
Northumbrian Water saves £8.75 million with digital asset management and mapping

- Company: 1Spatial Group Limited
- Client: Northumbria Water
- Year: 2017
- Region: UK-wide
- Product: 1Integrate
- Geographical information systems (GIS) and mapping
- Artificial intelligence (AI) and software solutions
- Plan-making, planning application and data management systems
Introduction
Challenges
The initial approach was to deploy traditional survey techniques, with an estimated cost of £10 million in the first 5 years and an estimated 15 years to complete.
Solutions
We used available information to create a set of data rules to infer the missing information and worked closely with NWL experts to test and tweak the rules.
For example, a property of a certain age, type and location would likely have a sewer of a particular type and location. The rules took into account information to infer location construction, direction of flow and usage.
Results
One of the key benefits of the inference was for NWL customers to get to resolution quicker by knowing the possible sources of their issues.
“Working with 1Spatial on a day to day basis is great. The consultant to consultant relationships are excellent and we really enjoy sharing ideas and being innovative.”
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