One living register, not five conflicting ones.

The challenge

Most water organisations have five "asset registers" that don't agree: the engineering CAD library, the finance fixed-asset list, the CMMS work-order database, the field-crew spreadsheets, and whatever the most recent contractor handover left behind. Nobody trusts any of them entirely, so everyone keeps their own copy.

The cost shows up everywhere: replanned investment programmes, missed depreciation, slow handovers between shifts, and decisions made on assumptions because checking takes too long.

What success looks like

How WaterTwin delivers it

• Living digital twin per asset — every component has reported state, configuration, photos, documents, and a complete event log. Powered by the open-source Eclipse Ditto standard, so you're not locked in.
• 3D facility view from your existing models — Revit, IFC, DWG, or FBX import via Autodesk Platform Services. The model becomes the operations interface, not an artefact in a folder.
• Geospatial register — every asset has precise coordinates. Field crews see what's nearby; planners see what's in a corridor; compliance sees what's in a regulated zone.
• Asset documents library — manuals, calibration certificates, warranties, datasheets attached to the asset they describe. No more "where's the manual for that?" five-minute hunts.
• Hierarchical estate model — tenant → facility → asset → device. Roll up to executive summaries; drill down to a single component.
• Bulk operations — manage the long tail without clicking through a hundred dialogs. Import existing registers via CSV or API.

A typical migration path

1. Import your most authoritative existing register as the seed (usually CAD + finance combined).
2. Anchor each entry to a digital twin and a position on the model / map.
3. Attach documents, photos, and historic maintenance records as you find them — incrementally, not big-bang.
4. Live telemetry connects to the relevant twins; the register starts being the place people look, which is the moment it starts being the place people update.
5. Decommission the parallel registers as confidence in the new one builds.

Where the value compounds

• Capital planning — replacement programmes informed by real asset age, condition, and failure history.
• Shift handovers — every incoming team starts with the full picture, including what happened last night.
• Contractor handovers — when a project ends, the asset data stays in your platform, not on someone's laptop.
• Insurance & regulatory disclosure — accurate, defensible inventories without a special exercise.