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YOUR CHALLENGE
Utility staffing is consistently challenged with the balance of maintaining
day-to-day operations for optimal customer service with the need to maintain,
improve, rehabilitate, and plan
for the future of its increasingly stressed and aging infrastructure.
As a result, day-to-day operations frequently become priority while the
ability to operate the tools necessary for better decision-making grows
unexercised.
It is also possible that a utilities’ last hydraulic model was
developed or updated with the current data, using the best available techniques
of the time, which have now been outdated.
| IDModeling is enthusiastic about presenting
the utility with the opportunity to maintain its hydraulic model
with the most recent facility information available using the
latest in techniques to improve the quantity and accuracy of data
input and therefore improve the depth and breadth of decision-making,
accessibility to data, and potential relationships with other
departmental databases. IDModeling seeks to utilize the following
informational sources to potentially improve on the quantity and
quality of data to the model:
• GIS, Enterprise or Personal
• Aerial Photography and Ortho Rectification
• SCADA/telemetry systems
• Customer Billing Data Linkage
• ...and more
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IDModeling promotes engaging your hydraulic model by updating new developments,
infrastructure improvements, and up-to-date attribute data to the database
for a current functional and visual representation of your system. Examples
of reasons to update the hydraulic model include:
- Pipeline resizing
- Piping/facility abandonments
- Realignment of pressure zones
- New or additional pumps,
- Adjusted valve settings,
- Additional storage facilities
- Modified system automated controls
- Significant developments which place additional demand on your system
- ...and more
The process of updating the model also presents the opportunity to expand
on the utilities’ understanding, capabilities, and resulting cost-savings
to its operations.
Examples of enhanced model & data capabilities include the following:
- Operational “what-if” Scenarios for shutdowns and other
- Reliability & Redundancy Analysis
- Customer Notifications
- Multi-Day Extended Period Simulations
- Energy Simulations
- Water Age & Trace Computations
- SCADA linkages
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