CIPPS 2.0 – Next-Generation IoT Infrastructure Monitoring

CIPPS 2.0 — 下一代物联网基础设施监控

• 批准号: 830284
• 金额: $ 55.97万
• 依托单位: DATATECNICS CORPORATION LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Innovation Loans
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=830284
• 关键词: CIPPS; 2.0; Next; Generation; IoT

Water pipelines globally are ageing assets and, in the majority of cases, in a state of deterioration. As it is difficult to monitor buried, complex assets such as pipes, utilities have little information about the health status of the pipe; this lack of knowledge leads to pipeline failure and water losses.The Critical Infrastructure Pipeline Protection System (CIPPS) provides data-driven forecasts of remaining asset lifetimes and predicts pipeline failure, helping our customers prioritise repairs and extend the lifetime of their asset base by replacing only pipework that is coming to the end of its useful life. CIPPS monitors a metric never gathered before in water pipeline monitoring: strain. Its sensors attach directly to the pipe wall, collect data pertaining to actual structural health and send it to a data acquisition system, from which it is transmitted to self-learning, cloud-based algorithms predicting pipeline health. CIPPS is available as a retrofit solution for existing pipelines as well as an embedded system for new build pipelines, allowing utility companies to assess the health status of their entire network with one unified solution. Bringing together the latest developments in cloud-based AI, hydroinformatics, sensor technology and wireless communications, we have significantly advanced the current state-of-the-art and will help utility companies bring down network distribution losses by an estimated 50%. The UK currently loses ca. 2,954m litres of water each day (discoverwater.org, 2020).We have developed CIPPS Retrofit to TRL7 and deployed it on multiple pipelines including a main serving 30,000 customers and a hospital, owned by the UK's largest listed water company, United Utilities Group plc. All sites are fully operational and transmit data as planned with good accuracy and reliability. Having successfully demonstrated the feasibility of our approach, our aim is to now improve overall system reliability and implement CIPPS across water networks to improve utilities' ability to keep their networks operational for their customers.In preparation for this commercial roll-out on a larger scale we need to improve the performance of the prototypes used in the pilot installations. We plan to use the Innovation Continuity Loan to complete an innovation project (CIPPS 2.0), which will enable the maintenance-free operation of our sensors in the field for the first time and re-design sensor data processing using the latest advancements in electronics, telemetry and artificial intelligence.

全球的供水管道都在老化，而且在大多数情况下都处于恶化状态。由于很难监控埋在地下的复杂资产，如管道，公用事业公司几乎没有关于管道健康状态的信息；这种缺乏知识会导致管道故障和水损失。关键基础设施管道保护系统(CIPPS)提供对剩余资产寿命的数据驱动预测，并预测管道故障，帮助我们的客户确定维修的优先顺序，并通过仅更换即将使用寿命的管道来延长其资产基础的寿命。CIPPS监测了一项以前从未在供水管道监测中收集到的指标：应变。它的传感器直接连接到管壁上，收集与实际结构健康有关的数据，并将其发送到数据采集系统，从数据采集系统将数据传输到预测管道健康的自我学习、基于云的算法。CIPPS既可以作为现有管道的改造解决方案，也可以作为新建管道的嵌入式系统，使公用事业公司能够使用一个统一的解决方案来评估其整个网络的健康状况。汇聚了基于云的人工智能、水信息学、传感器技术和无线通信的最新发展，我们显著推进了当前的最先进水平，并将帮助公用事业公司将网络分布损失降低约50%。英国目前每天损失约29.54亿升水(discoverwater.org，2020)。我们开发了针对TRL7的CIPPS改装，并将其部署在多条管道上，包括为30,000名客户服务的主管道和一家医院，该医院由英国最大的上市水务公司联合公用事业集团拥有。所有站点都已完全投入运行，并按计划传输数据，准确度和可靠性都很好。在成功证明我们的方法的可行性后，我们的目标是现在提高整体系统可靠性，并在供水网络中实施CIPPS，以提高公用事业公司为客户保持其网络运行的能力。为了准备这一更大规模的商业推广，我们需要提高试点安装中使用的原型的性能。我们计划利用创新连续性贷款完成一个创新项目(CIPPS 2.0)，这将使我们的传感器首次能够在现场免维护运行，并利用电子、遥测和人工智能的最新进步重新设计传感器数据处理。