Intelligent inspection of bank structures
Together with oQuay, GeoAI built a data-driven inspection system for waterways, based on modular open-source mapping technology combined with several AI image-recognition techniques.
Under the name GeoQuay, damage is detected and placed at the correct geographic position — with links to commonly used asset management systems.
Damage detection · asset management
From waterway to digital maintenance plan
6,500 kilometres of waterways
The Netherlands has some 6,500 kilometres of waterways. Canals and ditches drain surplus water from agricultural and peat areas and connect to the rivers — a large network that needs a lot of maintenance.
Banks are protected against erosion with, for example, timber or steel sheet piling, rock armour or nature-friendly banks. To prevent dangerous situations at high water, these structures are inspected regularly.
Traditional inspection is subjective
Traditional bank inspection is costly. The inventory is often done with paper maps, pen and notepad, sometimes with a GIS app and checklists. These methods give a rough, person-dependent estimate of the bank's condition and remaining service life.
- How damage develops over several years is not visible.
- No comparison is made with the material's degradation statistics.
- Risk-based assessment is not consistent.
Balance performance, risk and cost
A wide variety of bank protections and damage types is detected and automatically positioned as lines on the bank geometries. The location acts as a key and can be used for many kinds of reports.
This lets asset managers better balance performance, risks, choice of measures and costs, and capture them in a digital maintenance plan — with links to common asset management systems.
Innovative inspection
Bank inspection
The bank is captured once with a camera, after which the images are interpreted multiple times by different AI models.
AI models
Trained by experts over several evaluation rounds and continuously validated by inspectors and asset managers. The models therefore predict objectively, based on the collective view of, for example, a damage type.
Automatic detection
Fully automatic, auditable because detections are recorded with segmentation in the image, and re-trainable. Geographic positioning makes year-on-year differences visible.
Benefits of GeoQuay
Cost-saving
GeoQuay saves you unnecessary inspection and maintenance costs.
Consistent and objective
Models are assessed by inspectors and asset managers, giving a uniform damage assessment across scenarios.
Transparent inspections
Linked to the geographic location of structures, so multi-year inspections and degradation become visible.
Asset management integration
Links with asset management systems give better insight into performance, risks, measures and costs.
Make bank inspections objective and transparent?
Meet GeoQuay and discover how AI underpins your asset management and multi-year maintenance plan.