spatial Technology, which eliminates customer‘s effort to have their bespoke GIS to support a new OS. GE product support minimises customer in-house investments to deliver product support and maintenance for the bespoke GIS solution. Standard WO training classes being offered through GE and partners minimizes the investment into in-house developed training courses and material. Upgrade scripts enable customers to perform future product upgrades at least possible costs.

Standard solutions built on Water Office reduce total cost of ownership to a minimum, allowing innovation and efficiency improvements through ongoing product enhancements along a clearly defined product roadmap.

Competitive Advantage through Customisation

Many organisations see a major competitive advantage in heavily customising a GIS to their individual needs. However this means losing the advantage to minimise total cost of ownership.

Water Office offers a standard product solution as well as customisation through clearly documented configuration and customisation rules. These customisation rules are enabling customers to gain the benefit of using a standard product and doing customisation if required. Upgrade scripts are identifying any customisation made under the customisation guidelines allowing smooth upgrades at least costs possible.

Customisation guidelines enable customers to tailor Water Office to their individual needs while keeping the benefit of a standard product to keep TCO at minimum.



4.3 Water Business processes

This chapter provides a global overview of the business processes of a water company supported by GIS and spatial data.

Engineering Management

Integrated workflows to plan, design, build and maintain your network.

Integration to analysis for optimized design, materials management, work management and scheduling for efficient workflow.

Operational Management

Operations management solutions for efficient network operations, improved safety, and reduced service interruption. CRM for improved customer satisfaction.

Distributed dispatching and mobile solution.

Business Intelligence

Integrated analysis of corporate and

Spatial data. Optimization of asset maintenance, planning and inspection.

Sales and marketing analysis for customer acquisition.

Network Planning

Planning and design of distribution and production water networks.

Network Modelling and Optimization

Modelling and optimising the network based on network calculations (pressure, flow, consumption, etc.) and elevation information.

Network Revision

Mutating and changing network (elements).

Contractor Exchange

Exchange of network data (spatial and alphanumerical) with contractors.

Network Protection

Cathodic protection, Video protection.

Material Management

Material characteristics, stock management.

Works and Workforce Management

Workflow management, crew dispatching.

Call-before-you-dig

Providing constructors with digital maps of network infrastructure.

Outage Management

Outage registration, fault analysis, geo-localisation outages. Network Maintenance and Control Corrective and preventive maintenance of the network.

Data Provision

Providing spatial information to 3rd parties, like fire department, municipalities, water boards, other utility companies, etc.

Terrain Management

Water gain areas, filtration areas, supply zones, production locations, soil information, recreation, etc.

Data Management

Topographic data, zip codes, addresses, etc.

Financial / Economic Asset Management

Depreciation and efficiency calculation.

Inspection, Control and Measurement

Inspection and drain off hydrants and valves (incl. planning) and measurement of water quality.

Customer Relations

Service Level Agreements, special customers (industries, hospitals, etc.), complaints / customer satisfaction, communication about network outage and maintenance.

Thematic Data Provision

Production and provision of thematic maps and spatial analysis. Management information.

Risk Management

Risk analysis.

Marketing

Customer behaviour, social / economic characteristics of supply zones.



4.3.1 Engineering Management

Network Planning

Water Office supports planning and design of new networks or renovation of existing segments. The planning of networks is done in projects, supported by a workflow management system. Another essential aspect of planning and design is version management. For each design, different alternatives and scenarios have to be evaluated and compared. For each alternative plan, a cost calculation, based on material use and effort, is needed. Costs are depending on the used materials, the surface of

Network Modelling and Optimization

Based on network calculations (flow, speed, consumptions, etc.) a new network can be modelled and dimensioned on the other side existing networks can be optimized. Network calculations provide network engineers with simulation models of the water network. These calculations make use of characteristics of the network that is stored in the Water Office.

Network Revision

Changes in the assets of network will be registered in the (spatial) asset database. The asset database must reflect the actual state of the maintained water network.

Contractor exchange

The processes of network engineering and the actual building of the network can be outsourced to a contractor. These contractors make their own network registration based on design and as-built information provided by the water company.

The work of these contractors is incorporated in the planning and design projects of the water company. Spatial and alphanumerical information regarding the delivered network will be provided by the contractor and have to be stored in the asset database.

Network Protection

Iron network elements are in most cases protected with cathodic protection. These measurements are registered and maintained in the asset database. The planning and design of this special network is part of the planning and design process. Another aspect of network protection is video surveillance. Network elements are production sites are monitored with video cameras.

Material Management

For network assets the characteristics and attributes are registered and maintained. In some cases, even stock information is available.

Network elements have material characteristics that have to be available for the GIS to be able to support business processes. In most cases, material management is part of the corporate ERP system. Exchange of information between GIS and ERP is necessary to provide a consistent and central material management.

Work and Workforce Management

The majority of the processes of a water company can be supported by a work management system. Progress control and process stages can be managed.

For engineering work, workforce management or crew dispatching is essential to optimize the available network engineers. Integration between the GIS system and these systems improve the management of the business processes.

4.3.2 Operational Management

Call-before-you-dig

Constructors and other people or organizations that intend to dig, have to inform utility companies about their activities. The utility company will provide them with information about



their network infrastructure. This process of information requesting and providing is managed by the KLIC centre in the Netherlands. Information requests are collected by KLIC and forwarded to the utility companies. The utility companies have to find out if they have infrastructure near the building site and will provide maps to the constructor. This process is heavily dependent on the data and functionality of the GIS. The communication of requests and responses are becoming increasingly digital (e-mail, Web Map Servers).

Outage Management

Network outages are registered by a customer support desk. The settlement of outages is important and critical process. To deal with outages, spatial information of the network is in most cases essential. Maps of the network (paper or digital) are used by the crews in the field. Field systems containing spatial network data are very useful for the settlement of outages.

Outages stored in the GIS (geo-localization) and related to the network, can be spatial analysed. Spatial patterns, distributions, cohesions and relations can be recognised and analysed.

On the other hand, the GIS can perform network traces to determine the location of a leak or to advise on how to close the network segment with valves.

Network Maintenance and Control

Water networks have to be maintained and controlled to prevent serious outages. The planning and execution of the corrective, adaptive and preventive maintenance projects can be supported by GIS. The decisions for maintenance; when? what? and where? are not only based on technical and material arguments. Financial, fiscal and economic arguments play a strong role. Depreciation calculation, the value of the network and risk-analysis are tools that support this decision process. These tools make use of spatial data provided by GIS.

Data provision

Water companies provide 3rd parties on different levels with spatial information. Examples of external parties are:

Fire department: information about hydrants;

Municipalities: spatial information of the networks;

Other utility companies: exchange of network data or topographic data.

Spatial data have to be provided in standard, non-proprietary exchange formats like:

GML and WMS, OGC standards.

Common CAD formats: DWG, DGN, DXF, etc.

ASCII and Others

Terrain Management

Different kinds of terrains are managed by water companies. Examples are: water gain areas, filtration areas, production sites, and office sites. These terrains have spatial characteristics. Information about these terrains is stored in GIS. Since these areas are important for public health, security of these sites is of growing importance. Some of these terrains are open for recreation. Recreational information can also be stored and maintained in the GIS.

Data Management

Besides the Asset data, the spatial database contains a large number of other spatial data sources that have to be maintained and have to be up to date. Examples are:

Large-scale topographic data. This data is used for geo-referencing the network (dimensioning). This data also give information about the surface characteristics of the build-up area, this can be of importance for network design and maintenance.

Height information, important for design and network calculations.



Soil information: important for design, maintenance and the calculation life span of network elements (replace strategy).

Zip codes, addresses, political boundaries, etc. for geo-locating, searching and referencing.

Supply zones

Small-scale topographic maps, aerial photographs, etc. for spatial context.

4.3.3 Business Intelligence

Financial / Economic Asset Management

Decisions regarding design, planning, maintenance, replacement, outage management, etc. are increasingly based on economic, financial and fiscal arguments, besides operational and technical arguments.

Information about the value, the depreciation, total cost of ownership etc. of the network is important input for Asset Management. Asset Management deals with the activities and it‘s costs of the design, realisation (building), maintenance and operations of the networks infrastructure (assets) during its whole life cycle.

A significant part of the information needed for asset management is provided by the GIS. Other providers of data are the ERP system, financial system, Outage management system etc.

