Utility Infrastructure Articles
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What is Fleet Management Software and its Purpose?
A new business mindset has emerged as a result of the industrial revolution. Everything has changed, including operating procedures and work ethics. Companies today consider novel strategies to increase productivity. The fleet industry changed over time as well. However, until fleet management system came along, it was unable to find a permanent solution to its problems. These management ...
By Flotilla IoT
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The Cost of Building a 50m³ Concrete Batching Plant
Concrete batching plants are essential in the construction industry, as they produce the ready-mix concrete used in various building projects. The cost of building a concrete batching plant can vary significantly based on factors like location, plant type, production capacity, and the complexity of the setup. In this article, we will delve into the estimated costs involved in establishing a ...
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What is Fleet Management Software and its Purpose?
A new business mindset has emerged as a result of the industrial revolution. Everything has changed, including operating procedures and work ethics. Companies today consider novel strategies to increase productivity. The fleet industry changed over time as well. However, until fleet management software came along, it was unable to find a permanent solution to its problems. These management ...
By Flotilla IoT
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4 Tips for Implementing a Successful Reliability Program
Implementing a reliability program in your facility can have numerous benefits. Just a few of these include: Greater efficiency Reduced costs Better organization Increased understanding of machine trends Less frustration in the workplace Streamlined process The list could go on. Few of us are likely to disagree that a reliability program for your machines and their components is ...
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Water Trends in security for 2023: Increased protection of infrastructures
In 2021, drinking water facilities located in Tampa, Florida, suffered a cyberattack that sought to poison the population by increasing the amount of sodium hydroxide in the system. In 2020, pumping stations and water management facilities in Israel were targeted by cyberattacks, whilst in 2018, the Swiss city of Ebikon’s water supply received thousands of malware requests. Fortunately, all ...
By Idrica
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Mitigating operational risks by harnessing the power of digital technology
About the contributor: Sam is a process engineer with over 20 years of water industry experience in both the public and private sectors. His experience spans from process design, project delivery, commissioning, operations and maintenance through to water and sewer networks as well as membrane systems in desalination and recycled water schemes. Sam brought his extensive water operational ...
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What are LoRaWAN networks and how are they useful in the water cycle?
LoRaWAN networks are becoming a viable alternative thanks to their efficient, low-cost connections and their versatility in numerous water cycle applications, centering on monitoring as the key to greater efficiency. Digital transformation is the biggest challenge facing all water utilities, requiring the right technology to address the main issue of data transfer and analysis. In this sense, ...
By Idrica
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Why is digital transformation key for the water sector in Saudi Arabia?
Digital transformation can be defined as the optimization of company processes via new technologies (Big Data, IoT, etc.) to improve operations and the user experience. In water utilities, this involves the use of advanced technological systems to monitor and control processes throughout the entire water cycle, from water collection to its discharge back into the environment. Although different ...
By Idrica
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Podcast: RWIS Lite - Increasing Safety with Slim Road Weather Information Systems
Keeping roads and highways safe is a highly responsible task. In addition to autumn’s and winter’s perils, the increase of weather fluctuations and extreme weather events throughout the year pose further challenges to road decision-makers. Ideally, a dense network of road weather monitoring stations reliably provides accurate, hyper-local data from the road. Wherever that is not ...
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The benefits of moving from traditional to condition-based electrical asset maintenance
The world’s largest soluble coffee factory, a Nestlé Nescafé plant located in Toluca, Mexico, was looking to eliminate unplanned stoppages and better understand its production efficiency. The factory operates 24 hours a day, year-round, and any stoppage impacts the reliability of production processes. Such interruptions also can affect the quality of the product that makes its ...
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Brownfield Development Will Help the Global Housing Crisis
Brownfields no longer have to be unused, derelict sites. Land contaminated with explosive materials, hydrocarbons and other organic contaminants, can be safely reclaimed for residential and mixed-use purposes to help address housing and real estate shortages. And contaminated soil no longer has to be trucked to a landfill where it will create future environmental liabilities. Treating the ...
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Forterra Purchases Barbour Concrete and Barbour Building Systems
Forterra today announced that it has acquired Barbour Concrete Company and Barbour Building Systems, a manufacturer of precast concrete products used in drainage, stormwater, utility and other infrastructure applications. Based in Independence, Mo., Barbour primarily serves the greater Kansas City metropolitan area. For the past 75 years, Barbour has provided products and service while also ...
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Commercial Utilities - Case Study
ASL IoT expertise shapes manufacturer HWM’s range of monitoring solutions in hard-to-reach and hazardous ...
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What are the significant gaps in Quality Management Systems?
You realize that well-known adage “if it’s not poor, don’t fix it”? Lamentably, that is the point of view numerous heads embrace around quality administration. It isn’t really that their quality administration frameworks are broken, fundamentally. Yet, the test of having disengaged quality frameworks and information sources has developed to turn out to be ordinary to ...
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The application of Qingdao Newtep dry ice cleaning in the field of transportation
The construction of intelligent transportation and informatization is the development trend of the modern transportation system in the 21st century. The past decade has been a period of rapid development in my country's transportation. Transportation is an engineering field that studies the layout and construction of railways, highways, waterways, and air transportation infrastructure, vehicle ...
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Easy & Efficient Water Management Through Digitalization
Digitalization is taking over industry after industry – including water management. At first, it might seem that digitalization happens for the sake of digitalization. But the real gains are in having fewer routine tasks to complete and knowing more about the network. Neuroflux helps water utilities take advantage of their existing data. This process can be considered digitalization or, in ...
By Smartvatten
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DP-Pro, 2019 Special Locate Issue
High-speed GPR Raptor array adds a new level of safety on large urban corridor projects Features An “All-In” Approach For 3D Utility Investigations It is Proven that on large infrastructure projects utilities are almost always at or near the top of the list in terms of cost overruns and delays to project schedules. It is well documented that the SUE process conducted in adherence ...
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Can you use public works asset management software for water and wastewater utilities?
You might be getting the message from your City Manager that you have to move your utility over to the public works asset management system that other departments are using. There is a trend among municipalities to try to streamline their enterprise applications for asset management. This is a good effort. Too many cities have bloated IT departments trying to manage far too many applications and ...
By MentorAPM
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Pressure-Transient Monitoring Supports Leak Detection
Since implementing a pressure-transient technology platform to monitor its 200-mile network, a Georgia water utility improved its asset management planning and ability to identify and respond to leaks. COBB County-Marietta Water Authority (CCMWA) is a water wholesaler that operates about 200 miles of transmission mains near Atlanta. The system’s primary loop is 75 miles long, with pipe ...
By Syrinix Ltd
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Staying on the radar for utility mapping
As the underground utility industry develops, so do its standards and technologies. To keep pace with modernisation, ImpulseRadar continues to offer the industry the familiar 2D systems and newer 3D models of its ground penetrating radar solutions. Ground penetrating radar (GPR) technology is vital to utility locating and mapping, with the non-intrusive method allowing for the surveying of ...
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