With many complex customers and more frequent company wide demand events, it is often difficult to track exactly where all the water in distribution networks is going. This makes day to day business activities increasingly challenging, even for experienced practitioners. Including, deciding how much water to produce, managing the movement water around networks, and separating leakage from demand. Paradigm is a forecasting model which solves this problem by providing users with a detailed demand breakdown for hydraulic areas and the ability to predict consumptions and expected burst flows. This prediction is undertaken at District Metered Area (DMA) level, with each DMA’s demand constructed using its component parts. This allows the user to immediately identify internal data sets that do not match the expected net flow profile for an area. Paradigm then supports the interrogation of this information, using intuitive techniques to identify likely causes of these problems.
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DMA level analysis identifies where your base data isn’t fit for purpose, telling you if your areas are breached or you are missing valuable demand insights and billed consumption (including lost revenue!). Using all of your data, not just minimum night flows, our analysis can pick out distinctive patterns and test them against demand events to help you improve your confidence in your DMA’s operations.
Modelled DMA behaviour is tracked on a weekly basis to capture changes to flow against expected variations. Any discrepancies are categorised as demand increases or leakage, supporting leakage targeting managers in decision making and ensuring reliable weekly reporting to the wider business.
Developed by water company practitioners, the Paradigm Academy combines technical understanding and learning with procedures and best practice. Key features include technical training courses and reference documentation to help analysts understand the insight Paradigm is delivering and take proactive measures to resolve anomalies. The team are also developing best practice documentation to support the investigation of anomalies onsite, including customer metering and demand issues.