Inspection, Control and Measurement

On a regular base, the network is inspected and verified (control). Especially hydrants and valves are inspected and drained-off. The planning of these inspections and drains are supported by GIS. The use of field systems for this process is growing.

The water quality is constantly measured in measurement points and incidentally when there are concerns. This measurement data can be spatially registered, analysed and visualised with the GIS.

Customer Relations

The reason for being for a water company is the customer. Supply certainty, water quality, good pressure are important criteria for the customer. Demands and consumption patterns and quantities have changed since people using douches, whirlpools, dishing machines, etc. Information regarding network maintenance and outages are of importance of the customer. GIS can select customers that are dependent on certain network segments to inform them.

Service Level Agreements with industrial customers, hospitals, etc. can be stored in the GIS to support planning of maintenance and the impact of outages.

Integration between GIS and the company‘s CRM system is essential for this process.

Thematic Data Provision

To support decision processes information is needed. The GIS can provide thematic maps and spatial analysis. Maps and spatial analysis gives information about the location, distribution, spatial patterns, cohesion and spatial relations between objects and phenomena. Spatial information gives special insight and extra dimension, sometimes necessary in (management) decisions. Besides maps, the GIS can provide reports, lists and overviews of assets.

Risk Management

Risk Management is part of a large number of processes in a water company. Risk Management is one of the main components of Asset Management, besides Operational aspects and financial aspects. There are two ways to use risk management:

Analyse and manage risk after a wrong decision is made or when a major outage happened. What are the risks, which priorities have to be made (SLA‘s), what is the impact of the event? These consequences can be made clear using the GIS, example: which customers have no pressure after a major incident.



For each decision that is made in a process (design, maintenance, outage management, etc.) a risk analysis can be made. What are the risks for each solution, what kind of actions should you take to reduce risk factors. Risks, costs, contracts / SLA (supply certainty) have to be in balance. GIS can be used to identify impacts of risks or to test risk-reducing actions.

Marketing

Customer behaviour, expectations, satisfaction can vary from place to place. It can be based on habits, social economic background, etc. Marketing analysis gives insight information in the customers. Customer‘s satisfaction can be great in a neighbourhood. But a newcomer may have major complaints, because he has different (better) experience with water quality and pressure. Even people in one street may have different expectations for water pressure. Someone who owns a Whirlpool has other requirements then someone without. If you know your customer, you will understand him better. To improve knowledge about customer profiles, integration with the company‘s CRM is necessary.

4.4 Data Models

4.4.1 Data Model Concepts

As well as modelling the hardware elements that make up a network, there are a number of key concepts and types of behaviour that the data model must be able to represent. These include:

Components (assets) forming a supply network of nodes and links.

Production radiating out from Treatment Plant or distribution points to delivery points (that is, consumption points, or, customers).

The direction in which supply flows through the network's pipes.

Assets being clearly, accurately and consistently identifiable. Their status (such as live, out of commission or repaired), ownership (such as company-owned, customer-owned or foreign-owned), topographic connection and relationship to other assets must be easy to establish, interrogate and modify.

Specifications describing the available fixed properties of assets, which must be easy to view, protect and modify, as appropriate.

Assets and related data (represented on-screen and in printed reports), the interface with which must be clear and user-friendly, consistent across the data model and the application tools it supports, and also consistent with established industry standards.

The WO data models incorporate these elements, and more. The use of this data model enables implementers to reduce the time taken to achieve a working system by shortening the database design phase. It also minimizes configuration and administration requirements.

Smallworld Water Office includes a new, global and generalised data model for water supply and drainage businesses. This new data models support a wide range of model implementations, from generalised to very complex detail, so that you will always be able to model your business objects. Objects in the new data model are designed to work across different network types as a truly global product.

Generic Approach

Modelling the generic properties of equipment and provide support for customers to quickly and easily extend the model to cover the specifics of their network

The generic objects can be placed anywhere in a network

Connectivity is controlled by the object‘s Network Type

Only objects with the same Network Type can connect

Connectivity Rules: Connectivity can be customised to use any common object attributes, Pressure, Lifecycle Status, etc…



Network Types

Object geometries are mapped by a network type, enabling visualisation and connectivity management according to it.

For Water Supply: Production, Transmission, Distribution and Services

For Drainage: Waste and Storm (rain) water

Objects can be used in different contexts

Most water objects can be placed anywhere in the network, in different contexts, for example fitting equipment can be placed in the geographic world or in the internal world of a pumping station. Objects have a Network Type field which determines where an instance of an object can be placed in the network.

Asset Specifications

Before, catalogues were used to control combinations of attribute values. This functionality was difficult to extend to manage manufacturer specifications. Water Office supports the use of asset specifications. Assigning a specification to an object sets values for a number of attributes at once, for example a specification for a pipe segment unit could include settings for diameter, material, manufacturer and weight. The user now only has to choose a named specification, rather than using catalogues to enter values for the relevant attributes. The object editor simply shows the specification name as an attribute, rather than showing the individual attributes controlled by the specification.

Life Cycle Status Model

Water Office allows defining a status for any equipment or facility. The Status is a mandatory attribute for each of the assets and helps the application to determine how the object is to be treated when the data is being displayed or used by an analysis tool such as network tracing and other depending applications.

Enhanced Topology Engine

The Smallworld connectivity engine provides a way to override the default manifold topology rule behaviour, either for entire manifolds or for specific geometry pairs. The connectivity engine uses object attributes to determine how to override manifold rules, such as ensuring that only objects with the same lifecycle status and/or pressure values will connect to each other.



The topology engine has been enhanced and it is now possible to configure connectivity to work with any common attribute or group of attributes. Water Office is initially configured to determine connectivity based on Network Type, but could be configured to work on Pressure or Status for example.

Business Rules

Business rules are functions that are run when objects, fields or geometries are inserted, updated or deleted in the GIS environment. They ensure relational and business integrity of data to correctly support business functions. The Business Rules Manager provides a user interface to business rule management facilities. A number of business rules are supplied with Water Office.

On the fly Quality Check

Water Office provides on the fly quality check status during the data capture to inform the user about errors in object documentation. Activated business rules are configurable.

Data Quality and Control

Water Office QA/QC runs defined QA/QC routines against the data in the database. The user can use it to check that a design is correct or updates to the network are valid before posting them to the main database.

Inspect function

Water Office applications include the new ‗Inspect‘ functionality. You can use this function to display the selected object in its full geographical context, even if the object is contained within an internal. For example, if the current object is a pumping station, the facility location is highlighted in the main view, its internals are displayed in the object view and attributes are displayed in the editor.

Object Summary

The new Summary tab works in conjunction with the object editor and allows you to inspect the significant attributes of the current object together with the details of any associated objects. The summary is read-only and does not include proposed updates, that is, the details shown are as currently stored in the database. The details shown in the Summary tab are configurable, so you can specify which attributes of which objects are useful to include in the summary.



Distant Geometries

Water Office provides additional geometries for major assets to be shown in different scales. These geometries allow the generalisation of the network representation for detail, overview and schematic view.

Detail Map

The Detail Map is primarily used for internal or external position information about the network assets. In the detail map, operating resources are documented as completely and precisely as possible

Overview Map

It primarily shows network operation and consequently includes essential functional elements of the networks. Operating assets are partly shown in a simplified and generalised way.

Schematic Map

It offers the advantage of a further reduction in information quantity to core elements of the water supply network

Unit Display Groups

Water Office includes preconfigured unit display groups. A number of unit groups have been configured for each dimensionality, these groups offer more meaningful sets of units and have been defined for metric and imperial databases. You can choose the stored unit for a new Water Office database between imperial to metric.

Extensible Enumerator

To allow for greater configuration by administrators and implementers, the majority of enumerators are moved out from the CASE tool. We recommend that you use the Extensible Enumerator dialog box, rather than the CASE tool, to make all changes to enumerators.



Metadata

The context within which geospatial data are used has changed significantly during the past ten years. Users have now easier access to geospatial data but typically have less knowledge in the geographical information domain, so have limited knowledge of the risk related to the use of geospatial data. This sometimes leads to faulty decision making that may have significant consequences.

Water Office includes an approach that aims to reduce these risks of misuse by providing indicators describing data quality and how the information was collected to the users.

Globalisation

You can specify whether the stored units should be metric rather than imperial (English). For objects with fields that have stored units, the unit is set accordingly.

