Monday 2 August 2010

Workshop 1: Critical infrastructure protection and emergency response

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1100 - 1600

Concorde Room, Level 2, Sofitel Brisbane Central

Peter Shoemark - Cardno

Paul Newman - Dial Before You Dig
Scott Guy - Cardno Australian Underground Services
Matthew Ryeland - Cardno
Ian Payne - GeoRadar Australia

Workshop 2: Mashups

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1100 - 1600

Bastille Room 1, Level 2, Sofitel Brisbane Central

Danny Broadbent - Datamaxx Technologies

Jose Diacono - Commuica

Mark Covington - Geomatic Technologies

Daniel Hansen - EnergyAustralia

Part 1: Mashups - What are they? What has been done at federal and state level? How can I get involved, and how can they benefit my organisation?

This workshop will update participants on two mashup competitions - the Mashup Australia competition based on the Gov2.net.au taskforce, and the Victorian Government mashup competition in April-June 2010. It will showcase how something as simple as, for example, the locations of government services or Census data can deliver benefits to the research, commercial and community sectors, and to citizens at large. We will also delve into the building of mashup with Google and Bing, with live examples and support to help users build their own mashup.

Part 2: From the simple to the sublime – a spectrum of mashups

In this workshop, Mark will take participants on a mashup journey starting with the simple and finishing with the complex and powerful. Simple HTML will be used to embed an interactive map within any website. Mark will then create feature-rich mashups that combine multiple layers of business data with maps in a matter of minutes using a product called VEPlus. The journey will end with a demonstration of the latest in mashup visualisations, providing a 3-D perspective of business data using Visual Fusion.

Part 3: How to use Google Maps as a visualisation platform for geospatial an asset data

Daniel will provide an overview of how EnergyAustralia is using their GIS to spatially enrich data from other business systems, using Google as a visual platform for analysis and sharing information. The demonstration will detail one particular mashup application used in emergency response and outage management situations. This application combines up to five different data sources based on a user’s query, which is displayed on either GoogleMaps or GoogleEarth. The results are used for ministerial briefings, media release, management reports and coordinating work crews. It paints a common operating picture that is easily updated to reflect live changes to the data and accessible to a geographically dispersed workforce.
 

Workshop 3: Fleet tracking systems demonstration CANCELLED

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1100 - 1600

Madeline Room, Level 2, Sofitel Brisbane Central

Greg House - Spatial Business Systems

Roger Merritt - Spatial Tapestry

George Curran - CRC SI

Matthew Henderson - Taggle Systems

Craig Rodger - we-do-IT
Stuart Paice - we-do-IT

Part 1: This workshop will examine two case studies of live fleet tracking systems solutions from inception through development, rollout, review of outcomes and visions for the future. Both systems to be discussed/demonstrated are operating in the utilities space at:

• Vemco, a utilities management company operating nationally in the Australian market with a 250+ predominantly heavy specialist vehicle fleet.

• Vectren, a mid west US gas and electricity distributor distributing to some 25,000 customers.

The presentation will include live demonstrations of both systems as well as detailed presentation of the design, development, dispatch integration deployment and ongoing management of the system. Operational, HR and user acceptance challenges will also form part of the central theme to the presentation.

Part 2 - This workshop will showcase OptiPlanner, a daily route planning desktop application with a custom built mapping engine to represent the diverse information available. This application being built for the freight and courier markets, and utilises a routing engine developed and delivered to SAIA last year by Spatial Tapestry. SAIA is a US freight company currently rolling out this solution through their 148 depots servicing 2500 semi trailers. This routing engine is a high performance engine capable of solving the well-known travelling salesman problem both in terms of the sequencing of the locations and by calculating or recommending the lowest cost path between the stops. Aspects of the routing engine and desktop will be discussed, along with future development plans, technologies being incorporated and planned integration to freight management providers.

Part 3 - Taggle Systems is working to deliver the “Internet of Things”. As one of the 2009 winners of the Telstra External R&D program, Taggle is in commercial pilot for a new type of telecommunications infrastructure. The Taggle technology is designed to monitor, locate and track assets and everyday items over large geographic regions, that require a small, low cost, long in-field life (>3 years). Existing solutions such as GPS/Mobile are high cost, high power and generally only suitable for low numbers of high value items, or Wi-Fi based solutions which are restricted to small geographical areas. Taggle is currently focused on:
 

• Remote agriculture monitoring – cattle, irrigation, tools

• Water consumption and quality – metering, salinity, depth

• Safety and environment monitoring
   

Matthew will discuss the results from Taggle’s pilot commercial network in the Mackay Basin and discuss how the technology might be applied to the management of public utilities.
 

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1100 - 1600

Bastille Room 2, Level 2, Sofitel Brisbane Central

Michael Friedman - GE Smallworld
Ron Howard - GE SmallWorld
Stuart Sieg - GE Smallworld