SCADA and Automation Solutions and Insight For Utility Managers
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KETOS SHIELD Delivers Insight Into Critical Water Quality Parameters
2/25/2022
Food company leverages the KETOS SHIELD to stabilize water quality, reduce chemical costs, and ensure compliance with proactive water quality monitoring.
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Drainage System Servicing The Western Suburbs Of Paris Predicts 14% Reduction In CSOs
Optimatics teamed with SUEZ SEVESC, to reduce the frequency and severity of combined sewer overflow (CSO) events in Western Paris. This optimization effort focused on determining optimal modifications to existing CSO control structures, in order to reduce CSOs across the western Paris network. The investigation focused on low cost intervention options.
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$9M Renovation Of Secondary Municipal Wastewater Treatment Facility
7/1/2015
Pangnirtung is an Inuit hamlet in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, located on Baffin Island. Fredericton based integrator, exp Services Inc., was selected for the nine million dollar renovation of Pangnirtung’s secondary municipal wastewater treatment facility. They chose VTScada for the brand new Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system which gives the operators the ability to monitor and control the plant, receive alarms and notifications, view historical data trends and report.
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SWAN Corner: Reimagining Smart Water — Reflecting On 10 Years
2/8/2023
This coming March will be my 10th year at SWAN — the Smart Water Networks Forum. Crazy how time flies. I remember excitedly attending my first conference at WATEC Israel in 2015 as a Research Analyst. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, I have always been a “water lover,” inspired by protecting wild, endangered salmon. So, what have I learned in 10 years?
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Advanced AI Helps Water Treatment Plant Reduce Energy Costs By 15-20%
10/5/2020
A water treatment plant’s operations branch for a North American city is using Emagin AI by Innovyze to reduce the operational expenditure (OPEX) required to deliver high-quality drinking water to its approximately 150,000 residents.
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Leveraging The Data Core: How Utilities Are Optimizing Operations By Concentrating Data
1/25/2021
The problem: there is no unified way of accessing water and wastewater data for analysis and as a result only a fraction of data collected by utilities is analyzed and turned into actionable information. The solution? Read on to find out.
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Organizing Your Glut Of Data To Deliver Better ‘Smart Water’ Analytics
4/6/2020
Dealing with the glut of data generated by water treatment plants (WTPs), distribution systems, sewer and stormwater collection systems, and wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) can be like trying to take a sip from a fire hose. Here is how an optimized approach to ‘smart water’ data analytics can make the difference between struggling with implementation and flourishing with efficiency.
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Sounding The Alarm: How To Enable Efficient Infrastructure Surveillance And Response
7/6/2021
With SCADA and an upgraded remote alarm notification system, North Port Utilities in Florida can keep ‘eyes’ on operations even when workers are off — out of sight but never out of touch.
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Using SCADA To Find Hidden Problems And Solutions
12/1/2009
Ocean Isle Beach is a small island community on the southeast coast of North Carolina. Only about five-hundred people live there year round, but during the summer months its beautiful beaches draw almost ten times that number. This poses unique challenges for the town's wastewater utility who must handle this extreme seasonal spike in usage.
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How To Evolve With SCADA
6/24/2016
Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems are the digital pulse of water and wastewater treatment plants. Serving as the information hub, SCADA makes the most of the day’s cutting-edge technology and in turn uses it to make the most of the plant’s operations. But how to keep up with a system that evolves as quickly as the greatest minds in the field will allow?