Defensible, Network-Scale Reduction of Excavation Risk in Safety-Critical Infrastructure

Satellite-Enhanced Excavation Intelligence

Excavation damage is the leading cause of safety incidents, service disruption, and regulatory exposure in pipeline and other complex networks.

 
KartaSoft gives damage prevention teams independent visibility into both declared and undeclared excavation activity, before incidents occur, not after.

Independently Validated

Used by Fortune 500 Companies

Supports Regulatory and Audit Review

Physics-Informed Methodology

Increasing excavation density and regulatory demand have outpaced conventional damage prevention programs

Damage prevention was designed around declared excavations and procedural compliance. Ticketing systems, patrols, and alarms remain essential. However, they were not built to prioritize across thousands of concurrent excavations, or to detect activity where no ticket was filed.

The result: damage prevention programs that are high in activity but uneven in risk discrimination, with most exposure identified only after damage has already occurred.

What Tickets Provide

Declared dig polygon

Excavator identity and type

Construction classification

Stated timeframe

What They Do Not Provide

Confirmation that excavation occurred

Actual ground disturbance location

Within-polygon risk variation

Visibility into unticketed activity 

Risk Management and Damage Prevention for Excavation Activities

Two coordinated layers for a unified integrated risk picture

 

KartaSoft adds an independent analytical layer over existing damage prevention workflows without replacing them.

It operates across both declared and undeclared excavation simultaneously.

Asset 1

Excavation Risk Score for Ticketed Activities

  • Real-time scoring on likelihood of strike and severity
  • Sub-ticket geospatial risk heat mapping
  • Behavioural risk weighting by excavator history
  • Network-wide prioritization queue surfaced in GIS
  • Interpretable reason codes

Satellite Detection for Unticketed Activities

  • Satellite-detected ground disturbance near pipeline corridors
  • Radar and optical imagery, Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2
  • Asset proximity risk scoring for each candidate
  • High-resolution follow-up on most credible detections
  • Early escalation flags before SCADA or physical alarm

 The model is trained on the operator's own historical ticket and damage data — excavator history, pipeline characteristics, audit records, critical facility proximity, and encroachment history. It is engineered as a non-intrusive overlay on existing GIS and asset management environments. 

A Defensible Economic Model for Excavation Risk

KartaSoft Excavation Intelligence reduces excavation-driven incidents, financial loss, and regulatory exposure by shifting intervention earlier and targeting effort where risk is material.

1. Operational Cost Stability

Earlier intervention shifts cost curves

By identifying elevated excavation risk before SCADA alarms or asset damage:

  • Emergency repairs shift to planned work
  • Crew overtime and call-outs are reduced
  • Damage is addressed before escalation

Economic Impact

Augmented
Reduce cost per incident
Reduce Opex volatility
Reduce network disruption costs

 

Economic Impact

Augmented
Fewer low-value site visits
Better utilization of skilled labour
Reduced fatigue and safety exposure

 

2. Field Efficiency & Workforce Safety

Risk-based prioritization reduces wasted field effort

Today, many excavation alerts lack asset-specific risk context, forcing field teams to investigate broadly.
KartaSoft ranks excavation activity by actual asset exposure and consequence, focusing crews only where intervention materially reduces risk.

3. Recovery Economics & Claims Defensibility

Evidence strengthens third-party cost recovery

Where damage occurs, the system provides time-stamped, spatial evidence to support attribution and claims, all without changing existing recovery processes.

Economic Impact

Augmented
Improved recovery rates
Reduced dispute duration
Lower write-offs

 

Economic Impact

Augmented
Better capital efficiency
Extended asset life
Reduced over-investment

 

4. Capital Efficiency & Asset Strategy

Persistent excavation pressure informs capital decisions

Repeated excavation pressure creates a hidden degradation risk. By identifying recurring exposure patterns:

  • Capital replacement can be targeted
  • Asset renewal is prioritised where risk persists
  • Deferred CapEx decisions carry higher confidence

Outputs are auditable, repeatable, and suitable for regulatory and internal review

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