Patent ID: 11893546
Assignee: FRACTA
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 18:
19. A system for improving a network of interconnected underground pipes, including by replacing pipes of said network, through projects each including plural pipes of said network, the system comprising:
a database that stores a calculated risk of failure value for each of a plurality of the pipes, said value being selected from a range that includes at least 10 different values;
a processing system configured to automatically search through said plurality of pipes and generate a plurality of potential improvement projects, each of the potential improvement projects including a plurality of interconnected pipes of the network of interconnected underground pipes, wherein the generation of a potential improvement project is based at least in part on the risk of failure value of each of the pipes included in the potential improvement project, for improving said network of underground pipes accordingly; and
further comprising postprocessing said plurality of potential improvement projects to merge two or more potential improvement projects into a single potential improvement project.