01.02.2022
\nInnovation becomes useful when a new product makes things easier and can be used by many more than those who developed it.<\/p>\n
Common goals and forces in the innovation process
\nThe courage to engage in the unknown, the ability to translate the customer\u2019s needs into reality, and the willingness to disrupt their own business for the benefit of something bigger are among the reasons why LE34 received the East Jutland partnership Water Partner\u2019s Innovation Award for the development of the SmartSurvey\u2122 app.
\nLE34 triumphed over the other eight competing companies, each of which submitted their best innovation contribution under the auspices of Water Partner 1.0 in the period 2016\u20132021.
\n\u201cLE34 has tackled the innovation cooperation brilliantly. They have been persistent and maintained a good and positive energy level, and when there has been a breakthrough they have managed to commercialize it so that everyone can use it,\u201d says Karsten Lundbye, innovation manager in Aarhus Water and member of the jury in connection with the award.<\/p>\n
Peter Hjortdal, head of department for construction projects, Aarhus Vand
\n\u201cAll parties work together on solutions where we can make it smarter, and if everyone takes an open, trusting and honest approach to the innovation work, the level can be raised significantly. That\u2019s exactly what we\u2019ve experienced in the development of SmartSurvey\u2122\u201d<\/p>\n
Karsten Lumbye, head of innovation in Aarhus Vand and member of the jury for the innovation prize
\n\u201cThe beautiful thing is that LE34 disrupts its own business. They make it easy for others to perform some of the classic surveying services they usually earn money from, and they lift the industry while benefiting commercially from it themselves. It\u2019s well spotted and brilliantly visionary of them.\u201d<\/p>\n
From cardboard box to app
\nWater Partner 1.0 is an ambitious partnership between the three East Jutland utilities Aarhus Vand, Favrskov Forsyning and Samn Forsyning and their suppliers. Together with the utilities, 14 different companies form part of a six-year partnership agreement in which the parties are obliged to work closely together.
\n\u201cSmartSurvey\u2122 was conceived at a workshop where I talked to LE34 about the challenges we face. One of them was that the time from something was done in the field until the data was received and loaded in our grid registration was too long. Together we made a prototype of a cardboard box, and LE34 took it home and put on their thinking cap. Today, it is an app that can significantly optimize workflows,\u201d says Peter Hjortdal, head of department for construction projects at Aarhus Vand.<\/p>\n
Innovation benefiting utilities and contractors
\nWith SmartSurvey\u2122, today it\u2019s as easy to collect data with great accuracy about a line in an open pit as it is to record a video with a smartphone. The benefits for utilities and contractors are enormous because after the pipe work they can collect the documentation themselves in the field, refill the pit and re-establish the cover in a single operation. At the same time, they get more information about the pipes than the few points measured with a traditional measurement.
\nThe utility company Novafos also contributed to the development of SmartSurvey\u2122 by testing prototypes of the app and collecting data from thousands of open pits.
\nWater Partner has opened a new round of six-year framework agreements known as Water Partner 2.0. The focus on digitalization and innovation remains at the centre. LE34 has regained its framework agreement with Aarhus Vand and entered into a new role with Water Partner 2.0 as a coordinator for the creation of a flow of geodata, so that everyone in the partnership has access to up-to-date and complete pipeline data.<\/p>\n
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Torbj\u00f8rn Mandahl Pedersen, director for LE34 Utilities
\n\u201cIt\u2019s great to help develop something that adds value to our customers, and it\u2019s great to see how proactive and open both Water Partner, who has created an excellent setup for innovation, and all the other parties have been. Where we previously tried to optimize our own part of a project to make something work across the board, we now collaborate to determine how we can best work together toward a common goal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Find out more
\nContact us
\nTorbj\u00f8rn Mandahl Pedersen
\nLandinspekt\u00f8r og partner
\nForretningschef for Forsyning og GIS
\nTlf.\u00a0\u00a0+45 8820 8758
\ntmp@le34.dk<\/p>\n
Send an e-mail to Torbj\u00f8rn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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