1Spatial Supports United Utilities in Unifying its Data

Oct. 6, 2015 - PRLog -- Cambridge, UK, 6 October 2015,1Spatial plc (http://www.1spatial.com/), the spatial big data company, has been working with United Utilities and its IT Framework partners to enable UU to track its estate of assets quickly and more efficiently via a single GIS system.

With over 76,000 kilometres of sewers and 42,000 kilometres of clean water pipes, the company delivers two billion litres of water to seven million customers in the north-west of England each day. United Utilities records 4.5 million waste water features and 11.5 million clean water features, so managing its assets is a major challenge.

Like many similar organisations, United Utilities inherited responsibility for its various assets at different times.  Records relating to a sewer installed over one hundred years ago are not always reliable. At the same time, United Utilities was also running several different Geographical Information Systems (GIS).

Utility companies in the UK are strictly regulated and have a number of Government commitments to meet, including quality of customer service.  A strategy to improve data quality would enable United Utilities to build a better business; improving customer service, reducing operational costs and more easily meeting government commitments.

1Spatial were part of a project team including UU’s IT framework partners to help with UU’s data cleansing strategy.

1Spatial have assisted UU by bringing their expertise and substantial domain knowledge to help resolve a number of data and asset related challenges. By knowing how to interpret underlying data in products like OS MasterMap, 1Spatial’s consultants were able to derive highly accurate rules for inferring sewer locations that resultantly helped UU identify an additional 6,000 km of private sewer stock. This same domain knowledge is also being applied to other products like Address Base Premium, where 1Spatial are currently helping UU overcome some challenges around the Service Point Address, and further realise the benefits of Spatial Advantage^TM.

Data Delivery Lead John Daniels at United Utilities said “people are now seeing the benefit of visualising everything from a single version of the truth.  It seems that every project coming along at the moment has a geospatial element to it. As they say, everything happens somewhere”.

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