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Trifecta Wins Head-To-Head Due Diligence At Palmerston North City Council
29 May 2009, Auckland

Trifecta Global Infrastructure Solutions, Ltd. is pleased to announce that Trifecta's new T3 module has, after an exhaustive due diligence process, been selected by the PNCC to provide traffic management services in keeping with the needs mandated by the new National Code of Practice for Utilities Access to the Transport Corridors. The PNCC has asked to go live with this software module as of the 1st of July.

This trial involved both Council staff and Contractors using each of the two possible solutions currently available in New Zealand. Their job was to work all levels of the Corridor Access Request (CAR) process with each software package, and to determine, based on their actual experience, which was best for Palmerston North and its contractors. Scoring was done in the following five major areas:

  • ability to fully meet the new Code’s functional requirements
  • supplier support
  • ease of use
  • price
  • compatibility with other Council systems

These results were compiled, marked, and submitted to Senior Management for consideration. They accepted the trial’s results and ratified the recommendations on Wednesday, May 27th.

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About Trifecta Global Infrastructure Solutions, Ltd

Trifecta GIS, a New Zealand company, has built the world's first Rich Internet Application software solution for infrastructure asset maintenance which can fully use and leverage the vital contextual information provided by both Pictometry® oblique aerials and 360 degree high resolution engineering grade video. Using these and other groundbreaking technologies, Trifecta has just finished modeling the best practices and business processes contained in the proposed National Code of Practice for Utilities’ Access to the Transport Corridor into our T3 application. This module is designed to automate the entire paperwork business process for CAR's and TMP's online, including submission, review, and approval. T3 utilises intelligent scheduling, safe traffic management, KPI visibility, historical archiving, and warranty tracking all in one application. We believe that this intuitive, user friendly solution will make compliance more achievable for councils and contractors, while simultaneously lowering the cost for all parties. Trifecta’s other module, Project Management and Forward Works, allows Time and Budget information for asset management to also be geospatially displayed in T3. These solutions embody New Zealand’s deep engineering expertise around asset management, and are designed for the global marketplace. For more information, visit www.trifectagis.com.

Technology Developer Secures High-Profile C.O.O
10 April 2009
Auckland

Trifecta Global Infrastructure Solutions, a New Zealand company specialising in the development of geospatial software for asset and infrastructure management, is delighted to announce the appointment of Adelle Demko as Chief Operating Officer.

Ms. Demko will be based in Trifecta GIS’ Santa Barbara (California) office, and will oversee US and global operations. Ms Demko’s considerable management experience with high-growth companies, as well as her strategic and financial consulting background, make her appointment to Trifecta GIS a particularly remarkable coup for the New Zealand technology company.

Effective immediately, Ms. Demko will work with Trifecta GIS’ Auckland-based team and Santa Barbara-based CEO and founder Clark Easter. The company has recently completed the development of the second of its suites of asset management software modules that uniquely and seamlessly integrate Pictometry®, 14MP resolution geoimmersive video, project management and financial planning in a suite of interactive software tools.

“Adelle’s proven leadership and management experience will drive our market development into high gear.” says Clark Easter, Chief Executive Officer of Trifecta GIS. “I’m really looking forward to working with Adelle to bring our revolutionary T3 suite of geospatial infrastructure management tools to local government, infrastructure providers, and other asset managers in New Zealand and worldwide. Her acknowledged ability to identify, prioritise and pursue opportunities will ensure Trifecta’s ongoing success.”
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In addition to extensive management consulting and board services through her own companies, she has held high-level positions with a number of corporations including Xerox, Amerace, Wedbush Morgan Securities, Balance Bar and Maps.com. Ms Demko holds an MBA from Yale University, a Juris Doctorate from Duke University Law School, and a BA from the University of Western Ontario, Canada.

About Trifecta Global Infrastructure Solutions, Ltd

Trifecta GIS, a New Zealand company, has built the world’s first Rich Internet Application software solution for infrastructure asset maintenance which can fully use and leverage the vital contextual information provided by both Pictometry oblique aerials and 360 degree geoimmersive video. Using these and other groundbreaking technologies, Trifecta has just finished modeling the best practices and business processes contained in the proposed National Code of Practice for Utilities’ Access to the Transport Corridor into our T3 application. We believe that this intuitive, user friendly solution will make compliance more achievable for councils and contractors while simultaneously lowering the cost for all parties. Trifecta’s other module, Project Management and Forward Works, allows Time and Budget information for asset management to also be geospatially displayed in T3. These solutions embody New Zealand’s deep engineering expertise around asset management, and are designed for the global marketplace. For more information, visit www.trifectagis.com.

First Oblique Pictometry Imagery Captured in NZ
13 March 2009
Press Release: AAMHatch

AAMHatch has recently completed the first Pictometry® aerial imagery project to be undertaken in New Zealand. The patented Pictometry oblique aerial imaging system has revolutionised aerial imaging around the world, and AAMHatch is very pleased to be able to make this technology available in New Zealand.

AAMHatch General Manager, Brian Nicholls, states that "The first Pictometry imagery captured in New Zealand was fittingly of the New Zealand Parliament building, the Beehive. Trifecta Global Infrastructure Solutions and AAMHatch will present this imagery to the New Zealand Government as a unique record of a new era in aerial imaging for New Zealand. We are confident that Pictometry will be quickly embraced by New Zealand users, as it has by users in other parts of the world".

Following the Beehive capture, AAMHatch completed Pictometry imaging of the remainder of the Wellington City area for Wellington City Council, the first council in New Zealand to embrace Pictometry.

AAMHatch have now mobilised to Auckland to begin a program of Pictometry capture of the Auckland and North Shore metropolitan areas.

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About AAMHatch

AAMHatch is at the forefront of the spatial information technology revolution. AAMHatch's dynamic team pioneers the commercialisation of exciting innovations such as Pictometry®, High Resolution Satellite Imagery, Large format, aerial digital imaging, Airborne LiDAR, Terrestrial Laser Scanning, and 360 degree video (fully spherical video).

AAMHatch's proven technology leadership includes a range of advanced systems for the collection, analysis and presentation of geospatial information. Using these tools AAMHatch has built an extensive library of 'off the shelf" digital photography, satellite imagery and high resolution digital terrain models.

The AAMHatch Group is a multi disciplinary team of 200 geospatial professionals. AAMHatch has an award-winning culture of project management excellence that actively contributes to client success. For more information, visit www.aamhatch.com

About Trifecta Global Infrastructure Solutions, Ltd.

Trifecta GIS, a New Zealand company, has built the world's first Rich Internet Application software solution for infrastructure maintenance which can fully use and leverage the vital contextual information provided by both Pictometry oblique aerials and 360 degree geoimmersive video. Using these and other groundbreaking technologies, Trifecta has just finished modeling the best practices and business processes contained in the proposed National Code of Practice for Utilities' Access to the Transport Corridor into our T3 application. We believe that this intuitive, user friendly solution will make compliance more achievable for councils and contractors while simultaneously lowering the cost for all parties. Trifecta's other module, Project Management and Forward Works, allows Time and Budget information for asset management to also be geospatially displayed in T3. These solutions embody New Zealand's deep engineering expertise around asset management, and are designed for the global marketplace. For more information, visit www.trifectagis.com

About Pictometry

Pictometry International Corp. is a leading provider of geo-referenced, aerial image libraries and related software. Pictometry has captured over 50 million digital aerial images in over 600 counties in the United States covering over 70 percent of the United States population. Using its proprietary imaging process, Pictometry captures geo-referenced, high-resolution oblique (at an angle, producing a 3-D like view) and orthogonal (straight down) Intelligent Images®, within which structures and land features can be measured. Pictometry customizes and markets these technologies for government and commercial applications, offering non-traditional software solutions to aerial imaging needs. Pictometry's imagery and software enables users to "See Everywhere, Measure Anything, Plan Everything"® using a patented digital information system. Pictometry has its headquarters in Rochester, NY and an office in Europe. Pictometry is a second order visualization tool that does not produce authoritative or definitive information (surveying) from its digital, aerial images. For more information, visit www.pictometry.com

Dig once, do zero harm
May 2009
Press Release: Local Government magazine

New software from Trifecta Global Infrastructure Solutions solves these age old problems by creating a national browser-based portal for efficient implementation of the new National Code of Practice for Utilities’ Access to the Transport Corridors. For as long as we all can remember, whenever there has been roading construction work to be undertaken, for a contractor or a utility it has meant multiple trips to the local council offices, piles of paperwork to be completed, drawings to be submitted, added to, modified, and finally resubmitted.

