SCADA and Automation Solutions and Insight For Utility Managers
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Make Your SCADA Feel Young Again
2/3/2014
When the Village of Romeoville underwent a major upgrade to their SCADA system, they also decided to move to the latest version of the monitoring & control software that they had used successfully for many years. This version included features designed specifically for the water/wastewater industry. In this article, a former Head of the Water Department (*) explains why the utility continues to push for the latest HMI version and how this helps them overcome many of the issues related to maintaining a long-running SCADA system. By Christopher Little
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How To Earn Straight 'A's For Water Accountability
10/6/2020
Specific needs for data accountability can vary widely across diverse market applications — industrial, municipal, agricultural, etc. Yet the underlying goal of each application is to gain the best insights for informed decision-making at the best overall value between capital expense and operating expense. Water monitoring Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offers new ways to achieve exactly that.
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New Release: InfoWater Pro 3.0
10/30/2020
InfoWater Pro is a GIS-integrated water distribution modeling package. The newly released InfoWater Pro 3.0 offers many new functionalities that improve user productivity building and managing their model, as well as capability that encourages collaboration.
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How To Address Water Affordability And Equity With Asset Management
7/20/2021
Water Affordability and Equity issues have been around for many years, if not decades. Lead service lines were state-of-the-art water engineering in the 1920’s, yet 95 years later the relationship of public health and public infrastructure catapulted to the top with the Flint, MI crisis in disadvantaged communities.
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A Day In The Life With Predictive Control
11/28/2021
In water treatment, a lot of our daily decisions depend on variables that are constantly changing. What the weather is like, whether a pump is out of service and, perhaps most importantly, the characteristics of the influent waters.
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End-Of-Life Total Flow Alarming System Takes Faulconer Energy To The Edge
10/12/2022
FreeWave’s Edge platform with edge polling and alarming future-proofs systems, lowers costs and minimizes operational failures.
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Kingfisher RTUs Installed In Ventura River County System
9/30/2021
The Ventura River County Water District in Ojai, California required a new SCADA system but they were keen to ensure that a computer did not have the ultimate destiny in the dispatch of very necessary alarms.
The customer wanted a solution that provided “fail safe” operation whilst minimising the impact of single and multi component failures during system operation. Here, the business challenge was to reduce downtime and improve efficiency and situational awareness for the Ventura River County Water District.
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Water Data Smackdown: Meet The Top 10 Innovators
1/15/2016
Imagine H2O recently announced the 10 finalists from more than 90 worldwide entrants to its Water Data Challenge. Here’s a brief overview of each company and what they offer.
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Existing Preliminary Process Units Are Supported By TDG
7/14/2022
From now on, Transcend Design Generator supports already existing screening and grit removal on plant extensions.
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A Flight Simulator For Treatment Facilities: The New Frontier For Modeling Complete Treatment Plant Operations
8/19/2016
Inconsistent water availability, reduced capital and operational budgets and tightening regulations are posing real challenges for our water conveyance and treatment infrastructure today.