Intelligent Repairs: How Smart Cities Benefit from CIPP
As countries work toward greener solutions, the concept of the smart city has gained traction, especially in large cities. Building the infrastructure necessary to sustain a smart city takes advanced technologies, including repair methods that overcome familiar challenges like demolition. And that’s where CIPP repair comes in.
Cured-in-place pipe repair is a game-changer for smart cities, changing the way municipalities address both large-scale and small-scale repair needs. Adopting this trenchless technology, at any stage of smart city development, could save thousands of dollars and hours.
What Makes a Smart City?
A smart city incorporates technology like Internet of Things (IoT) devices to monitor utilities and resource use in real time. Along with data analytics, whole-city connectivity, and more efficient transportation, smart cities reduce carbon emissions and energy consumption while improving quality of life for residents.
Intelligent Infrastructure
At the foundation of smart cities is the use of IoT tech and data to power decision making throughout the smart city. This underlying technology allows public works to proactively address repair needs, maintenance issues, and potential improvements for better resource management.
Efficient Services
Innovations like trash level sensors can stretch the service area for waste management without stressing workloads, and sensors in water and electric utilities can reroute loads for higher demands at different locations and times.
Enhanced Public Safety
Camera systems in public areas can be interlinked with citywide broadband and narrowband communication, providing better public safety response times.
Smart Transportation
Along with data-streamlined public transit systems, smart cities also utilize dynamic traffic signals to improve traffic flow and congestion automatically as use changes throughout the day.
Connectivity and Communication
Citywide access to public WiFi makes it easy and convenient for residents to stay connected anywhere they go, whether at shops, visiting friends, or spending time in parks or public squares.
Sustainability and Environment
Underpinning all of these conveniences is the goal of building a more sustainable and environmentally friendly city. Every choice, from the tech used for connecting residents to repair and maintenance methods, comes back to environmental sustainability.
For pipe repair, CIPP is the ideal fit for smart city infrastructure. And not just after the building stages.
How Does CIPP Work for Smart City Infrastructure?
The earliest stages of smart city development, all the way through the long-term sustainability decades later, benefit from CIPP’s fast, low-carbon, and inexpensive repairs.
Development Stages
During development, CIPP can repair old sewer and supply lines without tearing out significant interruptions to in-use infrastructure. As the buried pipelines are rehabbed for 50+ years of continued use, residents can still drive through neighborhoods, use their homes, and keep their daily lives relatively normal.
For large-scale rehab projects, CIPP shortens timelines by months compared to trenching while reducing lifetime costs.
Operating Stages
CIPP repairs allow smart cities to continue rehabilitating pipes as they age without destroying the new infrastructure. These less invasive repairs still provide a half-century of use with less downtime for both public and private projects.
Future-Proofing Infrastructure
The long life expectancy of CIPP repairs helps smart cities keep utilities operational for longer. Cities can reduce carbon emissions from additional repairs and improve service and convenience through CIPP’s fast and noninvasive process.
Cost Analysis: CIPP vs Trenching
CIPP has many benefits for smart city infrastructure, but what does it look like for cost?
Initial Investment
Compared to trenching and replacement, CIPP repair tends to require a higher initial investment. The equipment, materials, and training necessary to provide widespread repairs can feel like a massive investment when project managers are trying to keep costs minimal. But that initial investment has a lasting impact.
Long-Term ROI
While initial costs may be higher than trenching, the long-term ROI for cured-in-place pipe repair is as much as 30% lower. The short game may lean toward a more cost-effective solution like trenching, but smart city project managers see a much better return over decades of use.
Cost Comparison: Trenchless vs CIPP
Digging and replacing pipes with open excavation provides the less expensive option initially, but as municipalities continue to update infrastructure, the initial investment for CIPP equipment begins making up for the difference quickly. CIPP leads to:
50% shorter timelines
40% reduction in carbon emissions
30% lifetime cost reduction
That puts CIPP in a unique position to offer more benefits than trenching, pipe bursting, or slip lining in smart city projects.
How Do CIPP Repair Companies Prepare to Capitalize on Smart City Projects?
Ready to step into the smart city market? We’re ready to help you out!
Customized Training
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Customer Support Beyond the Sale
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