Text translators are used to supply different messages for attribute values for different regions. As well as language translation, the text translator‘s functionality can be used to accommodate terminology differences, for example between the UK and US.

Landbase API to support regional variations

Land dataset is available as an optional installation. The Smallworld Office Suite products can now be configured to use any land dataset, allowing customers to use their own land dataset

4.4.2 Water Supply

Smallworld Water Office has the robustness and flexibility to manage complete water supply networks of the widest range of sizes and complexities, from those of a small area-specific water distribution company servicing, for example, 100,000 demand points, to an international multi-utility corporation serving millions of customers. Whatever the size, the network will be, by necessity, so complicated, and the related Health and Safety issues potentially so fundamental, that the validity and reliability of its representation in the database is nothing short of essential.

In WO, these representations are based on a data model which defines in detail the necessary object classes and their attributes, geometries, inter-object relationships and behaviours. In order to ensure the validity of the resulting database, serious effort has been put into constructing and providing a sound and flexible data model with Smallworld Water Office.

Object classes in the Water Office data model include:

Main supply pipeline and Service pipe



Pumping Station

Demand Point (i.e. delivery point; consumption point)

Meter (i.e. billing point; customer terminal)

Joint and fittings

Valve and flow control device

The object classes in a Water Office data models are grouped into convenient categories for user access, such as mains & services, control devices. The asset types, with their attributes, defining the Data Model used by Water Office. The data model includes object classes for asset types such as mains and service pipes, valves, meters, inspection points, and so on. This classification has been designed to provide easier orientation. It can be re-configured by your System Administrator.

This is data describing the existing water networks, which system users interrogate, augment and modify via Water Office. This dataset uses the asset types, attributes, and the values that are defined by, and available via, the metadata (as above). This data resides in the Water Supply and the WO Short datasets.

Water Supply in WO is based on the following network types:

Network type Description Geo-location by

Production Drinking water can be produced from any natural sources like groundwater, lakes and rivers (surface waters) or seawater and is processed used to make it more acceptable for a desired end-use.

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Transmission Water transportation is the intentional movement of water over large distances. Methods of transportation are aqueducts, which include pipelines and canals

Linear Reference

Distribution A water supply network is a system of engineered hydrologic and hydraulic components which provide water supply in a city or urban area

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Service The service (or service line) is the piping connection between the water main and customer connection. It usually has some type of tapping tee at the main and a service riser, meter, or demand point at the customer location

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4.4.3 Drainage

Smallworld Water Office has the robustness and flexibility to manage complete drainage networks of the widest range of sizes and complexities, from those of a small area-specific waste water company servicing, for example, 100,000 connection points, to an international multi-utility corporation serving millions of customers. Whatever the size, the network will be, by necessity, so complicated, and the related Health and Safety issues potentially so fundamental, that the validity and reliability of its representation in the database is nothing short of essential.

In WO, these representations are based on a data model which defines in detail the necessary object classes and their attributes, geometries, inter-object relationships and behaviours. In order to ensure the validity of the resulting database, serious effort has been put into constructing and providing a sound and flexible data model with Smallworld Water Office.

Object classes in the Water Office drainage data model include:

Sewer pipe

Service pipe and connection

Manholes



The object classes in a Water Office drainage data models are grouped into convenient categories for user access, such as mains & services, control devices. The asset types, with their attributes, defining the Data Model used by Water Office. The data model includes object classes for asset types such as mains and service pipes, valves, meters, inspection points, and so on. This classification has been designed to provide easier orientation. It can be re-configured by your System Administrator.

Water Supply in WO is based on the following network types:

Network type Description Geo-location by

Waste Water Black water is a relatively recent term used to describe wastewater containing faecal matter and urine. It is also known as brown water, foul water, or sewage. It is distinct from grey water or sullage, the residues of washing processes.

Grey water is non-industrial wastewater generated from domestic processes such as dish washing, laundry and bathing. Grey water comprises 50-80% of residential wastewater. Grey water comprises wastewater generated from all of the house‘s sanitation equipment except for the septic tank (water from toilets is black water, or sewage). Grey water is distinct from black water in the amount and composition of its chemical and biological contaminants (from feces or toxic chemicals).

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Storm Water Storm water is a term used to describe water that originates during precipitation events. It may also be used to apply to water that originates with snowmelt or runoff water from over watering that enters the storm water system. Storm water that does not soak into the ground becomes surface runoff, which either flows directly into surface waterways or is channelled into storm sewers, which eventually discharge to surface waters

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4.4.4 Cathodic Protection

The classes in the Cathodic Protection (CP) category represent the components of a water supply network that are dedicated to the monitoring, measuring and prevention of Main and Service metal pipeline corrosion using CP technology and methodologies.

Two concepts key to CP Management are:

Cathodic Section

A Cathodic section (or CP section) is a length of pipe identified as a distinct section of a distribution network pipeline which is being cathodically protected; it is represented in GDO as a distinct object. These sections are isolated electrically from the rest of the network with insulated flanges or fittings. By breaking up a large piping network into isolated Cathodic sections, the process of monitoring, measuring, and maintaining the necessary levels of cathodic protection is made more manageable.

Down Section

A Down section is a part of a CP section for which the test readings indicate that the pipe-to-soil potential has risen above the generally accepted threshold value of -0.85v, meaning that this section is probably not well enough protected and is therefore very likely to corrode. The Down section is the proportion of the CP section that it is estimated is not well enough protected; it is calculated as a percentage, and it is also represented in GDO as a distinct object. This means that some maintenance and/or remedial work is (or is likely to be) required on the pipeline somewhere in that section. CP readings are used to help identify where that work is needed.



4.4.5 Telecom

Telecommunication can be described as the overall process of communication lines for SCADA or internal telephone lines through communication cable network to a range of connection points where the RTUs and communication devices are located. Typically, it is an internal communication network belonging to a public or private utilities company that provides this facility.



4.5 Product Features

4.5.1 Applications

With Smallworld Water Office, a significant number of changes have been made to the layouts and availability of functionality in the user applications, to better support users‘ workflow. The main working area has been simplified and is dedicated to users‘ primary activities.

Business Application

This application proposes business solutions like Outage Management, Call Before You Dig and different types of analysis.

Data Capture Application

This application includes workflow management placement and advanced data capture tools.



QVP Thick Application

This application includes capabilities for a read-only user such as the new Thematic Viewer.

These applications also include enhancements made in Smallworld Core Spatial Technology, such as new highlighting behaviour, improvements to tools for working with geometry and improvements to graphics such as Alpha Blending and Anti-Aliasing

QVP Thin Application

This is the standard web application for a read-only user.



Outage Management Thin Application

This is the web application for managing outages.

Call Before You Dig Thin Application

This is the web application for capturing CBYD tickets.

4.5.2 Flexible Views

Smallworld Technology contains a number of tools that provide an optimal view of company data for any application case scenario.

The object-oriented technology of Smallworld enables an extremely flexible handling of maps. For each map an object can have its own geometry. Such flexibility permits the menu-driven definition of other map levels in addition to the pre-configured maps for inventory and layout. This feature offers additional advantages:

Asynchronous map updating

Automatic differentiation of individual maps

Assurance of data quality beyond map levels



Multiple graphics windows

Smallworld Technology allows the user to open multiple graphics windows. This feature offers advantages for:

Data capture through multiple graphics windows with long network structures

Display of different maps (inventory and layout) of a single area

Since all graphics windows access the database directly, objects can be captured and selected outside the window borders without a problem.

Overview

A dynamic overview display makes orientation in the maps easier. The overview window can be used to quickly access a specific map.

Visualisation Tools

Visualization allows users to control the display of objects in the main view. The two visualization functions are Visibility and Color by. Both functions work across multiple objects.

Visibility is used to show or hide objects with a common attribute value, such as objects with network type HV: this applies to electrical objects with this attribute, including wire segments, power transformers and so on.

Color by allows you to color code objects according to the values of an enumerated field. For example, you could color by Network Type, Voltage or Status



Schematic support

Two new contexts and corresponding geometries are added to WO 4. 2to support water distribution and Cathodic Protection schematic worlds

Stations internal support

Allow maintaining station internals within an internal world belonging to a station object.

4.5.3 Cathodic Protection (CP) Manager

The Cathodic Protection Manager application helps you maintain cathodic protection (CP) information in WO. It is used as a complete CP solution, and a compliment to an existing CP database. This is available for both Water Supply and Drainage networks.

