Showing posts with label InfoMaster. Show all posts
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Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Oregon’s Clean Water Services Adopts SWMMLive and InfoMaster Technology

Oregon’s Clean Water Services Adopts SWMMLive and InfoMaster Technology
Real-Time Sewer Network Modeling and Analytics-Driven Risk-Based Asset Management Software to Improve Business Planning, Infrastructure Sustainability and Resiliency
Broomfield, Colorado, USA, May 3, 2016 — Innovyze, a leading global innovator of business analytics software and technologies for smart water infrastructure, today announced that Clean Water Services (District), Oregon, has chosen the company’s industry-leading and award-winning InfoMaster and SWMMLive to support its sanitary sewer capital improvement program. The purchase will enable the District to efficiently upgrade, replace and expand its infrastructure and improve water quality in the Tualatin River and its tributaries.
Headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon, Clean Water Services is a water resources management utility that combines science and nature to clean water and return it to the Tualatin River so it can be used again. The District cleans more than 60 million gallons of wastewater each day for more than 560,000 customers in urban Washington County. The wastewater is collected by a vast network of more than 800 miles of sewer pipes and 40 pump stations and routed to one of four treatment facilities: Durham, Rock Creek, Hillsboro and Forest Grove. The District also maintains 670 miles of storm sewers and pipelines, open ditches, stormwater detention ponds and water quality facilities.
“As the region’s water resources management utility, everything we do at Clean Water Services aims to protect public health while enhancing the natural environment,” said Wade Denny, P.E., Senior Engineer in the District’s Conveyance Department. “SWMMLive and InfoMaster will help us effectively optimize our sewer rehabilitation program and improve our system efficiency, resiliency and operational performance so we can continue to best serve our customers and protect the environment.”
SWMMLive combines the comprehensive urban drainage modeling capabilities of InfoSWMM, including water quality assessment, pollution prediction, urban flooding, green LID and BMP alternatives, and real-time control, with sophisticated real-time operational forecasting, early warning and emergency management. This powerful risk assessment and real-time decision making tool allows utilities of all sizes to operate and manage their collection systems more efficiently and effectively than ever before. It enables managers and operators to consider the influence of a full range of catchment factors in three key areas: management of flooding and reduction of unregulated discharges; optimization of storage, green alternatives and existing infrastructure, leading to savings on capital works; and optimization of pumps to lower energy costs and reduce CO2 emissions.
Certified by NASSCO PACP, MACP and LACP, InfoMaster is the leading ArcGIS-centric software choice for utilities faced with rehabilitating, strengthening and optimizing their water infrastructures. It can accurately estimate both the likelihood and consequence of failure for each individual water main in the network. It can also evaluate their aging processes, estimating their lifetimes and their structural and functional failure potential and distribution over time. This critical information greatly assists utilities in assessing their pipes’ propensity to fail, identifying those more prone to failure, prioritizing their inspection and determining rehabilitation requirements. InfoMasterfacilitates a proactive approach to identifying and managing these high-risk assets to help preserve structural integrity and keep the network operating well into the future. It also eliminates reactive maintenance: waiting for pipe failures to occur before repairing. This proactive “fix before break” approach can help utilities extend the useful life of their assets and improve their performance at maximum savings.
“Progressive utilities all over the world continue to recognize the benefits of Innovyze advanced geocentric smart water network modeling and management technology,” said Paul F. Boulos, Ph.D., BCEEM, Hon.D.WRE, Dist.D.NE, Dist.M.ASCE, NAE, President, COO and Chief Technical Officer of Innovyze. “The remarkable success of InfoMasterand SWMMLive is due to their combination of powerful advantages: proven capabilities, a rich features set, state-of-the-art optimization, seamless GIS data exchange capabilities, a short learning curve and an unparalleled track record of successful global implementation. All these factors set them apart from the competition by enabling users to complete better, more reliable and cost-effective projects faster than ever before, with a whole new level of interactivity. This gives them an unbeatable competitive advantage and helps them to thrive. The fact that progressive utilities like Clean Water Services continue to choose Innovyze as their solution partner clearly demonstrates the superiority of our products. We’re very proud to know that our software applications are in place at many of the world’s best-run utility companies of every size, helping them meet their corporate and strategic goals and achieve world-class performance at breakthrough cost savings.”
About Innovyze
Innovyze is a leading global provider of wet infrastructure business analytics software solutions designed to meet the technological needs of water and wastewater utilities, government agencies, and engineering organizations worldwide. Its clients include the majority of the largest UK, Australasia and North American cities, foremost utilities on all five continents, and ENR top-rated design firms. With unparalleled expertise and offices in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, the Innovyze connected portfolio of best-in-class product lines empowers thousands of engineers to competitively plan, manage, design, protect, operate and sustain highly efficient and reliable infrastructure systems, and provides an enduring platform for customer success. For more information, call Innovyze at +1 626-568-6868, or visit www.innovyze.com.

