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Cost Effective Technology Architecture

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  have enhanced and enabled implementations in sensor, field device, asset and vehicle tracking integration.

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



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Trac-Car UML Models

The Trac-Car UML Models provide an architecture framework for  a head start on delivery of integration of applications, connected with existing technology.

The Business Models provide a common logical model for the development of  interoperability of business services.

The Technology Models provide a base model for technology metadata exchange in the context of an integration platform.

The Energy Models provide energy domain and interface logical models as a starting point for developing interoperable energy services. 

The Energy Exchange Model specifies a complete architecture framework and technology platform  involved in a electricity market with carbon pricing discounts  

The Utilities CIM Exchange Model provides a metadata model for using  an energy exchange meta model to specify technology platform deployment mapped to the Utilities CIM.

Utilities CIM Model

The current Utilities CIM Model may be downloaded from the CIM User group website.

Trac-Car can provide integration of technology deployment models with the CIM

Contact us to discuss integration of the Utilities CIM  with existing technology deployment using shared information and data models based on  Utilities Domain Models.


About the Technology Integration 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

The Technology Integration Framework is a framework to be populated by architects, program managers, analysts and developers who are making decisions about the kind of technology to be used for building telemetry systems.

It provides a template approach for documenting technology architecture artefacts and as an aid to decision making.

It is oriented towards telemetry applications, and it favours a Complex Event Processing and Data Integration approach to gathering telemetry data, as this is a very effective way to deal with the kinds of data volumes involved in many telemetry applications.

The framework also accommodates any kind of application integration, from web services, to adaptors, to electronic file transfer, to connect telemetry systems 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.

Technology Integration Metamodel

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

  The model encompasses definition of
  • Business Requirements
  • Business Process/Workflow
  • User Interaction
  • Information Models
  • Application and system metadata
  • Software platform, hosting and network infrastructure


 
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Mobility Tracking Model


A foundation for building on demand enterprise-wide solutions, the Mobility Management model provides industry-leading framework for your mobile workforce field information to synchronise with existing portals, enterprise systems and reporting.


The Mobile Telemetry Entity Model maps the principle functions and data involved in real time tracking of a moving object by a  telemetry device designed to transmit information over a wired or wireless network.

This model relates to an identifying technology, such as RFID or barcodes, the use of  a device with a SIM card, that supplies a mobile workflow, collecting information about the tracked object at various locations.

Scenarios include:

  • Shipping container tracking
  • Parcels and Freight tracking
  • Transport e.g. vehicles passing a fixed point tracked by RFID




Biometric Sensor Telemetry Model


For medical sensor information to be integrated with a patient Electronic Health Record, and other health related data, the Health model provides an easy start to gathering data from health related telemetry devices.


The Biometric Sensor Entity Model maps the principle functions and data involved in the use of biometric devices in health care..

This model relates to various identification technologies, e.g. passive and active RFID, devices with a SIM card, barcodes and biometrics.

Scenarios include the collection of sensor data for a health care patient by a Care Facility Unit to be integrated with a patient record, as part of a collection of Electronic Health Records compiled by Care Professionals. 

Vehicle Tracking Model

Designed to be up and running in a short timeframe, the Vehicle Tracking Model is a head start for collecting not only position data from vehicles on the road,  but also information from on-board vehicle microcontrollers,


The Vehicle Telemetry Entity Model maps the principle functions and data involved in real time tracking of a vehicle with a GPS antenna by a telemetry device designed to transmit information over a wireless network.

This model relates to a device with a SIM card, which may integrate data on the device from vehicle microcontroller sources such as RPM and other on-board vehicle diagnostics.

Scenarios include:
  • Fleet vehicle tracking
  • Road pricing



Asset Management Model


For many companies, management of assets in the corporate portfolio is a matter of a spreadsheet here, a database there, and a document somewhere else.  Information about assets can be collected using mobile devices, and integrated for reporting purposes.


The Asset Maintenance Entity Model maps the principle functions and data involved in routine and incidental equipment maintenance involving a telemetry device designed to transmit information over a wireless network.

This model relates to a mobile device with a SIM card, which may use  RFID or  barcodes to identify the equipment in a device workflow, or the device may include a smart chip fixed to the equipment relaying information via a WAN or LAN

Scenarios include:

  • Asset management for shipped stock 
  • Power utilities equipment maintenance
  • Equipment inventories
  • Electricity and other types of  meter monitoring


With  our partners, we can provide a model based deployment of  integration services based on logical data models, providing common message formats and standard interfaces, using industry model elements as the logical basis for specific information, data and function.