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Using Existing Technology to Build a Smart Water Network
17/09/2014
For many years, hydraulic modelling has been a good predictor of system hydraulic behavior. Most water utilities build hydraulic models as part of their master planning processes. However, usually there have been two drawbacks to traditional use of hydraulic models for operations. First, utilities built heavily skeletonized models that didn’t include all pipes in the ground. Second, a true operational model was difficult to use because many water utilities traditionally lacked a straightforward way to integrate a model to current supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) information.