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Telecommunications

In the telecommunications world, a Geographic Information is ideally suited for network planning and development. The ability to layer information onto the terrain, complete with attribute data, allows engineers the unique ability to model and assess a network from the office.

This saves valuable time and reduces the number of trips, that the engineer must make to the field. furthermore, the powerful automation capabilities offered increase the speed and accuracy of the network design process and can help reduce, and even eliminate, the downstream impacts of design-phase errors on cost and schedule during the network deployment phase.

Rule based features

Rule-based features can also offer network designers the ability to produce better products, optimised for cost, shortest routing distances, signal propagation, asset damage testing and fibre replacement linked to customer prioritisation; all of which can underpin the objectives of Digital Britain programme, the intention of which is to get a "digital hub" connected by fibre optics in every area by 2015.

Digitised maps

The combination of a digitised map base and a digital network asset model delivers a key tool for organisational change. Through geospatial digitisation, the network infrastructure businesses are targeting specific benefits linked to regulatory compliance, operational efficiency, and capital and operational expenditure performance.

Geographical information

GI such as OSMasterMap combined with organisational data enables:

  • The profiling of potential and existing customers and perform predictive modelling to find new opportunities. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) maps the results so you can see potential market areas much more easily than with a database view of columns and numbers.
  • Business resilience and contingency planning -One in five commercial businesses will experience a major business disruption each year including power outages, internal flooding, weather events, fire, terrorism, crime, and transportation problems. Identifying the exact location and statuus of your critical assets, enables business contunity plans such as the rerouting of alternative supplies to be managed quickly and effectively.
  • Managing impact on service provision down to single household level. By linking an address with property classifications to an operational asset, efforts can be much more targeted in managing resources, risks and responses, particularly by establishing vulnerable customers such as the elderly and hospitals.
  • Modelling networks and potential sites - The wealth of information about features in the landscape included in Ordnance Survey datasets can be of value at all stages of the project lifecycle, from initial site selection and assessment, to feasibility and environmental impact assessments, to planning application, and then construction and operation.

  • Location based services - Telecommunications are also finding that GIS will solve marketing and customer service needs - combining up-to-date geographic information with such data as demographics, service call histories, and revenue. New applications such as location services, gives customers real-time interactive mapping and routing services.

Geographical data

Geographic data is a powerful planning tool for business operations. OSMasterMap can assist with facilities management, employee notification, Regulatory returns, Site mast location, signal propagation, Employee Lone worker status, Customer identification and Billing, incident mapping, weather mapping, office relocation, evacuation and Asset Management

Benefits

  • Quickly locate and know the health of your assets
  • Shortest routing distances, signal propagation, Asset damage testing
  • Accurately calculate field staff requirements
  • Compile and navigate fibre asset information and data quickly and efficiently
  • Improve communication with customers
  • Streamline maintenance
  • Develop more targeted marketing plans
  • Proactively and accurately plan system expansion

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