Aquasight launches intelligent wastewater solution to improve utility resiliency to flooding

(UC) — Surface flooding and sewer overflows from more frequent, higher intensity and localized rain events pose severe risks to environment, public health, and sewer infrastructure. Historically, responses to these rain events have been more reactive in nature. This problem requires cities to adopt innovative solutions to address the impacts of a climate crisis and their underprepared infrastructure.

Aquasight's ACE Intelligent Wastewater technology is a digital solution that generates past, live, and forecasted storm analysis and its impacts on sewers for proactive wet weather management.

The technology is a comprehensive collection system intelligence platform with over 10 modules and built-in artificial intelligence capabilities. It merges flows, levels, rain gauges, lift stations, asset data, hydraulic models, and much more to solve a variety of challenges in the sewer conveyance and collection systems. One of the modules in ACE is Real-Time Storm Event and Rain Heatmaps, which allows cities to proactively reduce the impacts of frequent and extreme rainfall events.

Aquasight's ACE Rain Heatmaps and Storm Catalog solution provide critical insights to storm events in time for utilities to minimize flooding impacts or potential sewer overflows. It provides actionable, data-driven insights into current, past, and forecasted storm events, enabling all aspects of wastewater utility operations, from operator to utility executive, to make better, more informed decisions.

The GIS based solution provides rapid, automated, and on-the-fly live and historical storm event records correlated to each utility's unique design storm distributions. It provides powerful analytics to make crucial accurate visualization of storm event characteristics for rapid, proactive response to the effects of extreme rainfall events. It also merges sewer flows and levels across sewer shed.

"Historically, rain data was used by engineering teams and was underutilized by utility executives and operating staff for proactive utility management,” Jonathan Hasson, Aquasight vice president of Smart Water Solutions, said. “Aquasight's solution meshes data from several sources for real time, data-driven decisions on where to divert the O&M resources during live events. The self-service analytics also help engineers build storm resistant infrastructure. Helping utilities make these impactful day-to-day decisions is our mission."

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