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Utility Management System for an Engineering College using GIS
P. Partheeban
Asst. Prof. of Civil Engg. SACET, Trichy Tamilnadu, India
C. Elangovan
Lecturer in Civil Enng. SACET, Trichy Tamilnadu, India
M. Arulkumaran
Asst. Prof. of Mechanical Engg. SACET, Trichy Tamilnadu, India
R. Rani Hemamalini
Asst. Prof. of Instrume. Engg. M.A.M. College of Engg. Trichy Tamilnadu, India
Abstract
This paper deals with effective utilization and management of infrastructure facilities available in Engineering College by using GIS Technology. In this study, Shri Angalamman College of Engineering and Technology is taken as a case study. This college is located about 20 km from Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu, India. This is a first phase of attempt and has a further scope to develop GIS for in all (250) Engineering Colleges in Tamilnadu.
1.0 Introduction
The potential for applications of Geographic Information System (GIS) and relevant technologies are almost endless. However GIS is used in various activities such as transportation planning, urban growth management, market analysis, health care planning, facility management, landscape architecture, environmental analysis and management, hazard management and disaster management. Real estate, aviation, insurance and commercial development are all emerging as potentially large, new GIS users in addition to the above said field of application (www.esri.com). Public organization utilities such as water, wastewater, storm-water and power are beginning to use AM/FM/GIS, leads a part their hand as well as to manage their infrastructure in better manner. In today’s competitive world, a successful utility must take maximum advantage of its resources, from people to equipment to information. Utilities are in and they may be restructured intelligently by means of salvaging useful parts of existing systems as well as incorporating new technology to extend their capabilities.
The main aim of this study is to develop an integrated GIS to manage the infrastructure facilities and better potentials even in small area (for an Engineering College). R2V digitizing software (Able Software, 1998) is used to digitize the base map and ArcView GIS software (ArcView, 1994) is also used for analysis.
Anna University is the world largest Technical University and it is located in Tamilnadu. There about 250 Engineering colleges are affiliated with this University. It is very difficult task in managing / coordinating all the institution during the critical period which is to short in having examination and admission. Hence it has been proposed to study a complete GIS for any one of the institutions and see how best that could be implemented, the same may be taken into account and implemented for all colleges. Finally the integration of GIS will help educators for their better planning management.
2.0 Study Area Characteristics
In this study, Shri Angalamman College of Engineering and Technology and taken as a case study, which is located about 20 km from Tiruchirappalli City, Tamilnadu, India the east side of the National Highways 45 leads to Chennai (Madras). It has a total area of 6,27,285 sq.m and a total built up area of 23,037 sq.m. according to the Shri Angalamman College of Engineering and Technology Annual Report (SACET Annual Report, 2002) . Fig. 1 shows the study area map and it's various built-up areas. There are five branches of study being offered by this institution, namely Mechanical Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering and Information Technology.
One of the main reason for which this Engineering College has been taken case study, there are two engineering colleges, one Polytechnic college, one Hotel management and catering institute and an Industrial Training Institute are situated within the radius of 5 km. Though this place has purely of rural culture and environment for this part, but now its characteristics are changed to urban nature. This encourages in opening of the supporting structures such as new shops, hotels and transportation facility in this area to the large scale. Shri Angalamman College of Engineering and Technology operates 10 buses and 1 van for transportation of faculties and students from various corners of the city, in addition the public bus facilities/services are also available to meet out the transport requirement. The boys hostel is located within in the campus but the girls hostel is located outside of the institution about 20 km which has not taken consideration for this study.
