Acciona is setting up a project regarding the corrective and progressive maintenance and support service in Lima (Peru) called GOTA. The functional scope of the GOTA project is focused on the optimization of operator work management. The “intelligence” is used to efficiently allocate the network maintenance tasks to the operators and technicians, taking into account […]
Hooking up London to Smart Water Meters Over the next 15 years the UK’s largest utility, Thames Water, aims to install around three million smart water meters, initially in a number of London suburbs. Here the metering technology manager, Martin Hall, outlines more details of the plan and the challenges that come with it. These […]
Meeting of waters; A large scale model of the distribution network identifies new possibilities to investigate water quality and transportation issues with online sensoring. Vitens, the largest drinking water company of the Netherlands, developed a large scale model representing the Vitens Innovation Playground (VIP). Using this model it is possible to perform experiments that cannot […]
Yves spent a month with Thames Water’s Innovation team in a rich exchange of knowledge and ideas In April, Yves’ presented his research on the management and durability of wastewater systems within smart cities. The presentation covered the progress of his work in the Lille Demo site and the transformation from passive static to active […]
200 pairs of ears and eyes in the Friesland mains network Vitens to install first major smart drinking water network in the world Zwolle, 2 November 2015 – Vitens is the first drinking water utility company in the world to install a large-scale smart drinking water mains network. In order to achieve this, the 9,000 […]
A month scientific visit From France to the United Kingdom Elias Farah, PhD student in Civil Engineering on the subject “Use of the Smart Water System for the detection and localization of water leakage – Application to SunRise demonstrator” at University Lille I – Sciences and Technologies – Laboratory of Civil Engineering and geo-Environment, spent […]
Vitens is nominated for a Aquatech Innovation Award 2015 in the category ‘Not-yet-to-market’ with CAGIS: Real-time Customer Alert GIS, Vitens. CAGIS is a geographical operations dashboard displaying customer interactions (phone calls, tweets) and sensor alerts used by the operations department to identify events as pipe leaks and water quality problems much faster, ideally before a […]
Partner 3: Thames Water Utilities Limited Thames Water is the UK’s largest water and sewerage company, supplying around 2,600 million litres of tap water to 9 million people and providing wastewater services to 14 million. The Thames Water region covers 5,000 square miles across London and the Thames Valley. Water distribution is a core area […]
Partner 2: Acciona Agua S.A. Acciona Agua is a leader in the water treatment sector with the ability to design, construct and operate drinking water treatment plants, waste water treatment plants, tertiary treatment plants for re-use and reverse-osmosis desalination plants. Acciona Agua is committed to innovation and the application of the latest technologies, together with […]
Partner 1: Vitens N.V. Vitens is the largest drinking water company in the Netherlands and supplies drinking water in the provinces of Friesland, Overijssel, Gelderland, Flevoland and Utrecht. Vitens supplies drinking water to 5.4 million people with a total production of 330 million m3 annually. Vitens serves as both the operator and owner of all […]
