Today we are proud to announce the availability of Storm Center™ hosting on the Amazon Web Services(“AWS”) platform. This hosting allows Storm Center customers to store the critical data for communicating outage information in a robust, nearly infinitely scalable cloud environment. The Amazon Web Services platform is the leading provider of web-based services for cloud data storage and [...]
Archive for March 2010
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March 29, 2010E.ON releases Outage Maps with Storm Center
March 29, 2010E.ON has updated their website with new power outage maps built on iFactor’s Storm Center™ product. The new website provides details about outages to E.ON customers, the media, emergency responders, and public officials on both blue sky and storm days. The solution was designed as part of the overall response to the 2009 ice storms [...]
Route Optimization in Web Maps Connector
March 23, 2010A recent update to the web maps Connector adds the ability to sort a set of waypoints into the optimal order. With this functionality, you can take any set of points and find the ideal way to visit each one – the infamous traveling salesman problem. Here is an example with 4 different locations to [...]
Producing Driving Directions in the Web Maps Connector
March 19, 2010The new routing engine in the Web Maps Connector™ (“WMC”) allows a user to quickly create a set of directions between any 2 or more points in a Smallworld application. This provides functionality just like what is used on Bing Maps or Google Maps for routing right in Smallworld. Once the WMC is installed, you [...]
What do Smart Meters and AMI mean for Outage Communications?
March 4, 2010One of the drivers for recent smart grid programs is to help utilities reduce outages and improve restoration times. One of the questions we often hear is “What does the smart grid, smart meters and AMI mean for outage communications solutions?” Of course, if our grid gets smart enough to eliminate power outages, then we’ll be [...]
Some maps to show the global spread of Web Maps Connector!!
March 3, 2010One of our developers, Graham Garlick, recently merged a list of production and evaluation license holders from our Web Maps Connector product with Google’s Charting API. The result is a great example of using a nice cloud resource, and of course a great map to show the success of this product helping Smallworld customers around [...]
