{"id":1253,"date":"2018-02-07T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2018-02-07T17:31:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T00:31:41","slug":"managing-canadas-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/?p=1253","title":{"rendered":"Managing Canada\u2019s Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>From mapping utility\u00a0poles to mapping radio frequency signal leaks, this\u00a0company collects and manages much of the country\u2019s utilities and oil and gas\u00a0data.<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/effigis.com\/\">Effigis<\/a>\u00a0is an interesting Canadian firm that offers a range of GIS solutions for utilities and the oil and gas industry\u2014as well as its own GNSS positioning solution for asset inventory\/mapping and utility\/energy field operations. A couple of years ago, Effigis might have been defined mainly by its activities in GNSS positioning, but it now has three strong business units, says Dennis Parrot, the company\u2019s president.<\/p>\n<h3>Data Collection and Monitoring<\/h3>\n<p>Effigis\u2019 geospatial data collection and management business unit handles large-scale data collection and management\u2014including pole inspection, structural analysis, and inventories\u2014for utility companies. It is currently carrying out many large pole surveys for utility companies, such as Hydro-Qu\u008ebec and Bell Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Pole inspections save those companies a lot of money, Parrot explains, because they enable the companies to change poles on a regular basis instead of changing them all at the end of their individual lives. This business unit also conducts fiber to the hub (FTTH) surveys.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Managing Canada's Data\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xyht.com\/gnsslocation-tech\/managing-canadas-data\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read more&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From mapping utility\u00a0poles to mapping radio frequency signal leaks, this\u00a0company collects and manages much of the country\u2019s utilities and oil and gas\u00a0data. Effigis\u00a0is an interesting Canadian firm that offers a range of GIS solutions for utilities and the oil and gas industry\u2014as well as its own GNSS positioning solution for asset inventory\/mapping and utility\/energy field [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,25,35,17,11,28,13,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-feature_articles","category-gis","category-mapping_and_cartography","category-recent_articles","category-news_items","category-satellite_navigation","category-xyht"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/1258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palebluedotllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}