Exton, Pa. – The Azienda Energetica Municipale (AEM) Cremona’s new geospatial system, SIT AEMCR, is enabling this multi-utility in Italy to improve the quality of its services and increase its performance. For its implementation of this new system, AEM Cremona received a BE Award in the category “Geospatial: Utilities.”
The BE Awards of Excellence, which are selected by an independent jury of industry experts and presented at an evening ceremony during the annual BE Conference, honor the extraordinary work of Bentley users in improving the world’s infrastructure. These projects set benchmarks for their industries, and showcase the imagination and technical mastery of the organizations that created them. This year’s BE Awards of Excellence ceremony takes place May 22 in Charlotte, N.C.
AEM Cremona’s SIT AEMCR system manages the multi-utility’s many responsibilities, including electricity, gas, water, wastewater, and district heating services, along with public lighting, road signals, and traffic lights. The company required a database framework able to manage data from different sources, and to publish administrative documents and project files about the networks and territory.
Bentley geospatial solutions were deployed to support the delivery of services to the customer. The managed environment, which is built on ProjectWise, uses the Bentley Geospatial Management extension to provide a spatial user interface to the information managed by ProjectWise. The editing environment is built on the XFM (XML Feature Modeling) capabilities of MicroStation. Applications using XFM technology are rules-based to help detect inconsistencies in the network, such as a cable not connected to a substation. The information is subsequently housed in Oracle Spatial.
The quality of AEM Cremona’s services has improved internally and externally. The system saves time and improves performance, has solved interoperability problems between different products, and allows users to import, read, and edit native data from different tools.
For more information about the AEM Cremona’s winning project and all of the other 2005 BE Award projects, visit www.be.org/2005beawardwinners. For more information on the Bentley products used in this project, visit http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Products/Mapping/.
About Azienda Energetica Municipale Cremona
The Azienda Energetica Municipale Cremona utility company is owned by the municipality of Cremona, Italy – a city in the north of Italy, 90 kilometers from Milan. AEM Cremona provides electric, gas, water, wastewater, and district heating services, along with public lighting, road signals, and traffic lights.
About the BE Conference
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