MERCATO RHETICUS® NETWORK ALERT TO ASSIST UNITED UTILITIES OF ENGLAND United Utilities is responsible for water and wastewater services in the North West of England and adopted recently Rheticus® Network Alert system of Planetek Italia because it can help provide a better service to its customers, improve its activities, and prioritise and optimise maintenance spending. Monitoring the infrastructures' stability is an important activity to ensure people's safety, environmental protection, and the safeguarding of assets at all stages of the life cycle of infrastructures, from design to production, management, and maintenance. Rheticus® Network Alert improves inspection planning and efficiency of water and sewer networks, providing actionable reports of critical pipe segments to prioritise inspection activities and improve inspection efficiency. The service enables predictive maintenance to prevent structural failures by using ground subsidence as an indicator of the likelihood of failure. The millimetre-scale ground movements are calculated, and quarterly updated, through the satellite's radar data processing. The service offers an update and complete view of the entire pipeline network through actionable reports and GeoAnalytics. Inspections and maintenance activities are thus scheduled more efficiently and simplified as a whole. This activity led utilities to unlock cost-effective watersupply and sewer network management. Consequently, customers receive a series of benefits, such as: - Avoid usual inconveniences derived by a network failure (e.g. traffic, road interruptions) - Bill reduction thanks to the predictive maintenance, which avoid utilities to pay a considerable expense for repairing a failure By two years from now, United Utilities foresee a spread adoption of the predictive maintenance approach by utilities and, thus, of Rheticus® Network Alert. www.geoforall.it/kyar9 • An improved version of the backpack, designed for the best ergonomy to increase the comfort of the operator. • A high resolution 360° panoramic camera, compatible with the dedicated car mount and the backpack, to document the environment with incredible image details. The Scanfly family is the payload lidar designed to be multipurpose, easy, and ready to use in just a few steps in drone, car, and backpack mode. Easy to use has always been the Scanfly motto. This new car mounting kit has been completely redesigned under this philosophy and allows deploying the Scanfly in combination with the panoramic camera kit quickly and efficiently. Fixing the plate to the car roof requires less than a minute with the three vacuum cup mounts. Scanfly and the camera are installed and removed with quick-release mechanisms and simple wing nuts. 360° CAR MOUNTING KIT NOW AVAILABLE! 3D TARGET is pleased to announce the release of new add-ons, compatible with all Scanfly models, that were specifically designed with this philosophy in mind. Topics: www.geoforall.it/kyaxd • A brand new car mounting kit series, allowing for an even easier and repeatable installation of Scanfly on the roof of any car available in the market today, it will take less than a minute 36 <strong>GEOmedia</strong> n°3-<strong>2021</strong>
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