SCADA and Automation Solutions and Insight For Utility Managers
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Artificial Intelligence Predicts – And Saves – Your Water Future
3/24/2020
The digital transformation of water and wastewater utilities may be early-stage, but it is making tremendous impact where applied, and most organizations already have the data at their disposal to improve their local water conditions.
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Are Your Pumps Running As Efficiently As Practical?
5/16/2019
In water and wastewater operations, optimizing energy use plays a huge role in cost efficiency, but how can you know if pumping equipment and other motors are running as efficiently as possible? Analytics systems that interpret performance from a variety of data points — pump curves, run time, flow rates, vibration, temperature, energy consumption, etc. — can quantify pump operation to keep performance efficiency on an upward track.
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GIS Touches Every Aspect Of Central Arkansas Water
11/30/2020
From the management of underground assets, like pipes, valves, and meters, to an automatic fire hydrant inspection notification system to efficiencies in our billing system, GIS increases the quality of service our utility provides every day.
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What The Water Sector Could Learn From The Electric Side
3/17/2015
Each year, the nation wastes an estimated two trillion gallons, or about 14 to 18 percent, of its treated water through leaks alone. That’s a lot of water – enough to fill over three million Olympic-size swimming pools.
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The Value Of Digital Transformation In Water At JEA
8/6/2021
In a broader landscape being transformed by data, water utilities face their own unique challenges in adopting digital transformation strategies.
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Using Digital Twin Technology For The Hartford Clean Water Project
1/27/2022
For nearly two decades, the Clean Water Project in Hartford, Connecticut has evolved from upgrading aging infrastructure and replacing physical assets with data collected on VHS tapes and paper forms to introducing intelligent water modeling and digital twin technology. The use of new smart technologies helps the team better protect neighborhoods and local waterways through real-time monitoring of sewer system overflows, further driving digital transformation in one of America’s most historic cities.
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Computational Fluid Dynamics Hits Its Stride For Water, Wastewater, And Stormwater Treatment
11/1/2019
It took some time for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to find its way to the water industry, but now that it has, a primer is warranted to understand its application.
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How Ultrasonic Sensor Technology Can Increase Processing Plant Efficiency
5/14/2019
In today’s competitive business environment, which focuses on increased throughput, economies of scale and a healthy bottom line, accurate and reliable measurement is a key component. Monitoring production processes by installing a wide range of sensors including flow, level, temperature, and pressure is common and crucial to be competitive. Although there are many reasons why plant managers decide to install monitoring devices in their process, environmental and regulatory reasons dominate one side of the spectrum, whereas quality, process control and monitoring govern the other.
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Wastewater Process Engineers Are Scary Smart
11/17/2022
This transcript of a recorded conversation between Nikolett Szilagyi, Process Engineer, and Adam Tank, Chief Customer Officer at Transcend, involves making sense of a term called fractionation -- an important part of designing biological wastewater treatment plants.
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HRSD Gains New Operational Awareness To Improve Wastewater Operations
6/25/2021
In southeastern Virginia, Hampton Roads Sanitation District (HRSD) handles wastewater treatment for 1.7 million people in 20 cities and counties. Sea-level rise, unusually high tides, and extreme storms prompted a $1.2 billion program—the Sustainable Water Initiative for Tomorrow (SWIFT) that involves replenishing the Potomac aquifer with up to 100 million gallons of SWIFT Water (water treated to meet drinking water standards and matched to the existing groundwater chemistry in the aquifer) per day, an action that may slow or reduce the impact of sea level rise by slowing land settling, or subsidence.