Xylem, a water technology company working to solve water challenges, has joined forces with Esri, a location intelligence company. Working together, the two companies will pursue joint technical road mapping, solution development, joint marketing and collaborative selling.
Xylem’s Chief Innovation Officer, Dave Flinton said: “Xylem is the technology innovation leader in the water industry, and Esri is the renowned leader in geographic information systems (GIS). It’s a great match, especially as water operators pursue the digital transformation of their infrastructure. Working together, we can help our customers realize dramatic operational improvements by integrating various sources of data more effectively and efficiently. This better visibility and analysis will help utilities optimize their water networks even more.”
Esri’s Director Global Water Practice, David Wachal said: “We look forward to our continued joint customer commitment with Xylem to solve global water and wastewater challenges by providing innovative solutions and services. Xylem and Esri are combining GIS, visualization, analytics, real-time data and the deep industry knowledge to solve problems across the water cycle.”
In a recent collaboration for a US water utility, Xylem and Esri deployed artificial-intelligence (AI)-powered pipeline analysis technology to reduce costs by $70 million – or nearly 80% — and bring down pipeline failures by 400%. The approach was one of the first in North America to effectively model the future of the water network, and reliably predict pipe failures before they happen. The breakthrough came from deploying an AI-based solution from Xylem to analyse data from the utility’s system built on Esri’s ArcGIS® Enterprise. Results allow water operators to prioritize and stage pipeline replacement, lowering costs and reducing customer impacts by targeting the most critical and deteriorated pipes.
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