SUN PRAIRIE PUBLIC WORKS
To help optimize water asset inspection and verification Sun Prairie, Wisconsin uses InfraMarker RFID Web Widget for ArcGIS Online.
SUN PRAIRIE EVALUATES INFRAMARKER RFID ASSET MARKING
To help manage water assets in the fast-growing city, Adam Schleicher, Director of Public Works/City Engineer, engaged Berntsen to create a field trial of its InfraMarker RFID asset management solution. The City of Sun Prairie installed a range of InfraMarker RFID markers on stormwater, sanitary sewer and water features to evaluate its feasibility in creating a connected infrastructure using Esri’s ArcGIS. Berntsen created web widgets using Esri’s Web AppBuilder so that the RFID tag data could be associated with its specific record in ArcGIS Online. Manholes, inlets and hydrants were all a part of the study which included more than 60 RFID markers. InfraMarker RFID tags are designed for above or below-surface marking.
The Sun Prairie GIS team, led by Louis Rada, GIS and Asset Management Coordinator, headed the effort to use Web AppBuilder to customize InfraMarker’s web widgets to access asset data from ArcGIS Online .
Sun Prairie used the following tags:
“From installing an RFID to querying that same ID via the laser scanner was so simple and straightforward. The City will find this process very beneficial especially where multiple assets are just feet apart.”
— Louis Rada, GIS and Asset Management Coordinator, City of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
Then the team added the RFID markets to each asset and wrote the asset name and type to the RFID tag using the InfraMarker RFID Write Asset Widget.
Within three hours, nearly 60 RFID tags were installed and labeled by a team of two.
About a week later, Lou completed a walk-through to test the Read Asset widget. A connection with the windows server program was established and connected the windows tablet to a cell phone to access the internet. As he walked from asset to asset, Lou was able to scan the asset and view the inspection form for each asset in the Smart Editor tool.
To date, this on-going evaluation demonstrated the feasibility and benefit of using RFID marking to tie field assets to ArcGIS through using web widgets created with Esri’s Web AppBuilder.
Stay tuned for more updates to the Sun Prairie project!
