fme geo enabling field sales team

FME Geo Enabling Field Sales TeamScott DiGiacinto Senior Solutions Architect

Korem Overview

Our vision is to be at the forefront of the geospatial and business intelligence industry by providing our customers with strategic consulting and operational support to enhance their customers’ growth and successes.

Some of our customers…

Data Integration Expertise

• Data quality and geocoding

• Data is the raw material of information. We provide various tools and data sources for geocoding and data cleansing

• Data management and enrichment

• We provide tools and knowledge to integrate, manipulate and leverage data easily across multiple systems

Project Context

Customer: Open Range Communications –Providing rural high speed internet access

Users: Field sales force team

Purpose: Manage sales force operations & sales tool to show coverage.

Project Constraints

Google Earth based

Limited resource net books

Automated process

Short Time Frame

Low Cost

Project Data Inputs

Use RF Propagation models

2 Raster based .grd layers convert to classification vector layers for coverage (Good, Better, Best)

RSSI - RasterCellCoercer -> creates polygons the same size as raster cell.

Inside Point replacer -> creates point at center

Ctol – RasterCellCoercer

PointOnArea Overlayer -> so we can get Ctol and RSSI values associated with the same Polygon

Attribute Creator -> Assign Category depending on RSSI and Ctol values

Aggregate and Dissolve, Smoothed, Loaded to SQL Server

Process RF Data

Process RF Data

Automation of RF data via command line .bat

Projects Data Inputs cont..

Coverage

Potential customer lists

Source from household list vendor

Geocoded ahead of time

Loaded into SQL Server Spatial

National grid

Provides consistent area of management

Loaded into SQL Server Spatial

Process Street Sheets

What will it look like??

Sales Managers Info

Simple spreadsheet organized by Grid

KML Processing

Color is handled with attribute filters followed by KMLStylers.

trick Create attribute for kml_target_style_normaland kml_target_style_highlight.

Adjust icon color, size or label

KML Processing Cont…

Navigation tree, Ballon etc can be handled with KMLPropertySetter.

KML Processing Cont…

Regionalization – Key to performance

Based on pixels taken up by object NOT zoom level or scale

Used Grid – Small buffer of Grid, get extents of each grid.

Set grid value as kml_region_group

Use KMLregionSetter and the bounds for min/max x/y

Process KML

2 step process

Find changed coverage then use Workspace runner

Thank You!

Questions?

For more information:

Scott DiGiacinto

sdigiacinto@korem.com

Korem Corp

www.korem.com