The City of Vancouver has awarded a three-year contract for real-time data monitoring software to infinitii ai inc., following a competitive bid process. This contract will enhance the city’s ability to monitor and manage its sewer and drainage systems, ensuring better water quality and infrastructure management.
Vancouver’s Integrated Sewer and Drainage Planning branch, which manages data from various monitoring locations, required a system compatible with existing equipment and capable of advanced data analysis, including machine learning for predictive maintenance. infinitii ai’s software met these needs, offering cloud-based solutions that eliminate the need for physical server installations.
Critical requirements for a “Sewer and Drainage Monitoring Data Management & Analysis Tool” for the City of Vancouver included the following criteria:
- The solution supports communication with all common brands of loggers, sensors, and other monitoring devices in the sewer, drainage, and water quality industry in North America. This includes equipment from ADS, Telog, and Hach
- Required sewer, storm, and water quality data concepts should include but are not limited to time series, field measurements, and real time data derivation and statistical analyses that are relevant to municipal sewer and drainage utilities
- The software will be supplied to the City with cloud storage included, and no physical server installation will be required
Future requirements included the following criteria:
- Automated quality assurance and control validation procedures such as outlier detection
- Allowance for the use of custom scripts in standard scripting language like Python
- Machine learning capabilities for applications such as blockage prediction
