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The first demand of any water utility is reliability of supply.
Consumers expect water to be available all day.
Every day.
And the utility operator must have the tools that give all operating employees a clear
unequivocal overview of the network
and the ability to predict and mitigate problems that may occur.
The Aquis real-time system gives the operator an overview of the entire network
or specific areas within the network
warning the operator in the event of any issues that may impact the supply volume, pressure or quality.
With its intuitive graphic user-interface with custom-definable menu functions,
Aquis allows all operating staff
even those with limited engineering skills
to perform what-if analysis of any contingency.
Thus avoiding unnecessary errors and complaints from consumers.
Aquis continually logs all operations,
so that operators on a new shift can see and understand
what their colleagues have done previously.
With Aquis the operator has an overview of the pressure and flow parameters
in all corners of the network, without the need for expensive instrumentation.
The Aquis user interface allows the operator to visualize different parameters in the network
Now
In the past
or in the future
Pressure
Velocity
Leakage levels
The mixture of water from multiple supplies
and, the age of the water
The Aquis user interface allows for easy manoeuvring between geographical areas.
The operator can select predefined views or zoom in on a specific area
and define customised views as required.
The background may be colours or maps all of which may be configured to suit the operator.
Furthermore, the user interface can be pre-configured to meet the operator s
requirements for specific operations.
So, what is a typical situation in a city?
That is: closing a valve.
So if I want to close a valve, say, in this area up here.
What would normally happen would be that you would ask, the planning department
or the hydraulic engineers to run a simulation,
A simulation based on a standard situation.
This is not the case here, We know exactly where we are.
I ask my operator, to click on open-close to close the valve over here.
He closes it.
And then he actually runs a simulation, to see what will happen if he does this.
So, he clicks the simulation button, and now he is doing something,
that up to now has only been possible for quite skilled hydraulic engineers.
He is running a real time simulation, that tells him what will happen in the network
in the future.
So if I move into the pressure area we can see it turns red.
This means that we have a hydraulic pressure in the network
that is below 10 meter water column or 1 bar,
which is not good enough for the threshold we have set.
That is for now, at 12 oclock.
But if I move on, I would like to see, when can I actually close this.
If I move on, I will see, that the pressure changes, as the result of less consumption in the network.
When we get to 8 oclock, yes, it looks about right, so we can close the valve at 8 oclock.
But when to we have to open it again, to ensure that we have enough pressure?
If we move down to say, 6 - 7 oclock tomorrow 5 oclock, 6 oclock. We are all red again.
So 6 oclock tomorrow morning, we have to finalize the job.
Whilst the consequences of closing a valve in a simple network may be easy to predict,
the impact of closing a valve in a complex city centre area
is almost impossible to predict without the simulation capabilities of Aquis.
With Aquis, navigation in the network is as simple as using a GPS system
The effect of changing parameters in the network can easily be visualized for the operator,
the management or the engineers and planners.
All these functions are available at your fingertips
24 hours a day.
Look to Aquis to get control of that 80% of your investment
that is presently an unknown quantity.
With a fully integrated Aquis system, the operator has an access
to insight about the flow, pressure and quality of the water supply
that previously could only be accomplished
by costly and time-consuming calls to the consumer premises.
Aquis is the water distribution tool of the future
available today, giving the utility operator several vital benefits.
A reduction of leakage by between 10 and 20%
A reduction of energy consumption by up to 20%
giving a reduction in CO2 emissions by up to 20%
and improved water quality.
Aquis water distribution at your fingertips.