AVEVA FEATURED CONTENT

• City Of Riverside PUD On Quantifying ROI And Digital Transformation In The Water Industry

  The City of Riverside PUD discusses how they are quantifying ROI and also the ever-evolving digital transformation taking place in the water industry, 

• The Value Of Digital Transformation In Water At JEA

  In a broader landscape being transformed by data, water utilities face their own unique challenges in adopting digital transformation strategies.

• Driving Smarter Decisions With Your Water Data

  OSIsoft brings you some perspective on how the U.S. water utility sector has evolved – and continues to evolve – in its use and management of data.

• Adapting To The Unknown: Why Resilience Is Critical For Successful Utilities

  A resilient mindset is critical for decision-making in times of increased uncertainty in the utilities sector. Both the natural climate and the political climate are more prone than ever to instability. Your organization can’t completely control these factors, but resilience allows you to adapt quickly and prepare for future disruptions to the status quo.

• Leveraging The Data Core: How Utilities Are Optimizing Operations By Concentrating Data

  The problem: there is no unified way of accessing water and wastewater data for analysis and as a result only a fraction of data collected by utilities is analyzed and turned into actionable information. The solution? Read on to find out.

• White House Utility District Uses IIoT To Improve Operations In Water & Wastewater

  The White House Utility District (WHUD) is the largest water utility in Tennessee by geography, serving consumers and businesses just north of Nashville. Since it started making better use of its sensor-based data using state-of-the-art IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) technologies in 2016, its infrastructure leakage index (ILI) decreased from 1.49 to 0.76. In this episode we talk about pressure management, leaks, and I&I with those who made the changes to improve their operation.

• OCS Helps Keep Drinking Water Safe

  The city of Salem had a water scare in the summer of 2018.  A harmful algal bloom had threatened the quality of their drinking water.  They partnered with Casne Engineering and The Prediction Lab (TPL) to ramp up their data efforts to create advanced algorithms.  Now, using OCS (OSIsoft Cloud Services) they bring together a variety of data sources such as satellite images and lake measurements to predict water quality and proactively mitigate any potential issues.

• Digital Transformation Drives Operational Efficiency At Riverside Public Utilities

  Riverside, CA, had a wealth of data, but in 30 separate systems, and reporting was time-intensive. Their solution was to integrate all real-time and operational data into the PI System, and create dashboards and automated reports for deeper and faster data access. Read the full case study to learn more.

• How To Operate Your Utility Like The Essential Service It Is

  Utilities that had invested in remote monitoring and cloud-based operational systems before COVID-19 stay-at-home orders were issued were able to shift gears to remote operations. Those that had not were left to struggle with skeleton crews, delayed billings, or other disruptions. Here are some perspectives on how all utilities can operate as the essential services they are, regardless of the challenges they encounter.

• Close Data And Control Gaps With Remote Monitoring

  For as many water/wastewater utilities that use SCADA systems inside their treatment facilities, there are many where that automated data collection and control all but ends at the property line. In reality, a significant percentage of customer service and performance efficiency opportunities exist ‘beyond the fence.’ Here is how utilities can use remote monitoring to leverage those opportunities for success.

• How To Benefit From Greater Transparency To Customers

  Being more proactive in sharing utility operational insights with customers can pay dividends in terms of promoting efficiency and elevating customer satisfaction. It can also prepare utilities to respond more effectively to sudden or drastic disruptions of standard operations, such as droughts, floods, wildfires, or health emergencies. Here is how to establish and benefit from greater transparency.

• Appreciating The Importance Of Resiliency

  As essential services, water and wastewater utilities face a lot of pressure to maintain continuity despite a variety of challenges — stormy weather, natural disasters, and even global pandemics. In-plant instrumentation, SCADA systems, and remote sensors all have their roles. But for more holistic views and higher-level analyses of performance patterns, an operational intelligence system can help to maximize resiliency.

• Pandemics, Disasters, And Droughts: Why Transparency Is Key In Uncertain Times

  Water and wastewater utilities are vital to our ability to have clean drinking water and mitigate waterborne diseases. However, operating efficiently while providing safe, quality services and staying compliant is no small feat. Add in a disaster, such as a fire, a drought, or an unforeseen global pandemic like COVID-19, and utilities must adapt to ever-changing conditions while maintaining the trust of the customers they serve. Maintaining that trust and customer goodwill is critical during times of crisis, and the only way to do so is through transparency

• Wastewater’s Worst Case Scenarios

  Real-time data is the first line of defense for wastewater utilities. A data infrastructure serves as a window into critical operations, allowing employees to optimize equipment performance and hedge against risk. It is often the most economical solution as well: in many cases, utilities already have many of the core elements for an actionable data infrastructure for improving decision making.

• Why Next-Generation Reporting Is Critical In The Water Utilities Industry

  The internet of things (IoT) is transforming the water utilities industry. From sensors that collect flow and pressure information in remote locations to smart meters that upload data continuously into the cloud, more and more equipment is generating endless streams of data.

• The Connected Water Utility – Part 1

  This video focuses on leading water and wastewater utilities who have embraced and leveraged digital technologies such as smart sensors/devices, IoT, better connectivity, and software. You'll discover that by creating a data strategy and using real-time data your water utility will drive smarter decisions to reduce opex and capex, increase asset life, meet environmental compliance, etc. while reducing risk.

• The Connected Water Utility – Part 2: Use Cases

  This video focuses on leading water and wastewater utilities use cases that have embraced and leveraged digital technologies such as smart sensors/devices, IoT, better connectivity, and software. You'll see examples from utilities that have created a data strategy and are using real-time data that is driving smarter decisions to reduce opex and capex, increase asset life, meet environmental compliance, etc. while reducing risk.

• A Deluge of BIG DATA: The Connected Water Utility

  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.

• 5 Ways Digital Solutions Are Helping Water Utilities Do More With Less

  Learn how you can maximize ROI through digital transformation.

• Unifying Your Water And Wastewater Operations

  Technology developments like the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and big data analytics can provide the tools to tackle the issues faced by the water and wastewater sector.

• 3 Ways To Tackle Infrastructure Resiliency And Agility At Once

  With increased pressure for smarter infrastructure, the ability to quickly change direction and integrate processes across stakeholders has emerged as a trend "needed at every level of the infrastructure ecosystem."

• Driving Digital Value: The Data Science Behind Smart, Sustainable, High-Performance Buildings

  Discover why business, healthcare, and higher education facilities are using AVEVA PI System and AVEVA trusted partners to cut energy costs and consumption, improve resiliency, maximize maintenance strategies, diagnose asset performance, and make progress toward net-zero emissions goals.

• Transforming Cities And Infrastructure For A Sustainable Future

  This paper discusses how the right combination of digital tools is helping cities move from a reactive response to delivering a more sustainable future while saving costs and connecting the workforce to trusted data.

• Long Beach Water Department Increases Efficiency With AVEVA SCADA Solution

  Discover how AVEVA helped operate and maintain nearly 765 miles of sewer lines, and deliver more than 40 million gallons of wastewater per day to Los Angeles County sanitation district facilities. 

• Targeting Zero: How Water And Wastewater Utilities Can Achieve Net-Zero Carbon Emissions

  Learn how water and wastewater utilities can use data to find operational efficiencies can both reduce energy costs and reduce carbon emissions.

• How To Make Better Decisions Driven By The Water-Energy Nexus

  Despite improved production equipment, being able to reduce energy costs and conserve precious water resources still relies on collecting, managing, analyzing, understanding, and leveraging data efficiently. Here’s how to do it.

• Harnessing Digital Twin Technology’s Benefits For New Water Plant Designs

  While the ‘digital twin’ concept has been around for decades, most of the talk about it in water and wastewater treatment has focused on using it to monitor and manage active operations. Here is an advance look at the value they offer.

• Dairy Warms To Digital Twins

  To meet ever-more-demanding safety regulations and to keep pace with the rapid proliferation of new dairy products, all while optimizing operations across the entire enterprise, dairy processors are increasingly turning to digital twins. This article explores this new automated solution that enables manufacturers to model production processes and asset performance in a safe, virtual environment.

• Leveraging Digital Twins For 'Smart Water' Analytics

  Optimizing water and wastewater operations requires analyzing a lot of variables and the relationships among them. One good way to do that is with a digital twin — a digital parallel to a physical system — that can be used to test and develop new analytics or control strategies without disrupting real-time operations. Here are several examples of how to use digital twins to yield more efficient results.

• Organizing Your Glut Of Data To Deliver Better ‘Smart Water’ Analytics

  Dealing with the glut of data generated by water treatment plants (WTPs), distribution systems, sewer and stormwater collection systems, and wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) can be like trying to take a sip from a fire hose. Here is how an optimized approach to ‘smart water’ data analytics can make the difference between struggling with implementation and flourishing with efficiency.

• Making The Most Of Historical Data For ‘Smart Water’ Insights

  The concept of ‘drowning in data but starving for information’ might be a slight exaggeration in smaller, well-established water or wastewater treatment operations, but collecting more data than is typically used certainly strikes a familiar chord. With all the buzz about ‘smart water,’ there must be a way to make better use of available data without breaking the bank. Here are some principles to consider.

• 'Smart Water' Benefits Without 'Big Data' Intimidation

  For water treatment plants (WTPs) and wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) pressured to do more with their data despite being pinched by a tight budget and a need to retrain employees, a new strategy can make all the difference. Here is how one such approach makes ‘smart water’ analytics less intimidating and how it has helped one utility make more cost-effective decisions while saving precious time and money.