3.0 Development of GIS
The data (Spatial and non-spatial) has been collected from Shri Angalamman College of Engineering and Technology. This institute has been started 12 years back, but they have not been maintained the full-fledged map duly showing the infrastructure facilities and potentials are available. For want of such maps the study could not be intended in straight away. For which a map considering the real fact and figures has been drawn. The map was scanned and exported to digitizing software R2V to digitize the map. The digitized map is exported as shape file format to ARC VIEW GIS software for analysis. The various themes included in this study are:
Fig. 1. SACET Campus Map (Not to Scale)
3.1 Land Use Details
The lands used for various purposes are given in Table 1 and the same are also shown in Fig. 2 in location wise. Though this institute has a plenty area of which, 50 percent has been utilized. As per the Tamilnadu government land-sealing act the unused lands must be handed over to the government, but this institute has a proposal for new Polytechnic College and designed to build up the additional structure in the vacant area.
Fig. 2. Landuse Details of SACET
Table 1 Land Use Details
3.2 Roads
At present, the roads are not laid with any road metals and it is proposed to construct asphalt pavement road. The total length of existing road is 2.05 km with a road width of 12 m. The soil available in this area is hard red soil, so the WBM road is laid for a depth of 50 cm. Still lot of area of the campus is not connected with roads. The areas connected with roads are shown in Fig 3.
Fig. 3 Road Network in Study Area (SACET)
3.3 Water Supply
This campus requires totally 7000 litres of water, totally per day. This demand is met from 8 bore wells and 6 fibre (syntax) water tanks. The bore well water is mainly used for cleaning and washing purposes whereas the 6 fibre water tanks are mainly used for drinking purposes. Fibre water tanks are filled from water supply lorry, which collects water from Cauvary river basin within 20 km away from our college. The locations and area of distributions of this bore wells and tanks are shown in Fig. 4 and the corresponding attribute data are also presented in the same figure. The existing bore wells distribute in their respective area and due to the failure of any one bore well, it will affect the system of water supply in this existing system. By adopting the GIS technology, the area which were not connected are identified and that is shown in blue color in the Fig. 4 Approximately a length 313.6 m pipe line is required to make the integrated water supply system for this campus. The management has also proposed to construct a single overhead tank of large capacity to meet out the demands.
Fig. 4 Water Supply System and Pumping Units (Bore wells)
3.4 Intercom Lines
This engineering college has got 5 telephone lines for communication with outside the campus. These lines installed in the following places: (i) Director Room, (ii) Principal Room, (iii) Office Room (Public Phone), (iv) Internet lab for internet connection and (v) Hostel. A sum of US $ 500 to 550 is the range of charges towards this purpose. At present the total number of intercom points are 24 for communication within the campus. This number is not scattering the needs of the campus, hence it is proposed to add 24 more intercom points. The locations, which intercom lines are connected and not connected (Hostels, Security Room, Physical Director, Canteen, etc.,) are shown in Fig. 5.
Fig. 5 Intercom Line and its Locations
3.5 Electrical Utility
There are two power lines with a capacity of 200 HP and 100 HP from the Tamilnadu Electricity Board to meet the demand of this institution. The Locations of each power room and the areas from which the power is distributed from each line is shown in Fig. 6 along with power consumption by each buildings are presented in the form of attribute table in the same figure. Number 1 is assigned to a lab when it is working on any day of a Forenoon or afternoon session. It has been identified the peak load at 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm by considering the (from class time table) laboratory working hours. The amount paid towards the power consumption for the last six months are given in Table 2.
Table 2 Electricity Consumption
Electrical consumption rate is Rs. 2.50/ unit, 1 Unit = 1 kw-hr, US$ 1 = Rs. 46.5/-
Fig. 6 Electrical Network and its Consumption
3.6 Laboratories
The college has 25 laboratories for the five branches including labs for first year such as Physics and Chemistry laboratories. Its total built up area is 6067 sq.m, out of which 3780 sq.m are covered with asbestos cement sheet roofing and the remaining area is in main blocks. Separate views were generated for each laboratory to show their concerned equipment position and facilities. The detailed location of equipments and their corresponding power consumption, the area occupied and the pipe network connection for water supply in Hydraulic Laboratory is shown in Fig. 7
Fig. 7 Power Consumption of Equipments in Hydraulic Lab
3.7 Play Fields
As the hostel is located within the campus, at outskirts of city, the students don’t have any entertainment facility other than playing. Hence the management has developed well play field in addition to indoor games facilities. The total area used for playground and indoor games are 17,880 sq.m. The various play fields are shown Fig. 8 along with their non-spatial data such as depth of cutting and depth of filling.
