Avizo and CANN Forecast Join Forces to Predict Floods 72 Hours in Advance

“For a city, a network overflow is never an isolated event. It’s one flooded basement, then a second, then an entire street. These are damages that come back to the same places, year after year. And behind every overflow: insurance claims, liability risks, and a rising bill.”
Charles Duguay, CEO of Avizo

With extreme rainfall events up 40% since 2000, rebuilding entire networks to absorb these episodes isn’t a matter of time, it’s a matter of resources. Public funds simply aren’t enough. This is the reality that led to the creation of InteliFlow, an artificial intelligence flood prediction platform, born from the partnership between Avizo Experts-Conseils and CANN Forecast.

What Is InteliFlow?

InteliFlow is an artificial intelligence platform that predicts sewer network overflows up to 72 hours in advance, by sub-watershed. It combines field data captured by Avizo’s flow meters and rain gauges with CANN Forecast’s predictive multi-models, giving municipalities an actionable signal before water even reaches the streets.

Two Areas of Expertise, One Vision

InteliFlow isn’t an outsourced product, it’s an equal partnership between two specialized companies, brought together to build a single solution.

The process relies on four sequential steps:

1. Equipment – Flow meters and rain gauges capture data on the ground.
2. Telemetry – Information is transmitted continuously, without delay.
3. InteliFlow – The platform analyzes in real time, bringing together two data streams: Avizo’s field expertise and CANN Forecast’s predictive models.
4. Flood Prediction – A single, actionable signal, by sub-watershed, up to 72 hours in advance.

Two data streams. One anticipation.

+40 %	extreme rainfall events since 2000
72 h	of advance notice, by sub-watershed
34 years	of field expertise in flow measurement

This partnership is more than a technology announcement: it’s a concrete response to a risk management challenge already affecting municipalities in Quebec and Ontario. Facing the rise in extreme precipitation and growing pressure on stormwater infrastructure, InteliFlow gives cities a tool to get ahead of events rather than react to them.