Traditionally, water utility districts managed underground infrastructure on a haphazard basis. Managers relied on visual occurrences and reports from the public about problems and sent field crew to fix pipeline leaks and ruptures as they happened. The unpredictability of pipeline leaks and failures was costly, and water utility managers had no way of conducting pipeline assessments to prevent future breaches.
Today, Artificial Intelligence (AI), in conjunction with the Internet of Things (IoT), helps water utility district officials to predict the likelihood of pipeline leaks.