Eric Suesz
With billions spent annually on sewer assessment and rehabilitation, municipalities and contractors are turning to advanced CCTV sewer inspection software to transform their infrastructure management approach. The right software can help you collect, analyze, and manage inspection data from underground pipeline systems and move you from reactive maintenance to proactive asset management.
Getting CCTV sewer inspection right can be a complex process. You must organize vast amounts of inspection videos and sensor data, while ensuring compliance with industry standards like NASSCO’s Pipeline Assessment Certification Program (PACP). But when you get it right, you can realize big benefits like making better and more informed decisions about capital improvements, extending the lifespan of your assets, and significantly reducing your emergency repair costs.
CCTV sewer inspection software is changing rapidly
In the past, many of our customers who are focused on water asset management tasks have relied on our suite of InfoAsset applications: InfoAsset Manager + Mobile + Online. Those applications are still available and still being used by lots of customers, but many of the consultants and water utilities who have always been ahead of the technology curve have been steadily moving in a more cloud-based direction and are taking advantage of our next generation Info360 Asset software.
Why the switch to the next generation of asset management software? A few of the many reasons:
- CCTV data management: Info360 Asset’s biggest appeal for new customers is its ability to automate the organization and management of massive volumes of inspection videos and their associated data, transforming raw footage into structured, actionable insights.
- Integration ready: Our next-gen customers also like the fact that our Info360 platform is SaaS-based and has robust data-handling capabilities that allow them to build out data integrations and create automated workflows and reporting.
- Built for compliance: The platform supports NASSCO compliance, including PACP, LACP, and MACP standards, ensuring that all defect coding and condition assessments adhere to industry protocols. This compliance facilitates consistent, auditable reporting that meets regulatory requirements and supports infrastructure funding applications.
- Better collaboration: They see the big collaboration benefits that come with being able to access everything from a browser, and they like the way the Info360 platform allows them to extend access to groups of users quickly and easily, who may only need to see some of the reporting and analytics. When your stakeholders can review inspection results without requiring specialized software installations, it accelerates the path from assessment to action.
Everyone is also excited about AI for sewer inspections – and rightly so
Today’s customers are also laser-focused on finding a way to incorporate AI and Machine Learning into their sewer inspection workflows. In fact, we would argue that there is perhaps no clearer use case for AI than having it perform the monotonous task of watching thousands upon thousands of hours of sewer inspection videos so you don’t have to – and then collecting the most likely issues for you to pursue.
CCTV data management has traditionally been filled with so many frustrating pitfalls around lost or never-utilized data that it’s really no surprise that everyone is excited about the potential for AI in sewer inspection. We offer those kinds of smart AI capabilities through our VAPAR integration, which we encourage you to explore if dealing with inspection videos has always been your biggest pain point. Where VAPAR can help you fix your data-capturing problems, Info360 Asset can help you make sense of all the data by building rehabilitation plans that you can defend with confidence.
Our quick course on CCTV data management using Info360 Asset
To illustrate how Info360 Asset can help you make sense of all that data, we’ve created a series of short-and-sweet videos hosted by our Autodesk Customer Success Manager Martha Nunez. In the series, she shows you how to upload, manage, and extract insights from your terabytes of CCTV sewer inspection videos.
You can use these videos as a “how to” if you’re just getting started with Info360 Asset, but it’s also a great series to watch if you are shopping for a new asset management application and want to make managing CCTV data and analytics a cornerstone of your work. We think you’ll find that CCTV becomes a whole lot easier when everyone can access the data, videos, and analytics directly from their browser.
Watch the series below 👇 or bookmark the YouTube playlist. Want to try this software yourself to make sure it will perform to your expectations? You can request a free trial.