Eric Suesz
Utilities collect a lot of CCTV inspection data annually, but inspections by themselves do not improve results. The real challenge is translating that data into clear, defensible capital plans that stand up to regulatory scrutiny, budget constraints, and stakeholder expectations.
The integration between Autodesk Info360 Asset and ITpipes SmartVision helps address that challenge by connecting CCTV inspection data directly to condition assessment, risk analysis, and capital planning. This allows utilities to move from inspection results to capital decisions with greater clarity and less manual effort.
Turning inspection results into capital priorities
ITpipes’ SmartVision technology combines FieldVision for capturing high-quality CCTV inspections in the field and CoreVision for managing, reviewing, and reporting inspection results, providing sewer and stormwater utilities with clean, organized, accurate, and reliable inspection data. Info360 Asset uses that inspection data to support condition scoring, risk evaluation, deterioration modeling, and rehabilitation planning.
When these systems are connected, inspection findings directly inform how assets are prioritized and funded. Each capital recommendation can be traced back to specific inspection evidence and risk drivers. This reduces reliance on assumptions and helps ensure that capital plans reflect the actual state of the system.
How it works
The ITpipes SmartVision and Info360 Asset integration requires active subscriptions to both products and connects CCTV inspection data to asset planning workflows through a secure data connection. To ensure inspection results are linked to the correct assets in Info360 Asset, CCTV inspections in ITpipes SmartVision must use standardized formats, and the asset IDs in ITpipes must match the GIS asset IDs used in Info360 Asset. This alignment allows inspection results to be associated with the correct pipes and structures without manual data cleanup or custom integration work.
An administrator enables the integration by authenticating their ITpipes account within Info360 Asset. Once connected, CCTV inspections completed in ITpipes SmartVision are made available in Info360 Asset, including associated defects, grades, and inspection media such as videos and photos. That inspection data can then be used directly within Info360 Asset to support condition scoring, risk models, and rehabilitation scenarios as part of the asset planning workflow.
Aligning inspections, risk, and long-term planning
Inspection programs and capital planning are often managed by different teams. When inspection data moves slowly or inconsistently between those groups, plans can become outdated or difficult to defend.
By linking Info360 Asset and ITpipes SmartVision, inspection results stay connected to risk models and planning assumptions over time. New inspections update condition and risk. Updated risk informs rehabilitation strategies and capital priorities. Those priorities can then guide future inspection efforts. Capital priorities generated in Info360 Asset can also inform where future CCTV inspections should be focused, improving inspection ROI over time.
The result is a more consistent link between day-to-day inspections and long-term investment strategy, without adding extra manual steps.
Customer example: City of Oakland
The Sewer Services Division of Oakland Public Works provides a strong example of how inspection data supports confident capital planning.
Oakland manages roughly 940 miles of sewer pipeline, much of it aging infrastructure with an average service life of more than 50 years. The city faces regulatory requirements, limited funding, and the need to reduce system failures and overflows.
Oakland uses ITpipes SmartVision as its CCTV inspection platform, supporting standardized inspection workflows and GIS-based inspection data management. The city has transitioned from the legacy desktop asset management tool InfoAsset Planner to Info360 Asset to improve collaboration, data sharing, and long-term planning.
Using Info360 Asset, Oakland has developed a risk-based prioritization strategy to guide rehabilitation and capital investment decisions. CCTV inspection data plays a key role in that strategy by providing consistent, defensible inputs to condition and risk analysis.
By connecting inspection results with planning tools, the city is better able to explain why certain assets are prioritized and how investment decisions are made.
But their choice of Info360 Asset is more than just about long-term planning and collaboration. It’s also about security. In 2023, the entirety of the city of Oakland was hit by a devastating ransomware attack. All of the data stored on local servers was severely impacted, but their data in the cloud was safe and sound. Since then, they’ve moved aggressively to adopt cloud-based solutions that offer top-tier data security.
Learn more about the City of Oakland’s sewer maintenance program and the use of Info360 Asset for risk and rehabilitation planning in their Autodesk University Course.
Reducing manual effort and uncertainty
Turning CCTV data into confident capital plans is not about adding complexity. It’s about connecting inspection data with the tools used to assess risk and plan investments. In this way, the Info360 Asset and ITpipes SmartVision integration closes the gap between CCTV inspection data and capital decisions.
ITpipes SmartVision captures inspection results, and Info360 Asset uses that information to support clear, risk-informed capital decisions. By reducing manual data handling and keeping inspection and planning data aligned, teams can spend less time managing files and more time evaluating options. The result is capital plans that are easier to maintain, easier to explain, and easier to stand behind.
See the workflow in action
Request a demo to see how CCTV inspection data from ITpipes SmartVision flows into Info360 Asset to support condition assessment, risk analysis, and capital planning.
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