AMI, AMR, and Metering Features
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Avoiding The High Costs Of Aeration Inefficiency
4/30/2019
Knowing that aeration requirements consume 50 to 60 percent of a wastewater treatment plant's (WWTP) energy bill is one thing. Knowing exactly how and when to tweak aeration output to optimize activated sludge process efficiency with minimal energy waste is an entirely different story. Here are several key considerations on using precise air-flow measurement to reach that sweet spot with greater consistency and cost-efficiency.
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Insta-Valve 250 Helps Stop Leak While Maintaining Service To Industrial Park
11/9/2020
The Insta-Valve 250 provided targeted shutdown without impacting service to a nearby industrial park.
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Beat The Heat: How To Fight Fire Hydrant Abuse
7/15/2015
To overheated summer residents, they are a free trip to the waterpark. To utilities, they seem more like a flood of money spilling down the street. Any way you look at it, an illegally opened fire hydrant is a lot of lost water.
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Case Study: Singapore Utility Eliminates Harmful Transients Improving System Reliability And Prolonging The Asset Life
1/31/2020
Water scarcity has long prompted water self-sufficiency in Singapore, the third most densely populated country in the world, with 5.6 million residents crowded into just over 275 square miles.
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Machine Learning: What Water Utilities Can Learn From The Power Industry
5/23/2022
The combination of water scarcity and aging infrastructure is pushing water utilities to use machine learning analytic software to predict demand patterns and develop long-term investment plans.
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Have AMI? You're Halfway To A Business Case For Smart Infrastructure And IoT
10/20/2023
Once utilities truly start leveraging that meter-to-cash investment called AMI, they will see they already have an IoT solution in place, and it comes with a built-in business case.
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How To Predict Pipe Failures
11/23/2016
An extensive research project has developed a new method for predicting pipeline failures, offering a potential savior to drinking water systems.
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Forecasting The Top 5 Water Trends In 2016
1/15/2016
As the dawn of 2016 emerges and we look forward to the year ahead, it’s instructive to engage in a little prognostication.
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World Water Day 2023: How The Water Industry Can “Accelerate Change”
3/13/2023
Globally, we are on a tight schedule to get our planet moving in the right direction regarding the climate crisis. While the COP (Conference of the Parties) meetings are working to collaborate and design a plan to contain the threats at hand, we still lack major negotiating deadlines. With World Water Day 2023 coming up on March 22 with the theme of “Accelerating Change”, the day urges individuals to recognize how they consume and manage water in their lives and make necessary changes to help utilize it better.
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What’s So “Smart” About Potable Smart Water Networks?
9/15/2014
Smart Networks— no matter if they are on the potable side of the industry or the wastewater side— seem to be one of the next battlegrounds for efficiency.