Governing Anomaly Risk in Safety-Critical Infrastructure

Real-Time Risk & Anomaly Detection

A Contextual, Physics-Informed Risk Layer for SCADA-Driven Networks

Most anomaly detection systems fail silently as operations change.
When baselines drift, abnormal behaviour becomes normal, and real risk goes undetected.

KartaSoft prevents this by actively governing anomaly baselines, ensuring risk signals remain stable, interpretable, and decision-safe over time.
We add context, causation, and asset-level consequence to real-time SCADA outputs, without replacing existing alarms.

Independently Validated

Used by Fortune 500 Companies

Supports Regulatory and Audit Review

Physics-Informed Methodology

The hardest part of anomaly detection is not finding anomalies. It’s keeping the definition of normal from breaking. 

Pipeline and network operations are non-stationary by nature. Maintenance, upgrades, instrumentation changes, and operational decisions constantly alter system behaviour.

Most anomaly detection systems allow models to learn continuously. Over time, this causes baseline drift, quietly redefining “normal” until abnormal behaviour is absorbed and real risk goes undetected.

KartaSoft Operational Philosophy:

Baseline Governance as a First-Class Risk Control

Baseline modeling comes first. Failure optimization comes later.

 

Rather than training directly on rare, noisy failure data, KartaSoft first establishes clean, stable baselines for each operating regime.


Only after those baselines are governed and validated do we tune sensitivity and prioritization using integrity outcomes.

 

This approach:
Preserves broad sensitivity to unexpected behaviour
Avoids brittle failure-only classifiers
Maintains interpretability under changing conditions
It keeps anomaly detection useful over years, not just during initial deployment.

A Defensible Model for Anomaly-Driven Risk

KartaSoft Risk & Anomaly Detection produces context-aware anomaly signals designed for engineering review and triage, complementing existing SCADA alarms.

Contextual Real-Time Risk Layer

KartaSoft ingests SCADA outputs and correlates them with:

  • Historical leak data
  • Survey and AMLD cadence
  • Excavation activity (reported and unreported)
  • Asset attributes (location, density, recurrence, history)

This creates asset-aware anomaly interpretation, not just signal detection.

Example Result

A SCADA alert is no longer just “pressure changed” but: “This anomaly warrants prioritized investigation due to repeated leaks, recent excavation activity, and elevated historical risk at this asset.”

 

Hotspot & Critical Hotspot Classification

We deliver a network-wide hotspot framework that classifies locations into:

  • Watch Areas
  • Hotspots
  • Critical Hotspots

Based on:

  • Leak frequency and recency
  • Time-based thresholds (6-month / 12-month cadence)
  • Spatial clustering
  • Severity escalation logic
This creates a consistent, auditable spatial risk language shared across operations, engineering, and compliance.

This is delivered as:

GIS layers (for operational teams); Excel outputs (for ingestion into internal systems). This classification can be refreshed weekly or more frequently, using existing data feeds.

 

Early Warning Before SCADA Alarms

By combining:

  • Excavation intelligence (including non-ticketed activity)
  • Leak recurrence patterns
  • Physics-informed baselines

We can identify risk precursors that may take days or weeks to trigger a SCADA alarm.

This addresses a known SCADA gap:

Events such as excavation damage or slow degradation may not trigger immediate alarms, but still materially increase risk.

 

Designed for In-Environment Deployment

Designed for In-Environment Deployment

Business Impact

Operational
Improves prioritization of SCADA alerts
Reduces low-value field investigations
Risk & Safety
Identifies material risk before alarm thresholds are breached
Supports defensible intervention decisions
Governance
Maintains stable, interpretable anomaly definitions over time
Supports audit, compliance, and post-incident review

KartaSoft extends the value of existing SCADA investments, making them actionable by governing risk context, causation, and prioritization in real time.

 

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