AI for smart gas network management

Use case

Making gas networks safer, reducing waste, and improving environmental impact

Opportunity

Speeding up the digitalization of the sector with a data-driven approach to create a sustainable, interconnected, and inclusive ecosystem capable of monitoring networks and plants, reducing waste and inefficiencies.

Challenge

Digital twins of the gas network, fully accessible via the web, for analysis and decision support, for continuous monitoring, preventive maintenance, subnet zoning, and simulations, using:

• workforce management to plan work activities and collect information from the workplace
• GIS technologies for maps, geostatistical indicators, and thematic layers
• fluid dynamics modeling and processing of network schemes
• advanced asset management with interactive cards and augmented reality
• detection and assessment of leaks
• physical-mathematical models to evaluate how different scenarios affect a complex system.

Solution

The solutions for analysis and decision support consist of a system fully accessible via the web, designed to provide effective answers to the needs of gas distribution operators.

By integrating digital representations of the network, IoT sensor data, workforce management systems, and analytics and reporting tools, the software creates a true “digital twin” of the gas network, allowing continuous monitoring, preventive maintenance, segmentation into subnetworks, and the ability to run simulations.