Smart Water Systems Worldwide
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Smart Water Systems Worldwide
Also last November, IBM announced that
the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) is using IBM
software to reduce the complexity and costs of managing the utility's resources
and services, which span across more than 36,800 square miles and 58 counties
in Central and South Texas, serving more than 2.2
million residents.
Using IBM Maximo Asset Management
software along with IBM business partner
Syclo's SMART Mobile Suite for Maximo, LCRA was able to consolidate asset
information into one repository and integrate it with inventory, accounting and
labor information to help staff identify issues before outages occur,
accurately predict future resource needs and generate up-to-the-minute reports,
IBM said.
LCRA used the IBM Maximo Mobile suite of
software-including IBM Maximo Mobile Work
Manager SE, IBM Maximo Mobile Inventory
Manager SE and IBM Maximo Auditor SE-to
mobilize its employees in the field and automate manual processes.
In another example of IBM technology at
work in water management systems in the United States, Big Blue announced last
summer that the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) is using IBM
software to help reduce pollution in the water that surrounds the city on three
sides-the San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean.
The SFPUC, which treats an average of 80 million to 90 million gallons of
wastewater per day during dry weather and up to 370 million gallons of combined
wastewater and storm runoff per day during the rainy season, is using the IBM
software to develop smarter management of the city's 1,000 miles of sewer
systems and three treatment facilities, IBM
said.
"Using the IBM Maximo Asset Management
software, problems are often solved within 24 hours," said Tommy Moala,
assistant general manager of the SFPUC Wastewater Enterprise, in a statement.
"But the real value of the IBM software is
the information it gathers so that we can help further reduce water pollution.
For example, with some work order histories generated from the IBM
software, we can see that we've rebuilt a pump, say, 10 times-maybe it's time
to replace it. The software also helps us to reduce the cost of managing the
system down to the component level."
Examples of IBM Smart Water initiatives
overseas include a recent $14.5 million agreement with Power and Water
Corporation of Sydney, Australia,
to help design and implement an asset management system aimed at delivering
electricity, water and sewerage services to its customers more efficiently.
IBM also announced that Japan's
Fukuoka District Waterworks Agency is using IBM
software for a new system designed to increase the availability of usable water
supply and improve water quality across eight cities, eight towns and Kasuga-Nakagawa
Waterworks Agency in Japan.
The software will help the agency in its efforts to treat and purify water at
some locations and to desalinate water at others.
