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Get ahead of water infrastructure issues

Posted by Amy Thibault
Amy Thibault

 

 

Towns and cities everywhere are increasingly challenged with issues of replacing water pipes, pumps and other infrastructure—sometimes after a huge failure. If a pump station unexpectedly stops, hundreds or even thousands of citizens may be without water for an extended period of time. Or if the quality of the incoming water changes, improper treatment may be injected, creating a number of possible dangers for citizens. Water management challenges are vast and only continue to amplify.

More and more utilities are finding the benefit of managing these pump and treatment stations with scalable, cloud-based systems like Emerson’s Zedi SaaS SCADA platform. Instead of the old, costly system of relying on drive-bys to check on pumps and facilities, our scalable, cloud platform can give managers peace of mind while reducing those costs all while keeping everyone's water safer.

How does this happen?

Remote monitoring gives immediate information to the people who need it, with the secure mobile app helping them keep tabs on equipment performance and chemical dosage needs and changes for safety. Wherever they are at the time an issue arises. It does this by setting alarm thresholds and levels.

When a set an alarm threshold (that you define) is hit, then our alarms send you, and your authorized users a call, email or text message.

Our SaaS platform only sends an alert when there’s a real issue, so everybody’s time is as efficient as possible. It also uses historical data so you can automate your preventive maintenance schedules based on actual needs. Sometimes you may need action upon or schedule preventive maintenance more often than you were doing, which will have the effect of reducing failures. Other times you may be able to extend intervals, actually saving money.

 

Collection Systems

We also offer tremendous advantages for collection operations. With it you can monitor and remotely control systems easily. And you can alarm those remote assets easily. Our cloud platform gives you pinpoint-accurate data. It's the right data at the right time that ultimately boosts both safety and efficiency for those remote assets that are hard to access. Easily being able to add or remove assets you decide to monitor and control also creates a platform that grows and changes just as your facilities do.

 

Mobility

All this is available on Emerson's Zedi Go mobile app, giving authorized users access and control any time, anywhere. This way your staff can respond quickly and safely to every sudden issue, no matter when they happen, or where the person is at the time of the problem. This amount of access to the right data and visibility to your remotely located assets helps you achieve greater cost control, by fully automating your collection system management.

 

Safety

Instant access to data about breaches or failures—and the ability to remotely shut of pumps or adjust valves—not only optimizes operations, it increases safety and reduces the need for emergency actions.

Imagine being alerted instantly of a pipe rupture, for example. Instead of waiting for frantic citizens to report a wall of water through their neighborhood, your sensors alert you to a pressure drop immediately. From a computer or mobile device you can shut off the valve feeding that area, before significant flooding or street damage can occur. Then your repair crew can be dispatched quickly to make physical repairs and restore everyone’s water supply quickly.

All this while providing historical data that lets you know when preventive maintenance should occur, preventing pump outages and other issues before they happen at all to safely keep the water flowing.


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Topics: Alarms, Cloud-based Software, Remote Water Management, Water Management, Preventative Maintenance, Alarm management

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