Managing vegetation

Use IBM® Maximo® Vegetation Management to understand and assess the state of vegetation across your entire service area. Identify assets that might be at risk or impacted by vegetation overgrowth.

The Maximo Vegetation Management add-on is a Maximo Manage add-on. The vegetation management process is the process of controlling vegetation growth to maintain safety across various landscapes. Management of vegetation is crucial in sectors like utilities, transportation, agriculture, conservation and can help to prevent hazards such as power outages and invasive species spread. A vegetation management manager or a vegetation management specialist oversees the vegetation management process. Use Maximo Vegetation Management to obtain the following benefits.
  • Complete asset visibility. View asset and vegetation information in 1 interface.
  • Data-driven decisions. Use the KPIs to make data-driven decisions.
  • Actionable insights. Act upon the vegetation score and priority score to improve vegetation management outcomes.
  • Workflow efficiency. Use the recommended actions that are advised, based on the vegetation score.
  • Key integration points
    • Asset hierarchy synchronization for region, territory, corridor, segment.
    • Vegetation scores and priority scores.
    • Critical measurements like distances, heights, tree counts.
    • Recommended actions.
As a vegetation management manager or a vegetation management specialist, use Maximo Vegetation Management to complete the following types of tasks.
  • Monitor vegetation growth.
  • Quickly identify areas at risk of vegetation.
  • Monitor areas where vegetation growth might pose a threat.
  • Prioritize your vegetation maintenance.
  • Make effective vegetation plans and decisions for your teams and your customers.
Maximo Vegetation Management uses satellite data and analytics, and is configured with a set of attributes and key performance indicators (KPIs). The output data is sent to the following applications and pages within Maximo Manage and Maximo Health. Use the data in the following applications and pages to complete your vegetation management responsibilities.

If integration updates are in a future release of Maximo Vegetation Management, you will need to upgrade to that future release or a future v9.1.x fix pack to continue getting the newer vegetation insights. The reference to integration updates relates to integration of asset and vegetation data from your vegetation insights database into Maximo Manage.

Before you begin

Before you can use Maximo Vegetation Management, verify that the following prerequisites are in place.
  • For on-premises-customer-managed deployments, have your installation of Maximo Manage with Maximo Health.
  • For SaaS environments, you environments must be ordered. In addition to your Maximo Application Suite as a Service and Maximo Manage environment, purchase Maximo Vegetation Management as a SaaS add-on for Maximo Manage. The SaaS Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) operations team must provision the SaaS environments.
  • Maximo Spatial Asset Management. If you want to extend the capability of Maximo Manage applications and add other map functions, then install Maximo Spatial Asset Management. For more information, see Map Manager.
  • SaaS customers and customer-managed customers must have Maximo Application Suite SaaS AppPoints.
  • Data from remote sensing imaging or satellite data service.
  • Complete the configuration steps, see Configuring Maximo Vegetation Management.