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Hong Kong: development of digital twins for freshwater network in selected areas of New Territories East (NTE) Region
Idrica, Xylem´s partner, has delivered its GoAigua solution (now called Xylem Vue) to the Hong Kong Water Supplies Department (WSD) as a pilot project. This deployment aims to develop a digital twin solution customized for the existing freshwater network in selected areas of its NTE Region.
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City of Kaufbeuren: increasing energy and resource efficiency through AI-based process control
In the face of climate change and cost and supply uncertainties, cities and municipalities must operate their plants and processes as efficiently and sustainably as possible. In this context, the town of Kaufbeuren recognized significant potential for energy optimization at its wastewater treatment plant.
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ARA Pustertal AG: reducing aeration energy consumption by 10% in a WWTP thanks to a digital twin
ARA Pustertal AG operates the Innichen-Sexten wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in the South Tyrol area of Italy. The plant, which has a capacity for 36,000 inhabitants, uses a conventional activated sludge process, with pre-denitrification and biological phosphorus removal.
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Immokalee Water & Sewer District: deployment of a comprehensive water management solution
The Immokalee Water and Sewer District was set up in 1978 to provide affordable, reliable water and sewer services to Immokalee, an unincorporated area of Collier County, Florida. The district operates and maintains the water and sewer plants and systems as an Independent Special District of the State of Florida, serving more than 24,000 year-round residents.
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Stadtwerke Trier: optimization of wastewater treatment plant processes thanks to AI
Stadtwerke Trier (SWT) operates the main wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in Trier, with a capacity of 170,000 population equivalents. This facility was one of the largest energy consumers in the utility for many years, with hundreds of thousands of kilowatt hours of valuable energy being drawn from the public grid as a result of poor control.
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Metro Water Services: deploying a digital twin to manage drinking water distribution in real time
Nashville’s city government has a deep-rooted history in the water industry, providing drinking water to its citizens since the early 1800s. Today, Nashville Metro Water Services (MWS), Tennessee, serves more than 191,000 customers in Nashville and surrounding counties.
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Consorcio de Aguas de Tarragona: implementación de una solución avanzada de gestión de datos
El CAT implementó la plataforma Xylem Vue y su Smart Water Engine para resolver este problema e impulsar la eficiencia hídrica y energética. La aplicación Unified Network Management se implementó para proporcionar un único centro de control para los activos de tratamiento de agua potable, independientemente de su ubicación geográfica.
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BALTEN: Implementation of an advanced business management system (ERP)
BALTEN needed to modernize its outdated infrastructure and software platforms, so it could optimize its irrigation water transportation system and improve the overall performance of its irrigation water service.
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Manchester City: Efficient rainwater capture and reuse through data and analytics
Manchester City FC is using smart technology and rainwater reuse to reduce potable water use across its Etihad Campus. With help from Xylem’s data-driven platform, the club aims to optimize irrigation and achieve full stormwater reuse by 2026.
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La CHE mejora la prevención y gestión de inundaciones en la cuenca del Ebro
La CHE es la autoridad que gestiona, regula y mantiene la cuenca hidrográfica del Ebro, que abarca una superficie de unos 85.000 km2 y 347 ríos en el noreste de España. Es la cuenca hidrográfica más extensa del país, representando el 17% del territorio peninsular español. En ella residen en torno a 3,2 millones de personas.
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Buffalo Sewer Authority: wet weather operational optimization and real-time control system
As the level of national awareness for the need to protect our nation’s water resources continued to grow, federal and state regulators pursued a consent decree in 2006 requiring enhancements to Buffalo’s collection system.
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Utility reduces CSO volume by 80%, saving $400 million in CapEx spending using “smart sewer” technology
Predictive monitoring and automated control optimized combined sewer operations, reducing overflow volumes and deferring major capital infrastructure investment.
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Apă Arieș: Boosting hydraulic performance of the drinking water system
The water and wastewater utility for the Romanian cities of Turda and Campia Turzii, along with 13 other municipalities, Apă Arieș wanted to boost the overall hydraulic performance of their drinking water system to ensure service quality and reduce water loss, especially in rural areas near Turda.
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Gandia: Remote metering and transferring water-consumption data
The town of Gandia, one of the largest coastal towns in Spain, wanted to continue the digital transformation of its water management services through the implementation of remote metering and the transfer of water consumption data.
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Spain: Digital transformation of utility processes and infrastructure
To expand digital transformation initiatives beyond the city of Valencia, and effectively manage up to 400 different services across a widely dispersed geographical area. Due to the nature of the project and the stakeholders involved, Global Omnium needed to integrate the systems, sensors, and communication protocols which were already installed across the various infrastructures it managed.
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Valencia: Digital twin to save 1 billion+ gallons of water annually
Provide integrated, in-depth, real-time knowledge on system, plant, and asset performance which would allow Global Omnium to more efficiently operate and manage the complex water network in Valencia, Spain and the surrounding metropolitan area.
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Giahsa: Supervision and control of the sanitation network
Improve control, responsiveness, and efficiency of facilities and processes by providing real-time network status information and analyzing historical network and asset data. Increase resource management effectiveness and efficiency to provide customers with the highest level of service at the lowest possible cost.
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Aguas de Calpe: Smart management of the drinking water and sanitation system
As a municipality with significant fluctuations in water consumption—extremely high demand during the summer—that also relies on multiple reservoir and pumping stations to deal with issues associated with its complicated terrain, the town of Calpe, Spain wanted to optimize their water cycle management.
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Servicios de Agua Drenaje de Monterrey: Reducing non-revenue water and controlling pressure
Regulate and monitor pressures, supervise flow rates, consumption, and non-revenue water (NRW) in different sectors, and bring together system information from various sources including the SADM’s SCADA.
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Triple A Barranquilla: Controlling water loss and integrating water system management
Improve hydraulic efficiency of the water distribution system for the City of Barranquilla, Colombia and its 14 surrounding municipalities and reduce non-revenue water losses, which were around 50%.
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Utility identifies more than $260,000 in recoverable revenue using data-driven meter replacement program
The City of Fort Wayne, the second largest city in Indiana, has a proactive water utility that is always looking for innovative ways to optimize water management and better serve their community.
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Advanced analytic solutions used to implement state-wide monitoring program to improve asset reliability and resiliency
Air Selangor is a large water distribution company owned by the Malaysian state of Selangor. The public utility serves a population of 8.4 million residents and manages over 6200 kilometers of trunk mains, ranging from 300mm up to 2200mm, with much of the pipelines located in remote areas of the state.
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Digital twin technology helps city reduce combined sewer overflow volume by 247 million gallons, saving $38 million in capital project work
In 2002, the EPA entered into a federal consent decree with MSD, mandating the elimination of sanitary sewer overflows and significant mitigation of combined sewer overflows into receiving waterways. Engineers estimated the cost to mitigate the sewer overflows at $3.1 billion, an unacceptable capital expense to pass along to MSD’s customers.
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Optimizing water meter accuracy: a data-driven approach to revenue recovery
This mid-sized utility located in Orange County, California has long been proactive in encouraging water conservation through regulations and outreach programs. Well over a decade ago, the utility became concerned with ongoing apparent water loss (water that is consumed but not properly measured, accounted or paid for) and the economic, social and environmental costs associated with this issue.