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NRM Water for Smallworld GIS

NRM Water is certified by, and developed to specifications outlined by the DVGW- German Technicaland Scientific Association on Gas and Water.

In addition to network and plant documentation NRM Water enables the seamless integration of planned assets as well as the documentation of assets that are out of service or abandoned.

NRM Water is a proven, high performance, resilient industry focused solution. Its out-of-the-box preconfigured templates support for multi-Ianguages and standard data model is designed to drive down total cost of ownership.

Standard data model

NRM Water contains a comprehensive data model that describes the water supply chain trom reservoir to customer consumption point including the operational status of valves.

Network assets are mode lied to different supply types:

• Obtaining mains
• Transmission mains
• Supply mains
• Connection mains

Assets mayaiso be differentiatedby attribute value (make, type, model, zone etc.). Design management capabilities allow the integration of planned assets with the as-built network providing network tracing and reporting capabilities.

Map and network documentation

NRM Water provides the capability to seamlessly display and manage any type of map information. This includes aerial photography, satellite imagery, photographs, scanned plans as well as scale dependent digitised representations of the network asset.

The water network may be described geographically, geo-schematically, or schematically including the use of internaI plant views. Inherent logic and business rules ensure the integrity of network information and may be used as a source for hydraulic modelling.

Key features

• Modelling of all above and below ground network assets
• Support for multi-utilities
• Design and Asset Lifecycle Management
• Map management
• Automated planning tools for complex equipment
  (e.g. service connections, plant internals etc.)
• Automatic data quality checking
• Schematic generation (manually)
• Comprehensive network tracing
• Pre-configured localised equipment catalogues
• Automated feeder annotation
• Rule based automated data integrity checking

Support of working procedures

Utilising the Smallworld GIS core platform NRM Water was designed to improve efficiency, reduce cost and meet the latest regulatory requirements. Rationale used to promote the investment decision for NRM Water has included:

• Consolidated solution to replace existing multiple legacy applications and reduce drawing office backlog - improving records quality and legacy support costs.
• An integrated solution to support business process automation - improve asset data quality and support single point of data entry.
• Improve asset knowledge - reducing asset risk management through use of business intelligent analytical application.
• Interface to 3rd party hydraulic analytics to support improved design management capabilities
• Use of industry standard interfaces (e.g. SAP R/3, Maximo, SOA) to support improvements in asset maintenances, inspection cycles and outage management; and improvements in customer service