HELIX
Continuous condition monitoringfor critical assets.
The software, on a real asset,
in your browser.
HELIX
The software, on a real asset,
in your browser.
See what HELIX sees
A pipe gallery at a Fisheries and Oceans Canada site, travelled along slowly: first as a point cloud, then as a textured 3D model of the aged steel, then with its wall-thickness readings in colour.
Capture. LiDAR and photographs of the pipe, as a point cloud.6
Aged steel pipe on concrete saddles in a pipe gallery at a Fisheries and Oceans Canada site, captured in 3D, passing slowly
Erosion and corrosion thin a pipe's wall from the inside, out of sight. A line is inspected once every one to five years, and everything in between is a blind spot. When a critical line bursts, the operation stops. Internal corrosion caused 38% of Alberta's 277 pipeline incidents in 2025.1
Every survey and wrap reading lands on a 3D model of the real asset, where it is trended and forecast. Horizon is the software. The Sensor Wrap feeds it.
A screen recording of HELIX Horizon: the cursor reads the wall along a pipe loop, picks a bend, tightens its colour band, fades the readings to show the pipe, opens its figures, flies the camera round the loop, zooms in and out, runs the forecast forward, then steps through the forecast plot on the asset dashboard
What HELIX looks for
What thins a wall, read through coatings and insulation. And LiDAR, for a 3D model of the asset itself.
A section of pipe on concrete piers with a band of wall-thickness readings, green to red, wrapped around it
Internal corrosion
Wall lost from the inside, mapped across the pipe.
A U-bend in a pipe loop, its wall-thickness map turning orange and red along the outer curve
Erosion
Thinning on the outside of a bend, where the flow hits.
A close view along a wall-thickness map on a pipe, spotted with small red areas of deeper loss
Pitting
Small, deep spots of wall loss across the surface.
A point cloud of a pipe gallery at a Fisheries and Oceans Canada site, its points coloured from photographs, drifting slowly past
LiDAR for 3D models
The asset as it stands, captured in 3D.
Corrosion and pitting: the MIC demo station, simulated data. Erosion: a HELIX demo asset. LiDAR: a Fisheries and Oceans Canada pipe gallery.6
Why it pays
Inspect a buried line every five years for thirty years and it is dug up six times, at about $300,000 a dig. A Sensor Wrap goes on during the first dig and reads the wall from then on, so the line no longer has to be dug up just to be checked.7
And better data than periodic inspection.
Repairs before failures
30-40%
lower maintenance cost than running to failure2
Maintenance when the wall needs it
8-12%
saved again over a fixed preventive schedule3
Intervals from measured rates
2×
the margin the code can set, at half the remaining life4
Copper sensor coils on the flexible wrap substrate, close up, catching the light
How it works
Our patent-pending dense sensor arrays, on a flexible substrate.
A flexible sheet of sensing coils, strapped to the pipe, reading wall thickness around the clock. Every forecast in Horizon is built on it.
A flexible sensor wrap with copper coils being strapped around a pipeline at sunset
Strapped to an in-service line.
Installed from outside. Nothing is cut, drained or shut down.
The sensor wrap on a pipeline turning translucent to show the wall-thickness map underneath it, green where the wall is sound and red where it is thin
Read as wall thickness.
Green where the wall is sound, red where it is thin, for as long as the wrap is on.
Forecast
Which spots are thinning, how fast, and when each reaches its limit. Move across the chart and the elbow follows.
Wall-thickness readings every hour
The wrap reads the wall under every coil, day and night.5
A wall-thinning rate for every spot
Each spot's own history gives it its rate.
A date against your minimum wall thickness
Each rate runs forward to your minimum wall, with a confidence band.
Asset intelligence
A risk-based inspection program can cover tens of thousands of assets, and most are inspected rarely, if at all. Horizon carries what one wrap learns to the assets like it, such as the straight run below a wrapped elbow, so their risk rankings start from measured data.
One wrap measures.
A Sensor Wrap on one bend, read in Horizon: every reading on its spot, the histogram beside it.
Assets like it learn from it.
That bend's forecast, with its confidence band, becomes the model for similar sections with no sensor, like the straight run below it.
More accurate RBI.
Each section lands on your risk matrix in the RBI dashboard, ranked from measured data, so inspection goes where the risk is.
In Horizon: the RBI dashboard
A screen recording of the RBI dashboard in HELIX Horizon: three locations, each with a risk matrix; one location opens to its five-year count, the worst cell of its matrix is selected, and the page scrolls through the forecast charts to the pipe sections in that cell
The RBI dashboard in Horizon: every section's forecast, placed on your own risk matrix.
Documents
The methods behind the instruments and the wrap are in the published literature, and our results are written up. All of it is open to read.
Research
47 papers, reviews and reports on the methods behind the instruments and the wrap.
Browse the research
Case studies
100 m of 1970s piping, screened in place, for Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
Read the case study
White papers
Specifying continuous wall-loss monitoring: what to ask for and what to check.
Read the white paper
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3,200+
ft² of scanned area
360M+
industrial data points collected
12×
return on one survey engagement
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