The Pipe Tracer geolocation system brings significant operational advantages to utilities, impacting moderately on the extra cost for project execution borne by the contractor. It represents an optimal trade-off between costs and benefits.
In this regard, companies SOLIMENO, BICICCHI, and CERAGIOLI have won important tenders in the TUSCANY REGION by proposing this innovative system for georeferencing underground pipelines to contracting authorities (GAIA and NUOVE ACQUE). Network managers also need to carry out fast and cost-effective interventions while minimizing disruption to the populations in affected areas (excavations on roads and/or sidewalks), thereby avoiding damage to other underground infrastructures and service interruptions.
With Pipe Tracer, there is effectively a perfectly traceable infrastructure mapped in terms of both plan and altitude (3D coordinates), with a high degree of precision, regardless of the type, diameter, and material of the pipes to be traced. This ensures the operators to avoid any damages to the existing buried networks.