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"The automated environmental and resources monitoring and management system presented in Figures 1 through 3 is flexible, allowing customized graphical output and default settings. For instance, scales, flow direction arrows, logos, titles and other map elements can be adjusted to meet the project specifications. Furthermore, alternative statistical algorithms can be used, and statistical progeny can be reported and even presented in the graphical images. Data can be exported in jpg, png, shapefile or csv formats.

These examples demonstrate how automated data collection, processing and visualization can greatly simplify and streamline the process of long-term environmental and resource monitoring. Automated sensor and GIS integration benefits include immediate notification of problems such as plume migration to adjacent properties, significantly greater relative understanding of dynamic groundwater systems based on more frequent measurements, sophisticated geospatial analyses such as simultaneous multiple parameter measurement and trend evaluations become cost-effective, less time is required to generate plume and contour maps and reports, greater model precision becomes achievable, carbon footprint reductions can be realized, and decision-quality data can be disseminated to responsible parties with an expedited Web interface. Future plans include demonstration of a nitrate solute remediation system under the EPA ETV program, whereby system performance will automatically be tracked, and collaborators can access the information in an on-demand, password-protected Internet configuration."

Trifecta Global Infrastructure Solutions

Trifecta, an Irish company with offices in New Zealand and the U.S., has used Rich Internet Application tools to develop a browser based, geospatial process engine specifically designed to model and optimize the workflows for the management of public infrastructure, including roading, water, and property assets.  

Trifecta’s process engine has been specifically designed to be truly geospatial, and is the first to include time as a fully integrated fourth dimension.  It is also the first to allow networked environmental sensors to be quickly plugged into any x,y,z coordinate. Managers, for example, can be instantly alerted to events such as landfill leakage, potential bridge failure, road surface freezing, public water contamination, vapour intrusion from leaking fuel tanks, over pumping of aquifers, or to violations of air or waste water permits. 

All of this rich functionality can be accessed via a web browser under a Software as a Service model.

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