Towards proactive maintenance of buried infrastructure with cloud-based sensing and predictive analytics

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The condition of buried infrastructure including water, wastewater, and storm water networks is of great importance to people’s quality of life and has strong environmental, economic and social implications. A recent municipal buried infrastructure survey across Canada identified water pollution, safety and state of water supply systems as the greatest issues to this country. City water leaks are wasting millions of tax dollars. Utilities are addressing these issues primarily with a reactive approach. A performance-based approach is needed to identify if individual water pipelines meet the required level of service. However, performance-based management of these buried assets has historically not been performed due to technical and financial limitations. A proactive, uniform, and systematic approach for maintenance of buried infrastructure would be more efficient and preferred.