2. Formed in 2010, we supply
sewerage and water services to a
population of approximately 750,000
residents for 297,000 accounts
across a 5,223 km2 geographical
spread from Cooroy in the north to
Samford in the south, Bribie Island
in the east and Kenilworth in the
west.
Our Service Area
4. Our Sewage and Water Network
5,683 kilometres of
water mains pipe
5,449 kilometres of
sewage mains pipe
17 sewage treatment plants
778 sewage pump stations
82 water pump stations
123 water reservoirs
11 recycled water plants
(2 of which produce A+ recycled water)
5. Intelligence – in assets…or an asset in itself?
►An asset is an item, thing or entity that has
potential or actual value to an organization.*
►So how does intelligence add value to the organisation?
* ISO 55000
6. An Aberdeen Group survey* of asset intensive organisations from
2013 found that:
►66% of Best in Class Organisations use historical asset data and
real-time data as actionable intelligence for optimised decision
making
►56% of Best in Class Organisations had a centralised knowledge
warehouse to store asset performance data from across the
business
►31% of Best in Class Organisations used analytics to provide
predictive insights based on captured information.
*Asset management: the changing landscape of predictive maintenance
Research
9. ► Avoiding major water outage
► Embedded energy to prioritise response
► Finding the cause of dirty water complaints
► Identifying pump faults that cause bursts
► PRV failure “signature”
► Locating breaches between areas
► Tracking the event and status from start to
finish
► Changing the way we manage our network
Wins from TaKaDu
11. ►Predicted demand for 48 hours
►Water age optimised
►Smoothed demand
►Scheduled pump runs
►Scheduled reservoir filling
►Energy consumption optimised
►Constant ‘tuning’ of schedules
according to use patterns
Wins from Derceto
Important on the
Sunshine Coast for
Tourism – population
grows 165% in the
summer
12. ►Direct savings or $386k/annum in just one half of the
service area (e.g. dosing system labour and chemicals,
energy)
►Avoided Cost estimated at $480k
►Bulk supply outage management (planned and
unplanned)
►Reservoirs and trunk network managed as a system vs
best endeavours using human experience
►Optimised water ‘stock’ turns
►Operational planning tool
Benefits of Derceto
13. ►Optimised dispatch of resources
►Portal to other data sources
►Capture of history of assets
►Total Cost of Ownership
►Measles mapping
Wins from GIS and Maximo
17. SCADA, Customer, Maximo, GIS and Finance Data
Intelligent applications derive “intelligence” from
the base data provided by these systems.
The application identifies patterns of behaviour
and makes predictions or determination from
these behaviours.
20. ►Data, information and knowledge exist – no need to
create it
►Start small and build capability
►Make iterative steps to the ‘goal’
►Use human power and intelligence before investing
too heavily in systems – prove the value and benefits
►Don’t let the intelligence rule the solution
Key learnings
21. ►All businesses have these data
sets, so….
►Is this intelligence that far away?
►How far will intelligent networks be
allowed to progress?
►What skills and competencies will
be needed by the future water
worker ?
►How do customers benefit?
Looking ahead…what’s next?