Innovyze Contact
Rajan Ray
Director of Marketing and Client Service Manager

Thursday, August 14, 2014

Questions after a Main Break | Webinar on Smart Asset Planning




Questions after a Main Break | Webinar on Smart Asset Planning

Water main breaks are prevalent in all cities.  As engineers and planners, we do everything we can to avoid them and mitigate damages when they occur.  Communicating those plans and educating the general public is another story.  Having a clearly defined and defensible rehabilitation plan is the foundation for better education of stakeholders.  They want to know:

Why did this water main fail?  What was the likelihood of this water main to fail?  Was there an assessment (financial, environment, and social) on this pipe failing?  Was this pipeline planned to be repaired/upgraded in the near future?

Take a look at a sampling of news stories in the last week regarding main breaks.  Is your utility prepared?



Join Innovyze for a free webinar on Wednesday, September 17th, 2014 for a technology update for risk-driven asset planning solutions, and will discuss how utilities are utilizing these toolsets to better manage risk of failure and maximize the value of aging assets.

People who attend this webinar will be able to understand the following items regarding proactive asset planning practices (featuring InfoMaster*):
1.        More accurately estimate lifetimes (remaining useful life) of pipes and failure potential
2.        Systematically assess consequences of pipeline failures
3.        Methods for proper budgeting including targeted approach to rehabilitation, repair and renewal planning.

Click here to reserve your spot.  Spaces are limited. 

Should you want to view a presentation sooner or talk to an Innovyze representative, please
click here.

Please forward this invitation to your colleagues who may be interested in attending.  Thanks.


About Innovyze
Innovyze is a leading global provider of wet infrastructure business analytics software solutions designed to meet the technological needs of water and wastewater utilities, government industries, and engineering organizations worldwide. Its clients include the majority of the largest UK, Australasia and North American cities, foremost utilities on all five continents, and ENR top-rated design firms. With unparalleled expertise and offices in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, the Innovyze connected portfolio of best-in-class product lines empowers thousands of engineers to competitively plan, manage, design, protect, operate and sustain highly efficient and reliable infrastructure systems, and provides an enduring platform for customer success. For more information, call Innovyze at +1 626-568-6868, or visit www.innovyze.com.

Saturday, September 7, 2013

InfoSWMM Tree of Ability

I made this tree diagram to show the relationship between EPA SWMM5, H2OMap SWMM, InfoSWMM and InfoMaster.  SWMM 5 provides the engine for these Innovyze Software GUI and Engines but you get additional input, output, graphing, programming and model creation and model verification tool.  InfoMaster Sewer uses the results of H2OMap SWMM or InfoSWMM so it is a 3rd layer on top of EPA SWMM5

  • EPA SWMM 5
  • H2OMap SWMM and InfoSWMM
  • H2OMap SWMM and InfoSWMM Suite
  • InfoMaster



Friday, October 19, 2012

InfoMaster Overview

InfoMaster

Overview


click to enlargeInfoMaster is an Esri-based business analytics, optimization, and management system for sewer networks. It leverages existing GIS and IT investments to give utilities a cost effective business intelligence and a data collection platform for informed decision making. With versions designed for the desktop, Web, and iOS mobile devices, InfoMaster provides for day-to-day operational management and long-term network planning for users throughout the organization.

Applications

  • Water and sewer network business intelligence
  • Risk-based rehabilitation planning
  • Proactive operational planning
  • Condition assessment management
  • Infrastructure data validation
  • CCTV data management

Business Intelligence for Water and Sewer Systems

The data available in water and sewer networks continues to grow exponentially, whether CCTV video of sewer lines or hundreds of thousands of smart meter readings. InfoMaster is designed to help utilities review, organize and analyze all this information within their existing Esri architecture. Using sophisticated built-in tools, SQL query sets, or custom scripting, users can manage their infrastructure data in ways not previously achievable.

Out-of-the-Box Data Hub

Unlike many traditional business intelligence applications, InfoMaster comes preconfigured to understand water and sewer networks. InfoMaster knows that sewer pipes have upstream and downstream manholes, a hydrant is connected to the distribution system with a lateral, scoring of CCTV defects, and dozens of other items functionality specific to water networks. The database leverages the existing Esri water and wastewater data models to include the ability to store information about incidents and tasks related to the network. Central to InfoMaster is its ability to exchange with other enterprise CMMS or ERP databases enabling a true 360 degree view of the infrastructure.

Proactive Capital and Operational Planning

InfoMaster gives utilities a new perspective on their capital and operational planning. Armed with a clear view of their infrastructure condition, capital and recurring costs, likelihood of failure, consequence of failure, historical incidents and maintenance, planners and managers can revamp capital and operational plans. Utilities can shift operational budget away from reactive and into proactive management.

Rich Results Presentation and Reporting

InfoMaster utilizes the rich Esri results and presentation environment, letting users create thematic maps with flexible symbology and rich detail. Its built-in report generator comes with dozens of standard reports and also allows users to quickly build custom reports and graphs against any piece of data stored in the system. In addition, management dashboards make it possible to effectively track level of service metrics and other key operational data, allowing ata- glance assessments of the past, present and future state of strategic assets.
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InfoMaster Mobile

InfoMaster Mobile enables infrastructure data to be created, used, consumed, and verified by staff in the field on a variety of devices. Using the Esri ArcGIS Server, InfoMaster Mobile leverages the geodatabase for use outside the office. It can run on both Web browsers and iOS (iPad, and iPhone) devices.
  • Update task/work order status online
  • Complete task dependent records
  • Create and upload add-on notes, pictures, video and documents

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