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 Technology Strategy

With  our partners, we can provide near real-time web portal information access, from  a model based deployment of  integration services.  Based on common data-centric message formats and standard interfaces,   high speed data transmissions across wired and wireless networks can be transformed into valuable stakeholder information without the overhead of intermediate storage formats.

We specialise in the development of innovative, low-cost solutions  using best of breed technologies for integration platforms.

Model-managed delivery is cost effective.

Trac-Car Technology Integration Framework Model

Trac-Car Energy Models

Trac-Car Business Models

Trac-Car Technology Models

ICT Architecture


We strategise, plan and  build models first to ensure that we avoid costly development mistakes.

By ensuring all stakeholders, business and technical, are in the picture, we schedule to deliver the business priorities with a minimum of fuss, and a maximum of co-operation amongst technology suppliers.

We provide  business service  governance mechanisms ensure that the technology services are delivered to meet the business requirements in a transparent, traceable way.

Project progress and knowledge is shared on a knowledge portal or wiki to provide everyone with a clear view of their particular interest in perspective to the delivery aims and objectives.

Expertise

We  bring extensive experience and knowledge of telecommunications and smart devices, vehicle tracking and GPS communications, geospatial applications and asset management to solve many  general and industry specific problems.  

Energy

Trac-Car can provide highly cost-effective IP data integration services to complement data collected from non IP protocol devices, such as  electricity network data from SCADA and synchrophasor applications.  

We can deliver data centric integration and messaging to a web portal at low cost, and with optimum performance owing to our model led strategic approach.  Stakeholder groups can securely log in and view the information appropriate to business function.

We can provide standard messages able to be shared across electricity network operators without the costly overhead of web services or maintaining ESB interfaces.  

High Speed Data Services

Using the OMG DDS standard to define data centric messages,  Trac-Car architects can design high speed real-time data transmissions e.g.  for  Smart Grid PMUs, synchrophasor metrics pre or post aggregated by GPS radio clock, at sample rates depending on the application.

Protocol translation of data logged from multiple network devices  protocols and data formats can be provided to requirements.

Design of message data formats to readily enable translation  to and from Industry standard model elements, such as the Utilities CIM and Multispeak, can provide a logical basis for cross network operator communications.

Secure Web Portal Access 

For authorised stakeholders, access to secure  information is organised around business roles and functions.  

Data services can be displayed geospatially, enabling geographically based intelligence to be distributed to interested subscribers.

For operational purposes, real-time metrics can be made available, displayed in an appropriate format for decision making.

Complex Event Processing

For post event analysis,  data can be
- aggregated, analysed and transformed
- displayed for geospatial presentation on custom layered maps
- accessed  via secure web portal membership.
- used to trigger diverse  workflows, such as billing, scheduling, alerts and alarms.
-  provide the logical basis for application specific information, data and function.

Smart Network Devices

To minimise cost and maximise operational efficiency, for IP devices, such as rugged PCs and mobile devices,  logged data can be prepared for staggered transmission based on 
-  applied business logic
- variation detection
- pre-determined intervals and schedules

Changes to device functions can be automatically provisioned.

Model based deployment

Models enable deployment cost savings, ease of use, and a starting point for security on the way to the next leve of application automation.

For example, industry domain and logical models can enhance and enable implementations in all types of electronic sensor applications, such as RFID, GPS, time-tag data.

Knowledge management, and automated metadata production  results in the ability to improved cost-effectiveness for building telemetry applications in an enterprise technology  context.

An architecture framework UML Model provides a head start for organisation and  integration of applications with existing technology, from billing, ERP, HR and any other applications and systems.  Structured around application and technology platform domain models, it provides an architecture template and methodology to identify  business requirements, processes/workflow, user interaction, infrastructure, with application and technology metadata models. 


Technical Design

The UML models provide a multi-purpose framework for the purposes of
  1. Technical design of data and network services
  2. Communication between business and technology stakeholders
  3. Knowledge and version management of technology builds

What can Trac-Car offer your organisation?

Trac-Car  provides professional consultancy services to guide your integration systems from feasibility studies to full deployment.

