Xylem Vue’s Plant Management application for water utilities

Climate change, increasing water scarcity, population growth, and the need to reduce energy costs pose major challenges to drinking water treatment systems. Estimates suggest that water purification would have to quadruple to ensure universal coverage by 2030.

While this could be achieved by increasing the number of new drinking water treatment plants, many communities simply can't afford the cost associated with this kind of major infrastructure expansion.

The more cost-efficient method to ensure access to sufficient, high-quality water is optimizing plant operation and maintenance to ensure that current plants are water and energy-efficient, reducing costs and minimizing their environmental impact and carbon footprint.

Xylem Vue’s Plant Management application makes this possible by optimizing drinking water treatment facilities, integrating, and standardizing all process variables and data, regardless of their source, to provide 360-degree, system-wide visibility via real-time remote monitoring dashboards.

This provides operators with greater visibility and insight into plant operations, helping them identify and respond to critical issues faster.

The application also creates a decision support system for treatment process optimization, helping utilities improve plant efficiency and ensure water quality by predicting potential future issues across every phase of the treatment process, calculating the optimal reagent dosage, and diagnosing sensor data quality.

Combined with a fully customizable alarm system that can suggest appropriate actions and automated report generation capabilities, Plant Management helps utilities improve operational performance across all treatment facilities, improve transparency and free operators to focus on more critical tasks.

Plant Management is helping utilities get more out of their data, providing plant managers with real-time intelligence so they can more efficiently identify and remove operational roadblocks, reducing risk and increasing system reliability and transparency all while meeting regulatory compliance to ensure a minimal impact on their communities and the surrounding environment.