Asset Condition (new posts)

The future of asset condition data collection: Re: The future of asset condition data collection

Mon, 20 Mar 2017 09:55:23 +0000

Hi Wayne!

I realise that this post is over six years old now, but I'm hoping you're still active on this website and will see this response. I believe that this vision is closer now to a reality than most asset managers think. For example, the technology exists through which big datasets on asset condition can be efficiently updated and statistical techniques used to draw correlations between the variables (including some you've mentioned above), and asset condition through time.

Are you still actively involved in managing this website? I'd love to send you a personal email to explain.

CCTV survey of stormwater pipes: CCTV survey of stormwater pipes

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 01:32:36 +0000

Lake Macquarie City Council is about to engage contractors to undertake a CCTV survey of a sample of its stormwater pipes. The purpose of the survey is to determine pipe condition and to estimate the long-term financial requirements to maintain the network in a sustainable manner.
We would greatly appreciate receiving examples of specifications from councils that have undertaken similar surveys. If you can assist, please email the documents to ua.vog.wsn.camekal|reklawg#ua.vog.wsn.camekal|reklawg

The future of asset condition data collection: The future of asset condition data collection

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:59:48 +0000

The relationship between condition and remaining useful life seems to be very complex for most asset types, with factors such as usage, climate, weather, geology, construction technique and many other variables effecting the life of an asset.

I have a very strong suspicion that collecting enough data to build up accurate condition deterioration profiles for most asset types with the technology available today would be prohibitively expensive.

I think for this reason asset management has so far promised more than it can deliver.

I do think there is light at the end of the tunnel though.

Google has recently showed that self driving cars aren't far away, and I think that when it becomes obvious to enough people that computer assisted driving is very much safer than human-in-charge driving not only will automatic cars become more common, their use will eventually be mandated.

http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/10/google-has-robotic-self-driving-cars.html

The Google cars use LIDAR, radar and video cameras to navigate, and I would expect that this technology could be used to simultaneously collect road condition and traffic volume information.

I also believe that with computational power doubling every 18 months (Moore's Law), by the time a reasonable number of these high tech cars are on the road, the cost of compiling, storing and analysing the huge amount of data that would be collected, will be low enough to allow for real time road condition and traffic volume information over entire road networks.

Imagine a report arriving in your inbox every week advising you of the current condition of and the volume of traffic using every single road segment in your municipality.

It is not science fiction. Large fleets of self-driving highly computerised cars are just around the corner. We need to start lobbying now to ensure that they also collect road condition and traffic data for us now.

As Sam Kekovich would say. "You know its true".