Besides very tight financial and inventory controls, maximum utilization of installed physical inventory and high quality of uninterrupted service to the customers, the biggest challenge faced by every Indian telecom company is the absence of a unified platform on which information pertaining to right of way, cable layout location and plans as well as individual asset locations are available.
SEMAPA, a water utility company located in the city of Cochabamba (Bolivia) launched a competitive bidding to find a company that brings to the table a viable solution to update, visualize, manage and measure their field assets and pipe network information, knowing that they had serious budgetary restrictions; assets and pipe network were stretched out over an area covering around 3.000 hectares; the starting point was an outdated and most probably inconsistent database about field infrastructure.
Michael baker International possesses the most comprehensive asset data collection capabilities in the industry. To help our clients maximize their resources Michael baker has implemented a web-based solution on our BEAST environment (baker enterprise Architecture for spatial Technologies) that leverages the orbit framework to link panoramic imagery, GIS/CAD features, and LiDAR point clouds into a single integrated solution that can be accessed from any of the most popular internet browsers.
Mobile technology has changed the way humanity navigates its future. In the palm of our hands we are now integrated with all the people we know and don’t know through social media applications, we have integrated our work spaces with our home, and we can even track our geographic position and plot the quickest route to work. Why are we not as successfully integrated at work when it comes to the technology solutions we leverage every day to satisfy our client’s needs? It baffles me that we live in this world of “workplace technology interplay denial.”