Broomfield, Colorado, USA, October 22, 2013 — Innovyze, a leading global innovator of business analytics software and technologies for smart wet infrastructure, today announced that Sweetwater Authority, Chula Vista, CA, has chosen the company’s industry-leading InfoWater Suite, InfoWater UDF and CapPlan software as its advanced smart water distribution network solutions. The decision helps leverage the utility’s investment in ArcGIS technology from Esri (Redlands, CA) and gives it the most technologically advanced GIS-centric software platform available for managing, operating and sustaining its water distribution system. The move will help the Authority improve operational efficiency, asset and capital planning and system capacity, reliability and performance.Founded in 1977, Sweetwater Authority provides safe, reliable water service to approximately 186,000 people in a 32-square-mile service area that includes National City, Bonita, and the western and central portions of Chula Vista in California. Water is delivered to customers via 388 miles of pipeline and procured from four sources: (1) deep freshwater wells in National City; (2) capture of local runoff from the Sweetwater River, stored at Loveland Reservoir in Alpine and Sweetwater Reservoir in Spring Valley; (3) San Diego Formation Wells in the lower Sweetwater River basin; (4) purchase of imported water delivered by the San Diego County Water Authority and the Metropolitan Water District. Authority Principal Engineering Design Technician Jason Mettler commented, “We are excited to explore the new capabilities of Innovyze’s smart water network modeling and management solutions within the powerful ArcGIS environment. They will help us greatly improve our decision making process and ensure the long-term sustainability of our water infrastructures while enhancing our ongoing ability to deliver the required level of service at the lowest lifecycle cost.”Built atop ArcGIS, InfoWater seamlessly integrates sophisticated predictive analytics, systems dynamics and optimization functionality directly within the powerful ArcGIS setting. From fire flow and water quality simulations, valve criticality and energy cost analysis to pressure zone management and advanced Genetic Algorithm and Particle Swarm optimization, the InfoWater product suite comes equipped with everything water utility owner-operators need to best plan, design, operate, secure and sustain their distribution systems. The software also serves as a base platform for extensions that address advanced smart network modeling, operation, capital planning, and maintenance and asset management. Among these critical applications areIWLive (real-time operations and security); InfoWater UDF (unidirectional flushing); CapPlan (risk-based capital planning); InfoMaster and InfoMaster Mobile (asset integrity management and condition assessment);InfoWater MSX (multi-species, temperature, and particle transport/deposition modeling); InfoWater BTX(event/particle backtracking); InfoSurge (surge/transient analysis); Sustainability (carbon footprint calculation);BalanceNet (real-time energy management and operations optimization); PressureWatch (real-time network monitoring and anomaly detection); QualWatch (real-time event detection and contamination warning); andDemandWatch (water demand forecasting).“We are proud to continue our global leadership as an innovative smart water network solution provider,” said Paul F. Boulos, Ph.D., BCEEM, Hon.D.WRE, Dist.D.NE, F.ASCE, President, COO and Chief Technical Officer of Innovyze. “Our comprehensive, adaptable and high-performance technology will help Sweetwater Authority strengthen and optimize its water distribution infrastructure and keep it operating efficiently well into the future while remaining at the top of its class. We’re delighted to be given the opportunity to contribute to this great enterprise’s success.” |
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