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Contact UsWeston & Sampson offers a full range of Geographic Information System (GIS) services.
As an Esri-authorized business partner, Weston & Sampson uses the latest GIS software, applications, extensions, and conversion techniques. We offer full-service in-house capabilities using Esri’s full platform suite, as well as proficiency in Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS), MapInfo, and AutoCAD Map, among others. We specialize in integrating these components into comprehensive solutions supporting documentation for regulatory compliance, operations and maintenance, and work order generation, assignment, and tracking.
We offer more than 20 years of experience providing comprehensive, cost-effective solutions to geospatial data management needs. Our experienced technicians have developed stormwater, wastewater, and water GIS layers for numerous clients. Our work includes large- and small-scale GIS and automated mapping of municipal assessor and utility systems, with expertise in needs assessments, implementation plans, scanning and conversion, hardware/software acquisition, applications development, project websites, training, technical support, and facilities management planning.
Our expertise as a comprehensive service provider, combined with our Esri-authorized status, uniquely positions Weston & Sampson to maximize return on the most advanced industry software available. Our ability to deliver full GIS implementation services enables us to provide customized data management tools for a wide range of users and datasets from single-user deployments to enterprise-level integration.
Services & Capabilities
- GPS asset locating services
- Record digitization/data conversion
- Infrastructure modeling
- Application development
- Mobile data platforms
- Cloud based solutions
- Hardware/software acquisition
- Database management
- Facilities management planning
- Technical support & training
ArcGIS Online Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) Viewer / Generator
Weston & Sampson helps our clients plan for the future by staying ahead of repair and maintenance schedules and prioritizing improvements through the development of Capital Improvement Plans (CIP).
CIPs assess a wide variety of asset variables, including condition, history, hydraulic model scenario outputs, plans for future expansion, paving schedules, and adjacent CIPs on other utilities. This information helps to prioritize expenditures, maximizing the impact to asset life cycles and return on investment.
• Cloud based solution – no infrastructure to maintain
• Live rolling updates to priority lists of assets
• Customized set of variables
• Can serve a range of asset and utility types
• Third party integration capable
• User defined inputs at global or individual asset levels
• User defined weighted variable impact
• Preservation of authoritative data
• Receptive to adjacent stakeholder inputs, such as paving or additional utility CIP
While these plans are essential, the compiling, management, and assessment of data into an actionable plan can be time consuming and costly. Additionally, unforeseen circumstances can impact plans, so the regular reassessment of priority assets is necessary.
Weston & Sampson uses Esri’s ArcGIS Online platform to shorten the preliminary development of the CIP. By centralizing an organization’s assets into a universally accessible digital twin, we begin laying the foundation for a responsive, web-based CIP application that grows with changing asset qualities, such as age, main breaks history, paving schedules, and cost. Weston & Sampson’s CIP Viewer/Generator is designed to respond as asset attributes are updated, so organizations at the start of their inventorying process can benefit. Maintaining a flexibility of purpose is important and our application allows users to modify variables at both the global and individual asset levels allowing for tailored cost estimates. Additionally, consideration is given to new design or expanded construction by allowing users to include a set of proposed assets without editing authoritative data.
The open-source nature of the data in ArcGIS Online lend to easy integration with third-party asset management and work order software. These are often used for the collection of data on things like water main breaks and other data critical to the assessment of an asset’s viability.
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Smarter Capital Planning: Real-Time Asset Management with ArcGIS Online
The CIP Viewer revolutionizes utility asset management by providing real-time prioritization of infrastructure investments through an interactive ArcGIS Online dashboard that dynamically ranks assets based on custom criteria, budget constraints, and evolving conditions.
Customized scripts periodically examine these inputs, calculate a cost per asset, and prioritize them based on a normalized score that is consistent with the approach of our team of engineers. For every asset, the algorithm includes an assessment of proximal assets. As part of this task, assets of priority scoring are assessed based on their proximity to other assets. This allows prioritization to be modified based on the condition of proximal assets and inserts a large measure of efficiency to a proposed list of assets.
The summary dashboard portion of the application allows users to look at the prioritized list of assets and offers a set of filters to review conditions, including a budget filter that will take an input at budget number and display a list of assets of highest priority under that cap in an interactive map and table. Each variable affecting scoring is stored with the asset list so that users can see precisely what factors are influencing the score. Weights can be applied to individual variables that will redistribute priorities based on whichever factors the user chooses to accentuate. A final list of assets is available for download as an excel spreadsheet for finer tuning and sharing.
This application does more than simply provide a list of assets ripe for repair or replacement; it provides justification for their consideration as a capital expense and allows users to tailor their approach as their unique circumstance dictates. Since this solution exists entirely in ArcGIS online, it integrates directly with all other platform components expanding the return on investment in GIS.
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