geospatial intelligence: railway industry
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GeoSpatial Intelligence:
Railway Industry
Geospatial Data is everywhere!
Rail Construction companies and operators operate in a business rich in
GeoSpatial Data:
• Site inspections
• Site surveys
• Excavation of sites (earthworks)
• Design and plan tracks
• Building inspections
• Environmental inspections
• Safety inspections
• Marketing of new developments
Geospatial Data - Unrealized Potential
The Challenge:
Surveys, inspections & field reports often still paper-based.
Data has to be transferred manually into company’s systems
or rely on expensive digital data collector
Valuable Geolocation Data not collected!
But Geospatial Data can be analysed to give Decision Advantage/Insights intended to:
● prevent surprises
● capitalize on emerging opportunities
● neutralize threats (inner & outer)
● provide time to adapt to a changing situation
● ability to present knowledge in a way that is appropriate to the decision-making
environment (report to stakeholders and management)
Extending your reach with Drones
Drones offer tremendous opportunities in railway construction and operations,
capturing data in a more efficient and safer manner:
High resolution base maps (Orthomosaic maps):
Measure distances
Superimpose track plans and building plans on top of base maps
Create time records at regular time intervals as a data backup
Elevation Maps:
Measure volumes (earthworks, stocks)
Close-Up Footage of hard to reach areas:
Inspections (e.g. rail track related structures, station rooftops)
Potential use of UAV / Drone
• Measurement of geo-registered 3D topographical survey data;
measurement of rail gauge etc
• Autonomous detection of rail-transportation infrastructure, such
as rail, track beds, cars, signals, etc.;
• Autonomous navigation and dynamic path planning for
systematic and accurate data collection at a prescribed number
of survey points
Client’s Needs Requirements • Inspect rail construction project to assess the progress on the ground. Identification and localization of
structural defects in railroad tracks
• Capture images of each rail tracks and related structures. Inspect parts of the rail network that were
difficult to access from the ground, detect condition of rail fasteners etc
• Observe and capture images of any development activity along the track line corridor
• To assess the ground situation in the aftermath of accidents, breakdowns etc
• The images / videos captured of each equipment shall be uploaded after analysis to a web based
centralized software system (Geospatial dashboard). The data will available to be viewed by the
concerned users. (Field work can be monitored from the office using the UAV footage)
• Provision for uploading data after rectification of the problem by the concerned users to the dashboard via
the geospatial mobile field app.
• Possibility to record actions taken during rectification of the identified problems by the concerned station
officer chronologically.
Services #1: Drone Mapping
Fixed wings/ Drone flights at regular intervals covering the area using a pre-planned flight grid:
Intervals: weekly, bi-weekly, monthly or quarterly
Outputs: Orthomosaic Elevation maps
All maps are available via Geospatial dashboard for further analysis:
Distance measurements (measure tracks and layouts)
Volume measurements (measure earthworks and stockpiles)
Used as base maps to overlay mobile form records
Used to compare with rail tracks and building plans overlayed on top of maps
Maps are uploaded to geospatial vault where they are secure and retrievable anytime
OPTION: Clients can fly their own drones and upload images to our server to create maps
Advantages: Fast, Reliable, Measurable Insights, Regular Digital Snapshots of Sites
Services #2: Drone based Inspections
Drones are piloted to specific areas to allow inspection to hard to reach areas:
Intervals: weekly, bi-weekly, monthly or quarterly
Outputs: Video (HD or 4K) & Photos
All media files are available via Geospatial dashboard for further analysis:
Media files can be placed on top of drone maps taken the same day to provide a 360 view
used to compare with rail track and building plans overlayed on top of maps
Media files are uploaded to geospatial vault where they are secure and retrievable anytime
OPTION: Clients can fly their own drones and upload videos and photos to our server
Services #3: Site inspection tools
Site Inspection Forms are digitized to used on Mobile Forms App: Intervals: as needed
Outputs: Geospatial Records
Accessible:
via Reports & GeoSpatial Dashboard:
Data Records are uploaded to geospatial vault where they are secure and retrievable anytime
Services #4: Interior inspection tools Site Inspection Forms are digitized to used on Mobile Forms App. These are then
Combined with floor plans and panoramic spherical images (360° view) Intervals: as needed
Outputs: Geospatial Records
Accessible: via Reports & GeoSpatial Dashboard:
Advantages: 360°cameras & mobile data collection simplify visual documentation of interiors!
360° view
2. DEPLOY
FORMS
Solution Overview:
GeoSpatial Dashboard
Form App Builder
Map Layers
Field Teams
Synchronize Form data with company
systems via API and Webhooks
Manage Teams Custom Maps (satellite, drones, track plans...)
Synchronize Form
Data with Dashboard
1. BUILD
FORMS
3. COLLECT
DATA
5. ANALYZE
6. ACT &
DEPLOY
7. REPORT & EXTEND
4. COMBINE DATA RECORDS WITH MAPS
Field Data Collection
The Solution for Field Team Inspections:
Replaces any kind of forms:
• Flexible mobile form collection tool
• Built-in geolocation tagging & using maps
• Works with satellite maps, road maps, high-res
drone maps and even technical plans
• Design forms centrally & deploy across all devices
• Deploy form updates remotely
• Offline data collection (no need to be online)
• Open API to connect with existing company systems
• Also signatures, barcodes, video, audio & photos
Data Dissemination
GeoSpatial Intelligence
Manage & Deploy the Field Teams:
• Use existing data records or create records to deploy teams
to a location
• Update all team members of record changes that affect
them
• Receive status and record updates within minutes
• Watch all your work and issue locations on a map color
coded according to status
• See where your teams worked and what they achieved by
printing out detailed work records
Geospatial Dashboard
Our Geospatial Dashboard helps visualize all inspection data and aerial maps
places them in context of other related data sets (aerial maps, building plans),
allows to deploy assets (teams) in a structured manner,
and create detailed reports
Our Secret: Putting it all Together
DRONE DATA
MOBILE FORMS Geospatial DASHBOARD ● Report
● Analyze
● Assign & Follow Up
SYSTEMS
INTEGRATION
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