4.0 Conclusions
The capabilities of GIS and its usefulness for the educational institution are demonstrated through this research study. Adopting GIS technology identified the areas where the services and facilities are not provided by the management. This integrated GIS definitely will help the management to maintain the engineering college infrastructure facilities. The building plans and their three-dimensional view will be prepared in 3D home Architect to link with this utility management system further to strengthen this research.
Fig. 8 Information System for Play Ground
Acknowledgment
We sincerely thank the Major K. Srinivasan, Director, Shri Angalamman College of Engineering and Technology for extending all support to complete this research work. We also express our gratitude to all the staff members who helped us to complete this work in successful manner.
5.0 References
P. Partheeban
Asst. Prof. of Civil Engg. SACET, Trichy Tamilnadu, India
C. Elangovan
Lecturer in Civil Enng. SACET, Trichy Tamilnadu, India
M. Arulkumaran
Asst. Prof. of Mechanical Engg. SACET, Trichy Tamilnadu, India
R. Rani Hemamalini
Asst. Prof. of Instrume. Engg. M.A.M. College of Engg. Trichy Tamilnadu, India
Abstract
This paper deals with effective utilization and management of infrastructure facilities available in Engineering College by using GIS Technology. In this study, Shri Angalamman College of Engineering and Technology is taken as a case study. This college is located about 20 km from Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu, India. This is a first phase of attempt and has a further scope to develop GIS for in all (250) Engineering Colleges in Tamilnadu.
1.0 Introduction
The potential for applications of Geographic Information System (GIS) and relevant technologies are almost endless. However GIS is used in various activities such as transportation planning, urban growth management, market analysis, health care planning, facility management, landscape architecture, environmental analysis and management, hazard management and disaster management. Real estate, aviation, insurance and commercial development are all emerging as potentially large, new GIS users in addition to the above said field of application (www.esri.com). Public organization utilities such as water, wastewater, storm-water and power are beginning to use AM/FM/GIS, leads a part their hand as well as to manage their infrastructure in better manner. In today’s competitive world, a successful utility must take maximum advantage of its resources, from people to equipment to information. Utilities are in and they may be restructured intelligently by means of salvaging useful parts of existing systems as well as incorporating new technology to extend their capabilities.
The main aim of this study is to develop an integrated GIS to manage the infrastructure facilities and better potentials even in small area (for an Engineering College). R2V digitizing software (Able Software, 1998) is used to digitize the base map and ArcView GIS software (ArcView, 1994) is also used for analysis.
Anna University is the world largest Technical University and it is located in Tamilnadu. There about 250 Engineering colleges are affiliated with this University. It is very difficult task in managing / coordinating all the institution during the critical period which is to short in having examination and admission. Hence it has been proposed to study a complete GIS for any one of the institutions and see how best that could be implemented, the same may be taken into account and implemented for all colleges. Finally the integration of GIS will help educators for their better planning management.
2.0 Study Area Characteristics
In this study, Shri Angalamman College of Engineering and Technology and taken as a case study, which is located about 20 km from Tiruchirappalli City, Tamilnadu, India the east side of the National Highways 45 leads to Chennai (Madras). It has a total area of 6,27,285 sq.m and a total built up area of 23,037 sq.m. according to the Shri Angalamman College of Engineering and Technology Annual Report (SACET Annual Report, 2002) . Fig. 1 shows the study area map and it's various built-up areas. There are five branches of study being offered by this institution, namely Mechanical Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering and Information Technology.
