Facilities Management Using GPS at UT Dallas

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Facilities Management Using GPS at UT Dallas

• By
• Stuart Murchison, Ph.D., CP, GISP, CFM
• Geospatial Sciences Program
• June 12, 2009

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Facilities Management at UTD

• Currently UTDs Facilities Management Group
  provides the following services
• Building Maintenance / Key Shop
• Campus Move Checklist
• Custodial Services
• Engineering / Project Management
• Fleet Vehicle and Grounds Maintenance
• Recycling
• Campus Disruption Mapping

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Facilities Management at UTD

• All CAD based Engineering plans and documents.
• No real-time updates to help people negotiate
  around campus (5/18/08).
• Very little technology utilized, because of lack
  of funding and change.

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Facilities Management at UTD

• In 2002 there was a need to expand the reporting
  capabilities to the State for .
• The LTS or Logistical Tracking System was born.
• LTS was integrated with ArcSDE via CAD maps.
• GPS classes were tasked to obtain building
  corners, infrastructure and utilities.
• Writing of the code commenced.

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Write-Up of the (LTS) Logistical Tracking System
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Global Positioning Satellite (GPS)
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Topcon Hiper Lite Base Station with Bluetooth .
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Global Positioning Satellite (GPS)
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Global Positioning Satellite (GPS)
Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS)
Real Time Kinematic (RTK)
Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS)
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Global Positioning Satellite (GPS)
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Global Positioning Satellite (GPS)
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Reflector 1
Reflector 2
Reflector 3
Laser Gun Mounting
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Global Positioning Satellite (GPS)
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• Shoot corners
• in succession
• Re-shoot the
• first corner
• 631.68 sq.m

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GPS Point Acquisition
Measuring Range Azimuthfrom Waypoint
1(internal compass)
Each side of the building has a very complex
design.
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Original CAD Files
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SDE Files
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Other Uses for GPS Controlled Data
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Other Uses for GPS Controlled Data
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Other Uses for GPS Controlled Data
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Other Uses for GPS Controlled Data
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Homeland Security Uses at UTD

• Convert the LTS into a Situational Awareness tool
• Allow access to Emergency Responders and EMS
• For use in natural and Human-induced incidents
• Locations offered in both Lat/Long and address
• Hopefully reduce costs and dangerous crisis
• Introduce a geocentric emergency management
  system at all institutions.

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Special Thanks to UTD FacultyDr. Carlos Aiken -
GeosciencesDr. Nick Valcik Office of Strategic
PlanningFor more information seeValcik, N.,
2007, The Logistical Tracking System (LTS) Five
Years Later What have we Learned? Space The
Final Frontier for Institutional Research, New
Directions for Institutional Research. Edited by
Nicolas Valcik. John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Hoboken, NJ., Vol. 135, pgs. 37-45.Mohammed
Alfarhan, Lionel White, Dean Tuck, and Carlos
Aiken, 2008,Laser rangefinders and ArcGIS
combined with three-dimensional photorealistic
modeling for mapping outcrops in the Slick Hills,
Oklahoma Geosphere, Vol. 4, pgs. 576 - 587.
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Thank youAny Questions?