Port of Pietarsaari is a seaport on the western coast of Finland. The port handles about 1,4 million tonnage of freight annually, serving for example timber and paper industries’ needs. The port is using GISGRO platform as a tool in digitizing the port’s infrastructure. We got a chance to interview Johanna Heinoja, Technical Manager of…
Dear diary, I wish there was an easier way to share information with the port’s personnel. Today I planned to use the workday for creating a list of all the fire hydrants which are in need of the annual checkup and send the list with coordinates to our subcontractor. But just when I started the…
Software is a part of modern asset management, though underused in many operations. There are still paper drawings, excel files and notebooks on many asset managers’ table, because quite often a software is either too expensive or difficult to use. What are the main things to look for in an infrastructure asset management software? 1…
Drones are nowadays often seen flying above cities, woodlands or construction fields. Their versatile usability ensures that more and more industries have an interest in drone surveys and the drone data. In this article we discuss how you can enhance the digital twin of your asset with drone data. The data is just data without…
The daily asset management tasks in a seaport require using a bunch of different software. There are GIS applications, CAD software and various databases to handle the vast amounts of asset data. But why waste time in searching information from different databases, when you have an opportunity to combine the needed information into one map-based…
Congratulations! You have decided to be a forerunner and to invest in new, groundbreaking technology. You are on a path to more efficient and productive future. Still, change is always challenging to many and especially the changes, which concern your everyday life often create resistance at least in the beginning. Change resistance is a well-studied…
Various GIS tools are in everyday use in ports and harbors. Typically, the information such as asset data, maps of the harbor, 3D models, and much more are in different databases and software. Most of the traditional GIS software are quite tricky to use, so you must get a comprehensive training to work with them….
Recently, many industries have faced a heavily increasing need for handy remote working solutions. The situation raises many questions. How can you get access to the needed software or archives from the home office? How can you effectively communicate upon a project when the project team is not able to meet face to face?…
A digital twin has its counterpart in the physical world, but when the digital model is created by remote sensing technologies, it always lacks some details essential to the operations. Most details, like a quay’s electricity supply points, are stored in some other format. Now it is possible to easily attach them to the georeferenced…
Harbor authorities and companies manage huge amounts of data and wide areas of land and sea in their everyday operations. This article discusses the benefits and use cases of GIS in harbor asset management using a GIS-based cloud platform GISGRO to demostrate use cases. Read on to see what GIS and online asset management bring…
