Three quick steps to do Asset Management with Collector and ArcGIS Online:

Step 1 (ArcMap) – Authoring your feature classes and tables:

What you need: ArcMap and an ArcGIS Online Organizational Account

  • Create a database in ArcMap
  • Create a (point) Feature Class to store your Assets
  • Create a Table to store your Assets’ Condition Assessments
  • Create a Table to store Maintenance Tasks associated with your Assets
  • Link them all together with Relationship Classes to create a 1:M link between Assets and Assessments and Assets and Maintenance Tasks

ArcMap Asset Management FCs

  • Add the Asset Feature Class and the two related tables to a map document and publish it as a service to your ArcGIS Online account

Step 2 (ArcGIS Online) – Authoring your Web Map for use in Collector:

What you need: An ArcGIS Online Organizational Account

  • Create a new Map in AGOL and add your newly created Asset Management service to it
  • Add a basemap of your choice to your Map
  • Save your Map

Step 3 (Collector) – Deploying your Asset Management application:

What you need: An iPhone or Android phone with the Collector for ArcGIS Application installed

  • Start Collector and log in with your AGOL credentials
  • Open the Map created in Step 2
  • Start performing your Asset Management tasks!

Collector 1

For some additional images relating to this post – please see here: Asset Management Images

Homework for the avid reader:

  • Add a Tracking Layer for Field Workers to the AGOL Web Map
  • Install ArcGIS Operations Dashboard
  • Create a Dashboard that monitors real-time field activities such as Field Worker positions, Assets that require maintenance etc

OPS Dashboard