• Efficiency Is No Longer Just An Option For Food And Beverage Companies

  The food and beverage industry faces massive headwinds from shifting market dynamics.  As consumer appetites for high-end options — such as organic foods and eco-friendly packaging — continue to grow, innovation in products, materials, and technologies allows these items to rapidly make their way from developmental concept to store shelves. While shoppers are engaging at record levels, and the potential to profit is greater than ever, manufacturers must rise to a new level of optimization to remain competitive.

• Water Utility OT vs. IT — It’s Not A Battle, It’s A Balance

  The chemistry of optimizing water/wastewater treatment extends far beyond chlorine and oxygen. It also involves synthesizing productive insights from the flood of IT data generated by operational technology (OT) sensors, instruments, and control systems. Here’s how better operational intelligence strategies are helping IT and OT personnel collaborate to make processes more cost-efficient.

• Reduce Electricity Costs By Putting More Energy Into Data Analysis

  With electricity consumption being a primary operating cost in water treatment and wastewater treatment, steps taken to optimize energy use are critical. Saving energy is more than just an on/off decision. Monitoring and managing energy use — from analyzing pump curves, to reducing non-revenue-water leaks, to scheduling operations around premium-rate windows — is essential. Fortunately, the payback potential can be impressive.

• Managing Data To Maximize Asset Maintenance Efficiency

  Although an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, all the money spent on regularly scheduled maintenance can add up to a ton of waste — and still result in unplanned downtime — if asset managers can’t reasonably differentiate between which equipment truly needs attention and which doesn’t. Fortunately, data-centric analytics derived from physical performance in real time can make that distinction. Here’s how.

• The Secret Ingredient Of Analytics: Wastewater

  The storm was a one-in-ten-year event. But it’s one that the engineers at TasWater, the water and wastewater agency for Tasmania, realized the people in the region would remember for a long, long time.

• Are Your Pumps Running As Efficiently As Practical?

  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.

• Water Utilities: Successes in Transforming Data Into Action

  In this video, you'll see examples from utilities that have created a data strategy and are using real-time data that is driving smarter decisions to reduce opex and capex, increase asset life, meet environmental compliance, etc. while reducing risk.

• How To Predict And Prevent CSOs And SSOs

  Combined and sanitary sewer overflows are natural hazards for wastewater collection systems. Without a comprehensive solution to monitor troublesome conditions, overflows can be triggered with little warning and lead to expensive and embarrassing situations. Fortunately, versatile analytical systems that capitalize on existing wastewater collection infrastructure hold promise for avoiding such negative impacts.

• White House Utility District Reduces Costs By Over $1 Million

  In 2007, White House Utility District (WHUD), a water utility serving approximately 90,000 consumers and businesses in Tennessee, faced a dilemma: how to meet a projected growing demand for water within the budget and capital constraints faced by municipal and mid-sized utilities everywhere.

• Thames Water: Using IT/OT Data To Change Behaviors To Hit KPIs

  Thames Water focuses on extracting value from specific combinations of structured and unstructured business data together with real-time operational data provided by Thames' PI System from across more than 3000 plant and 140,000 km of water and sewerage networks.

• Maynilad Water: Breaking Data Silos — Right Data To The Right People At The Right Time

  Dr. Francisco Castillo speaks on their FIELD MOUS system (Field MOnitoring User System), where a PI System acts as a repository of technical data into which different departments plug their data, and other departments access it to fit their particular needs.

• How To Turn Data Into A Difference-Maker

  With the proliferation of sensors, data collection, and cloud storage, there is the potential for operational insight heretofore never available, and the opportunity will only expand as the technology evolves and the Internet of Things becomes, well, more of a thing. But data is only truly useful if it informs decision-making that results in positive impact — for an organization's bottom line, its personnel, its customers, or even the world at large (i.e., the environment).

• Colorado Springs: From Data To True Business Impacts

  Colorado Springs Utilities internal customers can see lab results more quickly and as a result are reducing costs by optimizing their facilities by 30%.

• Water Corporation, Perth

  Ian Scott describes the key landmarks in its use of the PI System and the evolution towards using the PI System as the cornerstone infrastructure of its business.

• Big Data For Small Towns, Or Stopping The $300,000 Leak

  The water burbling down the rural hillside, nurturing the thick foliage, certainly looked like a stream.

• TasWater: Saving Oysters With Data

  At 10am on August 24, 2017, a customer in Midway Point, a small suburb outside of Hobart, Tasmania, reported a sewage spill on his property. Midway Point stands adjacent to Pitt Water Nature Reserve, home to rare birds, butterflies, and the largest oyster lease in Tasmania, covering some 14 hectacres. In late August, Pitt Water oysters, prized for their briny flavor and consistency, were just coming into peak condition.