Aegea Creates Brazil's Largest 3D Digital Sanitation Map As Part Of Their Intelligent Infrastructure Program

By Aude Camus, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Bentley Systems

Controlling water and sewage utilities in 489 municipalities in Brazil, Aegea is committed to improving sanitation processes through advanced technology and digitization. Their goal is to facilitate network modernization to ensure access to clean water for over 30 million people.

Aligned with these goals, they launched their intelligent infrastructure program, Infra Inteligente, to create a virtual environment, digitally mapping the structures that they operate. As part of this smart digitization program, Aegea implemented Brazil’s largest asset inventory project in Rio de Janeiro, covering water and sewage treatment plants, pump stations, tanks, and other assets spread across 27 municipalities.

Using Bentley’s ContextCapture and open applications, Agea processed drone-captured photos to generate a 3D reality mesh and digital map of their plants and assets, as well as integrating the captured historical and real-time asset data. The result was a highly interactive 3D map representing over 1,000 sanitation facilities in a virtual reality environment which optimizes performance, service availability, and reliability, while mitigating risks and achieving operational efficiencies to provide a sustainable clean water supply to Brazil’s communities.