Communications and Utilities
Getting a comprehensive view of all
the infrastructure and physical assets that need to be supported
is a major challenge for nearly every communication and utility
provider. Understanding different views, such as the number
of people affected by an outage, or how to dispatch personnel
most efficiently when a disaster leaves you short-handed is
an even greater challenge.
TSI has a wealth of experience in the design and development
of solutions for all types of communication and utility providers,
with specific focus on:
• Asset Tracking
• Infrastructure
Management
Asset Tracking
Knowing where your assets are and how to deploy them effectively
is vital to corporate profitability. But being able to address
natural and man-made disasters in timely fashion is of equal
or greater importance. TSI can design and implement an entire
range of mapping and spatial analysis solutions for your organization
that can help you track assets and be more responsive to a
crisis. Many telecommunications companies continue to rely
on some paper maps or disjointed mapping systems for some
or much of their fiber and copper resources. The result is
an incredibly inefficient and inaccessible location intelligence
system. The same is true for gas and electric utilities. TSI
has extensive experience in designing solutions that move
companies from paper to online access, as well as combining
location intelligence from various sources.
Asset tracking includes tracking human resources, infrastructure,
and service vehicles. TSI can design and implement an automated
vehicle locator (AVL) solution that supports efficient dispatching
of company personnel and integrates into your current dispatch
system. Supervisors can visually track one car or all service
vehicles concurrently.
Infrastructure
Management
Our nation probably has the most complex and varied infrastructure
in the world, including the copper and fiber managed by communications
companies, gas lines, overhead and underground electric lines,
and water lines. Some of that infrastructure is many decades
old; some of it brand new. Chances are, you don't have a complete
picture of the entire system. And that creates a nightmare
when it comes to managing the infrastructure and assessing
critical situations. What other areas will be impacted by
a service disruption, and how soon?
TSI can devise infrastructure management solutions that let
you make those kinds of assessments, including visualization
of outages and assets as well as applying advanced spatial
analysis. Spatial analysis techniques can help you rely less
on personnel to perform assessments and more on automated
correlation of information being fed into databases as events
unfold, saving precious minutes or hours that could avert
a larger crisis or service disruption. TSI can also integrate
information from many other database sources that help in
understanding the impact of other organizations' infrastructure
on the maintenance of your own. Sharing information among
organizations, in both the public and private sectors, is
essential to ensure uninterupted service.