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Has published an article on 30/07/2024
How artificial intelligence will revolutionise the plumbing industry
AI is going to change the plumbing sector, but things may not necessarily only change for the worse for plumbers. On the contrary, there is certainly no talk of job losses. Can you imagine a world in which a robot comes to your house to fix a leaky tap? Well! Maybe it will happen sooner or later! Rather, artificial intelligence could become a valuable tool in the hands of plumbers, making their work more efficient and less tiring, thus improving the quality of service and contributing to a more sustainable use of resources.
Artificial intelligence: a new tool in the plumbers' bag?
Over the past decades, we have moved from parrot pliers and welding torches to hand-held pressing machines that make pressfitting joints in seconds, making plumbing a quick and why not, even pleasant job. But what will be the next steps in plumbing-related technological innovations?
AI will never replace the experience and expertise of plumbers, but it will become an increasingly important support. In what ways? By optimising daily activities through increasingly interconnected systems capable of analysing a multitude of data.
Information that put together and interpreted by Artificial Intelligence will also be used to solve problems that may arise within plumbing systems.
In this scenario, an immediate response, or better still, predictive maintenance, could prevent incidents and reduce operating and repair costs. In addition, artificial intelligence will allow plumbers to handle more requests, thus increasing their revenue without compromising service quality.
Predictive maintenance: preventing breakdowns through artificial intelligence
Predictive maintenance, enhanced through the use of artificial intelligence, is beginning to revolutionise the way plumbers approach repairs and maintenance. AI systems are capable of analysing the data provided by the intelligent sensors that monitor plumbing systems, in order to anticipate potential problems before they can become more serious.
Unlike traditional corrective maintenance, which only intervenes after a fault has occurred, or preventive maintenance, which follows a time- or usage-based schedule, predictive maintenance uses condition monitoring tools and techniques to monitor the values and performance of systems during their normal operation.
This approach allows anomalies to be identified and resolved before they cause malfunctions, thus ensuring greater efficiency and reliability of the systems.
Pressfitting systems and artificial intelligence: where do they meet?
For many years, the use of steel pressfittings has been a valuable element in the fast and safe installation of plumbing systems, both for drinking and sanitary water supply and for heating and air conditioning. Our Eurotubi fittings, thanks to their qualities and the ease with which they can be integrated with sensors and monitoring equipment, have also become a benchmark for the intelligent management of plumbing systems.
The steel pressfitting system offers several advantages when used in plumbing systems equipped with AI-guided monitoring systems:
Reduced wall thickness of fittings and pipes for better data transmission. This facilitates remote data transmission to collection and analysis centres.
Improved signal transmission for fibre-optic sensors. Steel pressfitting guarantees better signal transmission for this type of sensor than multilayer pipes, whose aluminium layer shields the signal more, thereby increasing energy consumption and emissions.
