MIDS 3 Overview

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Tri-Committee Symposium 2004 Technical Advisory
Group (TAG) of the Municipal Infrastructure
Data Standard (MIDS) MIDS 3.0 Update
October 6th, 2004 Ed Shewen MIDS TAG Chair
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MIDS TAG

• Re-formed in 2003.
• Review/Acceptance of Change Requests for MIDS.
• Development of MIDS 3.
• Public and Private Sector Participants
• Applied GeoLogics Inc.
• ASI Technologies Inc.
• City of Toronto
• City of Niagara Falls
• Intergraph
• Zen Tech Consulting Services Inc.

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MIDS History

• In the beginning .
• SIMS / WIMS / RIMS (Late 1980s)
• EDB Engineering Database (1992)
• MIDS 1.0 (1996)
• MIDS 2.0 (1999)
• MIDS 3.0 (2004/2005)

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MIDS Subscribers
City of St. Catharines
Regional Municipality of Niagara
City of Waterloo
Town of Hearst
Town of Carleton Place
Regional Municipality of Durham
Town of Arnprior
City of St. Thomas
County of Lambton
County of Dufferin
County of Renfrew
City of North Bay
Town of Richmond Hill
Ministry of Natural
City of Brantford
Municipality of Chatham
Town of Aurora
County of Wellington
City of Peterborough
City of Welland
County of Lanark
Keystone Computer Resources
City of Niagara Falls
Applied GeoLogics Inc.
City of Toronto
Totten Sims Hubicki
Town of Whitby
CH2M Hill Canada Limited
City of Cornwall
Earth Tech (Canada) Inc.
County of Essex
Intergraph Canada LId.
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MIDS Principles

• MIDS is a DATA STANDARD related to Municipal
  Infrastructure Assets.
• MIDS attributes the location, capacity,
  condition, geometry, and other characteristics of
  municipal assets.
• MIDS is a definition of a container for data
  describing assets and the relationships between
  assets.
• A MIDS Asset is an asset that physically
  exists, must be uniquely maintained, and has a
  significant financial valuation.

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MIDS Relevance

• MIDS data is considered to be essential to many
  municipal functions

• Decision Support
• Hydraulic Modelling
• Storm Water Modelling
• Transportation Modelling
• Permit Control (e.g. utility cuts)
• Emergency Operations
• Disaster Response
• Regulatory Response

• Work Management
• Capital Planning
• Asset Management
• Condition Assessment
• Performance Assessment Prediction
• Rehabilitation Strategy Generation
• Budget/Program Analysis
• Operations

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Benefits of MIDS 3.0

• Standardize data capture and data maintenance .
• Eliminate duplication of data.
• Share and use data external to your organization.
• Sustainability of data through technology
  changes, thus protecting the investment in data.
• Scalability of data - start with a pilot area.
• Standardization of interfaces to GIS, corporate
  systems, performance measures.
• More effectively manage your combined assets.
  MIDS 3.0 integrates water, sanitary, storm and
  roads data for combined planning and other work
  processes.

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Whats New for MIDS 3.0

• A Data Driven Model extensible through data.
• Provides clear Naming Conventions.
• All assets and attributes in the model are
  clearly defined.
• Reduced number of standard domain tables.
• Provides a extensive Data dictionary.
• Standardized Lookup Domain Values and reduce the
  number of Domain (Lookup) Tables.
• Accommodates Asset/Sub-asset Relationships.
• Recognizes One-to-Many and Many-to-Many
  relationships.
• Ensures MIDS can support key business processes.
• Extends the use of Metadata from the asset to
  the field level
• Provides a transition path for earlier
  implementations.
• A more generalized/normalized physical model.
• Documentation.

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MIDS 3.0 Primary Classes

• Class Asset
• Now attributed with common characteristics.
• Defines a Generic asset, eliminates MIDS 2
  Entity.
• Easy addition of new asset types.
• Class Location
• Multiple location records per asset allowed.
• Linear referencing.
• Location grouping.
• Class Condition/Performance
• Multiple records per asset.
• Detailed and summary data.

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MIDS 3.0 Primary Classes. continued

• Class Life Cycle Events
• Track events and costs
• Accommodates Tasks and Rehabilitation from MIDS
  2.
• Class Metadata
• Tracks data source and accuracy.
• By Asset or by field
• Class Relationships Assemblies
• Create assemblies of assets.
• Define asset to asset relationships.
• Class Business Groups
• Identify all business groups associated with an
  asset.

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MIDS 3.0 Primary Classes. continued

• Class Attachments
• Digital documents
• .doc, .xls, .jpg, .mpg, etc.
• Class External Linkages
• References to external systems
• GIS, FIS, WMA, PM, etc.
• Class Asset Extensions
• Unique attribution by asset type.

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Where are we at?
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MIDS 3.0 Timing

• First Release
• Early of 2005

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Questions?
Contact Ed Shewen (MIDS TAG Chair) edshewen_at_trico
m.org or eshewen_at_appliedgeologics.com 519.821.3262
, x202