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

Claim 15:
16. A method of improving a network of interconnected underground pipes, including by replacing pipes in said network, through projects each including plural pipes in said network, the method comprising:
receiving by a computer system a calculated risk of failure value for each of a plurality of the underground pipes, said value being selected from a range that includes at least 10 different values,
searching through said plurality of assets and generating a plurality of potential improvement projects, each of the potential improvement projects including merging into an individual project a plurality of interconnected pipes of the interconnected network of underground pipes, wherein the generating 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, and improving the network of underground pipes accordingly; and
further comprising postprocessing said plurality of potential improvement projects to add to at least one of the potential projects a pipe that is connected to the plurality of the interconnected pipes of the potential project.