Pidpa GIS

Geographical Information System for Water Distribution Network Management

Pidpa is a progressive European company that produces and distributes high quality drinking water throughout the Antwerp province in Belgium (Flanders). To succesfully maintain a network of 12.000 km water mains, it is necessary to have accurate and exact information of the location and characteristics of every network element that is in use. This was one of the main reasons to implement the ESRI ArcGIS 8 and M&M ArcFM 8 solution for our water network management, that is up and running since december 2001. The implementation of this GIS is a historical step that brought an end to almost 90 years of using analog maps.

Read all about the Pidpa gis-project in a paper that was created for the Esri International User Conference 2002 in San Diego :

ArcGIS/ArcFM 8 Water
The gis-solution for the European drinking-water company


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Download the logical view of the Pidpa Water Distribution Datamodel

Continuing to build on this solid configuration with a vast amount of functionalities, in 2003 a ESRI ArcIMS based view solution called "GeoLink" was implemented. A powerful and flexible intranet viewer, not only allowing everyone within Pidpa easy access to geographic information, but also offering a number of links to other major information systems like SAP, CIS, SCADA or archived scanned data based on common key-identifiers. GIS is no longer limited to the technical departments, but is the acces point for a lot of location linked data and the 'glue' between different applications...

Read all about it in the ESRI User Conference 2004 paper :

GIS and beyond Looking to SAP through the Geo-Window

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For more information about the GIS-implementation at Pidpa, do not hesitate to contact Bart Reynaert or Rene Horemans on gis@pidpa.be .