SUEZ Digital Solutions
Enabling our customers to provide access to water and waste services with resilient, innovative, and unique solutions for decades, SUEZ has now expanded its reach to North America with our robust portfolio of Digital Solutions! From asset performance to planning to real time advising, our decision support software for the water industry spans from the board room to the control room.
Optimizer™, a cloud-based optimization software solution, comprehensively analyzes water distribution and collection systems by evaluating hundreds of thousands of asset types (pipes, pumps, storages, and control facilities) and size combinations against multiple objectives such as cost, hydraulic performance, energy, and water quality. The software enhances an organization’s current hydraulic modeling experience by automating the traditional ‘trial and error’ planning approach, producing many potential combinations that meet the desired requirements. Optimizer™ allows planners and engineers to focus on results and avoid costly overdesigns.
Optimatics’ holistic methodology leverages algorithms, intelligent automation, and computational intelligence to simultaneously balance cost, risk, and level of service against an explosion of factors utilities must grapple with to better serve their communities. With the power of our platform, organizations are no longer limited by human capacity and can run any number of scenarios and combinations in just hours, not weeks. Solutions developed via the Optimatics platform regularly result in cost savings of 10-30% compared to manually developed strategies.
AssetAdvanced™ is a decision support platform that enables utilities to make smart investment choices to deliver resilient services while reducing risk and environmental impact.
A few of the challenges the AssetAdvanced™ platform can help you address are shown below:
WHAT SHOULD I INVEST IN FIRST? (PRIORITIZATION)
IMPROVED CLEANING PROGRAM
Use resources only where they are needed and reduce cleaning activities with the same level of service. Significantly reduce the risk of blockages.
SENSOR PLACEMENT
Optimize sensor placement to balanced too many vs. not enough while also informing which parts of the system are most resilient vs sensitive and how long operators have to respond to blockages.
DETERMINE CRITICALITY TO MEET LEVEL OF SERVICE
PREDICT PIPE FAILURES
eRIS is a browser-based application that empowers municipal water and wastewater clients to manage, analyze, and visualize enterprise data.
Essentially, eRIS streamlines all enterprise data into one data hub. eRIS is cost-effective and in most cases implements in a single day. Immediately, data and powerful analytics help teams understand their systems.
eRIS includes powerful tools that automate reporting, enable trending, enhance monitoring, and deliver electronic logbooks that capture accurate, real-time operational decisions. eRIS saves time, money, reporting headaches, and reduces unnecessary operational expenses.
AQUADVANCED®, SUEZ’s real-time software suite, meets all the challenges of the water cycle. It enables the optimization of the management and control of water and wastewater networks and plants, thanks in particular to the optimized and predictive control of infrastructures. Through the use of data science, AQUADVANCED® solutions combine the historical expertise of a water operator with the best methods of data processing.
Opti Revenue
The Opti Revenue approach by SUEZ allows users to optimize investments and operations in the commerical cycle which is a key component to improve the sustainability of water services.
Meter inaccuracies, poor data handling, fraud, or illegal connections… Many factors can explain commercial losses, which count for approximately 20% of Non-Revenue Water, i.e. approximately $8 billion per year.
Reducing commercial losses is key to improve water utilities efficiency, and it requires targeted actions at various stages of the commercial value chain.
Journey Through Hydraulic to Asset Performance
Journey Through Hydraulic to Asset Performance
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WATER CRITICALITY
Locate which pipes in your system will cause the most problems if they break by running hydraulic analyses for all possible breakage events and comparing the results. The AssetAdvanced™ Water Criticality Module allows you to rapidly run criticality analyses on the Cloud for distribution networks of any size or complexity. Calculate hydraulic consequence of failure metrics to inform asset management. Investigate multi break scenarios to assist in planning for seismic events. Easily identify the valve closures required to isolate any pipe in the system. Identify areas of the network with inadequate isolation valve coverage.
