burstsight

Failure prediction for water and sewer networks

See the burst before it happens.

BurstSight traces every main in your network, learns from your own failure history, and shows exactly where the next failures are likely to be. Hosted in Brisbane.

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Engineering-backed. Methodology led by a Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland (RPEQ).

Long section · Main Rd trunk main · DN150–300 Eight mains, one street, seventy years. Drag the year.
Observed1955
LowMediumHighVery highForecast Illustrative. Colour shows the modelled chance of failure over the next 20 years from the year shown.

Renewal budgets are fixed. Failures aren’t.

Renewing by age alone spends money on old pipes that are still sound, while younger mains in a bad cohort keep failing. Rank the same street by risk and the order changes. So does where the money goes.

Funded with the same budget (three renewals) Main moves up when ranked by risk Hover a main to trace it.

From GIS export to renewal list in an afternoon

No new systems to install. BurstSight works from the data you already keep in GIS and your maintenance system.

Step 1

Add your data

Drop a GIS export, spreadsheet or GeoPackage of your mains into your data library, with failure history from work orders. Each file is checked before anything uses it.

Step 2

Map and validate

Join the files and match their columns once, on one schematic. Gaps, bad codes and duplicates are flagged before anything runs.

Step 3

Run calibrated models

Likelihood, consequence and renewal models tuned to your asset classes and failures, with every input and version recorded.

Step 4

Act on it

Explore results on maps and dashboards, merge programs into one works plan, then export to GIS, Excel, CSV or a board-ready PDF.

From likelihood to one works plan

Four models that chain together. Likelihood and consequence make risk, risk drives the works planner, and the composite merges every network’s program into one plan that digs each trench once.

LoFModel 1

Likelihood of failure

out P(fail) for every main over your horizon

CoFModel 2

Consequence of failure

CustomersCritical usersRoad classEnvironment

out how much each failure would hurt

RiskLoF × CoF

Risk ranking

Likelihood combined with consequence, so a likely break on a quiet street ranks below a less likely one under a hospital.

out every main ranked by risk

PlannerPer network

Works planner

Ranks risk into renewal programs by budget scenario.

out a renewal program per network

CompositeAll networks

One coordinated works plan

Merges every network’s program so each trench is dug once.

out GIS, Excel, CSV and a board-ready PDF

Run any model on its own, or chain them as a composite. Every input and version is recorded. Engineering-backed. Methodology led by a Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland (RPEQ).

Built by engineers, for engineers

BurstSight was founded by BurstSight was created after many years modelling assets. What I found was software was a strange combination of being too generic but also too restrictive at the same time. BurstSight combines all my years of wants and wishes into true off the shelf products. In addition, you get me - a Chartered Engineer and RPEQ - to guide you through the process and get results in a matter of hours!. Every result carries its own provenance, so it can stand up in a capital plan or a regulator’s question.

Run#0157 · failure_likelihood v1.3.0
VERIFIED2023–25 HOLDOUT
Asset classwater_main
Horizon20 years
Calibrationdemo-utility / v4 (2010–2022)
Backtestholdout 2023–2025 passed ✓
Input SHA-2563f9a…c21e
Assets12,196 modelled
212 excluded
MethodologyPublished, version-pinned
Submitted byutility analyst
RevA ✓
Run provenance, laid out like a drawing title block.Illustrative. Attached to every export and PDF report.

Reproducible

Same inputs, same version, same answer.

Backtested

Checked against held-out failures before release.

Version-pinned

Results only change when you choose to upgrade.

Explainable

See the factors behind each main’s score.

Your network data stays in Queensland

Critical infrastructure data deserves more than a checkbox. Here’s exactly where yours lives and who can reach it.

BRISBANE DATA CENTRE · AUSTRALIAN-OWNED Your data Encrypted in transit Sandboxed run Results, logged

Hosted in Brisbane

Australian-owned provider, onshore encrypted backups.

Isolated per customer

Database-level separation, dedicated hosting on request.

Sandboxed models

Runs execute offline and see only their own inputs.

MFA and single sign-on

MFA for everyone, Entra ID on enterprise plans.

Full audit trail

Every upload, run and export is logged.

You own your data

Export anytime; documented deletion on exit.

Read the security overview for your procurement team

Start small, prove it, then scale

Annual subscriptions in AUD, priced by network size, not by user.

Pilot From$20,000

One catchment or asset class for 90 days, credited to your first year.

  • 1 asset class
  • Failure likelihood model
  • CSV and Excel exports
  • Results walkthrough
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Utility From$30,000 per year

Your whole water or sewer network, re-run whenever your data changes.

  • All asset classes and models
  • Works planning, dashboards and maps
  • GIS, Excel, CSV and PDF exports, and a read-only API
  • Annual recalibration
  • Unlimited users
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For large utilities with procurement, integration and security requirements.

  • Dedicated hosting
  • Single sign-on with Entra ID
  • API for system-to-system runs
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See your own network in BurstSight

Send a sample export and we’ll walk you through results on your data, not a demo dataset.

Pilots from $20,000, credited to your first year. Whole networks from $30,000 per year.

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