Droughts that deplete reservoirs and aquifers. Storms that disrupt treatment facilities and contaminate water sources. Combined with heightened demand, tighter regulation, and aging infrastructure, climate change is putting an immense strain on water distribution utilities to allocate water effectively without compromising availability or quality.
However, by offering unparalleled transparency into your network, our software can help identify the most efficient and resilient ways you can deliver safe, clean water to your customers. We can even help you to systematically identify and eliminate leaks and other sources of non-revenue water.
While finding ways to upgrade and utilize existing assets more efficiently is highly valuable, at some point, rising demand calls for capacity expansion–or in some cases, wholly new infrastructure systems.
Autodesk software is tailored to help you strategically design networks for optimal and sustainable water distribution. We offer a cloud-enabled platform with GIS integration that enables you to optimize for cost and scalability, as well as incorporate climate and population projections to ensure long-term asset resilience.
From predictive maintenance to emergency preparedness, knowledge is power. Any gaps in your data rapidly become huge holes in your forward planning. The ability to comprehensively monitor, visualize, and analyze aspects such as flow and pressure in your network has incalculable value.
We can help you create an operational digital twin to optimize the performance of your system operations using real-time sensor and field data. With it, you can quickly identify vulnerabilities and opportunities to reinforce system resilience, respond effectively to disruptions, and model future demand to justify capital spend.
Billions of gallons of treated water are lost every day to leaks and pipe failures. And that’s just from the ones that are known about. Utilities frequently lack a true picture of what is happening in their networks. Even today, major leaks are sometimes still first reported by a phone call–never something you want to happen.
We can help you apply a more data-driven approach that utilizes IoT devices to monitor your water network in real time. You can not only detect leaks, breaches, and irregularities earlier, but even perform analyses to identify likely future points of failure. Plus, with accurate mapping and monitoring data, you are equipped to vastly streamline operations and compliance reporting.
Time is not a friend to water asset owners. Aging infrastructure and an aging workforce loom large. The average water pipe is already 40-50 years old, as is the average treatment plant operator–with replacements for either coming with a hefty price tag. However, technology offers innovative ways to buy more breathing room.
Our software can help you reduce the pressure on your talent pipeline by automating and simplifying workflows, reducing workloads, and the need for more hires. Similarly, we can help you transform the lifecycle management of infrastructure by helping you prioritize repair and replacement activities and track asset history. With in-built analysis, you can make more effective capital planning decisions and extend asset lifespans network-wide.
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Autodesk water distribution software is used by utilities, small to large, consultants, engineering firms, and operators to plan, model, and operate clean water distribution systems across the globe. For more information about specific use cases and customers, explore our case studies with customers (US site).
Geographic Information System (GIS) (US site) data is the bedrock of understanding a given network visually and spatially. By utilizing software tools that integrate with and ingest existing GIS data, clean water network models are more accurate to reality. Additionally, as Autodesk’s water distribution software can be and are leveraged to create digital twins of clean water networks, the ability to ingest data types like GIS and SCADA enhance the modeler’s ability to generate precise network outputs.
Access to clean water is one of the most existential threats facing humanity. Core to that problem is the ability to understand clean water distribution networks, validate issues, and conduct planning for future demand, among many other processes. Technology like our water distribution modeling software delivers the tools engineers, modelers, and utilities need to solve the challenges of tomorrow, today, facilitating sustainable access to clean water for generations to come. Read more about the value of adopting our cloud-based technology for utilities (US site).
Digital twins of clean water distribution networks (US site) are accurate-to-reality digital models of pipes, pumps, treatment plants, and other network components that can incorporate live and historical data (SCADA, GIS, etc.) to monitor existing, future, and historical network performance. Both Autodesk InfoWater Pro and InfoWorks WS Pro are leveraged globally to create digital twin models of clean water networks, and can be used in conjunction with Autodesk’s cloud-based Info360 analytics tools for further live data analysis.
