About Trace Intercept Insights
Trace Intercept Insights is a publication produced by Trace Intercept, a product company focused on providing shared, observable views of physical water and wastewater assets.
Trace Intercept provides a browser-based reality view platform that enables teams to capture, view, and measure real site conditions using 360-degree imagery and photogrammetric reconstruction. The platform is designed to make operational reality accessible across organisations, allowing planners, engineers, safety teams, contractors, and regulators to work from the same evidence without requiring repeated site visits or specialist software.
The Insights site exists to explain the delivery patterns, governance considerations, and sequencing decisions that sit around this kind of capability. Its purpose is not to promote features, but to clarify how access to observable reality can be introduced safely and incrementally in regulated environments such as the UK water sector, particularly in the context of Drainage and Wastewater Management Plans (DWMPs).
UK water organisations already operate mature systems of record, including GIS, asset management, ERP, and analytics platforms. Trace Intercept does not seek to replace these systems. Its product is intended to sit alongside them, providing a high-dimensional reference layer that links records and plans to what actually exists on site. The articles published here explore how that reference layer can be used to strengthen evidence, reduce operational risk, and improve decision-making without creating early integration overhead or long-term lock-in.
The content reflects practical experience in UK water, infrastructure delivery, digital twins, and operational technology. It focuses on observed challenges, common failure modes, and conservative delivery approaches that prioritise auditability, reversibility, and defensible sequencing over novelty or scale claims.
Access and Use
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The archive is designed as a working reference. Articles are written to be circulated internally, reused in planning and assurance discussions, and incorporated into DWMP, capital, and procurement contexts.
Intended Audience
Trace Intercept Insights is written for professionals involved in:
- DWMP planning and assurance
- Asset strategy and capital delivery
- Digital, data, and GIS leadership
- Operations, safety, and access planning
- Procurement and governance in regulated infrastructure
Relationship to the Trace Intercept Product
Trace Intercept Insights supports, but is distinct from, the Trace Intercept product.
The product provides a practical, operational capability for capturing and accessing site reality. The Insights site provides the context for how that capability fits into existing organisational structures, governance models, and delivery programmes. Where examples are referenced, they are used to illustrate broader patterns rather than to make claims about scale or universality.
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