{"id":2779552,"date":"2025-05-02T12:41:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T19:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=2779552"},"modified":"2025-06-06T08:23:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T15:23:30","slug":"improving-operational-efficiency-with-real-time-mapping-solutions-webinar-qa","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-velocity\/real-time\/improving-operational-efficiency-with-real-time-mapping-solutions-webinar-qa","title":{"rendered":"Improving Operational Efficiency with Real-Time Mapping Solutions Webinar Q&A"},"author":349902,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[37121],"tags":[756721,34231,407602],"industry":[],"product":[42661,756702],"class_list":["post-2779552","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-time","tag-arcgis-velocity","tag-public-works","tag-real-time-gis","product-arcgis-solutions","product-arcgis-velocity"],"acf":{"short_description":"Explore questions and answers from our \"Improving Operational Efficiency with Real-Time Mapping Solutions\" Webinar. Watch the recording. ","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"kaltura","video_id":"1_y3sohb09","time":false,"start":0,"stop":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

On April 23, 2025, we held a webinar on\u202f<\/span>Improving Operational Efficiency with Real-Time Mapping Solutions.<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Organizations often grapple with challenges that hinder their efficiency, such as lack of real-time updates, inability to communicate progress to public, and inefficient route planning. These issues can significantly impact productivity, decision-making, and response times, especially during emergencies. This webinar covers how implementing real-time mapping solutions, organizations can improve seasonal program planning, streamline operations, increase public trust, and enhance overall efficiency, ultimately providing better services to their communities.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You can now watch the webinar recording and explore our Q&A from the live session in this blog. If you cannot find the answers you were looking for, please post your questions on the\u202f<\/span>ArcGIS Velocity Esri Community<\/span><\/a>.\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Can Winter Weather Operations, Street Sweeping Operations, and Mowing Operations be deployed in an ArcGIS Enterprise environment instead of ArcGIS Online?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Currently these solutions are only supported with ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Velocity. In saying that, if you have ArcGIS GeoEvent Server then you could build something similar to these real-time solutions using ArcGIS Enterprise and ArcGIS GeoEvent Server.\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For elements requiring ArcGIS Online, are there credit costs associated with utilizing these tools?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

ArcGIS Velocity is accessed through a yearly subscription and does not consume credits. The only credit usage costs for these real-time Solutions comes from the associated storage of data in standard hosted feature layers.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Can the Winter Weather Operations, Street Sweeping Operations, and Mowing Operations, consume on-premise hosted GIS layers?\u00a0 Or do all the layers need to be hosted on ArcGIS Online?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

ArcGIS Velocity can ingest layers from ArcGIS Server, and update existing layers in ArcGIS Server, but not create new layers in ArcGIS Server. All three Solutions can be configured with on-premise layers but configuration steps will differ based on your system architecture. Some of the analytics will have to be altered to publish, ingest and write to your on-premise data. Reach out to your Esri account team for clarification and guidance on how best to proceed.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Do our plows need equipment to capture their location data?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, typically organizations use Automated Vehicle Location (AVL) sensors which are located on the plows to capture their location information. If you don’t have an AVL provider, you can use ArcGIS Location Sharing on mobile devices.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Is ArcGIS Velocity an add-on? Could you provide information on its additional cost?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

ArcGIS Velocity is a premium add-on subscription for ArcGIS Online with three subscription levels available based on an organization\u2019s needs which you can learn about here: https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/arcgis\/products\/arcgis-velocity\/licensing<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the difference between ArcGIS Velocity and ArcGIS GeoEvent Server? Would you recommend one over the other?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Velocity differs from GeoEvent Server in several ways, including product capabilities and business model. At a high level, GeoEvent Server is self-hosted software, while Velocity is a software as a service (SaaS). Velocity is also different in the following ways:\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n