Predict leakage and breaks in water pipelines thanks to Fracta’s Digital Technologies

Fracta is a cutting edge condition assessment solution that uses Machine Learning to assess the condition and risk of drinking water distribution mains. The Fracta solution shifts asset operation and management from reaction to prevention. It helps avoid disruptive water main breaks, lower non-revenue water (NRW), better target leak detection, valve maintenance efforts, and educate key stakeholders on the true cost and risk of their aging water main infrastructure.

MACHINE LEARNING

Using Technology To Solve A Global Issue

Fracta is a cutting edge condition assessment solution that uses Machine Learning to assess the condition and risk of drinking water distribution mains.

The Fracta solution shifts asset operation and management from reaction to prevention. It helps avoid disruptive water main breaks, lower non-revenue water (NRW), better target leak detection, valve maintenance efforts, and educate key stakeholders on the true cost and risk of their aging water main infrastructure.

OUR PROCESS

Comparing Traditional Methods To Machine Learning

Existing methods of forecasting pipe prioritization are effective, but fail to take into account many recent advancements in artificial intelligence.

Current Practices

Fracta’s Machine Learning

Data Quality

Individual Variables

Multi-channel Variables

Environmental Considerations

Limited

Extensive

Model Intelligence

Non-Learning Model

Machine Learning

Accuracy

Local Utility Network

Global Utility Network

TECHNOLOGY

Our Approach To Training Data

Model predictions get stronger as more data is processed. Fracta uses nation-wide geospatial information as well as tens of thousands of miles of water mains and historical break events to calculate LOF and COF to determine Total Risk. As time goes by, more data is collected and the accuracy of LOF and COF improves. By rehabilitating or replacing the worst pipe, utilities should see their break rates decrease over time.

Cloud-based Machine Learning

The Fracta solution is a cloud-based software application that can be connected to important software applications used by water utilities, including Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) and Hydraulic Modeling.

Fracta can complete Likelihood of Failure (LOF), Consequence of Failure (COF) and Business Risk Exposure (BRE) assessments for an entire water main distribution system in 1-2 weeks. The results are delivered in a Software as a Solution (SaaS) system and visualized using dynamic graphs and charts. New data can be uploaded and modeled several times per year, enabling a dynamic, near real-time assessment of the system.

Enabling The Shift From Reactive To Proactive

Utilities and their consulting engineers perform desktop and physical condition assessments of buried water mains as part of their infrastructure asset management. Physical condition assessments tend to be slow, expensive and labor intensive. Multiple physical measurements are required for correlation and confirmation. Beyond the tested pipe, it’s difficult to extrapolate this data for system-wide recommendations.

Desktop condition assessments primarily rely on age, break history and the experience of the engineer evaluating data. The results are often based on best professional judgment, which is a generally accepted engineering practice, but it can be subjective. It’s also been shown that age-based analyses are significantly less accurate, more time intensive and more expensive.

Reduce Unplanned Water Main Breaks By 15%

300% improvement in prediction accuracy over age based calculations

Improve Your Data Quality Using Reconstructive Tools

Use AI data repair tools to fill in gaps where you are missing data

Justify Budgets and Capital Improvement Plans

Preserve capital and improve master plans with accurate long-term data

Monitoring Kassel’s water mains network

VIDEO

Monitoring Kassel’s water mains network

Beneath the surface, water flows freely through centuries-old pipes in Kassel, Germany. Advancing technology is streamlining complex and vital networks.
Discover how Fracta is helping to save water in the city of Kassel, Germany, by predicting the leakages and breaks in the water pipelines thanks to machine learning and artificial intelligence.

WEBINAR FRACTA

WEBINAR

Optimiser la gestion patrimoniale de ses canalisations grâce à l’intelligence artificiell

Web Conférence organisée par  dans le cadre du Carrefour de l’Eau 2022.

AWARD

ACE 2022, The World’s Premier Water Conference

Fracta received in June 2022 an AWWA Innovation Leader Award in the Service Provider category at ACE 2022 in San Antonio (US). Fracta is proud to have been recognized as the leader in providing solutions that optimize Infrastructure Replacement and Capital Planning

VIDEO

How Fracta Works

The water we drink floats beneath our feet in a complex maze of pipes.

WEBINAR

Online Workshop von FRACTA

Vorhersage von Leckagen und Brüchen in Wasserversorgungsleitungen unter Einsatz von Maschinellem Lernen und Künstlicher Intelligenz.

WEBINAR

Introduction to Fracta Application

Learn more about LOF, COF, Total Risk and Leak Detection. We look forward to receiving your questions!

WEBINAR

Leveraging Artificial Technology for your Water Network

Learn about how AI technologies could lead to better performance and savings. Enroll now in our webinar, and stay tuned for our next episode!

GATHER— LOF

Avoid catastrophic breaks, service interruptions and costly repair projects with Fracta LOF

Leverage machine learning to detect hidden patterns in your data and accurately predict the likelihood of failure for any pipe in your network.

Use insights gained from other similar pipe networks around the world to determine your LOF predictions and outperform standard age based models by 300%.

UNDERSTAND — COF

Create unlimited COF scenarios with your own custom costs to plan for anything you might encounter

Enter in all your own personalized costs. Benefit from a triple bottom line approach and seamlessly switch between your COF scenarios on the fly.

Our best-in-class COF toolkit can help your team understand critical facility impact, service interruptions and more.

ANALYZE — TOTALRISK

Combine LOF and COF into a financial risk metric and prioritize planning actions

Minimize premature pipe replacements, justify rate increases, and improve your capital improvements program by uncovering hidden financial risk.

Business Risk Exposure (BRE) helps engineers, water utilities, public works directors and more prioritize capital intensive projects efficiently.

PLAN — JOB PLANNER

Optimize your capital improvement projects and make master planning easy

Prioritize your repair and replacement jobs by grouping troublesome areas together into manageable projects.

“We are anticipating that this technology will guide us in prioritizing the replacement of our water infrastructure that is most vulnerable to failure. In addition, this added information will provide valuable information to Public Works staff as they work to repair water main breaks as quickly and efficiently as possible.” – Max Slankard, Director of Public Works, Skokie, Illinois

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