Methodology to monitor commercial and industrial facilities using geoinformation technologies

Authors: Milihin M. M., Gritsenko Yu. B., Shurygin Yu. A.

Annotation: The article contains an analysis of problems faced by companies providing the monitoring of commercial and industrial facilities. It is shown that due to the absence of a single platform for data collection and processing, taking into account the requirements of stakeholders, various software tools and information technologies are used during the monitoring process. Such domain specificity increases the fragmentation and duplication of data and makes difficult to provide shared access to the up-to-date data and analysis tools. Literature review was held in order to formulate the structure of the monitoring process. Authors than conclude that it is impossible to solve the identified problems using existing methods. Methodology to set up the monitoring of commercial and industrial facilities' is proposed that allows solving the revealed problems of geodata managing using web-oriented geographic information systems. The proposed methodology was tested during the field monitoring of commercial organizations and can be used to solve similar problems within different domains.

Keywords: monitoring of retail outlets, monitoring of industrial facilities, web-based geographic information systems, geodata