Local authorities’ physical assets – such as sensors, CCTV, street furniture and lighting – are central features in their efforts to create smart places and communities.
They perform functions that are crucial to the successful running and sustainability of urban and rural environments and produce a wealth of data that can be used to support operations and strategic planning.
The smart management of that data can provide a ‘golden thread’ in the use of the assets. A council’s asset register provides a foundation for this, and a robust yet flexible data platform with the capacity to manage a wide range of physical assets is an important tool in building smart places.
Brightly’s Confirm enterprise asset management software makes it possible to pull together data from a range of sources to support decision-making – automated or by humans – to track and improve the performance of physical assets, creating more efficient workflows, streamlining operations and supporting proactive asset lifecycle management.
Combining real and digital
It provides a toolbox that makes it possible to combine the real and digital worlds with a representation of physical assets and integrations – using industry- standard APIs – with a wide range of technology partners to support the smarter use of assets into the long term.
It works with a dependable asset register to consolidate information. This can support the scheduling of maintenance and provide data for analysis to identify where action is needed, and investment should be targeted. It concludes with the automated and proactive actions that underpin smart places.
The platform can pull in data from any type of IoT sensors – measuring features such as rainfall, drainage, traffic levels, air quality – to provide dashboards and spatial views of physical assets and the surrounding environments. It can be programmed to provide alerts and automate workflows for a more proactive approach to managing the assets. It can also overlay data from different types of assets to show their interdependencies.
Edinburgh Council Application
‘The level of information we get from Confirm means we can better determine which investments or improvements we can pursue that will make us more efficient’ – Gareth Barwell, Director, Operational Services – The City of Edinburgh Council.
Road defects
There has been an integration with the Gaist SafetyView system for collecting inspection data on defects in the road network. Confirm takes in high-definition imagery of the roads which is submitted to an AI process to identify critical defects, followed by an automated process of allocating the job to a contractor and sending the images and a job pack.
Net zero potential
Confirm has the capacity to provide data on the maintenance of physical assets – such as vehicles, equipment, machinery and waste – which can affect carbon emissions in an area. There is scope to provide evidence for changing how things are done and the behaviour of teams and individuals in the effort to get to net zero.
We are at Digital Scotland 2024 on the 26th November at the Edinburgh International Conference, so please come by and see us to learn more.
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