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Configure Fire Hydrant Inspections

In this topic

  1. Organize your data
  2. Load data from a shapefile or file geodatabase
  3. Configure solution for metric system

Fire Hydrant Inspections can be used to perform routine fire hydrant inspections and monitor fire department hydrant inspection programs that ensure every hydrant performs reliably when an emergency occurs.

In this topic, you'll learn how to configure the Fire Hydrant Inspections solution to meet specific needs in your organization.

Organize your data

Fire Hydrant Inspections solution uses fire hydrants and fire service district data. Fire hydrant data can be acquired from water utilities or other management systems. Before you begin configuring the solution take some time to organize your data.

Two foundational data sets are used in the solution. Fire Hydrants data is required to configure the solution. Fire Service Districts data is optional and supports visualization and inspection assignments.

Fire Hydrants

The Fire Hydrant Inspections solution is built on the same foundational feature layer, WaterDistributionSystem, as the Water Utility Hydrant Inspections solution. If you have also deployed the Water Utility Hydrant Inspections solution, you can use that solution to manage hydrants and other water distribution assets. As a shared service between the two solutions, the Fire Hydrant layer within the WaterDistributionSystem feature layer is used by the Fire Hydrant Inspections solution for fire hydrant inspection workflows. The Fire Hydrant Inspections solution can be used independently or with the Water Utility Hydrant Inspections solution.

The solution requires the following fields to be populated:

  • Asset ID
  • Asset Type
  • Lifecycle Status

Fire Service Districts

The FireServiceDistricts layer is used to store administrative and response districts maintained by Fire Service agencies. This can include agency, battalion, district, inspector, mutual aid, reporting, station, still, and wildland-urban interface boundaries. This data must be a polygon and each geography should have a unique value in the Name field. The data loaded into the FireServiceDistricts layer should reflect how fire agencies assign fire hydrant inspections. The FireServiceDistricts layer is used in the Fire Hydrant Inspections Notebook app to support station and shift assignments and is used in the Fire Hydrant Inspections map to visualize fire station boundaries.

The solution requires the following field to be populated: Name.

Note:

The WaterDistributionSystem layer is used in other ArcGIS Solutions, such as Adopt-A-Hydrant and Water Utility Hydrant Inspections. The Fire Service Districts layer is used in both the Pre-Incident Planning and Fire Incident Dashboard solutions. If you already loaded data into these layers, the solution is deployed under the same user account, and the solutions are using the same feature layers within your ArcGIS organization then you do not need to load data again.

Load data from a shapefile or file geodatabase

You can load data into the Fire Hydrant Inspections solution using the update data capability in your ArcGIS organization. Optionally, in ArcGIS Pro you can use the Append tool or Update Features With Incident Records tool.

To load data from a shapefile or file geodatabase, complete the following steps:

  1. Create a .zip file of your shapefile or file geodatabase.
  2. Verify that you are signed in to your ArcGIS organization and browse to the WaterDistributionSystem feature layer.
  3. From the item page, select the Fire Hydrant sublayer.
  4. From the item page, click Update Data.
  5. Follow the steps in the Update data wizard to load your data.
    6. Tip:

    For more information about uploading data, see Manage hosted feature layers—Append data to layers.

  6. Repeat these steps to load data into the FireServiceDistricts layer.
Note:

The WaterDistributionSystem layer contains additional layers besides Fire Hydrant and are not required for the Fire Hydrant Inspections solution. These additional sublayers can be ignored unless you are using them in another solution.

Tip:

After loading fire hydrant data, you can update the Fire Hydrant sublayer periodically as development occurs in your community and new fire hydrants are added.

Configure solution for metric system

Note:
This workflow is optional and doesn't need to be completed to work with the solution.

The Fire Hydrant Inspections solution is configured with the imperial system calculating flow rate in gallons per minute (GPM). If your fire agency uses the metric system, you can configure the solution to calculate flow rate in liters per minute (LPM).

To update the Fire Hydrant Inspections map to leverage the metric system, complete the following steps:

  1. Verify that you are signed in to your ArcGIS organization and browse to the Fire Hydrant Inspections map.
  2. From the item page, click Open in Field Maps Designer then click the Form button in the Context (dark) toolbar.
  3. Click Tables and then, click Hydrant Inspections
  4. Scroll down to the Calculate group and click Flow Rate (GPM).
  5. In Properties update the Display name from Flow Rate (GPM) to Flow Rate (LPM).
  6. Scroll down in Properties to Calculated value, click the Settings button, click the Ellipse button, and then click Edit Arcade.
  7. In the Arcade Editor, replace the value 29.83 with .666 and then click Done.
  8. Click Available Fire Flow (GPM).
  9. In Properties update the Display name from Available Fire Flow (GPM) to Available Fire Flow (LPM).
  10. Click Save to map.

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In this topic
  1. Organize your data
  2. Load data from a shapefile or file geodatabase
  3. Configure solution for metric system