Sometimes there have been mysterious gaps of time in the whole process, which have only been resolved after repeated phone calls or visits. And, as a contractor or utility, if you work with multiple councils, you have had to deal with the added nightmare that each of your councils has probably had different paperwork and processes to deal with and remember.

From the council perspective, filing cabinets of paper have steadily expanded, staff time has been occupied by searching for misplaced paperwork and trying to stay on top of the process, and still roads sometimes have resulted in being dug up multiple times over the course of several months with no one being able to realise it in advance. In addition there are the trenches that get filled in improperly with council unable to identify works that are within the warranty period. Worst of all, there are the situations where drivers or workers have been needlessly put in harm’s way because of inadequate traffic safety.

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Recognising all of this, the New Zealand Utilities Advisory Group was formed several years ago to attempt to bring best practice standardisation across the country. And now, after many years of hard work, with input from all parties around the table, as of March of this year, an implementation version of the National Code of Practice for Utilities’ Access to the Transport Corridors has been released. The preamble to the code states it best: “The code has been developed by the industry for the industry with the key objectives of developing a nationally consistent process, formalising current industry best practice, and minimising third party damage problems."

NZUAG recognised that this standardisation might open the way for a national portal to integrate local authority and utility asset information through geospatial means, and even expressed the hope that “The Code of Practice for Working in the Road and the Road Opening Notice procedures could also be integrated into this process.” Now, a local New Zealand company, Trifecta Global Infrastructure Solutions Ltd, has created that national portal.

Building on their work implemented last December for the Auckland Motorway Alliance, Trifecta has been working with Palmerston North City Council as a beta site for their new T3 product over the last several months.

T3 is designed to help council and state highway authorities implement the best practices contained within the national code, making them both achievable and cost effective. T3 combines a proprietary, browser based, very powerful and innovative mapping component along with the ability to see projects geospatially filtered using Gantt timelines. This module is designed to automate `the entire paperwork business process for CAR’s and TMPs online, including submission, review, and approval. T3 utilises intelligent scheduling, safe traffic management, KPI visibility, historical archiving, and warranty tracking all in one application.

In T3, each step of a desired process flow is represented by an icon across the top of the screen. Users can instantly see by the check marks where they are in the process, and clicking on the relevant icon takes them to the associated data forms required for that step. Project Status is automatically tracked for each set of forms, with both the RCA and the applicant receiving ongoing feedback via e-mails and alerts regarding where they currently are in the process. Compliance issues, such as credentialing, are automatically checked. RCAs are even alerted when warranties are approaching their expiration.

Once a submission is approved, the hard copy permits are automatically generated, which become available online for printing by the site contractor. The entire application and approval process is archived electronically for historical reference, including all associated e-mails and uploaded drawings.

In addition, T3 is designed to bring highly accurate visual information directly to the Engineer’s desktop. For example, T3 seamlessly integrates with Pictometry oblique aerial imagery, provided by Trifecta’s technology partner, AAMHatch. Pictometry allows users to make measurements of lengths, areas, and even building heights, directly within the T3 display. By touching a point on the traffic map, the user instantly sees the linked GPS point in the photo layer that provides direct access to vital contextual information necessary for critical decisions. Alternatively, instead of the aerial view, Engineers can switch to an engineering grade, high resolution, 360-degree "DriveView" in T3, again provided in partnership with technology partner AAMHatch. Engineers can select any point in a street map, which will then link them directly to the 360-degree "DriveView". Within the "DriveView" Engineers can zoom in, for example, to inspect pavement sections for cracking. The high resolution "DriveView" imagery is captured by a Trifecta/AAMHatch vehicle with a custom six-lens video camera. Individual video frames are captured with spacings as small as 2m with a positional accuracy of less than 0.5m and GPS coordinates embedded in the imagery.

The T3 viewing engine also allows a wide assortment of asset data to be embedded as layers within the photos and the maps – construction data, traffic data, crash data, budget data, water reticulation data, etc. Trifecta even offers the ability to merge an RCA’s Forward Works programme from its optional Project Management Module into T3. These forward works projects can then be filtered and shown geospatially using Gantt timeline sliders in T3. For the first time, the chances of actually spotting violations of the “dig once” imperative have increased in your favour! Palmerston North has already spotted multiple unintended violations using this module’s functionality, yielding huge savings in increased asset life expectancy. For further information contact www.TrifectaGIS.com.

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