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Against swine fever and wasting money: district office in numbers fever

2022-12-28T06:26:05.999Z


Against swine fever and wasting money: district office in numbers fever Created: 12/28/2022 7:18 am By: Josef Ametsbichler "It's going to be awesome!" Says district office manager Brigitte Keller. With a digitization offensive, she wants to make the district office more capable of acting in crises and save millions. © Stefan Rossmann Pupils, blackouts, swine fever: The Ebersberg district offic


Against swine fever and wasting money: district office in numbers fever

Created: 12/28/2022 7:18 am

By: Josef Ametsbichler

"It's going to be awesome!" Says district office manager Brigitte Keller.

With a digitization offensive, she wants to make the district office more capable of acting in crises and save millions.

© Stefan Rossmann

Pupils, blackouts, swine fever: The Ebersberg district office is running a digital offensive that is intended to save costs.

“Dashboard” is the magic word here.

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– For a moment, as she pushes the mouse across the desk and plucks at diagrams, tables, rows of numbers with the pointer, Brigitte Keller looks as if she has just won a computer game.

"You can play endlessly there," says the head of department I in the Ebersberg district office, deputy district administrator in the office.

She is dead serious about the numbers and graphics that flicker across the screen.

Since the Corona crisis there has been a new magic word in the Ebersberg district office.

It says Dashboard.

Dashboards in the Ebersberg district office: digital offensive during the Corona period

Translated from modern German, it simply means the dashboard.

A dashboard is simply a wealth of figures prepared in such a way that they form an overall picture.

That sounds boring, but for Brigitte Keller it is the future of how the district office is to be managed effectively.

In the corona crisis, the first dashboards showed incidences, vaccination rates, intensive care bed occupancy.

But there have long been dashboards for student numbers, swine fever, blackout management and employee statistics.

Comparable and up-to-date, digitally retrievable figures that should make decision-making easier.

Save costs thanks to attendance statistics

“Which days of the week is the sickness rate the highest?” asks the head of the district office.

"Not correct!

Everyone says Monday and Friday.” However, their numbers would have shown: It is Tuesday and Wednesday.

"You find out when you move from guessing to measuring," says Keller.

It also has a practical benefit that she can call up for each day how many employees are sick, clocked in or in the home office: For the new building of the district office on the previous Sparkassenplatz, plans are being made with "open space offices" in which the employees will not have more fixed desks.

So far, the planners have assumed that space would have to be made for an attendance rate of 70 percent.

But your dashboard shows that 60 percent is enough, says Keller.

A numerically small but expensive difference:

Swine fever: Search parties can report finds in the Ebersberg Forest digitally

Should African swine fever break out in the Ebersberg district, search parties would have to comb the forest for wild boar carcasses.

A prepared dashboard should then make the sites visible, simplify the salvage and show the main points.

Blackout dashboard for disaster management in the district of Ebersberg

Should a blackout, a large-scale power failure, hit the district, a prepared dashboard for the emergency services and disaster management should show the critical infrastructure - such as gas stations that could still supply fuel if the network collapsed.

Or how many hours which emergency power generator can still run.

In an emergency, this data can also be accessed on analog situation maps, without juice.

"It's all been thought through."

Student numbers publicly available

Not all of these dashboards are publicly viewable.

But information about Corona and the number of students in secondary schools, for example, is available on the Internet.

For example, anyone who compares the number of students at the Lena Christ secondary school in Markt Schwaben and the Dominik Brunner secondary school in Poing, which was founded in 2010, could get the idea that the newer school is outperforming the older school, i.e. the number of students.

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"I don't know whether something like this even exists in any other municipality in Germany," says Keller about the abundance of numbers.

The costs for the district are in the five-digit range, most of which is attributable to the newly created position of data specialist Dorelia Zangrando, who creates the dashboards for the office.

"A grenade!" says the boss.

Energy dashboard should indicate unusual consumption

The district manager and her data specialist already have their sights set on the next project: an energy dashboard that automatically records the consumption data of the buildings owned by the district – heat, water, electricity.

This not only gives a better overview of where the need for renovation is greatest, but can also show "abnormal consumption".

Keller gives the example of the water damage two years ago in the Vaterstetten high school.

At the time, someone had opened a toilet valve, and the water flowing out over a whole weekend caused sanitation costs that, according to Keller, are now in the hundreds of thousands.

"In the future, the caretaker would receive a warning message on his cell phone, check and turn off the water," says Keller, explaining her vision.

"This will be awesome!"

You can read more news from the Ebersberg region here.

By the way: everything from the region is also available in our regular Ebersberg newsletter. 

Source: merkur

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