5 Reasons Smart Water Utilities Need a Weather Station #4: DATA ANALYSIS
The idea of “Smart Water” involves the use of advanced technologies and data to improve operating efficiencies and maintain quality of life for constituents. Smart water utilities are adding Internet of Things (IoT) “assets” such as meteorological sensors to acquire data, in addition to traditional monitoring of flow, pressure, distribution, consumption. Meaningful and actionable data can be used for anomaly detection and control, as well as optimization and prediction. 1 Weather information can be automatically monitored and archived for periodic and incident reporting. Historical data can be analyzed for process optimization, modeling and planning. Adaptations can be automated based on weather parameters for operations with minor fluctuations, as well as emergency measures based on extreme conditions. According to Jonathon Sudar, of CUWCD, “Our weather data is collected through a PLC and then stored in a historian program where it can be represented graphically and reviewed....