Fire Hydrant Articles
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The importance of excellent quality fire pipes
The Importance of Excellent Quality Fire Pipes Firefighting is an essential aspect of modern life, and firefighters use a variety of specialized equipment to do their job effectively. One crucial component of their equipment is fire pipes or firefighting steel pipes. Fire pipes are specially designed pipes that are used to transport water or other extinguishing agents in the event of a fire. They ...
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General Construction - Case Study
These types of projects take care of the General Constructions of builds ranging from Fire Hydrants, Road Humps, and Street Lightings, to the installation of Drainage Boxes, Generator sets, and Resettlement Areas as part of large scale ...
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City of Galveston Case Study
The City of Galveston Uses PIPEMINDER Pressure Monitors to Revitalise System and Improve Resilience For The City of Galveston, the summer of 2022 marked the biggest vacation season since before the pandemic, ballooning the island’s population from 50,000 to 250,000 from May to September. While the volume of water was not a problem, the City’s water utility struggled to get water to ...
By Syrinix Ltd
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Increasing automation and confidence in non-revenue water workflows with SensorClean
The global direct cost of non-revenue water (NRW) is 39 billion US dollars per year (Liemberger and Wyatt 2019). In large cities, reducing a small percentage of water loss can save tens of millions of dollars by deferring capital investment for new sources of water, such as desalination plants. NRW is a significant financial loss, uses valuable maintenance resources and doesn’t bode ...
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Data Analysis Isolates Water Main Breaks - Missouri American Water - Case Study
Missouri American Water Company (MOAW) is a water utility company that serves approximately 1.5 million customers in the state of Missouri. MOAW owns and operates a network serving St. Louis County, as well as portions of St. Charles and Jefferson Counties, through a piped distribution system of approximately 4,500 miles ranging from 2” to 42” in diameter. These mains pump water ...
By Syrinix Ltd
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South East Water - Acoustic & pressure monitoring - Case Study
Dual advantage - Acoustic & Pressure Monitoring helps South East Water detect and locate leaks As the COVID-19 pandemic ushered in work-at-home models across the UK, water become even more precious as residential use spiked. For South East Water, per-person water use increased in 2020 by a staggering 16%. That has made minimising leaks and main breaks more ...
By Syrinix Ltd
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WaterScope on Planet 2021 Sustainability Expo
Planet Budapest 2021 Sustainability Expo and World Summit was held in Budapest between 29 November - 05 December, 2021. The Summit is one of the most prestigious sustainability exhibitions in Central Europe, where the world’s decision-makers and officiers, scientific professionals, companies and their leaders, working for sustainability, present their ideas and specific products as implementation ...
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Ensuring interoperability, system integration
The digitalisation of water systems involves obtaining large amounts of data, and sometimes this information comes from different systems; for the data collected to be operational and effective, they must be integrated into a single platform that facilitates further analysis and study. At Hidroconta we have developed a data integration API in order to perform a comprehensive study of the ...
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WaterScope Inc. at the Civitas Sapiens Smart City Conference
Civitas Sapiens Smart City Conference has been hold at the University of Public Serveces, Ludovika Arena, Budapest at 21 and 22 of September. The host of this year's event was the Czech Republic. Within the framework of the event, presentations has been hold by the experts in the field, also visitors could meet us and other innovative companies. They could see our S2N Smart Hydrant, made in ...
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Smart Hydrants in Békásmegyer!
In cooperation with Budapest Waterworks, we installed 2 Smart Hydrants at their operation site in Békásmegyer. The Smart Hydrants continuously monitor the pressure of the water network, the water flow and the water intakes. Our goal is to show how success can help these devices reduce network load, save energy, reduce Non Revenue Water loss and increase network efficiency. We count ...
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Monitoring Pressure in a Water Distribution System
Municipal residents depend on a well-functioning water distribution system to meet their daily needs. They expect to turn the tap and have an uninterrupted supply of clean, freshwater. To achieve this goal, water and wastewater systems require constant monitoring. Inconsistent water pressure can have serious consequences down the line. ...
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Locating burst events - Case Study
How a programme of transient monitoring gives the ability to feed a more targeted operational response Evides is a Dutch utility providing drinking water to 2.5 million household and business customers in Zeeland, in the southwest of The Netherlands. The utility approached Syrinix to work on a project hoping to discover if transient monitoring could be used not only to locate and detect bursts, ...
By Syrinix Ltd
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Contra Costa Water District - California - Case Study
Syrinix technology helps to solve water pressure spike mystery In a remote section in northern California’s Contra Costa Water District (CCWD), a mystery was unfurling. While water main breaks had been experienced at the rate of a few per year, in the summer of 2019, staff started observing many pressure spikes on the network in a (6 x 2 mile) area. This recognition, some old-fashioned ...
By Syrinix Ltd
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Where`s the fire? Industrial uses for fire hydrant meters
There are many options for ensuring accurate billing of water used at established industrial customer locations. But how do municipalities or businesses keep track of water availability and use for intermittent applications or movable access points? We spoke with McCrometer, Inc.’s Marc Bennett for insight into how water utilities and industries can efficiently track and allocate water use ...
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Data Center Fire Suppression Systems Bring Unexpected Risk
The Challenges of Fire Suppression in a Data Centre Environment Rarely do fires occur inside Data Center facilities. If there is, the fire suppression systems inside should take care of it. The problem here is that the fire solution itself could be as devastating, if not more so, than the ...
By AKCP
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The future - remote access
Current exceptional situation shows us the importance of remote control and monitoring, should it be workplace, engine room, production line or a hydrant standing lonely beyond town borders. In compliance with strict safety regulations but preparing for the future we continue our development process; physically far away from each other, but psychically in one place. Our engineers work from home, ...
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Geothermal System for New Central York High School - Case Study
Project Details New Central High School Geothermal Heat Pump System Contractor: Morrison Inc. Location York, PA Products Used Geothermal Grout The new 230,982ft2 facility for New Central York High School is relying on a renewable energygeothermal heat pump system to provide low energy consumption space conditioning for many years into the future. Studies show that ...
By CETCO
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Cammaudo Farms Pump System and Pipeline - Case Study
Project Details Construction Date July 2014 Location Mirboo North Categories: Pump System, Pipeline Project Description The client required new pump station and pipeline suitable for water delivery to two centre pivots located 2.7km from pump. As the two pivots were to be operated simultaneously the main pump needed a high volume of water supply, a system comprised of two ...
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Chatham-Kent PUC Hydrant data rod case history - Case study
The initial Hydrant Pressure Transmitter was installed in the Chatham-Kent Public Utilities Commission (PUC) Distribution System. During the project the transmitter was moved to a new location in the vicinity of a commercial greenhouse as a part of a study trying to evaluate the impact of adding new commercial greenhouse units. During the study period, each day between 12:00 and 13:30 hours, a ...
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Centre wellington showcasing water innovation (SWI) program - Case study
Centre Wellington is a partner with the City of Guelph and the Municipality of Chatham-Kent in a Showcasing Water Innovation project to optimize water distribution system operation. One of the goals of the project is to reduce overall energy consumption through “smart” pumping of the treated water based on system demand as determined by pressure measurements in the distribution ...
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