Mobile GIS offline extension

Expand the offline capabilities of GIS to provide the best possible support to field activities

The challenge

Field technicians struggle without mobile GIS offline support

Energy & Utilities, Oil & Gas, Telco, and Transportation companies are expanding the GIS footprint and leveraging GIS across the business. GIS combined with FSM is becoming a single source of truth to manage needs across assets, customers, employees, and the surrounding environment. In particular, linear asset management organizations opt for GIS capabilities to manage dynamic network models.

A huge pain point here is related to the management of mission-critical operations on gas or electrical networks located in remote places (such as in the middle of the desert or underground). This means that the connectivity is poor or there is no connectivity at all. And so, it is challenging for technicians to access data, documents, or map information in an environment which limits the potential of GIS and prevents them from receiving the necessary support to handle activities in the best possible way.

The solution

Expanding GIS with advanced offline capabilities

Recognizing it as a huge differentiator, OverIT has invested heavily in GIS, also through the commitment of a dedicated GIS Center of Excellence. OverIT confirms itself as the only player with advanced mobile GIS functionalities and now expands its offline capabilities as to provide the best possible support to field activities.

Technicians can rely on a rich work package of GIS visualizations to use while offline. They can view the detailed structure of plants (including specific information and multimedia attachments about the asset to maintain) and consult geographic data and maps in offline mode with a high level of configurability. Technicians choose the best view based on the type of layer or work. Moreover, the system supports several file formats, allowing technicians to rely on a variety of data and maps that are automatically updated through REST API.

When new data is present in the system, technicians are immediately notified through push notification and can download the content smoothly from mobile, thus experimenting  dramatic benefits, even when no connectivity is available. In a world where security topics nowadays represent a milestone within organizations, these highly innovative files are able to meet the increasingly growing requirements in terms of cybersecurity, protecting the overall enterprise environment of customers.

Impact & KPIs

Increasing enterprise security
Expanding GIS capabilities
Improving the quality of field activities
Enhancing users’ experience