One of the main reason for which this Engineering College has been taken case study, there are two engineering colleges, one Polytechnic college, one Hotel management and catering institute and an Industrial Training Institute are situated within the radius of 5 km. Though this place has purely of rural culture and environment for this part, but now its characteristics are changed to urban nature. This encourages in opening of the supporting structures such as new shops, hotels and transportation facility in this area to the large scale. Shri Angalamman College of Engineering and Technology operates 10 buses and 1 van for transportation of faculties and students from various corners of the city, in addition the public bus facilities/services are also available to meet out the transport requirement. The boys hostel is located within in the campus but the girls hostel is located outside of the institution about 20 km which has not taken consideration for this study.
3.0 Development of GIS
The data (Spatial and non-spatial) has been collected from Shri Angalamman College of Engineering and Technology. This institute has been started 12 years back, but they have not been maintained the full-fledged map duly showing the infrastructure facilities and potentials are available. For want of such maps the study could not be intended in straight away. For which a map considering the real fact and figures has been drawn. The map was scanned and exported to digitizing software R2V to digitize the map. The digitized map is exported as shape file format to ARC VIEW GIS software for analysis. The various themes included in this study are:
- Roads
- Electrical power supply
- Telecom lines
- Drinking water supply and pumping units
- Buildings (Class rooms, Temple, Hostel and Laboratories)
- Play fields
- Boundary
- Testing equipment's locations in a lab
Fig. 1. SACET Campus Map (Not to Scale)
3.1 Land Use Details
The lands used for various purposes are given in Table 1 and the same are also shown in Fig. 2 in location wise. Though this institute has a plenty area of which, 50 percent has been utilized. As per the Tamilnadu government land-sealing act the unused lands must be handed over to the government, but this institute has a proposal for new Polytechnic College and designed to build up the additional structure in the vacant area.
Fig. 2. Landuse Details of SACET
Table 1 Land Use Details
| Sl. No. | Land Use | Area in Sq.m | Percentage |
| 1. | Total Built up area (Excluding Road Area and Play Fields) | 23037 | 3.67 |
| 2. | Class Rooms | 1775 | 0.28 |
| 3. | Administrative area | 12070 | 1.92 |
| 4. | Auditorium | 400 | 0.06 |
| 5. | Laboratories | 6067 | 0.97 |
| 6. | Toilets | 400 | 0.06 |
| 7. | Power Rooms (2 Nos.) | 110 | 0.02 |
| 8. | Canteen | 120 | 0.02 |
| 9. | Miscellaneous (Temple, Ladies Room, etc.) | 200 | 0.03 |
| 10. | Hostel | 1895 | 0.30 |
| 11. | Play ground | 17880 | 2.85 |
| 12. | Roads | 24636 | 3.92 |
| 13. | Proposed Buildings | 160119 | 25.52 |
| 14. | Utilised Area | 248709 | 39.64 |
| 1. | Utilised Area | 248709 | 39.64 |
| 2. | Remaining Area | 378576 | 60.36 |
| 3. | Total Area | 627285 | 100.00 |
3.2 Roads
At present, the roads are not laid with any road metals and it is proposed to construct asphalt pavement road. The total length of existing road is 2.05 km with a road width of 12 m. The soil available in this area is hard red soil, so the WBM road is laid for a depth of 50 cm. Still lot of area of the campus is not connected with roads. The areas connected with roads are shown in Fig 3.
Fig. 3 Road Network in Study Area (SACET)
3.3 Water Supply
This campus requires totally 7000 litres of water, totally per day. This demand is met from 8 bore wells and 6 fibre (syntax) water tanks. The bore well water is mainly used for cleaning and washing purposes whereas the 6 fibre water tanks are mainly used for drinking purposes. Fibre water tanks are filled from water supply lorry, which collects water from Cauvary river basin within 20 km away from our college. The locations and area of distributions of this bore wells and tanks are shown in Fig. 4 and the corresponding attribute data are also presented in the same figure. The existing bore wells distribute in their respective area and due to the failure of any one bore well, it will affect the system of water supply in this existing system. By adopting the GIS technology, the area which were not connected are identified and that is shown in blue color in the Fig. 4 Approximately a length 313.6 m pipe line is required to make the integrated water supply system for this campus. The management has also proposed to construct a single overhead tank of large capacity to meet out the demands.
