Key Features
The key features of
Bentley OpenUtilities
are described as follows:
| Key Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Based on MicroStation technology | MicroStation is the most powerful mapping and design environment available today. Bentley OpenUtilities is based on MicroStation technology and takes advantage of its powerful capture, editing, display, and output capabilities. Companies around the world have been using MicroStation for over twenty years to produce high quality mapping. Bentley OpenUtilities capitalizes on this experience and adds geospatial modeling, network modeling, and interoperability tools while preserving MicroStation performance and operation. |
| Built-in Bentley Map technology | Bentley Map is a family of
applications that form the foundation of the Bentley geospatial desktop and
server products. It is a full-featured 3D GIS designed to address the unique
and challenging needs of organizations that map, plan, design, build, and
operate the world´s infrastructure. Bentley Map has tools for creating,
persisting, maintaining, analyzing and sharing all your 2D and 3D geospatial
information.
Bentley OpenUtilities includes and builds on Bentley Map technology to allow users to easily integrate data from a wide variety of sources into engineering and mapping workflows. Multiple data types with varying coordinate systems are transformed "on-the-fly" as they are added to a session. Powerful analytical and presentation tools allow for detailed analysis, studies and decision support. Enhanced Print Preparation tool, labeling and annotation, join tables and comprehensive query and data browsing tools are included. Bentley OpenUtilities integration with Oracle Spatial is one of the strongest in its class and uses only standard Oracle data types and processes. An API is available to develop custom applications. Please refer to the corresponding Bentley Map release notes, read me documentation, and "Key Features" section for additional information. |
| Utility Industry Data Models | Bentley OpenUtilities includes data models for electric, gas, water, and wastewater. The data models define asset infrastructure objects, attributes, network connectivity, and relationships for each discipline to meet requirements for design and operations. In addition, the data models include operations records to aid in the management of inspections, maintenance, and incident activities. |
| Rules based | Bentley OpenUtilities supports business rules, layout rules, and Compatible Unit Rules. Business Rules calculate connectivity and set relationships as a byproduct of the drafting process. Layout Rules, ensure maps and the GIS adhere to company drafting standards. Compatible Unit Rules capture design knowledge and enable the automatic assignment of materials, labor, and costs. |
| Comprehensive Edit and Design Environment | Bentley OpenUtilities merges CAD, GIS, and Work Management into one streamlined environment to manage asset as-built information and design plans for extensions, renewals, and maintenance activities. |
| Integrated Work Management | The Workflow Manager manages work requests and designs in either a stand-alone mode or with seamless integration to external work management system (WMS). Bentley OpenUtilities supports the most widely used WMS products on the market today . |
| Workflow Manager | Bentley OpenUtilities Workflow Manager allows users to view and manage job status and states by tracking the timelines of each project and shows you which ones need your attention. At a glance, you can see which work requests are pending and which are overdue as well as which designs are still in progress. |
| Modeling and Documentation Tools | Bentley OpenUtilities
layout tools allow users to model and document electric,
gas, water, and wastewater infrastructure assets. Similarly, operations records
for inspections, maintenance, and incidents can be associated to these assets.
Bentley OpenUtilities Conduit Manager Tools allow users to accurately model and document electric underground conduit structures, structure walls, ducts, devices, cables, and conduit run cross sections with precise detail. The system manages relationships and connectivity and provides a place by trace result command to make the layout process a snap. |
| Network Trace Analysis | Bentley OpenUtilities Trace Analysis tools retain trace results until the user clears them. This allows the user to visualize cumulative trace results individually or as a composite presentation. Trace types supported include Find Multiple Paths along a conduit run, Find Spatially Redundant Paths, Find Connected Paths, Find Upstream Paths, Find Downstream Paths, and Find Shortest Path. These results can be refined with queries, or with barriers placed interactively |
| Leak Analysis | The leak analysis tools enable a user to capture pipe leak and break data in gas and water networks and perform analyses to identify problem areas which can feed into replacement and maintenance decisions. |
| Design Assistant | The Bentley OpenUtilities Design Assistant provides a comprehensive design interface to manage design information and cost estimation information including point and span information, compatible unit information, generating bills of materials, and so forth. |
| On-the-fly Cost Estimates | Bentley OpenUtilities provides real-time cost estimates for a design as you create it. It continuously calculates and displays the estimated cost of all labor, materials, and equipment at each work location and for the entire design |
| Wastewater survey import | Bentley OpenUtilities is preconfigured to import manhole and pipe survey data that includes condition scores, images, and CCTV observations. Pipe scores are calculated as a result of the import process. |
| Interoperability with Analysis | Bentley OpenUtilities can create Bentley WaterGEMS and Bentley SewerGEMS models in their native format. These models can be maintained by periodically synchronizing them with the GIS without the need to re-create the entire model. Additionally, design scenarios can be created directly in the models by Bentley OpenUtilities to analyze design plans or optimize designs. |
| "Interoperability" tools and user workflows | Bentley OpenUtilities includes new tools to improve interoperability with other GIS formats. Directly reference ESRI® SHP files, MapInfo® TAB files, and others, or export your data into these formats for sharing with other groups on your project team. The interoperability tools include a unique interface for defining import and export processes. Easily import single files or entire folders of data. The data is automatically projected into the coordinate system defined for your current map. Your project and mapping data can also be exported into these formats using the same tool with full support of attribute data and projection. For users requiring more advanced interoperability capabilities, the Bentley Map FME Extension is provided that makes available many additional geospatial data formats and supports additional data conversion workflows. In addition, Bentley OpenUtilities Live Data Exchange provides a custom plug-in architecture that allows integration to almost any spatial datasource including GE Smallworld. |
| "Oracle Spatial" direct editing interface. | Oracle Spatial is fast becoming the standard method for organizations to store and manage very large volumes of spatial data. Bentley OpenUtilities can edit data directly in any standard Oracle Spatial environment employing a feature locking mechanism for multi-user environments. Organizations can also take advantage of Oracle versioning to manage conflicts in an "extract, edit, and post to Oracle Spatial" workflow enabled by the Bentley Geospatial Server. It's straightforward for Bentley OpenUtilities to maintain the topological relationships that may have been defined and stored in the Oracle Spatial database because Bentley OpenUtilities uses the native Oracle Spatial topology model. Please refer to the "Oracle Spatial" section for more information. |
| Microsoft SQL Server spatial geometry direct editing interface | Beginning with the Bentley OpenUtilities V8i (SELECTseries 4) release, users can edit data directly spatial geometries being persisted in a Microsoft SQL Server graphical source. |