OSI Ministerial Briefing

Davenport HotelCiaran Kirk

Technical Director, IMGS

Agenda

IMGS Introduction

Our Customers

Our Challenge – “The Enterprise”

Enterprise GIS Customer Examples

Smart City – The Next Generation Enterprise

Summary

IMGS

We deliver innovative spatial solutions

For the desktop, web and mobile

Built on our partner’s technology:

Designed to meet the challenges of

Government, Mapping Agencies, and Utility &

Communications Customers

Some of our customers…

Our Challenge – The “Enterprise”

Historically GIS was seen as a:

Stove pipe solution – not part of the enterprise

A pretty map to backup a decision e.g. Planning

Our company has worked with our customers to move GIS

into the enterprise!

GIS now viewed as an essential Enterprise solution

providing improved decision making leading to:

Improved customer service

Decreased operating and capital costs

ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONSCustomer Examples

Waterford required ability to record environmental incidents

e.g. Graffiti, Abandoned Vehicles, Fly Tipping, Burst Pipes, Broken Street Light, etc

Waterford required a secure mobile GIS that can instantly over a wireless connection (iPhone) update enterprise systems

Benefits:

Reduce delay in responding to customer incidents

Public can see that incidents are

resolved in a timely manner

Waterford City Council Sustainable Neighbourhood Unit

Dublin City Council

Property Register

Scan & Geo-locate Dublin City

Council’s property register:

250 bound paper registers

~45,000 property records

Provide single true source for all

property transactions in Dublin City

Self Service Portal

24X7 website to capture customer

service requests e.g. Water leak

Uses web mapping to allow

customer locate incident and

improve response times

IMGS in partnership with HP provide the FGS as part of the INS Fisheries Protection System

Solution allows INS to track and monitor all fishing vessels in the Irish seas ~132,000 square miles

Provides an almost real-time graphical display of all current and historic fishing activity in Irish

fishing waters

Irish Naval Service – Fisheries Geographic System

Images courtesy of the Irish Naval Service

Dublin Region Water & Drainage GIS

Greater Dublin Region Water and Drainage Steering Groups

Consists of 7 Local Authorities in the Greater Dublin area

Total Population of 1.4 million

Area of 2,690 KM2

Aim to provide single view of water and drainage for region

First of its kind - distributed solution across 7 authorities

Desktop, Web and Mobile solution

Management Dashboard

Benefits

Enhanced business operations

Reduced maintenance costs

Improved quality of service e.g.

less leaks

ESB Networks GIS

Will serve as a single enterprise

solution for the full life cycle

management of network assets

Fully integrated with asset, work

and financial management

solutions

Benefits

Improved operational efficiencies

through extended workflows with

other business critical systems

e.g. SAP, OMS

Decreased capital costs through

improved asset management

SMART CITYEnterprise - The Next Generation

WATER MANAGEMENT

SMART CITY

ENERGY

ECOCITY

PUBLIC INFORMATION &

SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT

INFRASTRUCTUREMANAGEMENT

PUBLIC SAFETY

“SAFE CITY”

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

GIS

Smart Infrastructure = Smart Grid

Smart Grid described as:Smart “in home” devices (including Generation)

Two-way communications

Advanced control systems

Benefits of Smart GridBetter utilization of existing infrastructure

Reliable and resilient power supply

Home energy savings

Reduced carbon footprint (CO2).

Location

Smart Grid

Operations

Center

Infrastructure

Management

Critical

Infrastructure

Protection

“Safe City” - Common Operating Picture Multi-data & multi-sensors fusion

Radio System

Data

Access ControlTelephone, Radio,

Voice Recorder

Controls

Intelligent Video

Telephone Data

Mapping Data

Video Surveillance

Personnel

& Asset Data

Sensors Data

SUMMARY Location is at the heart of a Smart City

Summary

An Integrated Enterprise GIS will:

Decrease capital & operating expenditure through better decision

making

Improve customer satisfaction through improved response times

A spatially focussed Smart City will drive economic

investment and support a recovery in Ireland

And this will help us all to “live long and prosper…”

Thank You Ciarán Kirk

Technical Director, IMGS

8b Keypoint, Rosemount Business Park, Dublin 11

t: +353 1 885 3839 m: +353 87 804 7218

w: www.imgs.ie e: ckirk@imgs.ie