Xavier R' Lopez

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The Future of Spatial Technologies Real-time,
Mission-Critical, Location Services

• Xavier R. Lopez
• Director, Server Technologies
• Oracle Corp.

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Overview

• Market Observations Trends
• From GIS to IT Platforms
• New Deployment Requirements
• High Performance Location Services
• From Infrastructure to Marketplace
• Importance of value-added

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Market Observation 1 Location becomes
ubiquitous

• Location-aware and -enabled Infrastructure
  Location is part of many wireless data services
• Automobiles by 2006, 80 of new cars will have
  some telematics navigation access (eyeforauto
  2001)
• Tracking Objects Packages, trucks, people being
  tracked with GPS and RFID tags
• Location Billing, CRM Business Intelligence
  decisions increasingly rely on location

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Market Observations 2

• Customers are
• Move from client/server to the web platforms
• Incorporate location as attribute of core
  eBusiness/eGovernment applications
• Deploy single IT architecture for all data
• Consolidate 100s of data servers to handful
• Reduce application integration costs
• Support for common IT standards
• Leverage IT performance, scalability, security,
  and reliability

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Market Observations 3 IT Trends

• Oracle, Microsoft, IBM
• Incorporating location into core software
  infrastructure databases, application server,
  applications, web services
• Location enters mainstream -- Fortune 1000
• Consumer and Fortune 1000 companies are
  discovering importance of digital map data to
  improve their operations and decision making
• Data warehousing, date mining, business
  intelligence, location services, administrative
  applications
• Future growth of industry depends on quality data
• NMAs are largest player in the spatial data
  value-chain
• Availability of off-the-shelf data is key to
  growth of GIS Industry
• Targeted government data dissemination policies
  are key
• Will government drive market or private sector?

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Transformation of Spatial Computing
3-Tier Architecture
Client Server
Spatial Components
GIS Program
XML, GML
Proprietary Spatial Data
Spatial Databases
Proprietary Middleware
Present
Past
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Enterprise GISComplementary Roles
Technology
Task

• Data load
• Editing
• Visualization
• Mapping
• Analysis
• Cartography

GIS Spatial Components

• Storage Admin
• Indexing
• Security
• User Mgmt
• Query
• Versioning
• Scalability

(Spatial) DBMS
Data
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Why Use a Spatial Database?

• Every DBMS is a Spatial database
• Integrate location Business data in RDBMS
• Seamless National coverages no more tiling!
• Open Access - no proprietary types
• High Performance 64 bit, no Middleware
• Integrity managed by DBMS
• Scaleable Supports Terabytes of Data
• Scaleable Supports 1000s of Users
• Easy to Program -- SQL and Java
• Security and Reliability
• Short Long Transaction Management

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An Enterprise Mapping Platform Consolidating
Workflows
Data Collection
Production

Dissemination

• Surveys
• GPS
• New Features
• Photogrammetry
• Online Updates
• Secure extraction

Parcel Updates Integration Long
Transactions Versioning Topology Mgmt. Quality
Control Security
Compilation Media Production Web Delivery Online
Query Online updates Personalization Billing Secur
ity
Oracle9i
Records
Spatial
ArcPad
ArcEdit
ArcIMS
Records
Records
Spatial
Spatial
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Integrated NYC Spatial Architecture
Spatially Enabled Business Applications
GIS Specialist Systems
Environmental Management
Logistics Management
Transportation
Financial Management
Crime Monitoring
Citizen Portal
DPW Services
Asset Maintenance
Health Social Services
Criminal Justice
Education
Health Planning
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Web enabled GIS provides browser based access to
users of corporate and geo-spatial data from the
Oracle RDBMS and Spatial databases in one
integrated window
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Securing Your Spatial Data Assets
Points of Interest
Buildings
Infrastructure
Data Security
Boundaries
User Security
Network Security
uthenticate
Privacy integrity of data
Privacy integrity of communications
Access control
Comprehensive auditing
Authenticate
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3-Tier Web Platform
Telemetry Services
Spatial Components
e-Business Applications
CRM
Editing
Business Intell
Map Rendering
Weather
Business Logic
Image Server
Application Server
Positioning
Push Pull
Soap XML
Sensors
Topology
DBMS
Tracing
Field Obs.
Clients
Partner technologies
Mainstream IT technology
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Location Services Characteristics

• Accessible -- Anytime, Anywhere
• Wide-Area Coverage, Scalable Processing
• Easy to use
• Transparent Access, Localized Service
• Secure
• Global Authentication, personalization
• Any Device
• Web, PDAs, mobile devices, kiosks
• Any Medium
• Text, Maps, Multimedia (Audio/Video/Graphics)
• Timely
• Performance, High availability
• Cost Effective
• Extensible via APIs

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Core LBS Requirements

• Move Processing to Consolidated Servers
• Mission critical, millions of users/day
• Scalable, Secure, Reliable, Fast
• Location Acquisition
• Real-time handset positioning, GPS, telemetry
• Static GIS data, demographics, admin boundaries
• Location Awareness Services
• Service associated with location/region
• Personalization
• Service associated with customer profile
  location

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Jphone J-Navi Launch May 2000

• Oracle Spatial Platform Powers
• Worlds 1st Live Map Delivery to Phone
• Over 1M color maps delivered per day
• Vector/Raster Maps generated dynamically
• Avg. Query Processing 200ms
• Download time Max 2 seconds
• 30,000 user sessions per hour
• 17M business listing national map data
• Java Servlet Technology
• Prototype to Lauch 6 Months
• Unprecedented scalability, reliability
  flexibility
• H3G, KDDI DoCoMo

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Fleet Management
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Location-enabled CRM
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Growing Importance of Open Standards

• ISO TC211
• W3C Consortium (XML/Web Services)
• J2EE
• OGC (GML,OpenLS)

SQL/MM
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From Infrastructure to Marketplace
End Users Telcom, Academic, Government,
Utilities, Banking, Retail, Defense,
Transport, Public Interest Groups, Libraries,
General Public
Commercial Mapping Products Services Surveying M
apping Photogrammetry Earth Observation Outsourci
ng
Value-Added ResellersCommercial, Academic, Govt.
Public Sector National Mapping Agencies,
Environment, Statistics, Economic agencies
Municipalities, Regional Govt., Utilities
Spatial Data Infrastructure