The Cathodic Protection Manager application comprises the following features:

Creates and maintains the CP network as it is in the field.

Combines tabular CP information (CP Read Locations) and graphical information (CP network) into one environment.

Searches and filters the CP sections.

Highlights and/or goes to an existing CP section in the map view.

Displays facilities associated with the CP section.

Displays CP Sections thematically by section number.

Edits CP Section or associated facility information.

Displays a CP Bond.

Connects or disconnects CP sections at CP Bond junctions.

Combines or separates CP sections.

Creates customized CP reports. Exports reports to Microsoft® Excel or text file.

Allows connection to an external database for other CP information (CP Read Locations).



CP Readings History Graphs

This function enables a WO user to view a graph of the CP readings over a period of time at one or more Test Stations or Read Locations in a CP section

A histogram graph will be added to the CP Manager to show the proportion of CP Readings falling in reading ranges

CP Test Station Internal Worlds

Test station terminals and their connections are displayed in an Internal World.

4.5.4 Outage Management

This analysis application provides adequate support for the processes that a company performs for detecting, recording and rectifying faults in a water distribution network

Water Outage Analysis also helps you to notify customers of planned outages, as well as providing support for unplanned outage restoration. It helps you to minimise disruption to customers, and maximise the efficiency and the safety of the engineers working to restore the supply

Water Outage Analysis provides functionality to analyse and manage supply outages on a water distribution network. This could be scheduled maintenance of a pipeline, or unplanned outages such as repairs required to fix a leak. Using Water Outage Analysis you can:

Analyse the water distribution network around the outage site—determine how the water supply can be shut off, which valves to close and the customer impact of the outage



Manage the outage—list the equipment and customers affected by the outage, register all communication, and search for excavation work that might be the cause of leakages

This solution uses a short transaction database to reflect the real time status of valves and failures. Outage could be captured from both GIS and web clients. This process can be followed both in a back-office environment by network administrators or as a technicians in the field.

The network is divided in pre-defined cells associating valves and corresponding customers

To insert a failure in the network, it is important to indentify the possible location. The solution provides several ways by using locators, which quickly and efficiently sought for an address or specific network element such as a fire hydrant or valve.

When the approximate position of the fault is determined, the user can document the outage easily by completing some information such as the status, start time and service ID.

Together with the failure, the affected network cell is displayed. This is the area within the network that should be closed to isolate the fault.



Using the Impact button, relevant network elements related to the affected area are quickly identified. The affected customers are displayed in the explorer as a list

This information can be exported to Office applications like Word, Excel, etc. for further processing such as a mail-merge operation

The valve tab displays a list of proposed or selected valves with their attributes. Via the Status list, the user can indicate whether a valve operation has already been completed or not. This real-time status is reflected in the short transaction database so other users, such as field technicians also get to see the current status.

The ―Temporarily Blocked‖ field may indicate that a valve is unavailable at the time of the network isolation. This parameter is also reflected in the short transaction database. At the time the user indicates that a valve is temporarily blocked, this will have an impact on the isolation area and the affected area is automatically adjusted and the operator can determine which additional customers will be temporarily out of supply.

A separate list also clearly indicates hydrants impacted by the operation.

When the outage is handled and the status is changed, outage information is automatically filled for subsequent reporting and analysis

4.5.5 Call Before You Dig

The most common hazard to pipe integrity is accidental puncture caused by excavation. To minimize this risk, Call before you Dig (or One Call) centres have been established to provide centralized points of contact that may be used by contractors or individuals to determine if buried utilities exist in an area where excavation is planned. Water and waste water operators are required to provide maps and databases identifying grid blocks in which their pipes are located to the One Call service agency.

When works are planned in network operators‘ supply regions, they provide comprehensive information about their networks to excavators, to limit network damages, avoid supply interruptions and restrict repair costs.

Often, law imposes this exchange of information and, in many countries, agencies are established to standardise and facilitate the exchange process.

You can use Smallworld Water Office Call Before You Dig (CBYD) to process calls as they come through from individual excavators and from centralised call organizations. Using CBYD, large percentages of calls can be handled automatically, without compromising them with the possibility of interference by involved parties. Based on configured business rules, calls that are related to exceptional circumstances (for example, the potential for accidental pipeline damage) are detected and routed to the right people within your organizations, to allow them to intervene.



CBYD supports you with the call ticket handling process, covering three main functional domains:

CBYD ticket handling, which essentially covers the generation of the output, including maps and letters, to be delivered for each incoming ticket.

Communication with the originators of the CBYD tickets, registering all the incoming tickets and delivering the generated output to the originator of the call.

Archiving tickets and generated output for future retrieval and fact-finding.

Smallworld Water Office Call Before You Dig comprises a highly scalable call server and a CBYD client that supports the review of the registered tickets by an operator

4.5.6 Longitudinal Profile

Longitudinal Profile gives a longitudinal view of a selected wastewater (or, sewer) network section. It provides an accurate picture of the sewer's structure, which shows, for example, its height above sea-level at particular plot points—useful data for the design of gravity-fed networks.

You can create a longitudinal profile plot automatically, by tracing in the map view the section of the wastewater network you want to plot. You use the Longitudinal Profile dialog box to do this. You can display a range of network elements in this way, and you can scale the plot and export it to different file formats (for example, PNG or DXF).

Longitudinal profile plotting results are customisable using a range of parameters; you can:



Choose between simplified or detailed plots

Show/Hide selected tags on the plot

Select the pipe plotting interval

Create the plot in a new window or in a new tab

Compare several profiles in the same plot

Open and edit formerly saved plots

4.5.7 Analysis Framework

The Analysis Framework is a generic interface to perform any kind of predefined analyses:

Provide users the capability to perform daily analyses & reporting to support better decision

Easy to use. Intended for non-expert users. Clear feedback about analysis results

Rendering results in the map view or reporting/plotting

Allow changing analysis parameters on the fly

Hide the complexity of the analysis to the user

Extendable: new analyses could be added without having to rebuild the solution

Analysis Framework includes a set of pre-defined analysis destined to perform several kinds of network analysis over the map. Analysis Framework has been designed to evolve dynamically together with each new Water Office release, therefore number of analysis available are envisioned to be increased in future releases.



When using any of the tools above, the end-user can also modify the behaviour of the analysis by changing any of the parameters included in the Analysis tab (for example: plotting colours, area covered by a single hydrant, distance range of an analysis, etc.)

In addition, the tool has a powerful API to facilitate the development of new analysis

4.5.8 Hydraulic Modelling

Making network calculations is a highly specialized task that requires deep domain knowledge. The GIS environment with detailed information on pipes infrastructure offers a detailed asset model, which contains most of the needed information for making load & flow calculations. There are a variety of calculation products available for different industries and network types. The calculation interface offers a middleware communication model to extract the network data from the asset repositories and put it in a format that can be read by the 3rd party calculation engine.

When new networks are designed or existing networks are under revision, engineers will perform hydraulic calculations to check the feasibility and validity of their designs in terms of hydraulic characteristics. Different software packages, that are either commercially available or can be freely downloaded, exist to support such calculations.

Using the Water Calculation Interface, the design and the as-built network registrations for water transportation, distribution and for drainage, can be exported to these hydraulic calculation software packages.



Using the Water Calculation Interface (WCI), you can:

Create your own hydraulic calculation projects

Generate one or more link-node calculation networks for each project, starting from the registered source network. The calculation networks are optimised for network calculations

Export a generated calculation network, either completely or partially, to a specific hydraulic calculation package

Organize your projects, networks and exports in a comprehensive tree structure

Data structures

A number of management data structures allow you to store your modelling data in a structured way. This makes it straightforward to control your hydraulic modelling assignments:

Project

A Project consists of a collection of Networks and related Exports that are grouped together for a particular purpose. For example, a Project can be created for each supply region, for each operational year or for special tasks.

Network

A Network always belongs to a defined Project and can be exported either partially or completely using different Exports.

Export

The Export class defines the calculation package to which the calculation network is exported and ties to the generated export files.

The calculation network is a simplification of a source network, that is, an actual water supply or drainage network. It is registered in a separate data set using a specific data model. The simplified network model is based on a node link structure, similar to the structure used by calculation packages.



The calculation network model comprises mainly model nodes, model links and associated parameters.

When you first create a Network, only the network management object is created. You need to generate the associated calculation network to enable the export to a hydraulic calculation package.