Fig. 4 Water Supply System and Pumping Units (Bore wells)
3.4 Intercom Lines
This engineering college has got 5 telephone lines for communication with outside the campus. These lines installed in the following places: (i) Director Room, (ii) Principal Room, (iii) Office Room (Public Phone), (iv) Internet lab for internet connection and (v) Hostel. A sum of US $ 500 to 550 is the range of charges towards this purpose. At present the total number of intercom points are 24 for communication within the campus. This number is not scattering the needs of the campus, hence it is proposed to add 24 more intercom points. The locations, which intercom lines are connected and not connected (Hostels, Security Room, Physical Director, Canteen, etc.,) are shown in Fig. 5.
Fig. 5 Intercom Line and its Locations
3.5 Electrical Utility
There are two power lines with a capacity of 200 HP and 100 HP from the Tamilnadu Electricity Board to meet the demand of this institution. The Locations of each power room and the areas from which the power is distributed from each line is shown in Fig. 6 along with power consumption by each buildings are presented in the form of attribute table in the same figure. Number 1 is assigned to a lab when it is working on any day of a Forenoon or afternoon session. It has been identified the peak load at 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm by considering the (from class time table) laboratory working hours. The amount paid towards the power consumption for the last six months are given in Table 2.
Table 2 Electricity Consumption
| Duration | Service No. 115 | Service No. 80 | |||
| From | To | Units used | Amount (US $) | Units Used | Amount (US $) |
| 01/01/2003 | 31/01/2003 | 12709 | 683 | 15190 | 817 |
| 01/02/2003 | 31/03/2003 | 28123 | 1512 | 12590 | 676 |
| 01/04/2003 | 30/05/2003 | 42679 | 2294 | 11840 | 636 |
| Total | 8351.1 | 4597 | 94810 | 3149 | |
Electrical consumption rate is Rs. 2.50/ unit, 1 Unit = 1 kw-hr, US$ 1 = Rs. 46.5/-
Fig. 6 Electrical Network and its Consumption
3.6 Laboratories
The college has 25 laboratories for the five branches including labs for first year such as Physics and Chemistry laboratories. Its total built up area is 6067 sq.m, out of which 3780 sq.m are covered with asbestos cement sheet roofing and the remaining area is in main blocks. Separate views were generated for each laboratory to show their concerned equipment position and facilities. The detailed location of equipments and their corresponding power consumption, the area occupied and the pipe network connection for water supply in Hydraulic Laboratory is shown in Fig. 7
Fig. 7 Power Consumption of Equipments in Hydraulic Lab
3.7 Play Fields
As the hostel is located within the campus, at outskirts of city, the students don’t have any entertainment facility other than playing. Hence the management has developed well play field in addition to indoor games facilities. The total area used for playground and indoor games are 17,880 sq.m. The various play fields are shown Fig. 8 along with their non-spatial data such as depth of cutting and depth of filling.
4.0 Conclusions
The capabilities of GIS and its usefulness for the educational institution are demonstrated through this research study. Adopting GIS technology identified the areas where the services and facilities are not provided by the management. This integrated GIS definitely will help the management to maintain the engineering college infrastructure facilities. The building plans and their three-dimensional view will be prepared in 3D home Architect to link with this utility management system further to strengthen this research.
Fig. 8 Information System for Play Ground
Acknowledgment
We sincerely thank the Major K. Srinivasan, Director, Shri Angalamman College of Engineering and Technology for extending all support to complete this research work. We also express our gratitude to all the staff members who helped us to complete this work in successful manner.
5.0 References
- Able Software Corporation, Users Manual for R2V for windows 9X & NT, 1998.
- ESRI, Users Manual ArcView GIS, 1996.
- SACET Annual Report, Shri Angalamman College of Engineering and Technology Annual Report, 2002.
- www.esri.com