Repeated, high-profile security incidents targeting the utilities industry, such as the attempted poisoning of a water treatment system in Florida, or the recent hack of the Colonial Pipeline, illustrate just how diverse the moder...
Future City Flow was implemented to visualize and communicate the effects of measures undertaken and to identify target values as part of a 10 years plan, and how these could be effectively realized, within a reasonable timeframe ...
Dear colleagues and friends, We are delighted to welcome you to IWA’s 2021 Digital World Water Congress. Now is the time for us all to collaborate and work with a laser-like focus on solutions to enable benefits to be felt acros...
Future City Flow was implemented to optimize inflow to the treatment by leveraging existing tunnel storage capacity to a higher degree. Combining model information from the collection systems with site-specific level and flow vari...
Acquasuite OPIR predicts very accurately on a 15-minute interval the water demand for the upcoming two days. Based on this prediction, OPIR gives production plants in the area setpoints on how much water they have to produce and d...
The city of South Bend, Indiana, installed Xylem’s BLU-X™ Wastewater Network solution to seek to avoid flooding. This solution is a distributed real-time decision support system, consisting of smart sensors and actuator...
Meta-data refers to descriptive information essential to convert large volumes of raw data into useful resources. With the advance of digitalisation in the water sector, it is fundamental to avoid data graveyards and, on the other...
Insufficient public and municipal investment represents a major challenge for the long-term management of urban water infrastructure. In Germany, over the last decade, the annual investment for sewer rehabilitation amounted approx...
In recent months, there have been numerous news reports and discussions around the so-called ‘build back better’ agenda. It is a phrase which has become popularised due to its usage by key actors, such as the UN and the World ...
The need to handle increasing amounts of data while improving capital and operational efficiencies has directed the attention of the water sector towards advanced digital tools such as operational digital twins. Digital twins can ...
