Friday, December 2, 2011

FOAK Tale in DC Water

Hidden beneath the highways and streets of Washington DC is a sprawling infrastructure of hundreds of thousands of assets — water distribution pipes, valves, collection pipes, man holes, water meters and fire hydrants ... To keep the system running smoothly and predict potential failure using analytics tool, IBM Research was engaged in a First-of-a-kind (FOAK) project in 2010.

Here's their story: