A digital representation of port’s assets comes in handy, especially if you are working remotely or need to cover wide areas in a short amount of time. Quick check on the location or condition of a certain asset, a virtual tour of the storage facilities to a potential client -the use cases of a digital…
When gathering as-built data from the existing structures, the output is often a 3D point cloud. A point cloud consists of huge amounts of data points in three dimensions (with X, Y and Z coordinates). The point cloud gathering can be done with a laser or sonar scanner, for example. Usually point clouds are processed…
Well planned and documented maintenance operations are not only cost-efficient, but also a requirement in many quality management and safety schemes in the port industry. In this blog, we present a workflow for asset managers to plan and assign regular inspections for assets in GISGRO online platform. Various structures and equipment are needed to perform…
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…
Cloud services are becoming a more and more popular way of storing and sharing data. The recent rise in remote working is speeding the development, as it is even more important to be able to work with the data anywhere. Still, information security is one of the main concerns in port industry when talking about…
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….
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