New Business Support in Release 4.3
New Irrigation Data Model
Water management in the agricultural sector is very important in many countries due to its large share of total water use. Open irrigation is one of the most important aspects for efficient and sustainable agricultural production. Smallworld Water Office now includes Irrigation network documentation which allows significant savings in costs and is an effective way to control quality. |
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Asset Life Cycle Managementt
The utilities industry is asset intensive, so the cost of running and maintaining the network is significant. Smallworld Water Office now supports the concept of functional locations. This separation between role (installation) and device (asset) allows assets to be replaced (i.e., for maintenance purposes at the installation) without altering the network. You can track your installation sites and assets with full history. |
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Organizational & Terrain Management
Different kinds of organizational boundaries such as service and crew areas are managed by water companies and impact the network operations. Other land data like recreational information, land use and sensitive areas are important for public health, and security of these sites is of growing importance. All of this information has spatial characteristics that can now be stored and maintained in Water Office. |
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Time Series & Diagrams Enhancements
Water Office Time Series and Diagrams capabilities are now extended to manage not only analog data but also history of changes like pump running time that can drive more efficient asset management. Limiting shortfall and diagrams with relative time span (i.e., displaying the last 24 hours of data) will also help you to better understand the network behavior. |
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GeoPicture Enhancement
GeoPictures now support metadata such as date of shoot and GPS coordinates that can be stored in the Water Office database to drive automatic position, annotation and direction of the GeoPicture on the map.
This is also used by the new GeoPicture mass import to automatically associate photos with the corresponding asset based on configurable rules such as proximity and naming conventions. |
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Enhanced Specification Management
New flags have been introduced to allow better management and filtering of specifications and to be fully aligned with Electric Office. The Specifications Selector has been re-designed to enhance usability by using a more appropriate horizontal layout, allowing automatic filtering and maintenance of specifications within the same dialog. |
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Pre-integration with Smallworld Enterprise Gateway
Oracle Spatial is playing a central role in the IT environment and is used to support business reporting in many utilities. Water Office provides an example of Smallworld Enterprise Gateway pre-configuration for data mapping and synchronization with Oracle Spatial enabling almost immediate productivity. Smallworld Enterprise Gateway license must be purchased separately. |
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Standard Upgrade Path for NRM Customers
Smallworld Network Resource Manager (NRM) is a utility product suite developed by GE and Mettenmeier that is being used by many utility customers, mainly in German speaking countries. Water Office is shipped with Core Upgrade Framework implementers to upgrade NRM-Water and NRW-Waste Water databases into Water Office at minimal cost. |
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Water Industry Coverage |
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Smallworld Water Office is a suite of data models, applications, and integration products. Smallworld Water Office effectively lowers the cost of ownership for any utility by eliminating the need to develop, test, and maintain a complex collection of applications and interfaces. Moreover, regularly scheduled upgrades are straightforward, allowing companies to plan for and successfully incorporate upgrades in order to take advantage of future product enhancements.
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Standard Global Data Models
The Standard Global Data models supply a robust foundation for
constructing and maintaining water supply production, transmission
and distribution networks and treatment plants. These data models
have been developed in conjunction with industry experts and
provide a support base for the Smallworld Water Office
environment,
providing the required network connectivity, asset
attribution,
lifecycle status, and symbol definitions. Anticipating the need for
utilities to manage unique combinations of facilities, the Smallworld
Water Office data models can be extended according to documented
procedures.
Generic Approach: Modeling the generic properties of equipment
and providing support for customers to quickly and easily extend
the model to cover the specifics of their network.
Network Types: Object geometries are mapped by a network type, enabling visualization and connectivity management.
Objects in Multiple Contexts: Objects can be placed anywhere in
the network, in different contexts. For example, fitting equipment
can be placed in the geographic world or in the internal world of a
pumping station.
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Smallworld Water Office is capable of supporting a wider range
of data
implementations, from generalized to extreme detail.
The Standard
Global data model is an all-new implementation
encompassing
regional legacy models and best practices. The
Smallworld Water
Office data models support the business
processes built around
best-in-class systems and serve to
provide a data migration path that
minimizes change management.
Key data models concepts include:
Asset Specifications: Before, catalogs were used to control combinations of attribute values. This functionality was difficult to extend to manage manufacturer specifications.
Life Cycle Status Model: Water Office allows defining a status for
any equipment or facility. The status is a mandatory attribute for
each asset and helps the application to determine how the object is
to be treated when the data is being displayed or used.
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Common Office Suite Components
At the core of every Smallworld Office Suite product is a common layer
of productivity applications providing immediate benefits for users,
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Configurable network tracing
Audit and event history tools
Enhanced mapping template tools
Data editing & CAD tools for mapping, designing, & network updates
Query, reporting, thematic mapping, printing and plotting tools
Quality Manager
Document links to all objects through a multimedia viewer
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Enhanced map navigation and visibility tools
Business rule manager to manage database triggers
Batch update capability
Annotation management tools
Database extraction tools for importing and exporting network data
Version management and conflict resolution tools
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Enterprise Application Integration
Smallworld Water Office encompasses in a complete solution several layered products that are fully integrated: |
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Smallworld Design Manager
Smallworld Design Layout Tools
Smallworld Internet Application Server
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Smallworld GeoSpatial Server
Smallworld GeoSpatial Analysis
Smallworld Spatial Object Manager
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Network Documentation |
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Data Management
Besides the asset data, the spatial database contains a large number of other spatial data sources that have to be maintained and have to be up to date. Water Office includes:
Small and large-scale topographic data. This data is used for
geo-referencing the network and also gives information about
the surface characteristics of the build-up area. This can be of
importance for network design and maintenance.
Height information, important for design and network calculations.
