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GIS for Managing Water Utility Assets


Features and Benefits

Facility Creation and Editing

  • Accurate and smart Place, Update and Delete tools for nodes, valves, pipes, and structures (fittings, pumps, hydrants, and so on)
  • Single menu contains network maintenance commands
  • Water records and connections
  • User-customizable features, attributes, and dialogs
  • Robust connectivity inference engine
  • Dynamic property-based facility annotation
  • Takes advantage of the power of MicroStation for placement and editing
  • Generation of water network information from graphics or scanned maps
  • Access to image data through integration with MicroStation Raster Manager

Intelligent Network Model

  • Simple, yet comprehensive connectivity model persisted through XML attributes
  • Placement and editing commands dynamically maintain connectivity rules
  • Pipes can be connected to each other or to facilities and facilities can be connected to pipes through the connectivity inference engine
  • Logical connectivity model maintained as XML attributes
  • Your choice of storing water network and associated information in DGN, Oracle Spatial or RDBMS/DGN

Data Exchange and Interoperability

  • Interoperability with WaterGEMS, WaterCAD and HAMMER models
  • Interoperability with Bentley Geospatial Sever, Bentley PowerMap Field, and Bentley Geo Web Publisher
  • Export directly to EPANET
  • Import/Export standard GIS data types (DGN, DWG, SHP)
  • Export to any format supported by Bentley Map
  • Network creation from scanned maps or imagery
  • Utilize Oracle Spatial data for enhanced enterprise data access

Thematic Mapping and GIS Tools

  • Includes all of the Bentley Map functionality
  • Rule-based annotation
  • Property-based annotation
  • Property-based symbology
  • Thematic presentation of data and map management
  • Spatial analysis
  • Buffer zone generation
  • Thematic and overlay analysis features
  • Business and topological rules enforcement

Customization

  • Customizable feature definitions
  • Configurable property-based annotation and symbology
  • Dynamic dialogs
  • Simple XML language
  • Leak analysis reports as an HTML page through XML style sheets

Facility Management and Network Analysis

  • Analysis of directed, weighted, linear networks
  • Creation and editing of network entities
  • Ability to isolate valves to close
  • List generation of consumers out of service based on valve state (open/close)
  • Leak geospatial association tools
  • Leak Analysis with tabular and cross-tabular reporting
  • Connectivity tracing for connected, upstream and downstream tracing
  • Isolation tracing re-symbolizes network to show required shut off valves
  • Support for shortest path, radial searches, trace-forward and trace-back
  • Annotate graphic objects automatically from attributes
  • Generate buffers and zones for analysis
  • Measurement tools provide for distance, area, and volume calculations
  • Query spatial and ancillary data for selected graphic elements
  • User-defined “what if” reports

Presentation, Output, and Publishing

  • Add grids and title blocks to mapping data
  • Utilize powerful raster tools for image backdrops
  • Thematic representation of attributes and graphics
  • Supports high-resolution output to printers and plotters
  • Publish water network information to a Web browser via Bentley Geo Web Publisher
  • Provide view, query, and redline capabilities to field users via Bentley PowerMap Field
  • Generate buffers and zones for analysis
  • Support for Adobe PDF printing
  • Output support in DGN and DWG formats.
  • Generation of map books in Adobe PDF format.
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