WaterWorX is a library of operational assets such as pumps, pumping systems, flowmeters, valves, DMAs, service reservoirs, sensors and actuators and all the operational assets, which you would expect to find in a typical water or wastewater system. They are modelled in terms that a water engineer will be very familiar with and incorporate best operating practice, asset management functions such as condition monitoring diagnostics and energy efficiency.
WaterWorX Things integrate real-time measurements and fixed asset data to calculate key performance indices at the asset level. For example, a service reservoir level sensor not only displays the depth of water in the reservoir; but if linked to the inflow and outflow flowmeter values the physical dimensions of the tank, it can also inform the asset operator about:
This is real-time risk management!
We refer to the electronic device in the field - the RTU (Real Time Unit) - as our Smart Edge. The Smart Edge controller is a non-proprietary, standard industrial Linux computer with dedicated wireless communications. It incorporates statistical calculations and data storage, and communicates with the server by means of high-value messages - intelligent information rather than just data.
This has the result that alarms are presented in context and often with a recommended action, which vastly simplifies the traditional alarm deluge problem
