Above Ground Crossing Inspection Mapping

Completed

Other Cross-Cutting Technologies or Research
Fossil Fuels: Oil Gas and Coal(Oil and Gas, Refining, transport and storage of oil and gas)

Applied Research and Development

PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Computer Science and Informatics)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering)

Not Cross-cutting

Project Contact
Cadent Gas

Network Innovation Allowance

Ofgem

01 October 2018

01 August 2019

ENA months

£203,500

Energy

London

Network Innovation Allowance

Project Contact, Cadent Gas

Develop a cost effective technical solution to undertake the visual inspection of pipe bridge structures utilising various technologies to capture, process and store the information relating to the structure and pipeline with the aim of improving asset data quality. The solution aims to provide an efficient and lower cost method to obtain a consistent deliverable that can be uploaded to and accessed via a cloud based solution within Cadent. It is envisaged that the project will be executed utilising the Cadent change management approach with defined success criteria for each of the phases and deliverables.The sanction value is to fund development and testing of an end to end solution for above ground inspection work e.g. pipe crossings. This will then allow us to reduce future costs for current manual techniques which can be around £17k per site. The new solution will also improve access and over time the quality of our site drawings.Currently new technologies are widely used as standard across other industry sectors for inspection e.g. drones, however they still require specialist high end hardware to process and store the digital site records which is the innovative model we are testing.The funding will test the new technique and infrastructure end to end to ensure the accuracy of the new approach when compared to the manual inspection methodology of today.The future benefits will reduce costs associated with inspection work requested by Network Engineering and Asset and Investment Strategy. It should also over time reduce processing time and costs associated with accessing our current records repository as well as improving accuracy and therefore supporting future investment To develop a cost effective solution to undertake the visual inspection of pipe bridge structures utilising various technologies to capture, process and store the information relating to the structure and pipeline. The solution aims to provide an efficient and lower cost method to obtain a consistent deliverable that can be uploaded to and accessed via a cloud based solution within Cadent. The proposed solution shall aim to provide:• Faster Data Capture• Reduction In Inspection time and cost• Consistent and Accurate Deliverable• Remotely Accessible Data via Centralised System For Handling Complex Data Sets• 3D Digital Representation• Improved Health and Safety• Improved Data Quality of Existing Assets

Develop a cost effective technical solution to undertake the visual inspection of pipe bridge structures utilising various technologies to capture, process and store the information relating to the structure and pipeline with the aim of improving asset data quality. The solution aims to provide an efficient and lower cost method to obtain a consistent deliverable that can be uploaded to and accessed via a cloud based solution within Cadent.

02/12/22