GROWTH
Help utilities get a better understanding of their existing network capacity and scope for growth and to assist in assessing developer inquiries for new connections. Determine how much additional demand can be added to nodes and DMAs within a network. Satisfy regulatory requirements that govern connection fees. Design and appraise optimal upgrades when facilitating new development connections while accurately allocating costs to developers. Produce heat maps showing surplus capacity and deficient regions of a network.
NETWORK PLANNING
Provide cost-effective infrastructure spending while balancing short-and long-term service levels. Budget, time, and technology constraints prevent us from identifying the true potential of our capital and operational investments with the traditional manual approach. Optimizer™ allows you to bring innovation to your planning process and realize optimal strategies for addressing network planning objectives using a holistic approach.
SEWER CRITICALITY
The AssetAdvanced™ Sewer Criticality Module extends the functionality of the Optimizer™ ICM Integration, allowing users to analyze different blockage scenarios in their collection system model. Identify locations and volume of any flooding and backups caused by blockage events. Assess how sensitive a network is to different levels of blockage. Pinpoint the best locations to install water level sensors for network monitoring and blockage detection. Determine how long operators have to respond after a blockage occurs and before flooding begins. Quantify damage costs associated with different blockage events. Compute hydraulic consequences of failure scores of individual conduit assets to aid in asset management planning.
MULTI-ASSET OPTIMIZATION
AssetAdvanced™ provides inherent tools for supporting asset replacement strategies of both linear and vertical assets. The modeling and analysis of these two asset types are unique. The characteristics and relationships of linear assets in a network environment must be accounted for through a holistic view of the network. Optimization of discrete, vertical assets, such as those in a pump station or plant, are process-based and thus require a different approach when analyzing end-of-life decisions and replacement options. Supporting individual asset-class analysis, with the ability to combine those results for enterprise planning, ensures the right investments are made to the right assets at the right time.
PREDICTIVE SEWER CLEANING
The AssetAdvanced™ solution for Predictive Sewer Cleaning will predict sewer blockages using a novel, high-confidence machine learning model. The model can improve cleaning programs and help focus on the most important data to collect. Hydraulic criticality models and work packaging can further optimize cleaning programs. The Predictive Sewer Cleaning solution enables utilities to plan their collection system cleaning with confidence using an optimized, muti-objective, holistic approach.
PROJECT PRIORITIZATION (PPT)
Are you struggling to prioritize your capital investment plan? Is it difficult to balance priorities, minimize risk, and maximize benefit with constrained budgets? These are challenges that are shared by many water and wastewater utilities worldwide. With the AssetAdvanced™ Project Prioritization Module, decision makers can optimally schedule their capital investments to meet annual budgets, minimize risk, and maximize benefits. They can also visualize how these investments are distributed. Using AssetAdvanced™ software for prioritizing your capital investment plan generates optimal outcomes through a transparent and trustworthy decision making process, giving your stakeholders confidence.
SMALL MAINS REPLACEMENT & PACKAGING
The AssetAdvanced™ Small Mains Replacement & Packaging solution allows you to modernize and automate your process by identifying optimal strategies for addressing your program objectives and holistically packaging programs. Managing a comprehensive mains replacement program is a daunting task for any utility. The key to a successful program is to find an optimal balance among often competing factors. The goal is to identify the best combination of water main replacement projects while considering project size, replacement cost, remaining value, selection efficiency, spatial efficiency, road moratoriums, community impacts, and more.
ADVANCED RISK MODEL
Predict the evolution of risk, taking into account financial, social, and environmental consequences of failure. Evaluate the impact of failure in service levels.
ADVANCED PLANNING
Oftentimes hydraulic models represent the network as a set of relatively small sections of pipe. This works well for modeling purposes but when it comes to using that data for asset renewal plans and optimization, it exponentially increases the complexity of the optimization problem and leads to unrealistic strategies. Advanced Planning solutions empower users to utilize metapipes (groups of pipes) when formulating pipe renewal optimization. By defining a set of rules to follow when considering the creation of metapipes, consistent groupings can be developed across the network.
