Processing geodata and deliver knowledge
In Minecraft, you run around and gather resources while exploring biomes and identifying the best locations for valuable materials. Unfortunately, this does not directly translate to the real world. In real life, there are a couple of possible difficulties like competitors, property rights, laws and even locating and gathering these resources are not as straightforward.
Our solution will be targeted towards companies that have a need for geological- and geographical data, typically working in sectors of real estate development, agriculture, mining, demolition and public infrastructure. We want to gather this information, process it and deliver resource knowledge to our customers to help them improve their business by using useful geodata and gain an advantage on their competitors:
- Reduced decision risk through standardized environmental data analysis
- Lower operational cost by automating data collection and interpretation
- Higher data accessibility across technical and non‑technical roles
- Improved sustainability planning through better understanding of natural conditions
- Faster project start‑up using ready‑to‑use geological insights
Technical overview
Geodata in Fabric
In Norway you can find a lot of geological- and geographical data as datasets on Geonorge, provided by a wide variation of suppliers like Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO) or Norway’s national geological survey (NGU). We are planning to gather this data and storing it in Fabric using Lakehouse, allowing us to process it and synchronize it with Dataverse.
Customer solutions in the Power platform
Once the geodata is stored in Fabric and Dataverse, we plan to use the Power platform to connect to the data and develop products for our customers. The idea is to use the applications in the platform to create a variety of functional mini-solutions that will be part of the main solution:
- Power BI for visualizations, statistics and dashboards
- Power Automate for automatization, data updates and triggering of alerts and other functions
- Power Apps for end‑user interface to explore data or submitting information to retrieve information the customers have a need for
- Copilot Studio to provide an AI‑powered conversational agent that can help customers with questions or generate text for reports regarding their requests.
Coordination in Teams
As data is stored and processed and the solutions within the Power platform is in place, we still need to communicate with our customers. For this, Teams will be our go-to solution as it allows us to provide them with an interface for the solutions in the Power platform, as well as a all-in-one solution for coordination.
- End‑users interact with dashboards, insights and Copilot directly inside Teams
- Field workers and analysts can communicate through integrated chats and channels
- Administrators manage datasets, permissions and support requests
- AI‑powered agents assist both employees and customers
Conclusion
We want to create a solution that helps bring the resource gathering experience in the real world closer to the simplicity of Minecraft by transforming how organizations discover, analyze and leverage geological and geographical data. The core of the solution we plan to create will be made using Microsoft cloud, with a special focus on the low-code possibilities this provides. Our end goal is to provide our customers with the knowledge to improve their business and gain an advantage on their competitors.
