Mueller Articles

41. 21st Century Challenges Need 21st Century Solutions 6/29/2022

    In order to face the coming changes in the water sector, water utilities need to find new ways to recruit an entirely new generation of workers.

42. Digital Adoption Made Easy With The Sentryx™ Water Intelligence Platform & IoT Infrastructure 5/20/2022

    Sentryx is a digital services platform for water utilities to monitor, control, operate, and monetize water distribution networks. It is easy to use with intuitive dashboards and powerful mapping and data visualizations.

43. Instrumenting The Water Network: The Time Is Now 4/8/2022

    With the improved capabilities and affordability of today’s sensor technology, now is the time for water utilities to instrument their networks from the source to the customer.

44. Avoiding Misguided Pipeline Replacement Expenses 10/14/2021

    Whichever the relevant adage — measure twice, cut once…a penny saved is a penny earned…look before you leap — the concept of being thoroughly prepared to minimize lost time, wasted money, or potential embarrassment is well founded.

45. How To Gain An Affordable Grasp Of Water's Digital Transformation 9/3/2021

    Water industry press naturally covers the broadest and brightest promises of the digital revolution. Unfortunately, that big-picture view can often intimidate or mislead small to -midsize utilities that interpret it as demanding a large investment in order to reap the benefits. Here are some insights into how utilities of any size can affordably harness the value of timely digital data from their distribution systems.

46. Durham, NC Improves Water Quality With Remote Pressure Monitoring, Sampling, And Flushing Stations 1/15/2021

    The City of Durham is committed to providing safe drinking water to a service population of more than 289,000.  The City’s Department of Water Management (DWM) ensures the delivery of water to approximately 99,000 service connections through 1,400 miles of watermains. Lake Michie and Little River Reservoir are the two sources that deliver raw water to the City’s two treatment plants, using a combination of gravity flow and electric and hydro-powered pumping systems. Together, these plants have the combined treatment capacity of 64 million gallons per day (MGD) with an average demand is 28 MGD.

47. How Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning Will Underpin Asset Management Of The Future 12/7/2020

    Aging infrastructure is by far the most recognized challenge for municipal water systems. In many places across the country, pipes and valves have been in the ground for more than 50 years. While this has led to a dramatic increase in failures, the typical municipality only has the budget to repair about 1% of its distribution system assets in any year. That’s where newer artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) solutions can play an outsized role.

48. Innovative Repair Products A Key To Optimized Asset Management 12/6/2020

    For water managers, getting visibility into their distribution system through historical data offers a better understanding of which pipes are most likely to break, thereby making it easier to plan to make repairs before they become emergencies. Active leak detection can also reduce the number of emergency repairs by finding them when they are small leaks. A growing number of municipalities are taking advantage of those tools. At the same time, however, selecting optimal repair products plays just as critical a role in enhancing asset management.

49. Smart Hydrant Pilot Project Delivers Promising Pressure Data 12/4/2020

    Dealing with aging infrastructure, and the resulting leaks and breaks, is the biggest ongoing issue for water utilities, including New Jersey American Water. Until recently, operators at the utility had to install a permanent monitoring site to get remote pressure readings that could help them address the issue. However, they may have found a more viable solution for pressure and leak monitoring.

50. Innovative Communication Tool Enables Robust And Contact-Free Control Capabilities 10/24/2020

    Two-way wireless communication can provide a wealth of benefits for municipal water utilities, including command and control abilities that underpin a wider smart city infrastructure. However, most tools currently on the market do not provide the flexibility and uncompromising speed that are necessary to enable these capabilities. The newly released Mueller® Mi.Net® LoRaWAN® (LW) node, by comparison, allows two-way data communication to take place within seconds instead of hours.