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For both long term planning and everyday operations, water managers need accurate, up-to-date information on their networks and how the networks are performing. InfoNET reports that information in an easy-to-use way, so helping managers to make informed decisions in a cost effective way. InfoNet can help you with:
InfoNet provides the tools, reports, displays and data management you need for the job. At the same time it forms an essential part of your overall IT system, easily integrating with GIS, Desktop Office systems, hydraulic modeling systems, MMS, field data systems, SCADA and corporate databases.
Keeps you informed
Good reports turn your sources of
data into the management information you need. The InfoNet report
generator gives you network information on the screen, on paper, or
electronically in a way that can be embedded in desktop documents
for MS Word or Excel (for example). A variety of pre-defined reports
are available, but your organisation can format its own templates if
it chooses. The aim is to find the right balance between a
comprehensive range of reports, flexibility in the formats and ease
of use.
Brings you together
With InfoNet's multi-user database
and connections to other systems, everyone in the organisation can
easily get at the same information, without proliferating data
sources.
Integrates and controls data
Network data is available
from a number of sources - GIS, asset databases, modeling systems,
survey databases and files, CCTV, condition survey databases and, of
course, from experienced operational staff. InfoNet provides a
secure place to store and manage this data, with a variety of tools
to import data, validate, correct and update it. Network data can be
updated and managed over a long time period in a consistent way. The
database itself becomes a valuable asset for water organisations.
Cleans-up data
The better the quality of data, the more
reliable the information derived from it. Field survey data, manhole
data and GIS data traditionally suffer from data quality problems
and missing data values. These problems are not significant for some
users, but they cause havoc with modeling systems and management
information systems. So, as well as providing the means to combine
network data from different sources, InfoNet provides tools to
clean-up data, including tests for connectivity and continuity and
subsequent data-repair.
Talks to other systems
The InfoNet data source can be
accessed by users as well as a variety of specialist systems such as
modeling software and asset maintenance systems. Data exchange
interfaces have been designed not only for import and export
purposes but also to connect directly with GIS (ArcView, MapInfo),
hydraulic modeling systems (InfoWorks), SCADA and logger systems.
InfoNet has been designed to ensure that data exchange with
Microsoft Windows applications and geographic information systems is
a "seamless" operation.
Easy to use
InfoNet's user interface has many GIS
functions, and it is compatible with the major GIS data formats and
systems. But it has advantages over GIS for the water manager
because of the purpose-built database and data model, together with
the other, comprehensive data views and reports. InfoNet holds
similar data to asset-maintenance systems, but does a better job as
an easy-to-use management information system, without all the
complicated functionality for managing maintenance staff.
Future Extensions
InfoNet will be available with an
animation extension to give animated views of time-changing data
such as measured or logged data, SCADA data and modeling data.
Both the water and wastewater functionality will be extended in the future.
Information reports and a data model for river catchments will be added in the future.
