As the Fourth Industrial Revolution speeds up and takes Malaysia into the future, geospatial technology leads the way forward, through the power of location-based analytics.
CS Tan, CEO of Esri Malaysia – the leading geospatial technology organisation in the region – said the solutions demonstrate how progressive Malaysian businesses are uncovering hidden patterns and trends across their data, to drive better decision-making.
“Government, civic leaders and commercial organisations can no longer take a conservative approach to the challenges of our time. There is an ocean of data available and geospatial technology allows businesses to easily take a data-driven approach to their operations.
“By uncovering trends in data, geospatial technology reveals the unknown, supports forecasting and enables predictive modelling and planning to save time, boost operational efficiency and encourage sustainability,” he said.
Four leading Malaysian organisations – Alam Flora, PLUS Malaysia, Majlis Bandaraya Shah Alam, and PETRONAS – are pioneering new ways of solving complex problems through geospatial technology.
The common goal – streamlining complex data accessibility and visualisation to boost efficiency and optimise operations.
In the case of PLUS Malaysia, the organisation developed the PLUSGeospatial data visualisation system, helping enable approximately 3,700 team members nationwide to monitor and maintain 1,130km of highway supporting 1.7 million vehicles daily.
This innovative geospatial application delivers a dynamic real-life view of operations to manage incidents including the environmental impacts of the Gunung Tempurung oil spill and lane closures resulting from flash flooding.
According to Kang Yew Jin, chief technology officer, PLUS Malaysia, “Geospatial technology is very promising for our PLUS teams to ensure road user safety by maintaining efficient highway operations. Furthermore, geospatial technology generates new business solutions and opportunities, transforming the overall landscape for the service and transportation industries.”
In relation to Alam Flora, the organisation launched its own geospatial platform, GeoFlora. The innovation visualises workflows, increases operational efficiency, and enhances service delivery.
The solution supports the collection and disposal of more than one million tonnes of waste annually and serves to further cement Alam Flora as the leading environmental management company, dedicated to reducing waste with minimal environmental impact.
Dato’ Mohd Zain Hassan, CEO of Alam Flora, said: “The GeoFlora platform has a positive impact on our operational teams and provides a new level of transparency for regulators. By analysing the data through these applications, our daily operational activities are more efficient. This has had a positive impact on the work of our daily operation teams and positively improves the opinions of regulators inspecting the quality of our services.”
The four companies were recognised for their world-leading application of geospatial technology at the 2023 GeoInnovation Awards, hosted by Esri Malaysia. Recipients of an Esri Malaysia GeoInnovation Award will be automatically nominated for a Special Achievement in Geographic Information Systems (SAG) Award.
The award ceremony will be held in San Diego, California, this July – as a key feature of Esri’s User Conference, which will host more than 15,000 delegates from across the globe.
