SCADA and Automation Solutions and Insight For Utility Managers
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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.
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Enhanced Model Management And Reporting In The Latest InfoWorks WS Pro
12/7/2021
The newly released InfoWorks WS Pro, versions 2021.7 and 2021.8, provide users with new capability that improves managing models and incident reporting. InfoWorks WS Pro has been an industry leader for flexible management of water supply models for decades. Key new functionality includes scenario management, sharing SQLs, supply interruption reporting, and improved version control and licensing.
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Too Many Alarms? It's Time For SuperSCADA!
4/10/2023
For operators, a SCADA is their Decision Support system. If viewed that way, your SCADA should be the foundation of an efficient operation.
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KETOS SHIELD Delivers Insight Into Critical Water Quality Parameters
2/25/2022
Food company leverages the KETOS SHIELD to stabilize water quality, reduce chemical costs, and ensure compliance with proactive water quality monitoring.
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From Reactive To Proactive
11/10/2021
The Water Online editorial staff sat down for a brief chat with Lou Arone, Schneider Electric’s US Manager of the System & Architectures Team, Industrial Automation Business, as well as Vincent Puisor, Schneider’s Business Development Manager for Water & Wastewater in the Americas Region, to discuss water industry challenges and the solutions that Schneider has to offer. Below is our conversation, lightly edited for clarity and length.
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Well-Pad Automation Through The CC1310 Wireless MCU
9/14/2022
To stay competitive against big players, smaller regional oil and gas companies are turning to well-pad automation practices to keep their costs low and their production reliable and steady.
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The Transcend Design Generator Is Secretly An Advanced Data Analytics Software Package
8/9/2022
The conceptual design output you get from the TDG will inherently have value -- the TDG already saved time and effort in creating the resulting conceptual design compared to traditional design approaches.
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Enabling Real-Time Information: Bridging The Dark Data Gap
8/27/2021
In our increasingly digital world, utilities have greater access to real-time information on the operating conditions, performance, and health of their infrastructure. This enables more efficient operations and better-informed planning decisions, more proactive response to network events, and more preventive or predictive maintenance of critical assets. Data can come from a wide range of sources—field applications, SCADA platforms, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, automatic vehicle location (AVL) systems, weather forecasts, and social media. This large amount of data can be overwhelming, quickly becoming dark data—data that is gathered and stored, often in departmental silos, but not used in any meaningful way.
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Better Chlorine Control In A Cost-Effective Solution For Small Wastewater Plants
8/13/2019
Wastewater plants treat effluent with chlorine as a final disinfection measure prior to its discharge into the environment. While this should be straightforward, there are still a significant number of small water systems facing big problems because they don’t have a solid grasp on the process. The good news is that a modern, cost-effective solution is available.
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EPA Goes 'Next Generation' With Regulatory Compliance Program
12/2/2013
Inspired by new technology and an evolved philosophy, the EPA changes its approach to pollution-control rulemaking and compliance.