Automated asset management and planning
AssigneeFracta
InventorsDaichi Yoshikawa, Takashi Kato, Yongyang Wang, Tomohiro Kawaji, Joel Michael Weingarten
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Abstract
Systems and methods for automated or computer assisted planning of pipe replacement projects includes searching a database of pipe segments each having assigned or calculated failure risk parameters. The searching algorithm looks for connected pipe segments falling within a customer's specified project size and identifies potential projects having a relatively high combined high failure risk.
Claims23
A method of improving a network of interconnected underground pipes, including by replacing pipes of said network, through projects each including plural pipes of said network, the method comprising:
- receiving by a computer system a calculated risk of failure value for each of a plurality of the underground pipes, said value being selected from a range that includes at least 10 different values;
- searching through said plurality of assets and generating a plurality of potential improvement projects, each of the potential improvement projects including merging into an individual project a plurality of interconnected pipes of the interconnected network of underground pipes, wherein the generating of a potential improvement project is based at least in part on the risk of failure value of each of the pipes included in the potential improvement project, and improving the network of underground pipes accordingly;
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- preprocessing said plurality of assets thereby generating a reduced set of said plurality of pipes;
- wherein said searching comprises searching through said reduced set.
A method of improving a network of interconnected underground pipes, including by replacing pipes in said network, through projects each including plural pipes in said network, the method comprising:
- receiving by a computer system a calculated risk of failure value for each of a plurality of the underground pipes, said value being selected from a range that includes at least 10 different values,
- searching through said plurality of assets and generating a plurality of potential improvement projects, each of the potential improvement projects including merging into an individual project a plurality of interconnected pipes of the interconnected network of underground pipes, wherein the generating of a potential improvement project is based at least in part on the risk of failure value of each of the pipes included in the potential improvement project, and improving the network of underground pipes accordingly;
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- further comprising postprocessing said plurality of potential improvement projects to add to at least one of the potential projects a pipe that is connected to the plurality of the interconnected pipes of the potential project.
A method of improving a network of interconnected underground pipes, including by replacing pipes in said network, through projects each including plural pipes in said network, the method comprising:
- receiving by a computer system a calculated risk of failure value for each of a plurality of the underground pipes, said value being selected from a range that includes at least 10 different values;
- searching through said plurality of assets and generating a plurality of potential improvement projects, each of the potential improvement projects including merging into an individual project a plurality of interconnected pipes of the interconnected network of underground pipes, wherein the generating of a potential improvement project is based at least in part on the risk of failure value of each of the pipes included in the potential improvement project, and improving the network of underground pipes accordingly;
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- further comprising postprocessing said plurality of potential improvement projects to merge two or more potential improvement projects into a single potential improvement project.
A system for improving a network of interconnected underground pipes, including by replacing pipes of said network, through projects each including plural pipes of said network, the system comprising:
- a database that stores a calculated risk of failure value for each of a plurality of the pipes, said value being selected from a range that includes at least 10 different values;
- a processing system configured to automatically search through said plurality of pipes and generate a plurality of potential improvement projects, each of the potential improvement projects including a plurality of interconnected pipes of the network of interconnected underground pipes, wherein the generation of a potential improvement project is based at least in part on the risk of failure value of each of the pipes included in the potential improvement project, for improving said network of underground pipes accordingly;
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- further comprising postprocessing said plurality of potential improvement projects to merge two or more potential improvement projects into a single potential improvement project.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.