The benefits of implementing a 'one source of truth' asset management dataset

Data integrity is extremely important in all facets of life. If data is incomplete, inaccurate or unreliable, its value becomes negligible. Having timely and accurate infrastructure data is crucial to the success of any network planning or development project. A number of sources of data inaccuracies that were previously unknown were discovered and able to be quantified throughout the project. A process was developed to correct and validate the existing data and all future recorded data. The benefits to WCC of having a ‘single source of truth’ master dataset containing both attribute and spatial data is that the sophisticated analytics required to manage our networks are underpinned by a complete and accurate data set.