Optimize valve closure management with effective planning
Utility outages can be a significant challenge, for both utility managers and consumers. When performing utility work, it is essential to minimize downtime and the inconvenience that comes with it. Without careful planning, even a short-term interruption can frustrate consumers and disrupt your operations.
With Envidan’s Valve Closure Plan service, you can effectively navigate the challenges posed by interruptions in the supply network.
What are the benefits of a valve closure plan?
A valve closure plan enables you to quickly and accurately inform consumers about upcoming outages, reducing frustration and maintaining trust. At the same time, you optimize the valve closure process to ensure faster restoration of supply and reduce downtime.
The plan provides a clear overview of your valve settings and increase safety by making it easier to detect and handle faulty valves in time. It improves your ability to plan piping work more efficiently so you can minimize disruptions and ensure stable operations.
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Effective communication
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Reduced downtime
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Increased security
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Improved planning
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Minimizing frustration from citizens
Features in the valve closure plan
- Automatically identify required valves and affected addresses using GPS location or entered address.
- Select the disconnected lines and addresses in the map or via list lookups based on actual conditions and availability of active valves.
- Send SMS messages directly from the valve closure plan to all affected addresses with information about the outage when integrating with Blue Idea.
- Export data to PDF and Excel.
- Choose between different designation methods to get lists of mandatory and optional valves for shut-off, respectively.
- Follow up on any forgotten or defective valves.
What to do if a pipe leaks
- Operators drive to ABC-vej 3 and locate the leak.
- Operators open the valve closure plan on a tablet or other mobile device and the location of the leak is shown with a background map from Google.
- The affected line is selected by clicking on the map in the valve closure plan and the event is created as a line leak.
- The system displays a graphical overview of which valves need to be closed to encapsulate the leak, and which addresses are affected.
- The operators close the valves.
- Operators export the affected addresses directly from the valve closure plan and notify citizens via SMS about the lack of water.
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Can I use the Valve Closure Plan service with other products?
Yes!
The Valve Closure Plan service can be used with the Rehab-IT tool. The more data you enter in the Valve Closure Plan, the better data you have to find the best time to renew your pipes. Read more about Rehab-IT here…
In addition, the Valve Closure Plan provides access to the Leak Detection service, so you can also perform leakage detection in a single workflow. Read more about Leak detection here…
The Valve Closure Plan service is part of the EnviDrift software solution, which has a number of other beneficial core features. Read more about EnviDrift here…