Soil information, important for design, maintenance and the
calculated life span of network elements (replace strategy).
Zip codes, addresses, political boundaries, etc. for geo-locating,
searching and referencing.
Supply zones and basin areas.
Aerial photographs, TINs, etc. for spatial context.
Network Planning
Enable the planning and design of new networks or renovation of
existing segments. The planning of networks is done in projects,
supported by a workflow management system. Another essential
aspect of planning and design is version management.
For each design, different alternatives and scenarios have to be
evaluated and compared. For each alternative plan, a cost calculation,
based on material use and effort, is needed. Costs depend on the used
materials, the surface of the build-up areas, the existing infrastructure
and the soil of the underground.
Workflow Management
Following their organizational structure and business processes, utility companies need tools to manage their internal approval processes for typical transmission and distribution operations such as repair, replace, relocate or data updates.
The built-in Workflow Manager allows Water Office customers to manage their internal workflow and approval processes, minimizing administrative burden and violation of internal workflow rules.
Key Business Process Support
Water and drainage utilities need to support key business processes
throughout all phases of the entire network asset life cycle. These
processes include the planning, designing and building of new
networks or network changes, as well as commissioning, operating,
monitoring, maintaining and refurbishing.
Water Office and its tightly integrated Smallworld applications support
critical business processes and improve operational efficiency while
keeping integration cost to a minimum.
Efficiency Driven by Data Quality
The level of data quality drives the efficiency of customer business applications to a high degree. The integrity of geospatial objects, their connectivity or other key business rules must be met to ensure a high data quality and hence, provide the basis for optimal results from applications accessing the database.
Water Office improves data quality and consistency through its Quality Manager configurable framework for on-demand and schedulable tools for checking object integrity, connectivity and other pertinent business rules before an alternative is permitted to post.
Data Provision
Water companies provide 3rd parties with spatial information. Water Office can help you with:
Fire department: information about hydrants.
Municipalities: spatial information of the networks.
Other utility companies: exchange of network data or topographic data.
Spatial data have to be provided in standard, non-proprietary exchange formats. Water Office is supporting:
GML and WMS, OGC standards.
Common CAD and GIS formats: DWG, DGN, DXF, SHP, etc.
Terrain Management
Different kinds of terrains are managed by water companies. Examples
are water gain areas, filtration areas, production sites, and office sites.
These terrains have spatial characteristics. Information about these
terrains are stored in Water office. Since these areas are important for
public health, security of these sites is of growing importance. Some
of these terrains are open for recreation. Recreational information can
also be stored and maintained in Water Office.
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Evaluate spatial data using contour Map
Evaluate by interpolation any spatial data distribution and generate ISO lines with labels and thematics.
Map your assets with OGC Compliance Share your data using web services and display your assets on top of background data coming from other providers.
Efficiency is driven by data quality. 
Longitudinal Profile gives a longitudinal view of a selected wastewater (or sewer) network section. |
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Call Before You Dig (CBYD)
People that intend to dig have to inform utility companies about their
activities. The utility company will provide them with information
about their network infrastructure. This process of information
requesting and providing is managed by Water Office.
You can use Water Office Call Before You Dig (CBYD) to process calls as they come through from individual excavators and from centralized call organizations. Using CBYD, large percentages of calls can be handled automatically, without compromising them with the possibility of interference by involved parties.
Based on configured business rules, calls that are related to exceptional circumstances (for example, the potential for accidental pipeline damage) are detected and routed to the right people within your organizations, to allow them to intervene. | |
Network Protection
Iron network elements are in most cases protected with cathodic
protection with measurements registered and maintained in the asset
database.
Outage Management
Network outages are registered by a customer support desk. The
settlement of outages is an important and critical process.
To deal with outages, spatial information of the network is usually
essential. Maps of the network (paper or digital) are used by the crews
in the field. Field systems containing spatial network data are very
useful for the settlement of outages.
Water Outage Analysis provides functionality to analyze and manage
supply outages on a water distribution network. This could be
scheduled maintenance of a pipeline or unplanned outages such as
repairs required to fix a leak.
Network Modeling and Optimization
Based on network calculations (flow, speed, consumptions, etc.) new
networks can be modeled and optimized.
Network calculations provide network engineers with simulation
models of the water network. These calculations make use of network
characteristics of the network stored in Water Office.
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Measurement and Time Series
The water levels and quality are constantly measured and alarmed
when there are concerns. This measurement data can be spatially
registered, analyzed and visualized within Water Office.
Drainage Inspection Management
The companies that are responsible for the maintenance of drainage
and sewer networks perform a high volume of camera inspections.
These serve mainly two purposes:
Registration of the underground infrastructure for existing drainage
networks for which no as-built plans exist.
Regular inspection of the network condition to monitor degradation
of the network over time and to support intelligent decision making
for network renewal.
The sheer volume of video and inspection data generated can make
it difficult to retain a good overview of the data and to optimize their
use. Water Office can help you keep that overview.
Inspection, Control and Measurement
On a regular basis, the network is inspected and verified (control).
Hydrants and valves are inspected and drained-off. The planning of
these inspections and drains are supported by Water Office.
Thematic Data Provision
To support decision processes, information is needed. Water Office can provide thematic maps and spatial analysis. Maps and spatial analysis give information about the location, distribution, spatial patterns, cohesion and spatial relations between objects and phenomena. Spatial information gives special insight and extra dimension, sometimes necessary in decisions. Besides maps, Water Office can provide reports, lists and overviews of assets.
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Provide users the capability to perform daily analyses & reporting
to support better decision making
Easy to use and intended for non-experts
Clear feedback about analysis results | Rendering results in the map view or reporting/plotting
Allow changing analysis parameters on the fly
Extended IPA to facilitate new analyses development |
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Geospatial Systems 
