Reclaiming Your Time: The Advantages Of Advanced Pump And Sump Monitoring

By Micah Young, Monitoring & Control Application Engineer, Xylem

Water and wastewater utilities have been struggling for years with lack of manpower to handle increasingly complex and demanding operations. As populations increase, the number of such assets and their size have inevitably grown. Yet the supervision of critical assets such as pump stations and sumps has become a challenge with many utilities’ staffing levels, as well as the loss of older, more experienced operators. In addition, younger workers are more inclined to use technology to manage a system rather than rely on tribal knowledge of their predecessors.

To overcome this, utilities can leverage advanced technologies to make monitoring and maintenance easier for operators to execute with fewer advanced skills, while reducing manpower and increasing the life of equipment.