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Oporto Water Utility Develops Technology Platform for Integrated Management of Urban Water Cycle

Oporto Water Utility Develops Technology Platform for Integrated Management of Urban Water Cycle
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CASE STUDY Bentley Advancing Infrastructure 'l®t - s *-*.^{ a'lfcr^ri^R,,l,_y^-_-" ij(|aft_ VJ^‘~iJi||ir~Tlr «3b. Project Summary Organization Aguas do Porto (AdP) Solution Water, Wastewater, Stormwater Networks and Receiving Waters Location Oporto, Portugal Project Objectives • To design, develop, and implement an innovative solution for Smart Water Management by integrating existing IT solutions into a single platform. • To use technological capabilities to provide operational mobility and the provision of information in real time on any device. Products Used ACTION Server, WaterGEMS®, SewerGEMS®, OpenFlows FLOOD Oporto Water Utility Develops Technology Platform for Integrated Management of Urban Water Cycle Fully-integrated Water Management Efficiently Uses Existing Resources Fast Facts • ACTION Server was used to put numerical models into an operational model for the entire urban water cycle. • The daily operation of these numerical models allows them to switch from reactive management to proactive management. ROI Access to tablets with all the information in real time allows operating gains of 25 percent. The occurrence of water supply failures dropped by around 30 percent. The increased reliability and stability of information produced based on sensor readings improved decision making and increased the stability and reliability of the data to values close to 99 percent. Integrating Disperse Data into a Single Smart Water Management System Aguas do Porto (Oporto Water Utility - AdP) is responsible for the sustainable and integrated management of the entire urban water cycle of the city of Oporto, Portugal, including water supply, wastewater drainage and treatment, stormwater drainage, surface waters, and coastal bathing water quality. AdP is one of the largest Portuguese companies in the sector with over 150,000 clients serving around 500,000 people. AdP delivers an average of 45,490 cubic meters of water to the population daily and collects approximately the same amount for treatment. The density and complexity of the hydraulic infrastructure and water resources in Oporto drive the need for the integrated management of the urban water cycle, while also raising challenges in the integration of the vast number of existing systems throughout the company. To integrate the data gathered simultaneously from a wide range of systems and sources, spread over dozens of individual software systems, AdP decided to develop the "Technology Platform for the Integrated Water Management of the Urban Water Cycle - H2Porto." The goal of H2Porto is to promote a culture of innovation and Smart Water Management for the efficient usage of existing resources. H2Porto integrates territorial information via geographic information systems (GIS), video surveillance of infrastructures, numerical modeling, remote data acquisition, and public reporting with the following firm objectives: (i) integration of all information from the different systems (water supply, wastewater, stormwater, natural channels and coastal areas); (ii) uniformization of all data acquired through remote sensors; (iii) real-time display of all data in user-friendly dashboards; (iv) integration of online and offline numerical models for all systems; (v) modules for automatic alerts and warnings (based on data acquisition and numerical models); (vi) reporting and data mining; (vii) and publishing selected information for the general public. The implementation of H2Porto was acquired by AdP through an international public tender, which has been won by the consortium of Aqualogus, Bentley Systems, and A20. The contract has a duration of five years, including 14 months for initial implementation and maintenance. H2Porto in the Scope of the Smart Cities The overarching goal of the Oporto water utility was to achieve the holistic management of the water cycle in a smart city context. The organization sought to do this by developing an integrated solution for predictive operational analytics to help predict performance, identify failures early, and prescribe actions based on asset information. An online platform was built, combining all the data sources (GIS, realtime network sensors, household meters, SCADA, laboratory, billing, work orders and logistics, etc.), and integrating them to produce business intelligence in the form of indicators and dashboards. Added modeling ability to forecast network behavior for the entire urban water cycle (from precipitation to bathing waters) is beneficial as well. Bentley was responsible for the implementation of the modeling and predictive capabilities of the project. Bentley software produced a digital twin model of the city's water supply, wastewater, stormwater, and bathing water systems, to forecast flooding and water quality issues, thereby improving city response and resilience.

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“H2Porto is a very important catalyst for the digital transformation paradigm implemented by Águas do Porto, since it supports the change of processes, using technological Overcoming Obstacles of Smart Urban Water Management Oporto water utility has been incrementing multiple layers of big data collection and generation over the last several years. Most of the time the data has been managed by isolated or noninteroperable user interfaces, which reduces productivity and makes it harder to achieve efficient data management. Moreover, the isolated management of all those available datasets...

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