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Expressway to the Future: GIS and Advanced Metering Infrastructure
Author(s) -
Baird Gregory M.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2011.tb11374.x
Subject(s) - geospatial analysis , metering mode , asset management , geographic information system , asset (computer security) , computer science , component (thermodynamics) , information infrastructure , gis applications , am/fm/gis , information technology , spatial data infrastructure , information system , risk analysis (engineering) , business , spatial analysis , knowledge management , computer security , engineering , finance , geography , remote sensing , mechanical engineering , physics , electrical engineering , thermodynamics , operating system
This article discusses how geographic information system (GIS) enterprise asset management and advanced metering infrastructure are the expressways to the future for utilities to transform data into intelligence necessary to make informed operational and capital decisions. Utilities of the future will require technological investments in GIS‐centric asset management programs and advanced metering infrastructure. GIS as a transformation technology can be used as the unifying framework for applying geospatial information to a host of applications and integrated as a core component of the utility information technology (IT) structure.