Frequently Asked Questions

Looking for quick answers? You’ll find responses here to some of the most frequently asked questions about Optimatics, our solutions, and our process. If you need more detail, we’re just a message away.

Optimatics is the world leading provider of infrastructure planning software that enables water and wastewater utilities around the globe to avoid billions in costs while ensuring optimal performance. We leverage smart algorithms, intelligent automation, and the computational cloud to simultaneously balance cost, risk, and level of service against an explosion of factors infrastructure leaders must grapple with to better serve their communities.

Our software platforms help with network infrastructure planning, master-planning, capital improvement plans, operational planning, asset renewal packaging and prioritization, risk and redundancy analysis, water quality and age modeling, and long-term infrastructure strategies.

AssetAdvanced is an asset management decision-support software platform that helps water and wastewater utilities make informed investment decisions while reducing risk and environmental impact. By leveraging your existing data, it assesses asset risk and criticality across your network to identify the most appropriate candidates for priorities such as cleaning, renewal, and replacement. These insights are then used to geospatially group and prioritize assets based on your specific task and objectives (such as cost, risk, and level of service) so you can plan and act with confidence, aligned to what matters to you most.

We support master-planning, capital improvement plans (CIPs), asset replacement/rehabilitation prioritization, pump scheduling and operational planning, flood/inflow & infiltration (I/I) reduction, water quality and age modeling, redundancy planning, source evaluation/integration, recycled water/irrigation planning, and compliance-driven infrastructure upgrades.

Yes. Our software is designed to handle everything from discrete, short-term infrastructure upgrades or operational adjustments, all the way to long-range master plans that span decades, including asset renewal strategies, long-term capital improvement plans, and sustainability planning.

Optimizer and AssetAdvanced run multi-objective simulations considering hydraulic constraints, energy usage, water quality, age of assets, system pressure, flow demands, and network redundancy. By evaluating many possible configurations, the software identifies solutions that balance performance, energy consumption, water quality, and lifecycle costs.

Interested organizations can contact Optimatics to schedule a consultation. After initial engagement, we work to integrate asset data and hydraulic models, run optimization analyses, develop defensible planning or operational solutions, and support stakeholder review—from initial assessment through final implementation.

Leveraging a hydraulic model, Optimizer is a cloud-based optimization software platform developed by Optimatics that analyzes virtually limitless planning options across multiple asset types—including pipes, pumps, storage, and control assets—and compares them across cost, performance, energy, risk, water quality objectives, and more to reduce capital, operating, and energy costs while meeting all of your planning objectives. It removes the traditional trial-and-error design approach and offers data-driven, defensible, multi-objective planning solutions.

By using computational intelligence and multi-objective optimization, Optimatics helps utilities identify designs and operational strategies that minimize capital and energy costs while meeting performance and regulatory requirements. Plans developed with our toolsets have regularly led to capital- and operating-cost savings compared to traditional planning approaches.

Our platform applies rigorous computational algorithms to evaluate scenarios objectively against multiple criteria (such as cost, performance, risk, regulatory compliance, and sustainability), producing a range of feasible, transparent solutions. This unbiased, data-driven process supports stakeholder engagement, regulatory compliance, and long-term asset stewardship.

Municipal water and wastewater utilities, regional water authorities, and consultants working on water network planning or infrastructure upgrades—especially those facing complex hydraulic systems, aging infrastructure, budget constraints, regulatory requirements, or sustainability goals—benefit most.

No—Optimatics serves utilities globally. We have supported hundreds of utilities in over 30 countries and reached millions of consumers worldwide.