ccFirstSite Field Survey Recorder

To support the pipeline as-built survey requirements, TOBIN has teamed with Coler & Colantonio Inc. to offer their ccFirstSite Field Survey Recorder software as part of TOBIN's Pipeline Information Management Center. Coler & Colantonio, Inc.'s ccFirstSite is a pipeline data collection system used to collect "as-built" pipeline data.

The strength of the Field Survey Recorder lies in its integration of traditional pipeline survey techniques with "cutting-edge" technology such as GPS. The system allows field survey personnel to assign slope stations to features as the pipeline is assembled next to the ditch. This technique keeps the surveyor out of the trench and allows for rapid collection of data with a steel tape. Once the pipe is lowered into the ditch and back filled, a subsequent on-the-ground survey, using GPS, may be implemented to collect the coordinate location of all horizontal and vertical bends. A calculation process assigns coordinates for all the remaining slope stations captured during the steel tape survey.

ccFirstSite has been designed to closely integrate with Coler & Colantonio, Inc.'s IntrepidTM Facility Management product, which is another vital component of TOBIN's Pipeline Information Management Center. The data collection process has incorporated many of the Intrepid data model's business rules, ensuring that the field data being received is "cleaner" (i.e. enhanced data validation) than ever before. To streamline the loading of data into Intrepid, Field Survey Recorder 's internal data model has been designed to mimic the centralized facility database. Such functionality allows for a one-to-one relationship to exist between the data that is collected in the field and those features in the facility database.

To efficiently move the data from the field to the office, the Field Survey Recorder is fully integrated with Coler & Colantonio, Inc.'s middle ware data distribution and delivery system. Once the data is captured in the field, it is automatically sent to the corporate offices where it is reviewed and loaded into the facility management system. By maintaining the close relationship between the Field Survey Recorder data model, and the corporate database, loading of data to the target system is relatively easy. This allows end users to post data to the central database contained within the Pipeline Information Management Center soon after the pipeline is placed into service, thus making the records available to the pipeline operations and maintenance personnel immediately.

A valuable added benefit affords accurate, complete descriptions of the physical pipeline facility configuration. These descriptions are available for access by key resources within an organization for strategic planning, regulatory compliance, marketing, integrity modeling, as well as operational and business risk assessment/management analysis.