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| AREA |
DATE |
DESCRIPTION |
| Images |
28th. June |
Here's an
image of Street Environment Management, with a mouseover
,a BMEWS SOA Data Architecture for presentations and a Top-Level
demonstration of
Traffic Lights for Performance Reporting.
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| Fly-Tipping |
31st. July |
A News Release
from the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ('Defra')
reports Fly-Tipping
costs £50M to clear up.
A spokesman, identified only as 'Joe', said that better public information about refuse collection could help.
For the past year, Councils have been logging incidences of Fly-Tipping into a huge
National 'FlyCapture' Government Database.
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LOCAL
AUTHORITY |
DATE |
DESCRIPTION |
| Babergh |
29th. May |
The Daily Telegraph reports that
Babergh District Council is hiding spy cameras in empty drink cans to catch Fly-tippers.
Babergh offers
BabelFish to provide
Translation Services
for visitors to its Web Site.
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| Caerphilly |
14th. March |
Caerphilly CBC became the first Council in Wales to introduce a mobile data system from
Exor to improve road maintainenance.
The benefits include savings of nearly £500 a day.
Mobile computers are installed in highway maintenance vehicles,
linked via satellite tracking to the council offices.
The process of sharing information with the office has been reduced from ten days to thirty seconds.
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| Lewisham |
19th.May |
Residents are encouraged to upload
photos of Graffiti, Abandoned Vehicles, Fly Tipping, etc. direct to the Lewisham web site.
This is very popular, with 2 or 3 photos being
uploaded every day.
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| Lewisham |
27th.Mar |
MobHappy - the Techie Consultants behind Lewisham's Photo Upload facility.
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| London Waste |
6th. April |
GPS has been installed to track the positions of 35 vehicles.
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| Mansfield |
19th.May |
Computing reports that "Council Cleaners get Fleet Tracking"
This article reports the use of GPS to keep track of its fleet of Street Cleansing Vehicles, monitoring them in real-time.
This supports dealing with problems like
Abandoned Vehicles, Fly Tipping, Graffiti and Litter.
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| Morpeth |
18th.May |
Computing reports that "Mobile devices help tackle street crime"
This article reports the use of hand-held devices by 220 street wardens to report incidents such as
Abandoned Vehicles, Fly Tipping, Graffiti and Vandalism.
The information is sent by GPRS to a central Database.
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| Swindon |
26th.September |
IT Week reports that "... considerable benefits from the deployment of mobile technology."
At present 60 Council staff have hand-held PDA devices and this will grow as Mobile devices address a wide range of applications in the street environment, including litter collection,street lighting and abandoned vehicles.
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| VENDOR |
CATEGORY |
COMMENTS |
| Consillium |
Systems |
Consillium has worked with over 100 Local Authorities in the UK.
They are active in Mobile applications
and supplied the Mobile system to Swindon which is reported above.
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| DataPro |
Software |
DataPro is "used by almost 25% of Local Authorities in London."
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| ECT |
Software |
ECT specialises in providing services for Street Environment.
They offer ECHO which can support a Data Mart for Performance Reporting.
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| Exor |
Systems |
Exor offers a range of products and services to support Environment Services.
The new release of their software,('Atlas') announced at their first International Conference on 14th.June, will
include Mobile working, Performance Dashboards, etc. |
| GraphData |
Software |
GraphData is popular with Local Authorities and offers GeoReveal for displaying
totals on a map of a Borough with Wards, as well as PlanAccess to provide
a Web Service-based display of details at the Street level.
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| iBase |
Systems |
iBase offers a hand-held called Grip, with a range of supporting software for GIS,
Mapping and Data Entry.
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