Ziptility is purpose-built software for utilities. Map assets, complete locates, work orders, customer requests, and maintenance with a single solution.
Schedule A DemoUtility Management Software allows you to direct, control, and empower your staff to create a stronger, more efficient utility. From having a cohesive visualization of all your assets, with every facet of them being searchable, you will also be able to schedule work, and improve your field crew's productivity with a tool that they will love to use. Leverage the collective expertise and knowledge of every crew member in your utility.
Your customers depend on your team, to provide them safe and affordable water. Water is essential for our survival. The distribution of potable water and the collection of water naturally through stormwater solutions, or the collection of it from waste in wastewater systems is crucial to a high-quality living standard. Water is a finite resource that we must protect.
With more and higher compliance standards coming from federal organizations like the EPA, the job of the water operator has become significantly more difficult.
Especially in rural areas where they are faced with four key factors:
These factors of the federal government requiring water utility operators to do more with all of the other macro trends, is making it increasingly difficult to manage water utilities well.
One of the most critical innovations in the utility has been the introduction of cloud-based GIS software.
Having real-time access to GIS maps of your assets is critical to effectively water utility management. But knowing where something is, doesn't mean that you're actually managing it, but that you're knowledgable of it being there.
There are many different types of assets that you have in your system, that all have very different needs like:
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Not to mention people, trucks, buildings, motors, pumps, facilities, equipment, and other things you need to manage like backflow prevention monitoring, survey test, smoke surveys, inspections, lead and copper sanitary tests, and many other things.
These information about these assets are important to office managers, engineers, vendors, contractors, excavators, pipe distributors and so many other people.
How are you managing all of these things?
Having multiple software solutions, with different licenses, different versions, and different user interfaces makes your job harder and not simpler. That's why you need an all-in-one solution like Ziptility that makes it easy for you to manage your utility, in one easy to use asset management software.
With modern utility asset management software you should be able to see a full asset history of everything that's been done to a particular asset. For a hydrant you might see a full history of hydrant flow tests, repairs to the hydrant like replacing a chain or a gasket, and then you should also see tests on there, like their latest fire inspection tests. Making sure your hydrants are fully functional is critical for the fire department in case of an emergency.
Also, it's critical for other members in the water utility to see as well. Full visibility into every decision, and all work done on an asset is critical for effective water utility management.
Your utility asset management software should be flexible enough to allow users to set reminders for themselves to come back and do work at a later date. It should also make it simple for them to assign work to other teammates if they need help, or if they know someone else is more qualified to do a particular job or repair.
It's also a good practice to retroactively go back and add work that's been completed in the past just to ensure that everyone is on the same page, when it comes to managing the utility effectively.
Asset Management Plans are now being required by state legislative bodies as requirements to receive certain types of federal funding, aimed at investing in critical water infrastructure.
They are typically required to be developed or signed off by a certified or approved civil engineering firm. There are many components that go into creating a solid asset management plan but the five most critical factors are understanding the age, condition, criticality of failure, business risk exposure, cost to replace, and what has been done last.
Being able to capture these critical pieces of information along with media files like images and videos like CCTV, make it easier for these firms to provide an accurate assessment of where your assets are but then also to help you craft forward looking documents to help you allocate capital. These plans lay out details surrounding the upgrades or replacements that need to be made to your infrastructure.
Having a proper water utility asset management software that provides mobile app functionality, makes this process much simpler and ultimately saves the water utility on costs to hire the engineering firm, but also costs down the road associated reactive maintenance that comes with emergency repairs.
811 locates are a pain, but all operators are required to do them, plus you just don't want some random person carving right through your main line. It's an essential service that not only protects the public and consumers from costly main breaks, they also ensure that you can continue to deliver critical water utility services.
Here are 5 things that your modern 811 locate software should have:
Here are list of the top things that you can do with Utility Asset Management Software: