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Electro Scan represents the next generation of leak detection. Just like the initial introduction of closed-circuit television inspection nearly fifty years ago, electro scan redefines the way a municipal sewer utility can identify and prioritize its critical pipes. Not only does it represent a new dawn in assessment technologies, but Electro Scan eliminates the need for operators to make visual assessments of sanitary sewer defects.

Offering reports to fit every budget, Electro Scan offers a tiered approach to reporting, including:

• Basic Reports – Displaying realtime recordings as data is surveyed within the sewer pipe, including a Pass/Fail determination and Smartphone final display to visually show to your customer or supervisor. Free of charge with all software updates available for twelve months as part of Electro Scan’s Basic Support Plan.

• Hardcopy Reports – Able to generate reports to a ruggedized field printer, similar to a car rental return receipt, that can be printed out and given to your customer. Requires the Electro Scan Zebra RW-420 Field Printer.

• Cloud-computing Reports- Able to either print a hardcopy report to a ruggedized printer or electronically transfer data to the Electro Scan cloud computing application for office personnel to review online and recommend repairs. Cloud computing reporting is more than just storing electro scan readings from your Smartphone — it’s a whole new paradigm in advanced data analytics that allows users to map electron scan readings to specific joints, compare electro scan readings to historical CCTV inspections, and allow executives a private benchmarking of results to be displayed by field worker or employee, severity, and other key performance metrics. Requires either a Premium Support Plan or PremiumPLUS Support Plan.

Designed for Commercial Plumbers, Sewer Contractors, and Municipal Sewer Utilities, Electro Scan is the only vendor able to offer a 360-degree view of your customer.

Designed to work in the rugged outdoor environment, Electro Scan offers and supports the Zebra RW-420 Printer, ideal for printing sewer electro scan data for residential and commercial customers. Available as an option, the Electro Scan’s partnership with the Zebra RW-402′s was based on its modular design allowing users to communicate with the Electro Scan Smartphone app, supporting either the Apple iPhone or Android operating systems, via Bluetooth® communications.

Electro Scan’s Zebra RW-420 uses a lithium battery that can be charged by either an optional AC adapter, an optional cigarette lighter adabptor, or rack mounted in-vehicle mounted charging unit.

Electro Scan selected the Zebra RW-420 since it is the only mobile printer to meet the stringent IP54 dust and water resistance rating, and able to withstand the harsh demands of commercial plumbing and sewer contracting environment.

Operating and Structural Information

• Date
• Time
• Operator ID
• Company
• Upstream and Downstream Manhole Number
• GPS Start and End Locations
• Location Type
• Street Address (i.e. Upstream Manhole, Sewer Clean-Out)
• Distance between the center of the start manhole and end manhole
• Length of Pipe
• Offset Start — Distance between the center of the start MH and the center of the sonde at the start of the test
• Offset End — Distance between the center of the end MH and the center of the sonde at the end of the test
• Direction, either Upstream or Downstream Direction that the Probe is pulled through the Pipe during the Test, relative to sewer flow
• Pipe Plug Method
• Percentage of Flow in the Pipe before the Pipe is Plugged
• Material Type
• Pipe Diameter
• Pipe Shape
• Surface Cover Type
• Service Type
• Ground Condition
• Soil Type
• Probe Size
• Cradle Size
• Obstructed Pipe Sections
• Probe Size Selection

Defect Measurements

• Defect Measurement — Recorded to the nearest 0.1 ft. (0.1m)
• Test Distance Offsets — The middle of the probe detects the pipe defects. At the start of the test, the probe is usually placed in the pipe and the middle of the probe is usually offset from the center of the manhole. This distance is called the “start offset” and is measured and recorded so that defects are located correctly on the survey record. Similarly, there is an “end offset.” This is also be measured and recorded so a comparison check can be made between the sewer length recorded by the test and the measured sewer length.
• Test Description — Representing the digital record for each test, including a variety of Customer Location, Structural Information, and Condition Assessment data.

Designed as a rugged, outdoor mobile printer, Electro Scan offers and supports the Zebra RW-420 Printer, ideal for printing sewer electro scan data for customer inspections. Available as an option to Electro Scan customers, the Zebra RW-402′s modular design allows users to communicate to the Electro Scan Smartphone, either an Apple iPhone or Android Smartphone, via Bluetooth® communications.

Electro Scan’s Zebra RW-420 uses a lithium battery that can be charged by either an optional AC adapter, cigarette lighter adaptor, or rack mounted in-vehicle mounted charging unit.

Electro Scan selected the Zebra RW-420 since it is the only mobile printer to meet the stringent IP54 dust and water resistance rating, and able to withstand the harsh demands of commercial plumbing and sewer contracting environment.

Key features of Electro Scan’s Zebra RW-420, includes:

• Print method: Direct thermal
• Construction: Impact-modified polycarbonate with fused oil-and-abrasion-resistant rubber overmold (six-foot drop protection)
• Smart battery management (monitors battery for longer life and performance)
• 4 button angled LCD (standard)
• Resident scalable fonts
• Media sensors: Bar, gap
• Advanced 32 bit architecture for high-speed processing
• Standard Serial and USB interfaces
• Programming Language: Native CPCL, ZPL, EPL and XML support(standard)
• Resolution:  203 dpi (8 dots/mm)
• Print Speed: 3″ (76MM)/sec
• Operating temperature: -4° F (-20° C) to 131° F (55° C) Direct thermal
• Storage temperature: -22° F (-30° C) to 149° F (65° C)
• Operating and storage humidity: 10-90% non-condensing
• Shock mounted internal components
• Standard cable connection: RS-232, RJ-45 10 pin
• Auto-detect firmware load

Designed for Commercial Plumbers, Sewer Contractors, and Municipal Sewer Utilities, Electro Scan’s Critical Sewers Cloud Computing app allows your data to be stored, accessed, and presented, like never before. Reports from the field are uploaded to Electro Scan’s Critical Sewers Cloud Computing application, for management analysis and reporting.

Key features include:

• Executive Dashboard – The ability to display a Dashboard of management reports, including easy to see dials, charts, and graphs representing all electro scans generated from the field. Since Electro Scan has adopted an industry standard multi-tenant architecture, customers will only see information transmitted from their own electro scan devices with the ability to display tables by Date, Location, Operator, Scan Measurements, and Severity. Office personnel can easily access up to the minute electro scan results and drill down into the data to see specific details of any electro scan. They will be able to access a digital ortho of the surroundings where the scan took place so the service operator can meet the customer and propose additional services to correct problems.

• Electro Scan Analysis & Reporting – The ability to either print a hardcopy report to a ruggedized printer or electronically transfer data to the Electro Scan cloud computing application for office personnel to review online and recommend repairs. Cloud computing reporting is more than just storing electro scan readings from your Smartphone — its a whole new paradigm in advanced data analytics that allows users to map electron scan readings to specific joints, compare electro scan readings to historical CCTV inspections, and allows executives to view a private benchmarking of results that can be displayed by field worker or employee, severity, and other key performance metrics. Requires either a Premium Support Plan or PremiumPLUS Support Plan.
• Reverse Plot Direction. The trace display can be reversed so that the Start manhole (MH) becomes the End MH, and vice versa. When the trace is reversed, the locations of joints, anomalies, pressure tests, CCTV observations, etc., are all reversed to preserve their relationships with each other.
• Threshold Levels and Grading. Variations of the electric current over distance is recorded and displayed as a plot. This is called a scan. Analysis of the scan is carried out by selecting a level just below the smallest defects. This is the threshold level. Anomalies are regions on the plot where the levels recorded are above a threshold level. The location and length of an anomaly shows a defect. A defect’s size is graded as large, medium or small according to the electrical measurement. Scan measurements are relative to the segment of pipe being scanned based pipe size, composition and ground conditions.
• Pipe Joint Anomalies. Scan anomalies associated with pipe joints are identified as part of the analysis. This allows anomalies from structural defects to be categorized. These defects include service connections and pipe cracks that leak. Most pipe joints have a standard length of 3’, 4’, 5’, etc. These lengths may vary depending on the manufacturer. This difference can be significant when plotting joint markers at a fixed interval over 50 or so pipe lengths. Pipe joint anomalies that correspond with pipe length are plotted as regular intervals.
• Pipe Joint Fitting & Plotting. Adjustments are made for the scaling, offsets, threshold, grading, and plot direction. This can be easily changed after the analysis. Small adjustments can be made so that the joint indicators correspond with the regularly spaced anomalies.
• Plot Displays and Print Adjustments. Oftentimes the best way to support recommendations to city councils and advisory boards is to create a custom display that plots defects. This feature allows electo scan traces to be plotted and reviewed prior to hardcopy printing or to be included in a custom softcopy report.

• Comparative Analysis of Field Reporting – Investor-owned and municipal utilities are overflowing in data gathered both from outside service contractors and internal staff. Closed circuit televion inspections, smoke testing, dye flood tests, pressure test, and manhole inspections are just some of the standard field inspections that have been collected for nearly 30 years. While some vendors have done their best to stay abreast of customer’s ever increasing need to sift through electronic data, Electro Scan’s Critical Sewers Cloud Computing app allows you to upload your existing records, including Sewer Mains, Manholes, and Service Connections, and compare legacy inspection points to electro scan plots traced against the same sewer pipe. Failure points identified with Electro Scan can be easily compared to previously collected CCTV observations, with a legend displayed at the bottom. Since principals of Electro Scan have worked with a variety of consulting engineers and successful electro scan projects, its pre-existing wastewater collection data model is fully compatible to easily mirror your existing data against the electro scan standard to determine precise defect locations.

• Best Practices Reporting – Available for municipal customers only, this feature allows a confidential peer group analysis of similar-sized agencies, to help understand the common issues faced by other utilities. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and other best practices are available for review by Members Only.

Contact Electro Scan today to find out how you can begin solving your critical sewers with the most advanced technologies available.