November 19, 2025
Preventing Failures Before They Happen: How CivilSense™ Turns Complex Network Data into Clear, Actionable Insights
Delivering predictive insights to prevent line breaks with CivilSense™
More than 700 water mains break every day, contributing to the daily loss of six billion gallons of processed water – a staggering problem.
Facing costly challenges
With two million miles of aging and leaking pipes across the country, the United States’ water infrastructure system is at a precipice. Municipalities face the costly challenge of locating and repairing these breaks, leaving little room for much needed infrastructure upgrades.
Finding leaks and prioritizing repairs in pipes buried deep underground is a difficult task, to put it mildly. That’s why water managers are turning to the predictive power of CivilSense™ for smarter water asset management.
What is CivilSense™?
CivilSense™ combines real-time leak detection, predictive leak analysis, and expert guidance — a powerful integration of cutting-edge AI technology and Oldcastle Infrastructure’s deep industry expertise.
CivilSense™ uses two distinct machine learning models: one for real-time leak detection and another to predict which pipes are most likely to fail.
How does CivilSense™ work?
To assess the likelihood of future failures, CivilSense™ follows a three-step process.
First, a project manager works with the water management team to collect the necessary data for analysis. In addition to standard inputs, Oldcastle Infrastructure’s data scientists can identify additional data sources that can enhance predictive accuracy. If data quality or completeness is limited, the project manager may recommend strategies to maximize effectiveness.
To develop an accurate assessment of failure risk, CivilSense™ analyzes key network data, including:
- Pipe material, year of installation, and diameter
- System pressure, velocity, and usage
- Historical failure location and date
- Geographical and soil characteristics
- Climate and environmental conditions
- Proximity to roads, buildings and other assets
- Construction data
Next, Oldcastle Infrastructure’s data scientists process, clean, and structure the data to ensure the highest-quality outputs. Then, the daVinci proprietary machine learning model — developed by technology partner VODA.ai — analyzes the dataset to generate an assessment of failure risk for each individual pipe.
The results reveal both the likelihood and consequence of failure, combining these factors into a comprehensive measure of business risk exposure. With this intelligence, utilities can make proactive, data-driven decisions that extend asset life and reduce unplanned outages.
CivilSense™ forecasts the condition of individual pipes and provides insight into the likely future condition and reliability of individual pipes, providing utilities with insight into imminent breaks as well as long-term replacement, refurbishment and upgrade requirements.
In addition to its 93% real-time leak detection accuracy, CivilSense™ also delivers market-leading predictive risk analysis, consistently outperforming traditional leak prediction models, technologies and techniques. Its predictive algorithms are continually refined and improved by a dedicated team of data scientists.
Conclusion
By delivering predictive insights and real-time detection, CivilSense™ helps prevent line breaks, reduce non-revenue water, and optimize repair and upgrade investments. It’s how utilities can finally gain control over water asset management before problems happen.
About CivilSense™
CivilSense™ – the only asset-management solution that delivers predictive and real-time AI leak detection with market-leading 93% accuracy. Backed by the expertise and scale of America’s leading infrastructure business.
Learn more
- See how CivilSense™ offers a smarter, proactive solution to costly line breaks, non-revenue water, and inefficient repairs.
- Try our ROI Calculator to find out how CivilSense™ could help you cut non-revenue water loss, improve your budget and protect economic activity.
- Download the product sheet.
- Discover how new leak detection technology saves the City of Hailey, Idaho 59M gallons of water annually in our case study.