The CCTV surveys also help to provide evidence that pipelines are in good condition. They are conducted for water companies, builders, architects, developers and local authorities when they are buying assets that include drainage systems.
CCTV is also used in the construction industry at the point of a site handover. Engineers carry out an evaluation on the site’s drainage system, verifying their integrity, cleanliness and operational effectiveness. These reports are vital to ensure a smooth handover preventing disputes arising over liabilities should a system fail.
Mini-Cam’s van fits are designed to keep vehicles within the 3½ tonne weight limit regulations, so they can be operated with a normal full driving licence, as well as providing for convenient manoeuvring in built-up areas.
For customers, this eliminates the expense of putting employees through HGV driving courses.
Vehicles fitted out by Mini-Cam feature:
• A studio area from where surveys are controlled and monitored. They include a work station, camera control unit, PC and monitors where the operator can instantly generate detailed survey reports that can be uploaded to some cloud-based browsers so the end client can themselves log in and view what is happening;
• A rear workspace where Mini-Cam’s Proteus crawlers and push cameras are stored safely and securely for transportation and are organised in a practical way for quick and easy deployment for inspections.
Other features include storage compartments, shelves, lights and sockets, a hand cleansing system, safety equipment and a water wash- down system to keep the equipment and work- area clean.
There is an intercom system so the studio operator and the survey equipment operator can
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keep in touch, as well as an in-built viewing window between the sections.
Mini-Cam’s best-selling SURVEYPro van-fit also features a built-in battery inverter which means the equipment can be powered silently so it can be used in sensitive situations, such as night-time and weekend work.
Greg said: “We have more than 20 years of in-house design, product development, consistently seeking to improve the design, layout and features to deliver a mobile HQ fully equipped for challenging environments.”
Again there is a drive towards multi-use of vehicles here with the inspection systems often being allied with the use of on-board pipeline cleaning systems.
VEHICLES FOR CLEANING OPERATIONS
Probably one of the largest areas of operations for vehicles in the drainage sector is that of pipeline cleaning. Vehicles across this sector range from vans with smaller cleaning systems mounted in the back through larger vans and hi-tops similarly arrayed to huge HGV systems with multiple cleaning and vacuum recovery systems built-in and also the growing use of vacuum
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