Pipe Inspection Surveillance Crawler Robot

I was sitting on the porch, watching as the city dredged the brook that runs along the side of our land when everybody went into panic mode. I went down to see what was going on and they had pulled up a piece of pipe.

It was a large chunk of terracotta pipe and it looked really old. I couldn’t believe it could actually be part of any current city infrastructure, but they made sure.

Within 20 minutes, this van showed up.

They had a Pipe Inspection Surveillance Crawler Robot

This is a special robot to see inside a pipe. Cool!

Mainline & Lateral Inspection Camera – RSTechnical Services Inc

The RST Mainline and Lateral Inspection System performs mainline and lateral pipeline inspections from a single, fully integrated unit.
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There are different wheels for different surfaces. So, first they looked inside the pipe to see what they had, then they put the right wheels on.

Some wheels fit into smaller pipes. Some have more clearance. Some also push along the sides of the pipes. Some have very little tread so that the camera vibrates less. Some have a lot of tread, where they need better grip.

The robot has a light and cameras.

The robot feeds information directly into these monitors.

The operators control the robot while they watch the feeds. They can make recordings as they need them.

This is what they see.

After they ran the camera back and forth in every direction, they were positive that the pipe they pulled out of the brook had nothing to do with the current sewer system.

They carefully winched the robot back out of the pipe.

They cleaned the robot up. And left. The end.