October 26, 2010 -- Farallon Geographics designed, developed and deployed a web-based GIS asset tracking application to monitor Union Sanitary District’s water treatment plant assets. The Rich Internet application monitors wastewater treatment plant infrastructure and manages mission critical workflows.  The application will enable tight integration with a number of other business systems including its SharePoint document management system, Hansen asset management system, wastewater asset management database and ArcGIS Server GIS infrastructure. The application acts as a centralized resource for accessing data, and will speed information retrieval as well as enable information sharing and project collaboration. 

The Plant GIS application facilitates informed communication and collaboration amongst USD staff by allowing engineers, technicians, and supervisors to create and share maps with custom redlines, labels, and notes.   It includes a set of tools for identifying and creating features that have been customized to support the District’s specific workflows.  Staff members can rapidly create custom maps and may save and share them easily with colleagues.  Saved maps can be accessed using the application, or with Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Excel, and other desktop applications.

Farallon developed Plant GIS using ESRI’s ArcGIS Server GIS framework and REST API, as well as Microsoft’s SQL Server 2005 database.  The application is written in .NET, and uses the ASP.NET MVC application architecture and Farallon’s web component framework that extends Open Source libraries including OpenLayers, ExtJS, and Raphael.  This approach results in a highly robust, flexible, and cost-effective technical platform upon which to build and extend Plant GIS.

"Our operators, engineers, and technicians worked iteratively with Farallon to streamline application workflows and test the user interface for performance and efficiency," said Richard Scobee, GIS/Database Administrator.  "The result is an extremely easy-to-use and highly productive web-based Plant GIS that will be used to manage the District’s four acre treatment facility."

Plant GIS is expected to reduce capital improvements outlay, as well as operation and maintenance costs, while significantly streamlining and improving staff communications.

About Farallon Geographics
Farallon Geographics (www.fargeo.com), based in San Francisco, is a leader in the planning, implementation, and integration of geospatial data and GIS systems to support mission critical business functions. As systems integrators focused on geographical data, Farallon provides unique and unbiased strategic and technical implementation services for enterprise-scale GIS.

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