Municipalities are constantly on the lookout for ways to optimize budget and increase efficiency. Can-Ex Technologies provides cities and towns with the means to efficiently monitor and survey sewer system assets by centralizing their inspection data through use of the ZIPCAM 360.
“We saw the current process of inspecting sewers as inefficient. Right now, you open the manhole to clean the sewer, jet it, close it, then reopen it to inspect,” says Louis Légaré-Lapointe, Can-Ex Technologies co-founder and one of the inventors of the ZIPCAM 360. “We thought that in the best of worlds, you should be able to do everything in one go, to keep the road closures as short as possible. Not only can the ZIPCAM 360 do everything while only opening the manhole once, it does it at a fast speed, with durability and inspection quality.”
The hydrovac nozzle camera produces a high-end inspection at a much faster speed and much cheaper price than traditional methods, according to Légaré-Lapointe. It works by recording a 360-degree panoramic video without needing manual operation inside the pipe. The distance is displayed right on the video file, meaning the inspection videos it produces can be NASSCO PACP-compliant.
“Comparing it to a nozzle cam wouldn’t do it justice because it offers features such as pan-and-tilt on the video and is centered in the pipe,” he says. “You can’t compare it to a crawler either, since it collects the entire pipe in panoramic, 360-degree 4K HD video, is faster and it requires no manual operation and no truck-mounted inspection unit. It’s the best of both worlds, combining the speed and ease of use of a nozzle camera with the accuracy and quality of a robot crawler.”
The unit effectively streamlines the cleaning and inspection process. Inspections are done passively, as a byproduct of regularly scheduled sewer jetting. Inspection footage is compiled for every pipe that gets cleaned, and the workflow becomes even simpler if the user adopts ZIP suite’s integrated workflow, with web-based analysis software and PACP coding services.
“Since it is very securely connected to your jetter hose by our quick-connect propulsion nozzle, it can work just fine in heavy flow, high water head and high slope environments without needing to worry about being able to get to where it needs to go and making it back out,” says Légaré-Lapointe. info@canex.tech; www.canex.tech
