Thanks for hosting @Tom Hughes, and thanks to everyone for your questions.

Thanks @Steven. Yes, you make a very important point about the need for persistent and unique identifiers to support interoperability. There’s quite a wide variety in how assets are ID’d at source, and how we manage this is currently very high on my list.

Thanks @DRossiter87 for the comment on wayleaves and easements. Yes, we’re certainly looking at representing “Zones of Interest”, which could encompass rights of access, into the data model.

Regarding outbound APIs @Tom Hughes – absolutely, we’re always open to thoughts and suggestions from this community, and would appreciate these insights.

 

Hi @Tom Hughes. Regarding collaboration and relationships. As I said, stakeholder engagement has probably been the most important part of the project to date. My colleague @holgerkessler is the stakeholder engagement lead, and he maintains a huge and evolving plan to track who we need to talk to and engage with. Our delivery partners at the…

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Hi @Mehran. There are no plans currently to extend NUAR beyond the initial use cases – that’s part of the “laser focus” on use cases that I referred to in my answer to Tom.

That’s not to say that the work going on with sensors etc. isn’t really exciting though, and our aim is to build the NUAR platform in a flexible way, so…

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Hi @Tom Hughes. Regarding identification and prioritisation of use cases, this was driven overwhelmingly by consultation with the stakeholders. It almost pains me to say this as a “Technical Advisor”, but stakeholder engagement has been by far the most important part of the project! We have listened to the pain points of a huge range of…

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Hi @Steven. (I remember meeting you at an ODI workshop some time ago, in the days when people gathered together in the same room!)

To take your questions one by one:

1. There are many different data models implemented by the different asset owners, and very little common ground between them. The challenge has been to map these many…

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Hi @Koye. The integration of datasets from different suppliers is one of the main challenges of this sort of combined platform. We’ve worked with dozens of asset owners during the pilots, and there is a real disparity between how data is represented and stored at source (quite understandably – the data held by asset owners needs to support many,…

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Hi @DRossiter87. At this point in time we haven’t included Wayleaves and Easements in the pilot system. We have done some more generic work around representing “Zones of Interest” etc though, and this is an area that we continue to work on and refine. We’re very much aware that just the “centreline” of a linear asset isn’t always the full story…

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Good morning. As @Tom Hughes said, I’m here online and ready to answer any questions.