ASSET MANAGEMENT OF WATER DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS

PREDICT AND BE IN CONTROL

Mission

We aim to completely relieve drinking water companies of managing the infrastructure of drinking water distribution with our proprietary asset management software.

We aim to contribute to reducing risks and improving the performance of drinking water distribution within the budgeted CAPEX and OPEX. We apply data science techniques in our own asset management software to fully support water companies in their responsibilities. We aim to achieve the transition from a consultancy to a software company and from a start-up to a scale-up. We aim to become independent of individual talent within our team and allow team members to benefit from the company’s growth. In addition, we are committed to sustainability by working pro bono with selected social organisations.

Vision

In most countries, the existing centralised drinking water production and distribution has been set up between 1850 and 1950. The network assets are ageing and the urgency to replace pipes that no longer perform is increasing. Technical staff tends no longer to work for a utility all their life, and utilities merge and have grown into companies of substantial size. While the investments in replacing water pipes increase, the capacity to make optimal and accountable decisions about investments is decreasing. The networks and data sets are too big to deal with for a single human being, even when he/she would be experienced and educated.

The new generation water and asset experts are used to working with digital solutions. We offer software that brings together tens of years of hands-on and in-depth experience. Software that we have developed in close cooperations with the Dutch drinking water utilities, known for their lowest non-revenue-water ratios worldwide.

By teaming up with our clients Spatial Insight helps to reduce the loss of precious drinking water. With a growing world population, growing wealth and increasing temperature and droughts, we contribute to the increasingly important societal challenge of a safe and uninterrupted drinking water supply.

IWA’s 4-pillar approach

The IWA Water Loss Task Force published a comprehensive approach for thew reduction of non-revenue water (Brothers, K.J., 2002, Water 21, 1). Spatial Insight has embraced this approach. With our software and consultancy we are contributing to ‘pipeline and asset management’ and ‘pressure management’.

ISO55001

The international standard for asset management ISO55001 describes that asset management is not limited to the activities of the asset manager, but includes the involvement of the asset owner, procurement, maintenance crew, financial experts, ICT, data experts, etc. It is a companywide approach with a ‘line of sight’ from board level to service and execution and back. The software and consultancy of Spatial Insight contributes to ‘Asset Information’, ‘Asset Management Decision Making’, and ‘Strategy & Planning’.

Optimal and accountable decisions

We know how distribution networks work, how to design them, how to operate them and when to replace them. In Spatial Insight we are bringing together three fields of expertise: data science, GIS and knowledge of water distribution. The majority of our team has previously worked for Dutch drinking water utilities.

We know that the most powerful predictor of future leakages are historic leakages. Our clients save costs on sensor placement, acquisition of satellite images or condition assessment. We will find the information in the historic leakages’ data and asset data. So work efficient, and work effective: use already available data and make optimal and accountable decisions.

We serve all Dutch drinking water utilities and water utilities in Italy and Austria. Contact us for a demonstration on your own data.

Technical solutions

We deliver software SI-Rehab that calculates the risk of failure for each pipe segment in the water network. We deliver decision support software BetsNet that merges different pipe replacement models, including your existing rehabilitation models. BestNet compares investment scenarios and builds optimal sized projects to be handed over to the execution department. We deliver SI-Design, software that designs pipes, fully automated and with human-in-the-loop. And in The Netherlands we offer SynergieNL, an online platform to align projects with other external stakeholders.

Richard Peerboom, Senior Advisor Water Supply (WML)
"We have embraced data driven asset management. We make optimal decisions about pipe renewal, based upon well structured data."

Risk reduction and CAPEX optimisation

Where engineers focus on the technical performance of the water distribution, directors of water utilities are held accountable for the financial performance as well. Spatial Insight has shown to be able to bridge between the technical experts responsible for the replacement of the underground infrastructure and managers responsible for the investments. BestNet enables utilities to make optimal and accountable decisions and provide objective arguments to satisfy investors and shareholders to invest in the water infrastructure.

Data security

Most clients of Spatial Insight are considered to be essential for the continuity of our society and will have to comply with the European NIS2 standard for data security. Spatial Insight is working according the requirements of NIS2 ‘Basic’ level and is continuously assessing its procedures and methods.

NEXT STEP
We are looking forward to getting in touch and explore how our expertise and tools can help you in taking the next step in data driven asset management. Contact us by phone or mail to schedule a 30 mins online meeting.
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CONTACT

Ignaz Worm
Int. business developer
Co-owner

+31 6 1396 6446

"It's great to contribute to an uninterrupted water supply worldwide. It's crucial for our health and economy."