Fire Hydrant Maintenance

A comprehensive GIS solution to conduct field inspections of fire hydrants, manage network compliance, and share real-time water point availability with emergency services.

To ensure the safety of its territory, Calédonienne des Eaux needed to modernize and secure the monitoring of its fire hydrant network. Faced with the delays and data loss associated with legacy field surveys, the challenge was to digitize inspections to effectively manage operations, while providing firefighters with immediate access to the real-time status of water points.

Solution:

Field Maps and Survey123 mobile app

Field side (Data Collection): The Field Maps application allows technicians to easily locate equipment. To facilitate the digital transition, the integrated Survey123 form faithfully replicates their historical paper form. Additionally, it is automatically pre-populated with data from the previous maintenance, ensuring significant time savings during mobile data entry.

Experience Builder web interface

Web side (Control): We implemented an Experience Builder application coupled with a Python script. This custom tool allows for the generation of Excel exports for statistical analysis, as well as dynamic and formatted PDF sheets, facilitating the dispatch of paper reports on demand.

Management Dashboard
**Management side (Analysis)**: The **_Dashboard_**, equipped with advanced statistics and filters, provides a comprehensive overview of field inspection progress against the objectives of the annual charter. It also allows for real-time analysis of the network's condition to instantly identify unusable hydrants and the reasons for their unavailability.