The technology landscape for water utilities is moving at pace. Here are 3 ways you can evaluate the technologies available:
- Map how well the technology fits with your goals and/or addresses your challenges.
Rezatec provides risk metrics to identify the pipes or areas that you should direct your leak detection or plan into your replacement program. Pipeline Risk gives you the tools to adapt to your goals, whether that is to identify the highest risk % of the network, select highest risk sections by mileage, maintain a risk position, or align with other capital projects like roads.
- Consider how the outputs will be used and how much training is needed.
For example, some IoT devices will generate a lot of data, do you have the skills and dashboards to make effective use of the information? Rezatec works with its customers to operationalize the data, to ensure it can be used by either leak detection teams or capital planning teams in a way that works for them.
- Ask for evidence of how well the technology has worked for others.
Some solutions promise the earth but don’t deliver in practices. Make sure you get a good selection of case studies and recommendations. You can also ask how the supplier intends to validate the solution. Rezatec provides desktop validation of the data and can work with leak detection teams to prove how well it predicts failure in the field.