SCADA and Automation Solutions and Insight For Utility Managers
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Improve Your Rate Case With Automation
4/7/2022
With manual design methods utilities can only assess a small selection of options when preparing for a rate case.
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Learning Where To Look For Opportunities Will Open Many More
7/29/2022
I wanted to be part of the digital transformation of the water sector because I had experienced firsthand the massive impact that even basic smart systems could have on a utility that was depending on manual monitoring.
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What Happens When Your SCADA Server Buys The Farm?
11/2/2017
Scenario 1: It is 3 am and you are fast asleep at home in your bed. At your office across town, the server that monitors and controls your critical water and wastewater infrastructure goes offline. Maybe, the hard drive failed or the power supply died. Perhaps it just lost connection to the network. Regardless, all polling, logging, monitoring and alarming have ceased. What happens next?
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A Deluge of BIG DATA: The Connected Water Utility
5/3/2019
Water industry professionals are experiencing a data deluge. There’s a lot of data out there, gathered from sensors monitoring everything from water quality to pipe bursts — but altogether, it’s too much data divided among too many silos to make sense of what it all means.
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WWEMA Window: The Importance Of Early Design System Integration
3/16/2023
The water/wastewater industry is about to be hit, and in some cases already has been hit, with funding for projects through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). Monies are starting to flow from the federal government into State Revolving Funds, or SRFs, to assist municipalities with upgrading an aging infrastructure.
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Smart Water Networks Will Endure When IoT Bubble Bursts
11/17/2015
In its latest Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, leading analyst firm Gartner places the Internet of Things (IoT) at the top of the life cycle phase it calls the ‘Peak of Inflated Expectations’.
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The Top 5 Uncertainties Of Utility Master Planning
4/5/2022
When undertaking any new venture or revising a plan of action, it is important first to identify the uncertainties and potential pitfalls. By understanding the potential trouble issues, you can better set realistic goals and manage expectations around project time and budgets, software selection, and design flows.
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Modernize Your Mobile Operation
4/23/2014
The Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati’s Wastewater Collection Division manages 3,000 miles of main sewer line and services some 200,000 individual customer sewer laterals and accounts that cover nearly 1 million residents and businesses. When things go wrong with those pipes, the division hears about it from customers loud and clear.
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Kevin Costner’s New Waterworld: Advancing Treatment Technology
4/24/2017
The actor is behind a company that has introduced advanced membrane technology to overcome water treatment challenges.
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Region Of Waterloo Streamlines Water System To Ensure Highest Quality
5/24/2021
The Regional Municipality of Waterloo’s Water Services department is working with GrayMatter, a GE Digital partner, to develop and implement an iFIX SCADA upgrade program designed to modernize the Region’s infrastructure and operating methods. In some cases, equipment manufacturers have phased out hardware or software. Other systems lacked industry-standard features or the ability to leverage best practices from industry standards bodies such as ISA. The Region pursued the project to maintain or improve regulatory compliance and provide water that meets the highest quality standards for its service area.