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…
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…
A 3D survey, whether it is done with sonar, laser or drone, pursues to make an exact model of the real world. In order to use survey data as a digital twin of its authentic counterpart, the survey data must include geospatial information, in addition to mere shapes and visual data. Survey data consists of…
Port asset management concerns all departments and teams in an organization of a seaport. When there are various types of stakeholders handling operations, it is especially important to make sure all valuable information is easily available for everyone despite of the expertise, time or location. One solution for tackling this challenge is an online asset…
Digital twin has been a real buzz word in production industry for few years, and it is also becoming an increasingly interesting trend in asset management. The cloud technology offers affordable and accessible ways to utilize digital data and is creating new opportunities for organizations of various sizes and within different industries. This article describes…