Supported Export Formats

The following export formats are currently supported:

EpaNET

SWMM

InfoWorks

4.5.9 Drainage Inspection Management

The companies that are responsible for the maintenance of drainage and sewer networks perform a high volume of camera inspections. These serve mainly two purposes:

Registration of the underground infrastructure for existing drainage networks for which no as-built plans exist

Regular inspection of the network condition to monitor degradation of the network over time and to support intelligent decision making for network renewal

Smallworld Water Office Drainage Inspection Management comprises two related applications:

Drainage Inspection Loader

Drainage Inspection Viewer

Drainage Inspection Loader

You use the Loader to help you manage structured inspection data in the Water Office drainage environment. This enables you to:

Load inspection data from structured xml-based inspection files

Organise associated multimedia documents in a structured way on a file server and tie them back to the inspection data registered in the Water Office drainage environment



Create or update drainage network elements like drainage sections and manholes from the registered inspection data

Drainage Inspection Viewer

The sheer volume of video and inspection data generated can make it difficult to retain a good overview of the data and to optimise their use.

You use the Viewer to help you keep that overview. This enables you to:

Display the different inspection recordings in the map view

Display observations from the inspection along drainage sections in the map view

Line up two or three schematic representations of inspections in a separate schematic view and compare the recorded observations from each inspection

Jump to the photographs or video clips associated with recorded events

4.5.10 Time Series Management

Smallworld Water Office Time Series Management provides functionality for the management, manipulation and visualization of time series data.

The Diagram Selection window provides you with a list of stored diagrams and allows displaying diagrams on the map, creating new diagrams and managing organisation units. It can be accessed via the Time Series Tab or via the Diagram Selection menu entry of the application window.

The embedded Diagram Viewer window enables the user to configure the time series and the layout of a diagram, to display the diagram on the map, and to save the diagram to the database.



Using the Data Points tab, time series data can be rapidly exchanged with Microsoft Excel®: After exporting time series to Excel, selected data points can modified or deleted. Then the time

series can be reimported to Smallworld where changes can be saved to the database.

4.5.11 State Visualisation

Enables the user to display any property like catalogue fields or logical evaluation/condition by symbols:

Interaction with time series to visualise properties like exceeded threshold

Respective results are displayed as separate symbols positioned around or beside the associated record geometry

Automated positioning with absolute or relative distances to parent object



4.5.12 ISO Lines and Contours

Interpolates and visualizes spatially distributed data and its rate of change:

Start from any data with point or line geometries

Manage complete projects of stored and superposed contours

A wizard provides guidance for interpolation and the generation of ISO lines with labels and thematic contour mapping.

Optional coupling with SURFER

4.5.13 GeoPicture

GeoPicture manages and displays digital images and pictures within Smallworld GIS. Pictures can be associated with existing records. Alternatively, independent point geometries with position attributes can be created for GeoPicture records. For compatibility with more than 100 different source file formats GeoPicture implements the free software ImageMagick. Appropriate resolution and display position of pictures on the map can be controlled on an individual basis or through predefined settings.



4.5.14 Content Filter

The Content Filter provides functionality for thematic filtering of objects in order to control their visibility on the map. Through its integration into the Explorer, the Content Filter allows for fast filtering of objects by their specific catalogues, enumerators, properties and combinations thereof. In addition, filters from parent records can propagate to child records.

4.5.15 Survey Point Management

Survey data can be entered directly into Smallworld Design Manager, from digital data collection systems on survey instruments, by using the Survey Points Management Tool.

Land surveys are usually conducted when a new line is built but may also be necessary to determine the coordinates of certain facilities that have unknown, inaccurate or changing coordinates. The land surveys can be classified in the following way:

Lay-out survey — the process of establishing and marking the position and detailed layout

of new structures (lines, buildings) for subsequent construction. The data obtained here is not of immediate relevance for the network documentation in Smallworld Design Manager but will deliver topographical information and the coordinates of proposed facilities.

As-built survey — a survey conducted several times during a construction project to verify, for local and state boards, that the work authorized was completed to the specifications. This usually entails a complete survey of the site to confirm that the structures, utilities, and roadways proposed were built in the proper locations authorized in the site plan.

Topographic survey — a survey that measures the elevation of points on a particular piece

of land. The elevations can be directly used in Smallworld Design Manager for the Z-coordinates of point geometries



Import survey points and generate WO objects for the respective facilities (usually those will be valves and manholes) from these points. Another function is the centerline generation from a number of survey points or geo pig (scout scan) data.

4.5.16 Stationing Viewer

The Stationing Viewer allows you to view the stationing values of the pipe sections in a transmission pipeline that are associated to a selected pipe section in the map. The Stationing Viewer has the following features:

Lists the water main sections associated to a transmission pipeline.

Allow you to display, highlight and edit the currently selected main section(s) in the Stationing Viewer list.

4.5.17 Network Trace

The Network Trace tool allows the user to trace through the pipeline transmission networks in Smallworld Water. It provides the following features:

Sets multiple tracing parameters for more robust tracing.

Performs step trace to trace by section.

Exports up to 20 trace result sets to Smallworld Explorer.

Exports a trace result to files in XY/PD-format for use in hydraulic applications.

Displays statistics relevant to a pipeline network trace



4.5.18 Route Manager

This application enables Utilities companies to plan routes for staff to follow when carrying out tasks. This is especially useful for regular tasks, such as meter readings.

The Route Manager Creates and estimates routes for sets of assets, based on different criteria and provides an estimate of the route length, and time to go through the route at the specified speed taking into account inspection time at each object.

This is a highly configurable application that allows the route to be edited and to thematically display the routes created.

4.5.19 Legend

The Legend contains an entry for all the geometries displayed in the Main Graphics Window. This entry includes the display style of the geometry and the geometry or object name as an annotation, plus a scale bar and a scale indicator.

There are many settings you can use to configure the appearance and behaviour of a legend. These settings are defined in the Options dialog box



4.5.20 Object Report

Straightforward Object Report from the editor based on configurable template

4.5.21 Compliance Manager

The Compliance manager tracks activities progress, generates reports, and displays assets on a map. This section describes how to use the Compliance Manager.

The Compliance manager tracks' activities progress, generates reports, and displays assets on a map. The tool creates scheduling activities around specific assets for pipeline systems and geographic areas. The scheduled activities are grouped in the categories Inspection, Compliance, Maintenance and Reports.



4.5.22 Address Locator

Address Locator enables users to locate any street of a municipality. You can search for an address and find out about the selected street.

When you select a street, it is highlighted on the map. You can edit the properties of the street object; your modifications may be represented as visible changes to the street on the map. Two additional options are available:

List of all the streets that intersect the selected street.

Enumerate and display house numbers.

Users can also zoom into the selected street and highlight its geometry on the map.

4.5.23 Configurable Viewport

Configurable viewports can be used to create a detailed display of an area. They display the geometries of a source area in a target area. The target area is normally a magnification of the source area geometries

4.5.24 Label Anchors

The Draw text anchor points button can be used to make the anchor points of text geometries visible



4.5.25 Thematic Mapping

Thematic map relates information about selected objects other than their location. For example, a thematic map could display highway roads in red while other road types appear in black. The Thematic Mapping tool helps you create theme styles and define the objects the themes should apply to. Themes can be saved, restored and shared between users. The styles defined in themes can also be used in plots.

4.6 Smallworld Integration

4.6.1 Design or Workflow Manager Integration

Smallworld Design Manager (DM) is a powerful engineering management software product that automates the engineering design process. It provides complete workflow support and process control throughout the engineering plan, design, builds and job closure phases. Smallworld Design Manager also provides tools to develop and manage designs throughout the entire lifecycle.

When setting up Smallworld Office, you can select which engineering design process/workflow application you want to use: Design Manager or Workflow Manager.

In Smallworld Office Design Manager is the more comprehensive design process/workflow manager application. It includes Design Layout Tools (DLTs) and implements the Standard Design state model. Workflow Manager, on the other hand, does not include DLTs and uses the simpler Data Update state model to manage the update/design workflow

Design Manager

Design Manager is an integrated workflow management and graphics-based design tool that automates the engineering design process. It supports an extensive range of network operations, ranging from electric and gas transmission and distribution networks to water and wastewater networks.

Design Manager is used to develop and manage designs throughout their entire life cycle, while providing integration to work management and network analysis applications.



