Geological Data Design
Resource Industry Mines Data Faster with Actian and Geological Data Design
Geologists To Save Hours Daily with Mobile Tablets, Actian Vectorwise and GDD Field Data Integrator
Geological Data Design (GDD), a specialist in the collection, management and analysis of exploration and mining data, has selected the record-breaking analytical database Vectorwise to power their Field Data Integrator.
GDD’s Field Data Integrator is the first end-to-end mining and exploration solution, and makes working with large volumes of resources data faster and simpler.
GDD’s Field Data Integrator combines best-of-breed technologies for collecting, managing and analyzing data more rapidly. The end-to-end solution enables geologists to collect samples in shorter time frames, and then quickly analyze large volumes sample data for complex scenarios such as such as project timings, cash flows and profitability with greater sensitivity levels.
GDD’s Field Data Integrator automatically synchronizes sample data from various field instruments, GPS, and cameras onto a ‘tough’ tablet using Bluetooth. Geologists enter notes directly onto the tablet using on-screen or wireless keyboards, enabling all data on samples to be collected automatically into a single source. The tablet then automatically synchronizes with a master database running Vectorwise whenever in mobile range, saving geologists time in manual data entry.
- Tony Shellshear, Principal and Founder of GDDFor the last 25 years GDD has been helping companies in the resource sector collect, manage and analyze their data. Today’s technology enables us to do this more quickly and effectively. Geologists traditionally carry a lot of different field equipment to explore, record observations and take samples. They make notes and drawings , record co-ordinates, take photos , videos, or perhaps audio recordings. Collating this data can be very time consuming, and geologists can spend up to 1-2 hours a day manually entering these different information types into the database. GDD’s Field Data Integrator does all this automatically by synchronizing information from the various devices to the tablet computer, which then uploads the data to the main Vectorwise database when in reach of a wireless signal. This means geologists can spend more time collecting samples, or analyzing the data, rather than being tied to the clerical work.
While the field data collected during the day is not always large, this data often integrates into a very large database; in some cases hundreds of millions or even billions of records. GDD chose the record-breaking Vectorwise database for its ability to deliver significantly faster analysis of this data on commodity hardware.