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Accelerate Your DIRT Reporting: Advanced Tools for Damage Management

Common Ground Alliance’s (CGA) DIRT Report plays a crucial role in our collective damage prevention efforts. To gain the full impact of the DIRT Report, all damage prevention...

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Revolutionizing Risk Prediction and Damage Prevention with Data and AI

When data scientists dive into the data that companies create in day-to-day operations, they seek to find ways for those companies to do what they do...

 

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Why Satellite Data Alone Isn’t Enough to Safeguard Your Pipelines

America has 2.6 million miles of natural gas and hazardous liquid transportation pipelines, the largest network of pipelines in the world.

 

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Getting the Right Information in the Right Hands: How Geospatial Intelligence Improves Pipeline Safety

When it comes to pipeline safety, understanding threats and taking appropriate action when danger hits from various angles requires the right data...

 

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10 Must-Have Features for Your 811 Ticket Management System

With Shane Mattix, Irth's Technical Sales Leader. 811 ticket management software plays a crucial role in reducing underground excavation damages.

 

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Why Not Everyone Can “Just Do” 811 Ticket Management

With Shane Mattix, Irth's Technical Sales Leader. “It’s just 811 ticket management software; anyone can do it!” I’ve heard this statement a lot. But...

 

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Colorado Spring Utilities Uses Irth Insights for Damage Prevention

Following an increase in damages to its underground infrastructure, Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) decided to explore using artificial intelligence...

 

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How to Improve Damage Prevention and Safety with Artificial Intelligence

In Florida, locate requests scheduled for what month are the most likely to result in an incident? Do you know the answer to this question? By...

 

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Why De-Siloed Data is Essential to Safeguarding Pipelines

The average person probably doesn’t think much about how the land around them can change. If they go for a walk or run on the same route every day,...

 

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Pipeline Integrity

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Good Neighbors: AEP’s Tom Schaffer on How to Balance Customer Outreach with Continued Growth

The surge in electric demand has far-reaching implications for electric companies, including how they upgrade aging infrastructure, increase load,...

 

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Energy Companies Streamline Complex Land Management with Irth

Kevin McCoy, a land analyst at TC Energy and featured guest on the Irth webinar episode “TC Energy: Insights from Managing 16,000 Lease Payments,”...

 

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How Data is Transforming Risk Management

Even though organizations have always used data, its value has become more apparent than ever. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning can...

 

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Irth Insights with AI: Market-Leading Data and Market-Leading Predictions

Kyle Murphy, Irth’s Director of Data and Architecture, recently shared with our User Summit attendees how Irth collects tremendous amounts of data...

 

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Now is the Time: CGA’s Sam Hall on How to Reduce the Top Causes of Damages

At Irth’s User Summit, Sam Hall, Vice President of the Damage Prevention Institute for Common Ground Alliance, spoke to our attendees about why now...

 

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What’s New on Irth? Web Experience and Tech Update

At the Irth User Summit Rod Ball, our CTO, took attendees on a tour of Irth’s recent design updates and new software features. We’ve made user...

 

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Features and Benefits to Look for in Land Rights and ROW Management Software

When timelines are tight and your team is stretched thin, using robust land rights and ROW management software is crucial for keeping your...

 

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Land Management

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The Secret to Risk Management: Visibility

When you have miles and miles and millions of dollars in critical infrastructure to protect, it’s impossible to monitor every foot 100 percent of the...

 

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Data and Digital Tools: Utilities’ First Defense for Extreme Weather Events

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, average temperatures are rising, with nine of the top 10 warmest years since 1998. Extreme...

 

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How Irth & CGA Helped Arizona 811 Enhance its Training for Excavators

Common Ground Alliance (CGA) featured Irth’s customer Arizona 811 in a recent case study for using Coursettra, Irth’s training and operator...

 

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Irth Honored at Executive Women’s International Gala of Columbus

At this year’s annual Executive Women’s International (EWI) Gala, Irth took home all three peer-nominated Columbus chapter awards. Congratulations to...

 

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How Training and Certification Make Zero Damages Possible

When we initially designed Coursettra, our training and operator qualifications solution, it was a primary goal to figure out the best way for each...

 

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Microsoft: How Irth Modernized Its Mobile App, Helping Workers Who Service Critical Network Infrastructure

At Irth, we rely on the latest technology to advance our mobile-first strategy to enhance resilience and reduce risk in the delivery of essential...

 

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Risk Management for Utilities with the Most Comprehensive Risk Management Solution

Protecting the people, communities, and environment surrounding the network that delivers our way of life—water, electricity, internet, oil, and...

 

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Leadership’s Role in Organizational Resiliency

With Jeannie Diefenderfer, Irth Solutions independent Board Director and former CEO, Higher Ambition Leadership Alliance
For most of my career, I...

 

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What Should Utility Companies Look for in a Learning Management System?

Over the last decade or so, just about every industry has increasingly digitized its employee training. Rather than gathering employees in the same...

 

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How Will You Celebrate Earth Day? Get Inspired by Irthlings

Protecting the people, communities, and environment surrounding the network that delivers our way of life—water, electricity, internet, oil, and...

