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RIDING THE DATA ANALYTICS WAVE FOR A SUSTAINABLE WATER NETWORK

Water Solutions by AVEVA

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Water Overview

IntroductionWater utility companies often rely on manual processes to retrieve and share their water network data. In many instances, large amounts of data are sent by email or shared via FTP sites. While this method has worked for some water utilities in the past, many are finding these methods increasingly challenging and restrictive today.

Water utilities have five aspects of data to deal with: volume, variety, velocity, value and visibility. With no real-time data processing and sharing capability, many water utilities are hampered by the sheer amount of data in different formats coming in from various sources at an exploding rate.

While managing disparate information systems may be daunting, harvesting the fruits of data labour is often unreachable. This makes it difficult for water utilities to “ride the data analytics wave.”

In this e-Book, we’ll share some of the ways you can build a sustainable water network through data analytics.

Global Situation

Reference: <Water Facts and Trends> produced by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development

97%

0.5% 2.5%

Available fresh water(available to mankind)

Frozen fresh water(not Available)

Sea Water (non-drinkable)

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Some Key Facts

y 4.2 billion people obtain water through a piped connection(1)

y 50% of the world’s population will be living in water-stressed areas by 2025(1)

y 1 in 10 out of 663 million people lack access to safe water (2)

References: (1) World Health Organization www.who.org

(2) Water.org www.water.org

By 2050, the world will be a different place… A critical and growing need for access to water

Growing world population

World population living under water stress

Projected increase in water demand

People without access to basic sanitation

Source:OECD(2012)

+34%

+40%

+55%

1.4 Billion

People without access to an improved water source

240 Million

What is data analytics for water network management?A water utility can take full advantage of data analytics to make better-informed business decisions. Data is the infrastructure that connects its operations and its people.

Large amounts of data passes through a water utilities’ control room on a daily basis. Data analytics allows utilities to examine and correlate real-time data to critical events (water quality incidents, pressure concerns, contamination breaches, as examples), thereby displaying a repeated data trend. This enables water utilities to formulate information about their water network.

With visibility into the entire water network through data analytics, water utilities are now able to predict future changes in their water network and set out corrective actions before critical events occur.

Visibility of real-time creates more accurate and cost-effective demand management, as water utilities are able to forecast supply without putting operational constraints on pipeline operations at the very last hour.

From Reactive to Proactive Management

AVEVA Value Proposition

Through our innovative water technologies and services, we help make water safe, reliable, sustainable and efficient across the entire water cycle.

We deliver efficiency across the entire water cycleOur smart water solutions deliver operational efficiency, energy efficiency and a lower cost of ownership within plants and across networks.

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Up to 30% In Energy Savings

Up to 25% Increase in Operational Efficiency Energy Savings

Up to 20% Reduction in Total Cost of Ownership

Waternetworks

Wastewaternetworks

Wastewatertreatment plant

Waterresource

Watertreatment

plant

Desalinationplant

Ocean

Tank station orbooster station

Industry/Municipality

Liftingstation

Watewatertreatment

Restoration to natural environment

Recycling/ reuse

Naturalenvironment

Pumping stationand recovery station

Treatment plant

AVEVA provides a world-class solution portfolio to bring productivity to the water industry.

Aquis Water Network Management

y Simulation and Real-time Modeling

y Pump and Reservoir Optimization

y Pressure Optimization

y Leak Detection

y Non-Revenue Water Reduction

y Water Network Optimization

Monitoring and Control

y HMI and Supervisory Control

y Manufacturing Operations Management

y Industrial Information Management

Asset Performance

y Condition Management

y Mobility Solutions

y Enterprise Asset Management

y Predictive Asset Analytics

Get more out of your water distribution network investments y Network behaviors; what-if scenarios

forecasting based on real-time data

y Pressure, pump and reservoir optimization for energy cost reduction

y Water quality monitoring and water source mix overview

y Pollution source tracing capabilities

y Streamlining utility consumer support

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Proof PointsLet’s look at how some of the world’s leading water utilities have used AVEVA water solutions to gain operational efficiencies.

AVEVA Software Unites Disparate Water & Wastewater Systems for Cairns WaterCAIRNS WATER, Australia

Customer Challenges

y An old and unsupported SCADA system had been used to control the Southern Treatment plant

y Geography is a prominent factor with 40 pumping stations feeding into the central location

The Solution

y AVEVA chosen as the automated solution to manage the water and wastewater system as well as solid waste and recycling services.

Customer Benefits

y Helps in providing continuous water and wastewater services to the 145,000 people of Cairns, Australia

y The Southern Treatment plant provides primary and secondary stages of sewage treatment for 60,000 of the residents of Cairns

y Improved response times and provides better environmental compliance and monitoring

y Answered the priority need for continuous control, no matter where engineers are located

150 Year Old Utility Boosts Network Operational EfficiencyVANDCENTER SYD, Denmark

Customer Challenges

y Provide safe drinking water most efficiently 24/7

y Improve contingency planning

y Optimize expansion and maintenance

y Enable dynamic pressure control

The Solution

Aquis Water Network Management provides data not available in SCADA systems, including:

y Ability to trace contaminations accurately both forwards and backwards in the network

y Knowledge of impact of operational actions beforehand

y Decreased man-hours for operation

Customer Benefits

y Improved water quality

y Time saved in operations

y Improved customer service

y Expansion and renovations possible

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Case Studies

Henderson Water Utility

Organization Profile

Organization: Henderson Water UtilityOrganization Size: State & LocalIndustry: Government

