Success Stories
Water and Wastewater
Rapid urbanization, climate change and growing demand are placing increasing pressure on water and wastewater services. The scarcity of accessible fresh water is becoming a more severe threat to the prosperity and sustainability of all human societies. As a result, the water industry is using data to tackle challenges like maintenance, water safety, asset health, and operational efficiency.
Challenges
Disparate data sources across the enterprise made it difficult to gain insights into operational efficiencies.
Wanted to use machine learning to discover and explore new insights from existing data. This was a new territory for the company.
Needed a software stack that enables any team in the enterprise to access and view the data.
Results
Gained the ability to organize and easily find the data needed to filter and contextualize it using a unified namespace.
Predicted optimal asset behavior with advanced analytics,, resulting in more efficient operations and less energy usage and waste.
Data now is easily accessed in dashboards by clients, enterprise users, and other external users.
Software
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Deployed AVEVA™ Edge, as SCADA system;
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AVEVA™ Edge Management for easier deployments;
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AVEVA™ Historian for local storage;
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CONNECT to aggregate lab data data, and real-time data into an accessible repository;
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CONNECT Data Services for visualization with AVEVA™ Advanced Analytics to discover operational efficiencies and gain valuable insights.
The nice thing about this is that we can reconfigure this on the fly without really having to visit the plant. [With] edge management in the cloud, we can add more data to CONNECT data services as needed. And then if we need to expand this to other facilities, we can do that as well.
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Eric Conder
HMI Programming Manager, Inframark A&I Division
Challenges
Disparate data sources across the enterprise - six facilities and hundreds of assets across the water network.
Experts couldn’t get real-time data to make decisions quickly enough to optimize water production.
Existing data architecture limited off-site visibility. Mixed hardware and software environment.
Results
AVEVA UOC takes huge amounts of data from across the entire water system – a half million data points
One optimization alone saves 120M gallons of water and $35,000 per year.
Hybrid cloud solution displays data and analytics securely on any device, on site or off site
Software
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Deployed AVEVA™ Unified Operations Center (includes AVEVA™ Insight, AVEVA™ System Platform, AVEVA™ Historian, AVEVA™ Reports for Operations) in order to aggregate data.
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On site, AVEVA Unified Operations Center takes huge amounts of data from across the entire water system – a half million data points from water production plants, distribution and transmission networks, and hundreds of water collection points – and organizes it into intuitive graphical interfaces.
Now we have a wonderful solution that people from all levels–operations, maintenance, engineering, scientists–can use to access data from anywhere they are.
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Sam Paul
Section Manager – Process Automation / SCADA Systems &Projects, Gwinnett County Department of Water Resources