SPATIALnet

SPATIALnet White Paper (pdf, 267KB)

Further documentation available here

Major Advantages

• Proposed and historical states of a network are fully supported by the records version management software. Planners, designers, work detailers, maintenance and operation engineers can all interact with the database with individually tailored views.
  
  
• Synchronisation between graphics, attributes and connectivity is guaranteed because all entities, their relationships and their presentation are unified in the commercial off-the-shelf RDBMS. Any enterprise wide data that can be accessed through database views can be visualised. Direct display of customer details, plant details or even SCADA states on a map is a reality.
  
  
• Enterprise applications have direct access to the facility network data. Customer help desk, load analysis packages and switch scheduling applications can directly access all aspects of the facility data from a pure relational environment. In former hybrid systems enterprise wide access to GIS data was only available through proprietary GIS application development environments.
  
  
• Now, enterprise wide application development can be realised at lower life-cycle cost. System administration costs are also reduced because daily backups, data recovery operations, security administration, new accounts and audit trails are the domain of the commercial RDBMS environment and are shared between all enterprise applications. No special and separate GIS data administration is required.
  
  
• Corporate data can be replicated and distributed to regional offices in a manner transparent to the GIS user - the commercial relational database distributed environment handles the timely update of mirrored or rolled-up versions of the data for you.
  
  
• Plant item records can be individually locked for update.
  
  
• There is no need to lock whole geographic areas for update for possibly several months during works design.
  
  
• The technology is open. Graphical views can be created using RDBMS CASE tools and the database validity can be enforced through database referential integrity constraints and stored procedures. This allows other enterprise applications to safely update the database with full rule checking.

Major Features

• Open Systems, Client-Server Architecture
• Autodesk standard client engines
• Intuitive Graphical User Interface
• Job Management, Version Management and Long Transaction Management
• Raster and Imaging
• Configuration by commercial CASE tools
• Complex Job-on-Job inter-dependence
• Interfaces to CIS, Work/Job Scheduling, Analysis and Workflow Management
• Map Production and Web Publishing
• Seamless Continuous Map Base for both Vector and Raster data
• Network Tracing
• Walk away capability
• Optimistic Locking and Pessimistic Conflict Resolution
• Data Query/Visualisation
• Geographic and Schematic Views
• Application Development
• Configurable Logical and Physical Data Models
• Full Network Connectivity

Benefits

• Capture, Edit and Display Utility Infrastructure Network
• Multiple overlapping planning and design projects
• Rapid Retrieval and Display
• Enterprise Wide Access to Spatial and Temporal Network Information
• Industry Standard RDBMS Compatibility

Technical Specification (pdf, 111KB)

SPATIALnet Solution Overview (pdf, 218KB)

SPATIALnet Features (pdf, 127KB)

SPATIALnet Modeler (pdf, 218KB)

SPATIALnet Telco Model (pdf, 121KB)

SPATIALnet Power Model (pdf, 121KB)