Legacy data provides wastewater professionals the opportunity to review the history of defects for a given section, monitor rates of deterioration, and make more informed decisions on when and how to repair infrastructure. However, the condition of legacy data makes a significant difference in the value that it provides to municipalities. In particular, data security, accessibility and quality are all crucial to successfully managing wastewater infrastructure and sustaining data hygiene.

The collection and transportation of wastewater to treatment plants is an essential task of public infrastructure, but what exactly is wastewater? In the broadest sense, wastewater is any water that has been put through residential, commercial or industrial use. But depending on the surrounding environment, wastewater may include any varieties of runoff that finds its way into sewer mains, and when mixed with the endless variety of human, animal and industrial waste produced by local residents and businesses, the result is a potentially toxic concoction that has as much potential to harm the local environment as it does to be cleaned and made into new drinking water.

Coding standards help wastewater professionals keep data organized, communicate more effectively, and ensure regulatory compliance. By providing a standard method of identification and classification, standards like those detailed in NASSCO’s Pipeline Assessment Certification Program (PACP) provide common ground for municipalities and contractors who may otherwise inspect and code to internal standards rather than those of the region they are in.

We are excited to welcome our new regional sales manager, Roger Roesselet, to the WinCan family. Roger brings a wealth of experience to our team and will be responsible for sales in the DACH region, as well as business development worldwide. 

WinCan’s integration with Cityworks asset management platform gives you the flexibility to streamline your workflow and ensures you always have industry-leading tools at your fingertips. But with over 10 years of history, our partnership with Cityworks runs deeper than our integration.

WinCan’s new MACP reference poster can be used to help your inspection team easily identify the components of a manhole and properly code defects.

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes a watchword in the wastewater industry, WinCan is continuing to optimize the image processing and machine learning algorithms in its Sewermatics AI toolkit.

WinCan VX enables users to customize their WinCan experience to work more productively on a variety of tasks.

With an intuitive UI in mind, our developers have worked hard to make WinCan VX accessible and flexible. Whether you need to increase the size of text in section data or want to hide/unhide specific interface elements to accommodate your workflow, you can easily move individual windows; switch to preset workspaces; adjust text font and size for improved readability; and even group section data for more streamlined navigation—all from within WinCan’s “Views” tab.

One of the most common questions we hear from contractors and municipalities who are considering switching to WinCan is what will happen to years of legacy data already logged and archived in different software? With WinCan’s seamless migration and conversion services, you can free inspection data that’s trapped in your current software and retain its integrity for future use.

Wastewater systems allow communities around the world to manage wastewater and keep public areas clean, healthy and habitable. Sewer pipes, the conduits for the removal of waste, are the most fundamental piece of this essential infrastructure.