The mission of WiththegridWe’re a technology company specializing in monitoring grid infrastructure and providing secure control of energy assets. Our first product, the Asset Monitoring Platform, is designed to help companies digitalize and monitor their critical infrasture.

Question? Contact us. is to support owners and operators of critical infrastructure with digital asset monitoring tools. Recently, we have published a case study related to our collaboration with Waterbedrijf Groningen on digitalizing cathodic protection.

Willem Kregel, Maintenance Engineer of Waterbedrijf GroningenWaterbedrijf Groningen was established in 1998 from the merger of both the water company of the city (GWG) and the province (WAPROG). Waterbedrijf Groningen has 5,115 km of water pipelines and 270.000 connection points. It delivers over 47 billion liters of drinking water. Waterbedrijf Groningen also provides industrial water for industry in the so called ‘Eemshaven’. It also supplied heat through its subsidiary ‘Warmtestad.’

Learn more on their website., best described our collaboration: “As maintenance engineer it is essential to have a thorough and current overview of asset’ status. The Withthegrid-software helps us to get these insights and at the same time allows us to work more closely with the cathodic protection experts and technicians.”

In fact, here is a a preview of this case study:

Challenge for Withthegrid

The challenge was to provide Waterbedrijf Groningen with a digital tool to always be informed of the status of their cathodic protection. The challenge was to have one overview that could be used by both Asset owners and the cathodic protection specialists. In this case study we explain more about cathodic protection.

Solution

The solutions we came up with are the following:

1. Cloud application for cathodic protection, including geographical display, dashboards, analytics and integration with EAM and GIS-systems.
2. Integrated manual measurements through the usage of tablets and mobile phones. Also suitable for monitoring with sensors.
3. Automated runnings lists and alarms with discrepancies (overriding thresholds).

Advantages

1. Lower operational costs.
2. Increased asset integrity.
3. Easy to analyze and historical data and to observe trends faster in asset performance.
4. Measurements are directly available for other systems, like work order planning or enterprise asset management systems.

Hommema:

“The Withthegrid-software helps digitalizing CP-processes and brings structure to the data.”