The VAPAR Team Continues to Grow - Welcome Mark Lee! VAPAR recently brought on former Senior Asset Engineer, Mark to help give us new insights on how to deliver value to our customers. Mark has spent more than a decade as an engineer managing t ...
Top 5 technologies accelerating CCTV pipe inspection turnaround
Top 5 technologies accelerating CCTV pipe inspection turnaround Inspection camera being lowered into sewer manhole for 3D digital examination As the old adage goes, time is money. A significant amount of the cost for CCTV pipe inspections can be a ...
Our CTO, Michelle, has been named a ‘Women in AI Awards 2021’ Finalist!
Our CTO, Michelle, has been named a 'Women in AI Awards 2021' Finalist! Exciting news - VAPAR CTO and Co-Founder, Michelle Aguilar, has been recognised as a finalist in the Women in AI (WAI) Awards for 2021, in the ‘AI in Innovation’ category. ...
VAPAR named one of SmartCompany’s Top ’10 Startups to Watch in 2021′
VAPAR named one of SmartCompany's Top '10 Startups to Watch in 2021' If the opinion of SmartCompany is anything to go by, 2021 is going to be the best year ever for VAPAR. Recently, the leading digital publication has recognised VAPAR as one of th ...
How to capture AI-friendly Pipe Inspection Footage
How to capture AI-friendly Pipe Inspection Footage As VAPAR’s CTO, it’s safe to say I’ve got a good familiarity with which inspection footage works well (and which doesn’t) for automated pipe inspections using artificial intelligence (AI). Over ...
VAPAR wins Future Water Association’s ‘Water Dragons’ Award
VAPAR wins Future Water Association's 'Water Dragons' Award Rounding out an exciting year for VAPAR in 2020, we are very pleased to announce that we have been recognised by the Future Water Association as the Winner of their flagship 'Water Dragons' a ...
What data says about service defects in sewer pipes (and how to prevent them)
What data says about service defects in sewer pipes (and how to prevent them) Back in October, we published a blog outlining the most common structural defect types within sewer pipe infrastructure, according to a data set of around 30 km which we’d ...
Deep learning solutions in CCTV pipe inspections
Deep learning solutions in CCTV pipe inspections Recently, I wrote a piece describing some of the machine learning challenges which I’d encountered during my time working with stormwater and sewer pipe inspection footage at VAPAR. Like any other indu ...
Pipes bring unique machine learning challenges. How can we overcome these?
Pipes bring unique machine learning challenges. How can we overcome these? I joined VAPAR as their Lead Data Scientist in May, meaning that I’ve just passed my first six months as a ‘Vaparino’. So far, it’s been a really interesting journey; the water ...
Why do sewer pipes break? Here’s what the data actually says.
Why do sewer pipes break? Here's what the data actually says In May, VAPAR completed a data-dive to check out the most common defects found in stormwater pipe infrastructure. More importantly, we provided recommendations based on this data t ...