Westminster City Council's Drainage CCTV Solution Powered with AI
- Review of all gullies and lateral pipes
- All drainage asset condition data provided
- Integrated visual view of the network
About the Client
Westminster City Council is the local authority for the City of Westminster in Greater London, England. It is a London borough council, one of 32 in London. The council has its main offices at Westminster City Hall on Victoria Street.
The Challenge & Opportunity
Because of the 2021 floods in London, the Westminster City Council deemed it necessary to do a comprehensive review and evaluation of all gullies and lateral pipes in the network. This was in response to the extreme weather event, and the city council aimed to have every lateral pipe and asset examined through CCTV surveys to ensure they were functioning at full capacity.
Following a cost-benefit business, Westminster City Council were provided the resources to trial VAPAR's platform with integration to their Confirm, the council’s asset management system, (supplied by Brightly Software).
Lateral pipes which connect the gully to the combined sewer would be CCTV surveyed to assess the overall condition of the drainage system. This records video footage and captures data within the network.
The Solution
The core elements included:
- Obtain the footage from the CCTV contractors
- Upload and process them via VAPAR.Solutions
- Asset Owner review of the asset conditional defects and repair recommendations
- Integrate them into the Confirm platform.
Results
VAPAR provided value-add assistance by mapping the assets and associated defects, presenting Westminster City Councils with an integrated visual view of their network.
Westminster City Council now has access to all their drainage asset condition data and can integrate this to their asset management toolset for follow-on work activities.
VAPAR’s technology can assist Westminster City Council to streamline various administrative coding tasks, reducing the time and effort required to manage the network. This allows the council to handle more inquiries efficiently and effectively.
VAPAR is looking to provide a platform to allow Westminster City Council to see all the CCTV video footage plus the resultant asset condition and suggested defect resolution. This also allow the seamless integration to their Asset Management solution.
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“VAPAR has helped us understand the complexity of using AI for CCTV review, and we are now better positioned to start implementing this technology to improve data quality and asset management processes.”
“As this is a true digital solution we were able to complete the first trial despite the current pandemic through true global collaboration. We have had some extremely promising results from the initial work and look forward with the potential expand the trials.”
“VAPAR provides accurate and effective condition rating to council’s stormwater CCTV video, allowing for significant cost and time savings.”
“We’ve discovered so many improvements and efficiencies using VAPAR as opposed to keeping the status quo. We are really setting ourselves up for success well into the future.”
"The work Trility carried out for CCTV inspection assessments / analysis would usually take months to complete. With the implementation of Vapar, the same task took just weeks.”
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