Monitoring a 12,000 km pipeline network with sub-second event latency

The challenge

The commission is responsible for the integrity of a 12,000 km pipeline network carrying water and gas across an entire state. Monitoring was a patchwork: field crews logged inspections on paper or in disconnected apps, sensor telemetry landed in a separate system, and the geospatial picture of where everything was lived in yet another. When an anomaly occurred, correlating "what changed" with "where" and "who is nearby" took hours — time a pressure drop or a leak does not give you.

A single real-time spatial picture

We unified the network onto the Airfree Realtime Platform, with Field Sync giving crews an offline-capable mobile tool that ties every inspection, observation, and asset edit to its exact location on the network. Sensor telemetry and field observations flow into the same event stream, so an anomaly is evaluated against the spatial context immediately rather than reconstructed after the fact.

• Every asset and inspection tied to its precise location on the 12,000 km network.
• Sensor telemetry and field observations unified into one real-time event stream.
• Anomaly detection evaluating events against spatial context as they arrive.
• Offline-capable field capture that syncs the moment crews regain coverage.

Sub-second latency at network scale

Monitoring infrastructure of this size only helps if it is fast. The Realtime Platform processes events with sub-second latency, so a sensor reading or a field observation reaches the operations picture almost instantly. That is the difference between dispatching a crew to a developing problem and reading about it in a post-incident report.

Compliant by design

Critical infrastructure data carries strict handling obligations. The deployment was built to keep all data within the required jurisdiction and to satisfy the commission's ISO 27001 obligations — layer-level access control, authenticated service endpoints, and full audit logging — so the compliance posture was part of the architecture rather than bolted on afterward.

The result

The commission now monitors the full 12,000 km network in real time, with anomalies surfaced in seconds against a live spatial picture and field crews working from the same authoritative data as the control room. The hours once lost correlating disconnected systems are gone, and data residency and ISO 27001 compliance are maintained continuously rather than reassembled for each audit.