Design Manager allows for full integration of designs and operational data into a single database. This maintains the most up-to-date version of the network, providing planners and designers with current information about changes that might affect their work in progress. Designers from different utilities or departments can also share information and work together using a common set of data and design tools. The ability to share data makes it possible for designers to flow plans easily into one or more designs.

When the designed network is built and the newly built network is put into production, designs can be integrated with operational data in one simple step. There are no extracts to be returned to the database, and there is no need to recapture or digitize the data. Keeping the operational data synchronized with changes to the network is simple, fast and efficient. Organizations can customize the Design Manager state model to fit the business rules governing their design life cycle. Any number of design processes can be configured into the state model, depending on the project types, project sizes, project origins or other variables specific to the needs of the organization.

Project/Design Tab

The Project/Design tab provides information to the user about the current Project and Design.

The toolbar provides quick access to the controls that manage the current design

The bottom half of the tab can display the objects that have been, created, deleted or modified in the current design. This provides a very convenient way for users to see and interact with changes in their design.



Design Layout Tools

Design Layout Tools (DLT) are sequences of operations configured to suit specific tasks in your working environment. The inclusion of DLTs adds flexibility to the design process by allowing designers to quickly and accurately place multiple assets. WO is shipped with predefined wizards to improve pipeline data capture. DLTs once configured, provide a users with a quick and easy way to create new objects. They can perform a sequence of operations quickly and efficiently. For example, a DLT for adding objects to your design will be configured so that it presents objects with appropriate attribute values, according to the context of your current operation

Layout Tools Tab

The Layout Tools tab contains the Design Layout Tools (DLTs) that have been configured for the application.

CAD Tools Tab

The CAD Tools tab provides a series of tools for accurately digitizing objects relative to existing geometry.

4.6.2 Spatial Object Manager Integration

Smallworld Spatial Object Managers provide the capability to ‗plug-in‘ data readers (SOMs) for a variety of external data formats. Through the Spatial Object Controller architecture these plug-ins enable data from the external sources to be treated as real world objects in the same way as data held internally to the Smallworld Core virtual database. Whilst data translation and loading into the Smallworld Core database may be necessary for datasets that are to be maintained and extended within the Smallworld product set, where there is a need to maintain data in external systems a Spatial Object Manager provides the ideal solution.



The range of data formats currently supported by Smallworld Spatial Object Managers is:

Intergraph DGN

Autodesk DWG/DXF

ESRI Shapefile

MID/MIF from MapInfo

MrSID from LizardTech, for high compression raster files

Generic Raster comprising TIFF, PNG, JPEG, GIF, PCX, Targa, BMP, WMF/EMF, PICT, PGM, RAS

ECW from Earth Resource Mapping, providing high compression raster data in both files and web image servers

WMS - OpenGIS Web Map Server format, providing access to OpenGIS® WMS-compliant web servers anywhere on the internet

IFF, from IBM's GFIS product

4.6.3 Internet Application Server Integration

Smallworld Internet Application Server (SIAS) is one of the most technologically advanced geospatial Internet solutions available today. This solution from GE Smallworld is based on established Internet standards such as XML, and emerging geographic Internet standards like WMS and GML. Internet Application Server has the power to deliver spatially enabled business solutions to any Intranet or Internet-enabled device, providing complex geospatial technologies across the enterprise.

Light Client support in Water Office



4.6.4 GeoSpatial Server Integration

Smallworld GeoSpatial Analysis (GSA) is a powerful, easy-to-use set of visualization, analysis and reporting tools that enable users to make informed business decisions by correlating mission critical operational, financial and business data directly with their network infrastructure. The power of GSA comes from combining multiple data sources into new 'business objects' and building complex analysis and comprehensive reports

Smallworld Geospatial Server adds a SOA-enabling platform for system integration and Business Process Integration to the proven Smallworld technology and Water Office

General Infrastructure and Business Services. Support for write transactions and alternative access

Smallworld as Web Services Client (Bi-directional Web Service communication)

Web Services Framework (via HTTP or JMS)

Certified support for OGC WMS Web Map Service

OGC WFS 1.1 (certified) with Filter Encoding 1.1

OGC WCS 1.0 (certified)

Support for WS Security and other WS* standards

Support for JBoss 4.2.3 and WebSphere 6.1

Future support for SAP NetWeaver, JEEserver and PI ( XI)

Support for Oracle/BEA WebLogic Application Server

Smallworld data on Google

Additional Web services for Water Office (Outage, CBYD…)



4.7 Common Office Applications

Editors, configurations and applications which further enhance the benefits of Office data models & functionnalities.

4.7.1 Manage External files

The External files dialog allows you to associate any external file to an object in the map view. After you associate the file to an object, you can use it to open the files directly from the application. Any Real World Object (RWO) in the map view can have a picture, audio, or video file associated with it. This feature is useful when you want to provide an object with additional details for inspection or other operational processes.

The External files tool has the following features:

Associates multiple file(s) to multiple object(s) in the map view.

Opens the associated file, based on the Operating System's file type associations.

Creates or deletes the geometry for the associated files in the map view.

Removes the file associations from the objects.

4.7.2 Audit History

The Audit History tool allows you to track changes made to GIS objects during the standard creation and maintenance cycle. This tool allows you to automatically track and store information related to changes such as type of change, change description, user who has done the change, and the time of change. The Audit History's object editor displays the information related to these changes.

The Audit History tool has the following features:

Tracks changes made to objects before an alternative is posted.

Tracks changes made to objects as records are created, update, and deleted.

Runs as a backend function to track object changes from data migration, cleanup, as well as from standard record creation and maintenance.

The Audit History tool stores the changes for a specific dataset in a single Audit History table. This table must be located within the same dataset as the object(s) that are being changed.

The Audit History table can be configured for use in one of the following operating modes:

Pre-Post Notification—the audit history records are created in an alternative, before any changes in that alternative are posted to its parent.



Database Observer—when the records are created, updated or deleted during a Smallworld session, the audit history records are created for each transaction.

Triggers—the triggers are used to create the audit history records instead of the database notification mechanism. Using triggers requires implementation specific code.

4.7.3 Event History

The Event History Viewer allows you to view an object's Event History information. You can select the objects for which you want to view the Event History information either by selecting them in the map view or from the Scrapbook. You can also flash the selected objects in the map view for easier graphical identification.

4.7.4 Object Editor

In Offices, the Smallworld Core Editor is enhanced with additional functionality to provide the following features:

View and manage a record's soft join relationships.

Manage frequently used record configurations for increased efficiency.

Embedded Join Field Lister to edit the current join fields.

Embedded Catalog Field Lister to edit the catalog fields.

You can access the Editor tab in the application from the sidebar pane on the left side of the main application window



In Water Office, the Office Editor is extended with new functionality to provide the following features:

Improved access to record's related soft joins

Specification lister

Direct access to related documents

Direct access to GeoPicture

Direct access to Outage history



4.7.5 Batch Update

The Batch Update is a process that updates multiple objects in multiple datasets in one batch process. The Batch Update process saves time, because you can update or delete records as a group rather than individually. You can perform the batch update in the GTO application using the Batch Update tool.

The Batch Update tool has the following features:

Updates the physical attributes of multiple objects in multiple datasets.

Allow you to select multiple objects from the current selection in the map view or from the Scrapbook.

Updates the values of a field that shares an enumerated list across multiple collections.

4.7.6 Inventory Reporter

The Inventory Reporter tool allows you to create a report of object counts based on specified attributes. The Inventory Reporter provides the following features:

Allow you to define search criteria, such as object type to report, attributes to use in report, and search bounds.

Activates Microsoft Excel to display the inventory report.

Provides the ability to save object type, attributes, and search bounds allowing you to generate an updated report later.



4.7.7 Map Grid Plotting

The Map Grid Plotting tool allows you to search for map grid plots, configure the grid plots for printing, and print the grid plots with or without assigning them to scheduled job server.

The Map Grid Plotting tool has the following features:

Searches and displays Map Grids at multiple pre-configured grid levels (that is. 100', 400' and 800').

Searches the map grids using various criteria such as trail, plot date, and map view.

Imports the map grids from multiple sources like map selection, grid search and plot file.

Manipulates the Map Definitions for each set of plots.

Selects the printer or file output for each plot.

Configures the Map Options such as Display Scale, ACE, and Style Group for each plot.

Saves the plot configurations as XML files for printing later.

Schedules the plot jobs for night batches (if the Job Scheduler is available).

