Initiating a stormwater sewer inspection program, Loveland researched solutions for performing storm sewer inspections, and ITpipes emerged as the best choice to help the city get its vital stormwater asset condition data into GIS. The ITpipes platform consists of ITpipes Mobile, ITpipes Web, and ITpipes Sync and consumes Esri feature services. Together, Esri and ITpipes provided the city with powerful ArcGIS mapping tools, pipeline analytics visualization technology, and instant access to comprehensive pipe inspection information.
Inspections on stormwater assets installed before 1987 were prioritized due to their age. Because of the ITpipes and Esri integration, field inspectors are able to use GIS attribute information to filter data by the age of the assets and then select the asset to inspect. This automatically prepopulates the asset header info in ITpipes Mobile in the field, allowing the crew to inspect up to 10 pipes per day. Overnight, ITpipes Sync automatically moves the day's inspection data and GIS corrections from ITpipes Mobile to browser-based ITpipes Web for staff in the office. Since the sync is bidirectional, it subsequently also moves items like map updates or assigned work orders from ITpipes Web in the office to ITpipes Mobile in the field.
"Rarely a day goes by that we don't use ITpipes [technology] and Esri ArcGIS to answer a question about the status of a pipe; verify asset locations; or respond to an immediate, vital issue."—Eric Wilson, Senior GIS Specialist, City of Loveland