 

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What’s the Future of 811 Ticket Management?

What does the future of 811 ticket management look like? The best way to answer that question is by first looking at today’s challenges. At Irth...

 

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SOC 2 Compliance: Commitment to Your Safety and Security

Security and safety are priorities at Irth. As an industry leader, we are proud to consistently deliver the most robust technology and innovative...

 

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Top Risks for Telecoms: Telecom’s Risk Management Challenges and How to Mitigate Them

There’s a lot to celebrate in telecommunications today. At the top of the list are telecommunications and media companies’ services that power our...

 

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Risk Management for Utilities: Combining Damage Risk Analysis and Artificial Intelligence

Risk management for utilities requires a dual approach in the digital era: historical and predictive data analytics. As underground critical network...

 

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Thank You to All That Attended and Made This Year’s DISTRIBUTECH Successful

A big thank you to all that attended and made this year’s DISTRIBUTECH a success in San Diego. Over three days, more than 275 speakers and 500...

 

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Effective Vegetation Management for Utilities

Did you know there are 3 trillion trees on Earth? They are critical to our health because they absorb carbon dioxide and remove air pollution. Trees...

 

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5 Real-World Benefits of Advanced Technology in Damage Prevention

Technology is the driving factor behind nearly every aspect of our lives. So, it’s no wonder the only way to protect the critical infrastructure that...

 

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When to Upgrade Your 811 Ticket Management System

Did your 811 ticket management system retire when its developer did? Are you ready to upgrade because you’re unhappy with your current system?...

 

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5 Reasons to Be Excited About the Future of Damage Prevention Software

Jason Adams, former CEO of 4iQ Solutions, Discusses Why Industry Experience and Deep Data Sets Improve...

 

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How to Measure Risk in the Damage Prevention Industry

In a recent dp-PRO webinar, Matthew Abbitt, Chief Product Officer at Irth, outlined how to measure risk in the damage prevention industry. To...

 

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FAQs: The Potential and Power of Work Items

Data drives value. The more processes you have digitized – the more data you have easily accessible to enhance your damage prevention...

 

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Irth Highlighted in the 2022 DISTRIBUTECH International Exhibitor Showcase

Irth Solutions was thrilled to be part of the 2022 DISTRIBUTECH International Exhibitor Showcase.  Tune in to the entire discussion with Brad Gammons,...

 

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Using Augmented Reality to Prevent Damages to Critical Network Infrastructure

For Oil & Gas (Energy), Utilities (Electric & Gas) and Telecom Industries Energy, utility and telecom companies have started embracing innovation and...

 

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Damage Prevention

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The Power of Modern Mobile Devices

In the summer 2022 issue of dp-PRO magazine, Anand Nukala, Irth's Director of Product Management, wrote about how a mobile device...

 

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Improve Your Damage Prevention Efforts with 811 Ticket Management

A 13% increase in infrastructure projects is forecast between 2021 and 2022, with expectations for continued growth. This translates...

 

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Damage Prevention

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Stake Center Locating: Driving Growth with Data Management

Stake Center Locating is on a digital transformation journey. The high-risk infrastructure and fiber optic locating company jettisoned legacy...

 

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Damage Prevention

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Full of Appreciation for the 2022 User Summit

After two years without a User Summit, we are grateful to everyone who attended and made the 2022 User Summit a success at the ARIA Resort & Casino...

 

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Damage Prevention

Earth Day 2022

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It’s Earth Day Every Day at Irth Solutions

Earth Day is the largest secular observance in the world and is celebrated by over 190 countries and more than 1 billion people every April 22. But...

 

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FAQs: Discussing Risk Management with Shane Mattix, Irth Solutions’ Technical Sales Leader

with Shane Mattix, Irth Solutions’ Technical Sales Leader. It’s one thing to be aware of activity around your critical network infrastructure. It’s...

 

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Damage Prevention

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UtiliSphere’s Sketching Tool Enhances Damage Prevention Efforts

Locators need tools to record activities comprehensively when they’re out in the field — whether they have internet access or not. When a locator can...

 

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Damage Prevention

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How Southwest Gas Uses Software to Help Guide Damage Prevention Processes

We recently sponsored a dp-PRO webinar featuring Southwest Gas where the gas utility company shared their successful damage prevention efforts for...

 

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A Note From the CEO: Our “Infrastructure” Is Evolving to Meet Your Infrastructure Needs

It has been a privilege to walk alongside you — everyday heroes in the energy, gas utility, electric utility, municipality, contract...

 

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Damage Prevention

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Common Ground Alliance Food For Thought Webinar

Detecting and Preventing Excavation-Related Damages Before They Occur. We recently had the pleasure of sponsoring a CGA “Food for Thought” webinar...

 

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Damage Prevention

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Protect, maintain, and manage risk on miles of infrastructure.

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Enhance the Resilience of Your Assets


Protect, maintain, and manage risk on miles of infrastructure

Improve critical infrastructure safety, resiliency, and reliability

Streamline operations with one system of record to manage land rights, calculate and process payments, document stakeholder communication and contact, and more

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