Manipulates and previews each plot job using the Core Layout Designer.

4.7.8 Additional Layout controls

Smallworld Office provides additional layout elements to support the creation of specialist layout for dispatch and detail maps, and map grid plotting.

Thematic Viewport

Multimedia file attachment report

Layout Detail Area

Map Grid Text

Thematic Viewport

Thematic Legend

Grid Viewport

Map Data Text



4.7.9 Where Am I?

The Where Am I? functionality enables a user to query an object or a trail point on the map to disclose the underlying area geometry-based attributes (e.g. county, city, etc.)

4.7.10 Export to Shapefile and DXF

A simple Shape and AutoCAD export capability is provided with Smallworld Office. The tool works by gathering Smallworld data to export and writing it out as Shape or DXF files

4.7.11 XY/Lat-Long Export

This tool allows the user to generate XY or Lat/Lon export files from a selected set of features. The user can refine the list with a menu of features and attributes to export, along with the desired output coordinate precision. The resulting text file contains of tab-delimited columns of data for records in that class as well as the lat/long position of each instance

4.7.12 Water pipes crossing

Enabling Line Jumps ensures that it is easy to see if pipes crossing each other are connected or not. If Line Jumps are enabled, water pipes crossing each other are assumed to be connected unless one of the pipes is shown with a Line Jump (also known as a Camel Hump) Line Jumps can be disabled, or if enabled can be defined at different sizes for each Display Style (Far, Medium, Close, etc.).

Line jumps obey the following rules:

The line jump inherits its line style from that of the pipe.

The line jump has no impact on the calculated length of the pipe.

Line jumps are also displayed for crossing pipes in internal worlds.



Line jumps are displayed both on screen and in any plot files.

Visible in details.

If a pipe is abandoned the line jumps are removed, i.e. line jumps are only shown for active lines that are crossing but are not connected.

4.7.13 Template Manager

The template manager is used to create and manage templates to enable the easy creation of objects, usually for internal worlds and underground structure.

4.7.14 CAD Tools

Smallworld CAD Tools are a set of tools for selecting and manipulating Geographic Information System (GIS) data in graphics windows throughout Smallworld Office, including internal worlds, drawings, and the Smallworld Office CASE tool.

The CAD Tools in this release of Smallworld Office are:

Line Intersect

Line Fillet

Mirror

Rotate

Pan to end of chain

4.7.15 Area / Line Length Calculator

The Area Line Length Calculator helps to document assets being used in the network. It provides the ability to calculate line length summaries within an area, so you can take a 'snapshot' of year-end Line Length data for asset management and regulatory reporting purposes.

The Line Length Calculator is run as a locator query in Smallworld Explorer.

In Global Transmission Office, the Line Length Query can calculate measures such as:

Pipe length based on Pressure.



Pipe length based on Pressure and Year Installed.

Pipe length based on Material.

Pipe length based on Material and Year Installed.

4.7.16 Dimensioning

This application allows the GTO user to configure dimension end points, to change dimension line styles and to configure dimension text.

4.7.17 Flow Indicator

You can display arrows to indicate the direction of gas flow along linear objects such as Main or Service pipelines. By default the flow arrows are shown in the direction the pipe was defined (start-point to end-point). This may not necessarily be representative of the real-world gas distribution network.



4.7.18 Cluster & Proximity Analysis

The Cluster Analysis tool is a graphical user interface to software for identifying closely located groups of point objects and generating vector boundaries for them. It is controlled by the Cluster Analysis Tool dialog box which is invoked by pressing the Clusters button of the Proximity Analysis Tool dialog box

The Proximity Analysis Tool is a general purpose graphical user interface tool for analysing the spatial properties of groups of point objects in Smallworld Core.

4.7.19 Tooltips

When moving mouse over asset to get details configured with the annotation manager

Pipe Segment Building

4.8 Administration

Smallworld Office Application that allows you to perform the administrative tasks in your Smallworld Office application.



4.8.1 Configuration

The WO Options allow you to configure the following to meet customer needs:

The standard Productivity pack options like Business Rule Manager and Annotation Manager.

4.8.2 Business Rules Manager

The Business Rules are functions that are run during inserting, updating or deleting objects, fields and geometries. They are synonymous with the standard.

Apply business rules to object actions

Enable/Disable rules on demand

The Business Rules are configured using the Smallworld Office Business Rule Manager tool. The Business Rule Manager tool uses a series of database tables to store information about the rules that should be applied during different operations..

The existing triggers in Smallworld are moved to the Business Rule Manager to organize and clearly identify both existing and new business rules. This tool allows you to add, change and disable the business rules, and manage the rules in a structured manner.



4.8.3 Annotation Manager

The Smallworld Office Annotation Manager allows you to maintain rules that are used to create annotations for objects. It allows you to configure Annotation String and Annotation Position data for an object's annotation and to create complex strings for object annotations.

4.8.4 QA/QC Toolkit

The Smallworld QA/QC Toolkit runs defined QA/QC routines against the data in a Smallworld database. The QA/QC Toolkit can be used to check that the network updates are valid before posting them to the main database. Any issues found by the routines are flagged as errors or warnings, depending on the severity of the problem found, and exported to Smallworld Explorer, where they can be analyzed, updated, or exported to other Microsoft Office applications or XML.

4.8.5 Batch Job Processing

The IPA layer will provide access to the Job Scheduler (administrators) and Job Viewer (users) for managing various types of batch job processing, e.g. merge and post, validation, data cleanup, plotting, and updates to external databases. Features include:

Supports remote batch processing

Executes job processing according to a set schedule or on an as-needs basis

Ships with standard batch managers and supports the addition of others

Supports a large number of parallel processors for batch operations



Keeps track of statistical information & logs messages

4.8.6 Extension to Version Management

Alternative Manager

The alternative manager provides detailed information about alternatives and allows alternatives to be scheduled for merge/post operations, provides a view to all alternative names below an alternative (usually the top alternative) with the ability to export the alternative names to an external file, and allow users to determine which user has an alternative (usually top) writable for troubleshooting purposes.

Merge Manager

The Merge Manager is a tool for merging down to all alternatives below a specified alternative.

Difference Viewer

The Difference Viewer allows you to view the difference between the selected alternative and its parent alternative on a record-by-record basis. You can:

List all the changed records between a parent and child alternative.

Display the changed fields of an object in parent and child alternatives, before and after the change.

Highlight and go to the objects in the Difference Viewer.

Zoom in, out, and pan within the Difference Viewer to see the changed or the base record geometry.

Isolate individual record changes (inserts, updates, deletes) within an alternative.

View conflicts before merging/posting alternatives



4.9 Installation

After installing the applications from the CDs the administrator could open the Installation Configuration program group, to set up the application images, using the Office Installation wizard.

The Office Installation wizard process consists of the following stages:

Presentation of application choices to the configurer

Presentation of database choices for the application to the configurer

Building of application closed images and open images against the chosen database.

4.9.1 Application Databases

As part of the configuration process the software must be connected to a suitable database, this can be:

An existing database, used with a previous version of the applications. The database must be upgraded using the Upgrade Manager.

Startup database shipped with the system. This empty database is based on the United States‘ Units and Projection systems.

Demo database shipped with the system. This database contains a fictitious set of data to be used for training and demonstration purposes. The database is based on the United States‘ Units and Projection systems.

4.9.2 Model Generator

A new blank, customized database using Units (i.e. Metric) and Projection systems other than those in the databases supplied, created using the Model Generator



4.9.3 Upgrade Manager

The Upgrade Manager tool is used when migrating from an earlier installation of WO to a new version, and changing the structure of your existing database to be compatible with the new release

4.10 Documentation

Smallworld Global transmission Office is shipped with full documentation:

On-line help

End-user and administration manuals with HTML Windows et PDF formats

Data model documentation could be obtain directly from the application using HTML format



4.11 Features Table by Version

X = included

O = option

Modules WO Starter Kit

WO Base

WO Design

Core Features

Map Navigation Y Y Y

Bookmarks Y Y Y

Overview Y Y Y

Object View Y Y Y

Object Control Y Y Y

Themes Y Y Y

Object Editor Y Y Y

Explorer Y Y Y

Query Tool Y Y Y

Quick Layout Y Y Y

Layout Designer Y Y Y

Construction Lines Y Y Y

Drafting Y Y Y

Network Analysis Y Y Y

Cluster Analysis Y Y Y

Proximity Analysis Y Y Y

Core Administration Features

Version Management Y Y Y

Authorisation Y Y Y

ACE Y Y Y

Style System Y Y Y

Database Configuration (SOC) Y Y Y

Conflict Resolution Y Y Y

Upgrade Framework Y Y Y

Common Office Features

Related Documents Y Y Y

Audit History Y Y Y

Event History Y Y Y

Enhanced Object Editor Y Y Y

Batch Update Y Y Y

Inventory Reporter Y Y Y

Map Grid Plotting Y Y Y




WO Base

WO Design

Additional Layout Elements Y Y Y

Where Am I? Y Y Y

Template Manager Y Y Y

QA/QC Y Y Y

CAD Tools Y Y Y

Area/Line Length Calculator Y Y Y

Dimensioning Y Y Y

Flow Indicator Y Y Y

Export to Shape and DXF Y Y Y

DXF Import /Export Y Y Y

XY/PD Export Y Y Y

Pipe Crossing Y Y Y

Viewer Application Y Y

Job Viewer Y Y

Office Administration Features

Business Rules Manager Y Y Y

Annotation Manager Y Y Y

Dimension Configuration Y Y Y

Alternative Manager Y Y Y

Merge Manager Y Y Y

Difference Viewer Y Y Y

Model Generator Y Y Y

Job Manager Y Y

Common Water Office Features

Cathodic Protection Data Model (Water Supply & Drainage)

Y Y Y

Telecommunication Data Model Y Y Y

Landbase API Y Y Y

Network tracing Y Y Y

Metadata Y Y Y

Visualisation Tools Y Y

Object Summary Y Y

Object Inspect Y Y

Cathodic Protection Manager Y Y

Route Manager Y Y

Survey Point Manager Y Y

Compliance Manager Y Y

Thematic Mapping Y Y




WO Base

WO Design

Thematic Viewer Y Y

Object Report Y Y

Address Locator Y Y

Legend Y Y

Configurable Viewport Y Y

Analysis Framework Y Y

Hydraulic Analysis Interface Y Y

Time Series Management Y Y

State Visualisation Y Y

Contour Maps Y Y

GeoPicture Y Y

Content Filter Y Y

Business Application Y Y

Water Office Features – Water Supply

Water Supply Data Model (Production, Transmission, Distribution, Services)

Y Y Y

Ground Water Data Model Y Y Y

Stationing Viewer Y Y

Outage Management Y Y

Call Before You Dig Y Y

Water Office Features – Drainage

Drainage Data Model (Waster & Storm Water) Y Y Y

Longitudinal Profile Y Y

Drainage Inspection Management Y Y

Workflow Support

Configurable State Model Y Y

Design Browser Y Y

Overlapping projects Y Y

Cancellation Tools Y Y

Navigator Y Y

CAD Tools Y Y

Workflow Application Y Y

Merge Alternatives Y Y

Merge Designs Y Y

Design Administration Y Y

Advanced Data Capture

Design Layout Tools Y

Point/Span Editor Y




WO Base

WO Design

Compatible Units Y

Design Summary Y

Design Application Y

DLT Configuration Y

Smallworld Layered Products

Smallworld Core Spatial Technology X X X

Smallworld GeoSpatial Server X X X

Smallworld Internet Application Server X X X

Smallworld Spatial Object Manager X X

Smallworld Internet Task Management X X

Smallworld Design Manager X X

Smallworld GeoSpatial Analysis X X

Smallworld Design Layout Tools X

Smallworld Enterprise Gateway O O

Smallworld Business Integrator for SAP NetWeaver (future)

O O

Smallworld Business Integrator for IBM Maximo (future)

O O



5 Other Smallworld products

Smallworld Electric Office

The Electric Office (EO) is a comprehensive geospatial platform that provides support for the electric utility asset management lifecycle, from planning and design through replacement and refurbishing. It contains the underlying data models, industry applications, and productivity tools required to support the essential utility operations, including engineering design, network analysis, operations management, network asset management, and web-based clients.

Smallworld Gas Distribution Office

The Gas Distribution Office (GDO) is a global standard GIS product designed specifically for the gas distribution industry. The product provides a global data model that captures the objects and attributes of a gas distribution companies‘ assets as well as providing operational and maintenance applications

Smallworld Global Transmission Office

Smallworld Global Transmission Office (GTO) meets the customer demand for a full pipeline transmission industry spatial asset solution, provided by GE. Smallworld Global Transmission Office is also focused on assisting the pipeline transmission companies‘ meet the current and future regulatory rules in the industry

Smallworld Corridor Manager

Smallworld Corridor Manager is a comprehensive utility transmission solution that uses spatial technology for the effective operation and management of transmission facilities, hydroelectric reservoir areas, downstream inundation areas, rights-of-way, and related lands.

Smallworld Business Integrator

Smallworld Business Integrator for SAP (SBI) is targeted at customers that need to integrate with SAP NetWeaver and IBM Maximo. The Smallworld Business Integrator product facilitates the synchronization of consistent data between connected and disconnected Smallworld applications and an ERP system. Based on open, mainstream technology standards, the Smallworld Business Integrator is a highly extensible solution that supports a wide range of integration strategies.

MapFrame FieldSmart

MapFrame‘s FieldSmart® technology is a combination of mobile mapping applications and field automation processes. FieldSmart moves maps and facility data out of the office into the field, mobilizing your workforce and streamlining tasks - such as inspection, repair, audit and design - within a single viewing package

FieldSmart applications focus on speed and ease-of-use in the field, while the powerful compression technology minimizes data size for rapid updates and fast screen refresh.

Field Force Automation

GE Field Force Automation for Utilities is a single source ―enterprise class‖ mobile workforce management application suite with rich functionality that enables the optimization of your service business processes. This is a specifically configured, packaged version of GE‘s FFA product that provides a stable reliable solution supporting a utility‘s business critical needs without requiring custom development.

FFA for Utilities incorporates the functionality to optimize and manage the full range of work processes from high volume, short duration tasks such as meter services - to outage resolution - to complex multi stage and multi dependency work found in construction. Utilities are able to effectively manage resources, plan work, optimize the schedule, allocate and dispatch work automatically to field workers, track the work through the job lifecycle to completion within SLA commitments, report and analyse performance



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Contact these offices for sales and service information about SmallworldTM Geospatial Software Products:

Belgium Siebeponisweg, 9 4700 Eupen

Tel.: +32 (0)87 89 98 18 Fax: +32 (0)87 89 99 16

Finland Innopoli Tekniikantie 124700 FIN-02150 Espoo

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France 2-4 rue Pillet-Will 75009 Paris

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Germany Daniel Goldbach Strasse. 17-19 40880 Ratingen

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Spain Calle Josefa Valcarel, 26 EdificioMerrimack III 28027 Madrid

Tel.: +34 91 587 06 00 Fax: +34 91 587 05 81

Sweden Box 300/Solna Strandvag 98 SE – 171 75 Stockholm Tel.: +46 (0)8559 501 92

South Africa Unit 3, 130 Gazelle Avenue Corporate Park, Midrand South Africa, 1685

Tel.: +27 11 237 01 41

The Netherlands Rietbaan 4 2908 LP Capelle a/d Ijssel

Tel.: +31 (0)10 442 2060 Fax: +31 (0)10 442 2107

United Arab Emirates Sheikh Zayed Road City Tower2, Suite 1101

P.O. Box 11549, Dubai

Tel.: +971 4 331 0444 Fax: +971 4 331 2108

United Kingdom Elizabeth House 1 High Street, Chesterton

Cambridge CB4 1WR

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United States 5660 Greenwood Plaza Blvd Greenwood Village Denver, CO 80111-2473

Tel.: +1 303 779 69 80 Fax: +1 303 779 10 51

Australia Level 2, Building 2 572 Swan Street Richmond Victoria 3121

Tel.: + 03 8807 6500 Fax: + 03 8807 6565

Korea 11F, GE Tower, 71-3 CheongDam-dong, Gangnam-gu Seoul, 135-100

Tel.: +82 2 6201 4244 Fax: +82 2 6201 4210

New Zealand Level 10, Lumley House 7 City Road Auckland

Tel.: +64 9 363 1740 Fax: +64 9 363 1741

Singapore GE Towers 240 Tanjong Pagar Road #07-00, Singapore 088540

Tel.: +65 62 20 70 22 Fax: +65 63 26 30 11

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