I blogged previously about accessing electric power usage data in Ontario, specifically in Ottawa. As I mentioned in a previous post, Aneesh Chopra, US CTO, proposed a “Green Button” challenge which aims at allowing customers to download their […]
GoGeomatics recently had the opportunity to talk with Andrew Hoggarth, Marketing and Sales Manager, CARIS . As a senior executive in the Geomatics industry, Andrew has a wealth of experience to share about CARIS and how his technical expertise has led him to a senior position in a business role. […]
There have been a number of reported instances of drinking water contamination in which a link to hydraulic fracturing has been reported. These have been taken seriously enought that the EPA has started a multi-year […]
One of the most important goals of utilities in this time of aging and shrinking workforces is improving the productivity of operations staff. Many utilities are finding that many tasks that used to require sending staff into […]
One of the major challenges facing the world’s utilities is one of data management, optimizng information flows that involve multiple divisions within a utility. I have blogged about this challenge on multiple occasions (here, here, here and here). […]
Germany is Europe’s largest and the world’s 6th greatest single emitter of CO2. In the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change, some of the the world’s industrialized nations committed to […]
One of the major challenges facing companies that are responsible for managing the world’s infrastructure networks is data quality. I have blogged about data quality on multiple occasions (here, here, here and here). At Autodesk University Peter Barcza, Managing Director of […]
The Aqueduct project is an effort to measure and map water related risks being developed by the World Resources Institute with the support of an alliance founded by General Electric and Goldman Sachs. Recently Aqueduct […]