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Infrastructure
A structure degrades slowly and then suddenly. Instrumented monitoring makes it possible to act during the slow phase, while repair is still cheap.
Stakes
What weighs on the trade
- An extensive estate and a constrained upkeep budget
- Prioritisation of works that is hard to justify
- Structures that are sometimes remote and without power
- Continuity of service expected by users
Critical operations
What must not stop
- Inventory and condition of the estate
- Monitoring and inspection
- Scheduling of upkeep
- Incident and works management
- Reporting to authorities and funders
Why digitalise
What technology changes here
An up-to-date inventory with documented condition transforms budget planning: trade-offs are made on comparable data instead of on the teams' memory.
What can be automated
- Scheduling of periodic inspections
- Alerts when a measurement threshold is crossed
- Generation of work orders
- Tracking of incident handling times
- Consolidation of estate condition reports
Capabilities
What we put in place
Software
- Geolocated inventory of the estate
- Tracking of inspections and structure condition
- CMMS for scheduling upkeep
- Management of reported incidents
- Condition and budget dashboards
Data
- Condition of the estate by category and by area
- Upkeep cost relative to service life
- Incident handling time
- Change in monitoring measurements over time
IoT
- Strain, tilt and vibration sensors on structures
- Water level and flow measurement
- Condition tracking of lighting and signage installations
- Solar-powered operation for isolated sites
- Long-range transmission over LoRaWAN or NB-IoT
Artificial intelligence
- Detection of slow drift in measurement series
- Prioritisation of works from condition and criticality
- Analysis of inspection imagery
Integrations
- Geographic information systems
- ERP and public accounting
- Citizen reporting portals
Security
- Protection of data on the vulnerability of structures
- A unique identity per sensor and encrypted transmission
- Continuity of collection without a network
- Traceability of inspections and decisions
Our approach
A typical path in this sector
Inventory
Building or refreshing the geolocated inventory of the estate.
Critical structures
Instrumenting the structures whose failure would have the greatest impact.
Scheduling
Upkeep planned from measured condition and criticality.
Follow-up
Dashboards for condition and budget consumption.
Related services
The services we bring in
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