GAS UTILITIES

Damage Prevention, Asset Inspections, Monitoring, and Land Management for Gas Utilities

Gas utilities trust Irth to help protect utility assets and manage complex work processes.

With constant pressure from all directions – competitors, regulations, responsibilities to safeguard workers and communities, and more – gas utilities can’t afford inferior technology and tools.

Partnering with Irth, a trusted solutions provider for some of the largest gas companies in the U.S. and Canada since 1995, means you have the digital innovations at your fingertips to transform how you manage land rights, identify new opportunities, plan for long-term growth, and provide the best customer service and experience.

Our comprehensive SaaS platform is a one-stop shop for all stakeholders to access the real-time data required to effectively manage complex land agreements and proactively identify issues that increase risk. Gas utilities use Irth’s platform to document processes and procedures; record inspections, patrol operations, and regulatory compliance activities on your assets; manage 811 tickets; and increase workforce efficiency. Bring together previously siloed data and processes, automate manual tasks, streamline difficult audits and much more with Irth’s comprehensive solution.

Actionable Insights to Transform Operations, Land Management, and Damage Prevention

When the risks are high to your workers, the public, and your assets, you need a trusted partner and comprehensive software that’s reliable, intelligent, and powered by real-time data.

Irth Insights leverages AI, machine learning, and unique datasets to produce actionable information for decision-making. Our SaaS platform helps automate processes and optimize workflows for land management, aerial patrols, meter inspections, leak surveys, 811 ticket management, and more from within one consolidated system.

29%

Our unique SaaS platform can help your company reduce excavation-related incidents by up to 29%.

55%

From maintenance of your infrastructure to managing land rights, our platform can digitize and automate workflows to improve efficiencies by up to 55% and reduce operational expenses.
  • I use this platform on an everyday basis. It is a very user-friendly tool. Dashboards, reporting, mapping and much more. The field locators tell me every week that they wish we had started using it long ago.

    Regulatory Compliance Engineer

    Top Utility Located in the Southeast

Trusted by Industry Leaders

Damage Prevention

The challenges vexing gas utilities today, such as increased competition, updated regulations requiring changes to operations, and ensuring safety for people and the environment, require innovative solutions and an experienced partner. The largest gas utilities in the U.S. and Canada trust Irth’s 811 ticket management platform to:

Enhance Operational Efficiency

Document processes and procedures; record inspections, patrol operations, and regulatory compliance activities on assets; manage 811 tickets; and increase workforce efficiency while proactively identifying issues that increase risk.

Manage Complex Processes

Manage complex work processes across the entire organization while bringing together previously siloed processes, automating manual tasks, streamlining difficult audits, and much more.

Automate Workflows

Automate processes and optimize workflows for meter inspections, aerial patrols, leak surveys, and more in one integrated system.

Damage Prevention Characteristics & Features

  • Accurate geolocation services
  • 811 center integration and positive response
  • Extensible and elastic
  • Mobile anywhere
  • One call ticket management
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Secure access based on roles and responsibilities
  • Actionable insights (AI)
  • Damage investigation and claim processing
  • Damage prevention field meets and consultations
  • Damage prevention locate audits
  • Damage prevention site visits
  • Descriptive analytics
  • Diagnostic analytics
  • Field operations digitization and automation
  • Highly adaptable
  • Predictive analytics
  • Threat-based risk management
  • Line locator performance verification
  • Line locator training
  • Prescriptive analytics
  • ROI focused
  • Remote monitoring and alerting

Asset Inspections & Monitoring

Properly maintaining and monitoring your assets and underground infrastructure is crucial to safeguard your employees and the communities you serve. This important job is easier when you have Irth’s comprehensive solutions to:

Leverage AI-Driven Inspections

Manage your gas meter inspections leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and alerts to schedule follow-up actions.

Provide Real-time Data

Equip workers, whether in the field or office, with real-time data to make informed decisions about the best course of action.

Increase Efficiency

Increase efficiency when completing patrols, leak surveys, and detecting critical threats to your infrastructure.

Pipeline Integrity

Real-time data and analysis are the foundation of our risk-based management for pipeline integrity. We build from that foundation with the latest AI and machine learning to provide actional insights to boost your pipeline integrity. Our solution:

Integrate Data Sources

Integrates methane detection sources with weather data to deliver methane emission estimates earlier and faster than any other solution.

Monitor Environment

Monitors the environment around pipelines to quickly identify the next best action to prioritize safety.

Protect Pipelines

Records change to the depth of cover noted remotely or through field crews so owners can proactively protect pipelines.

Land & ROW Management

With Irth Land & ROW Management, all stakeholders have the real-time data and insights they need to manage complex land agreements, payment calculations and processing, and to meet project deadlines. Gas utilities use Land & ROW management to:

Maintain Centralized Data

Maintain one system of record for all project data to reduce errors caused by manual and duplicate data entry and streamline decision-making.

Protect Data Security

Integrate with other business systems but safeguard project data through robust permissions, allowing data access to only those who need it to complete their work.

Generate Project Insights

Gain visibility to project status with dashboards and automated reporting configurable for each gas utility’s needs.

Land & ROW Management Characteristics & Features

Pre-Acquisition

  • Capture data for multiple routes for route selection and planning
  • Assign costs per parcel for project budgeting
  • Manage information relating to permitting applications
  • Prioritize projects across portfolio

Acquisition

  • Track status of land rights acquisition against schedule
  • Acquisition KPI and progress reporting
  • Workload balancing and performance measurements
  • Document preparation using organization approved templates
  • Track contacts and log conversations
  • Manage payments for land costs and damages
  • Capture special conditions and deviations from standard agreements

Contract Management

  • Track compliance with agreement terms and conditions
  • Monitor expirations and renewals
  • Track lease payment obligations for financial reporting
  • Track encroachments
  • Manage supplemental agreements

Training & Operator Qualifications

Deliver targeted, on-demand employee training and education to drive safety, promote continuing education, and meet organizational learning objectives.

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See How Irth Can Manage Land Rights, Risk, Prevent Damage, and Protect Assets – Safely

Irth's market-leading SaaS platform improves resilience and reduces risk in the sustainable delivery of essential services that millions of people and businesses rely on every day. Energy, utility, and telecom companies across the U.S. and Canada trust Irth for damage prevention, training, asset inspections, and land management solutions. Powered by business intelligence, analytics, and geospatial data, our platform helps deliver the 360-degree situational awareness needed to proactively mitigate and manage risk of critical network infrastructure in a changing environment. Irth has been the top provider for 811 (one call) ticket management and utility locating software since 1995.

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