At the end of last year, the consortium formed by the companies BGEO and INORCA, in collaboration with OPENGIS, was awarded the contract for the implementation, start-up and maintenance of the corporate Geographic Information System for the Instituto Costarricense de Acueductos y Alcantarillado.
The institutional launch, which took place in November, lasted more than two hours and was attended by a hundred people. During the event, it was shown that the system to be implemented will be seen as the epicenter of all the geographic information of the institution and will have the highest standards of functionality, interoperability and security. The solution presented will consist of five modules such as the database, a thick client, a thin client, a Geoportal with service deployment, and an offline mobility tool, which makes it a complete Spatial Data Infrastructure for the organization.
Among the different modules, the Geographic Information System with integrated mathematical models based on the #QGIS, #Giswater, #EPANET and #SWMM solutions stands out, which has specific tools for water and sewer networks with the capacity to manage the entire life cycle of the geographic data. This module has more than 150 quality controls that, together with the pre-established topological rules and the check health and continuous monitoring tools, guarantee the highest standards of quality of work for the institution.
With this module, mincut can be created identifying affectations, valves to be operated and subscribers without service, as well as the dynamic and automatic generation of hydrometric districts. For sewerage networks, the traceability of the upstream and downstream network can be available, and for all of them, mathematical models of the systems can be created with the final objective of having the same calibrations and with data in real time, which will turn it into a digital twin.
The platform will also consist of an operational web viewer based on #QWC2 with all the basic operational information, such as mincut, leaks or operation of hydrometric districts. This module will also have a powerful customization toolkit with which it can be adapted to all the business processes of the institution that require any type of logic with geographic data, being useful to departments as diverse as system improvement, commercial, operational or other departments.
Likewise, a Geoportal based on Geonode will be deployed that will serve to publish all corporate geographic information with the use of maps, dashboards and geostories that will achieve universal access to geographic data throughout the institution. In addition, it will allow the exchange of geographic information with other tools such as GMAO or Loss Control, in parallel it can do so with other institutions such as ARESEP or the different municipalities served by AyA.
Finally, the platform will have a field data collection module based on an ‘On Premise’ installation of #QfieldCloud with the #Qfield App that will allow integrated management of teams, campaigns, and projects. Furthermore, it will also have the most advanced tools for continuous monitoring and quality control of the work to guarantee the success of the data collection processes in the field. All this with the highest standards of interoperability and security, integrating with other systems, coupling processes and functionalities and working with two-factor authentication and single-sign-on access for the applications.