Challenges

y Solved challenges in the following areas with AVEVA Historian:

• Regulatory reporting

• Downtime tracking

• Production/cost accounting

• Diagnostics/troubleshooting

Use Case

y Uses the following AVEVA information management software products:

• Regulatory reporting

• Downtime tracking

• Production/cost accounting

• Diagnostics/troubleshooting

y Manages information with the following functionalities:

• Process data collection and storage

• Data retrieval for reporting and analytics

• Data charting and graphing

• Tabular reports

• Web-based reports & analytics

• Drill-down reports

Results

y Achieved the following benefits with their AVEVA information management solution:

• Increased production

• Improved product quality

• Improved regulatory compliance

• Improved asset utilization

y Purchased AVEVA Historian for the following reasons:

• Integration with other AVEVA products

• Functionality

• Integration with Microsoft Office

y Finds the following features differentiate AVEVA Historian from the competition:

• Ease of implementation and maintenance

• Tight integration with AVEVA InTouch HMI

• Data analysis and troubleshooting

• Easy retrieval of process history

• Reporting, analytics and dashboards

• Web delivery of process information

Source: TVID: 9CC-B70-09A Jeff Roberts, Director of Automation, Henderson Water Utility

This case study of Henderson Water Utility is based on a March 2014 survey of AVEVA Historian customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

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Case Studies

San Francisco Public Utilities Commission – Water

Organization Profile

Organization: sfwater.orgOrganization Size: State & LocalIndustry: Government

Challenges

y After deploying AVEVA eDNA Enterprise Historian the company:

• Bridged the IT / OT information gap

• Met regulatory compliance standards

• Supported situational awareness

• Saw enterprise security integration

y The top purchasing drivers for AVEVA eDNA Enterprise Historian:

• To consolidate disparate data sources

• For its advanced client applications (View, Trend, Report Manager and Excel Add-in)

• For its lossless data compression (data fidelity / accuracy)

• Due to the support ability for future data loading (load forecasting)

• Because of the high availability / service oriented redundant architecture

• Of its accessibility through Web solution

• Because of its predictable and lower total cost of ownership

Use Case

y The AVEVA eDNA Enterprise Historian features utilized the most:

• View screen displays

• Trends

• Excel Add-in

• Calculation points

y Software application that is used in conjunction with AVEVA eDNAEnterprise Historian:

• Microsoft SQL server databases

Results

y The company rated the following capabilities of AVEVA eDNA Enterprise Historian in terms of how superior they are compared to the competition:

• Performance: extremely superior

• Ease of use: extremely superior

• Reliability (redundancy): superior

• Scalability: superior

• Cost of ownership: extremely superior

y Company had a payback period of 18 – 24 months with AVEVA eDNA Enterprise Historian.

“We’ve used eDNA Enterprise Historian for 20 years for the reasons stated above.”

Source: TVID: 66F-FC8-2F6 Paul Karawanny, Project Manager, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission

This case study of sfwater.org is based on a May 2015 survey of AVEVA eDNA Enterprise Historian customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

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Water Network Optimization

The Water Network Optimization suite by AVEVA enables Operations Managers and Control Room Operators to manage their network in a more informed manner by:

y Incorporating virtual sensors, allowing operators to know hydraulic and water quality parameters at any point of the distribution network, thus enhancing real-time supervision in SCADA

y Evaluating the evolution of water network behavior and identifying potential issues regarding levels of service breaches (in terms of pressure, water quality, etc.) over the next hours and days

y Analyzing the results of an alternative what-if scenario and comparing it with the business as usual scenario (without having to rely on hydraulic simulations run from other departments)

y Analyzing a complete set of Key Performance Indicators on energy usage, network pressure conditions and water quality

Aquis Water Network Management

Aquis Water Network Management is an operation system that expands your water distribution network SCADA capabilities. Aquis forecasts the behavior of the distribution network and anticipates the impact of planned and unplanned events before they happen. By using real time data, the solution takes into consideration the ever-changing condition of the network, so your actions are always based on the most updated situation.

In doing this, Aquis Water Network Management enables water distribution network operators and managers to make better and smarter decisions faster, reducing the risk and cost of operation and maintenance activities.

AVEVA HistorianAVEVA Historian captures and stores high-fidelity industrial Big Data, to unlock trapped potential for operational improvements. AVEVA Historian is the first, large volume plant data historian to unite a high-speed data acquisition and storage system with a traditional relational database management system.

This enables smarter business decisions with enterprise data access to high-fidelity data generated by the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). AVEVA Historian provides a secure, high-performance database to consolidate disparate data sources and provide rapid retrieval techniques to make sense of the increasing amount of industrial data.

AVEVA InTouch HMIAVEVA InTouch HMI goes beyond simplistic graphics to enable application builders to focus on creating meaningful content that will drive enterprise-wide operations productivity and cost savings.

InTouch HMI empowers operators to optimize their routine human interactions with industrial automation systems. This results in a quantifiable net increase in operator effectiveness. Our unique approach using situational awareness libraries provides contextualized information that operators need to quickly and accurately address abnormal situations before they impact operations.

AVEVA eDNA Enterprise HistorianAVEVA eDNA Enterprise Historian is a data management solution that bridges collects, stores, displays, analyzes and reports on operational and asset health.

AVEVA eDNA’s Enterprise Historian advanced client tools, application programming interfaces (APIs) and Web technology allow company-wide access to information for transformation into actionable insight.

Our Solutions

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