Activities include

  1. Identify capabilities
  2. Identify resources
  3. Identify timeframe
  4. Evaluate supplier offerings
  5. Identify services and Service Level Agreements
  6. Co-ordinate supplier delivery
  7. Provide governance and knowledge transfer

Technology Integration Framework

Trac-Car can provide a completed Technology Integration Framework populated with your organisation's detailed information.

This includes a complete set of information containing the system design, structure, behaviour, resources, planning, service provider information, testing, maintenance, and any other governance mechanisms developed to suit requirements.

The framework starts and works directly with documented business requirements.

The knowledge base provided by the Technology Integration Framework can be integrated with existing document management systems and portals.
Trac-Car adapts the standard domain model to fit your organisation exactly.

Typically, Trac-Car consultants interface with your organisation's stakeholders to ascertain the best fit to meet your technology requirements.

This can take place as a scheduled series of workshops, developed  collaboratively to result in identification of key dependencies of technology,  enabling firm scheduling and pricing.

Stakeholders are able to ascertain that  their requirements are addressed in a way that fits with the organisation's standards, practices and cultural values.

We know you are busy. Workshops can be scheduled  in mutually beneficial timeframes.

Ask us for an initial architecture assessment. 


About the  Framework

The Technology Integration Framework is a delivery framework to assist organizations to  monitor and manage the delivery of telemetry applications.

The Trac-Car UML Models provide a head start for organizations starting out, or rebuilding telemetry systems.

The types of application for the Technology Integration Framework include:

  • Equipment maintenance and inventory information gathering
  • Meter monitoring e.g. electrical, hydro, etc
  • Shipping of freight
  • Parcel tracking and management
  • Road toll monitoring
  • Fleet vehicle tracking
  • Road pricing
  • Biometric sensor monitoring e.g. in a healthcare context
  • Synchrophasor and SCADA metrics for electricity grids


How to use the framework?

The framework functions on two main levels:


  1. Central logical models for system design, mapping of physical interfaces and  physical data, and providing catalogue structure for business processes and technical services
  2. Knowledge management for project governance, enabling tracking of all phases of project lifecycles through design, implementation, deployment and maintenance. 
The model encompasses definition of

- Business Requirements
- Business Process/Workflow
- User Interaction
- Information Models
- Application and system metadata
- Software platform, hosting and network infrastructure


Information Models


The Business and Technology Models are designed to display how new application functionality fits in with existing and planned integration technology. It also provides an overview  by linking  architecture and program documentation, accessible from a website or intranet portal.

Data models provide a consistent organization wide basis for building data stores, reporting, and interfaces.

The Business Model can be used as the basis for semantic integration.  By mapping messages and interfaces to this common model, application and system changes can be accommodated by re-mapping, rather than re-development.

The Technology Model can be used as the basis for knowledge management of  user profiles , workflows,  content delivery, event handling, and reporting.  Having a metadata model in place before development allows a planned approach to capturing user information, device information, fault handling events, and tracing workflows and system access.

Requirements, Process and Interaction Models provide architecture an interface to business owners.

Component and Deployment Models provide a schema for the collection of software, hosting and network infrastructure.

Project Models provide for timeframe and management of implementation, deployment and change.

UML Model Technology

This architecture model is a UML 2.1 representation of the architecture artifacts required to build enterprise-strength telemetry applications and systems integration. 

It is supplied for Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect  technology.

It can be imported into any UML architecture modeling technology that supports XMI 2.1

 Platforms - Windows and Unix

Trac-Car models are  available for Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect  Version 7.5 and 8.  This technology can be used to provide  DDL Database scripts for logical data models are provided for the most popular databases:
IBM  DB2; InterBase; Informix; Ingres; MySQL; SQL Server; PostgreSQL; Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere and Adaptive Server Enterprise; and Oracle 9i, 10g and 11g.

Contact us for a free initial architecture assessment overview of how Trac-Car and partners could benefit your organization.

The Technology Integration Metamodel is also available as XMI Version 2.1 compatible with UML technology such as IBM Rational Software Architect.

The framework accommodates any kind of data and application integration,  with existing corporate applications, packages and platforms. 

It is vendor and technology neutral, and provides for a business process/ workflow centric automation of business requirements.