THE SOFTWARE PRODUCTS FOR WATER NETWORKS MANAGEMENT THE CONTROL TECHNOLOGY GROUP. The AQUASOFT family solutions allow to perform:

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1 THE SOFTWARE PRODUCTS FOR WATER NETWORKS MANAGEMENT FAST SpA introduces the AQUASOFT family applications, dedicated to water networks complete supervision. The products are essential for unified management of the entire cycle of water thanks to an articulated and detailed knowledge of the sector. The Fast wide proposal consists of several software packages specially designed and realized to perform specific tasks of water networks management. Besides the software packages integrate in a simple and functional manner to the different RTU belonging to the AQUALOG family. The AQUASOFT family solutions allow to perform: Networks local and remote supervision Water supply efficiency evaluation Leak detection Pressures, flows and tank levels control Management of pumping station Coordination of geographically distributed equipment Management of service and maintenance Water Hammer investigation Integration of communications and databases from other vendors THE CONTROL TECHNOLOGY GROUP

2 The possibility to check, monitor and supervise remotely the technological installations using standard communications vectors and networks allows the optimization of systems performance, the improvement of their efficiency and safety and the reduction of the operational costs drastically. The constant access to the most innovative technologies allows to reformulate the TELEMANAGEMENT concept which, from product oriented, becomes company oriented, granting wide flexibility, availability and huge opening towards existing systems. The products of the AQUASOFT family deliver technology services closely related to the management of water resources. The field s data collected using RTU, stored and analysed through AQUASOFT products form an unitary knowledge platform shared by the company s different subjects, either if they are operative or managing departments or decentralized locations, which can use the information and the system in general, in efficient and effective manner. AQUASOFT Family: the software products for water networks management AQUAWORKS PLANT VIEW OVERLAND SCADA SYSTEM OVERLAND ADVANCED ALARM MESSENGER SERVER MAINTENANCE COMMUNICATION LAYER Application software specialized in the leak detection and pressure control. Supervision software for water networks and systems connected. Usable with any HMI device connected to Internet. Software for water networks monitoring based on WEB technologies. Usable by any terminal connected to Internet. Virtual Call center for the management of the 24-hour technical service and maintenance. Equipment maintenance managing system. Software for managing communications and databases. Able to operate with devices and software from other vendors. FAST SpA - Via Talete, 2/ Rubiera (RE) ITALY Tel. (+39) Fax (+39) info@fastautomation.it

3 AQUAWORKS The instrument for leakage detection and pressure control ACTIVE PRESSURE MANAGEMENT AQUAWORKS is a specialized software that assists the operator to immediately capture the most important events in water network: from the DMAs creation to the leak detection. Using the operator language it helps to evaluate the network efficiency and to practice a leakage management more effective. The PMZ management becomes particularly effective and the manager can verify network performance using real data and IWA indicators. AQUAWORKS is a powerful analysis tool able to identify and capture every critical event by presenting it clearly to the management service. Even in very extended and complex networks, the manager can evaluate in real-time the network efficiency, estimating the leakage, monitoring pressure values and performing any intervention / maintenance / configuration action at the right time. DMAS ORGANIZATION The districts are topologically identified and organized through the water balance calculated thanks to the values taken from the instrumentation and from statistical and theoretical assessments. Each district is characterized by the data acquired from aqueduct, users and instrumentation applied. FUNCTIONS Graphical analysis show the trend of flows and pressures with special reference to nocturnal behaviors Comparisons between different periods in the same district or different districts Loss estimation in accordance with IWA indicators Evaluation of fault repair and operation recovery effects Evaluation of improvement convenience Efficiency evaluation and reporting Alarm in case of exceeding thresholds Pressure transient notification THE CONTROL TECHNOLOGY GROUP

4 AQUAWORKS The AQUAWORKS software main functions are: DISTRICTS MANAGEMENT Each district is associated to its own detection instruments set installed (also temporarily) in order to be able to evaluate the leakage, making easier their calculation both by methods provided by the Italian legislation (decree 99/97) and those developed by the technicians of IWA Water Losses Specialist Group, the world association born on a problem known everywhere: the water leaks. VARIABLES CALCULATED ELABORATION The trace is the sequence of values corresponding to a variable. The traces can be natural, that is reflecting exactly the variable in field, or calculated (variables linked by arithmetic operations, derived, minimal, maximal, medium), flow derivations from a tank level s trend. TRACES VISUALIZATION BY ADVANCED GRAPHIC FUNCTIONS A powerful graphic display shows the trend of the variables, aggregated according to the customer needs. This function supplies a clear image of the situation and its evolution. Each trace is supported by a line of statistics enclosing: minimum, maximum, medium, volumes integration (in case of FLOWS). STATISTIC TRACES VISUALIZATION data representation s interval variation starting from 5 min. up to 24 hours: corresponding to the data average within the 24 hours corresponding to the minimum within the 24 hours corresponding to the maximum within the 24 hours related to the time interval selected, i.e. minimum from to representation scale variation, i.e. from l/s up to m3/hour, from bar to m.c.a. TARGET SETTING In order to give objectivity to the information recorded, the traces are compared with target lines corresponding to the minimum and maximum dispersion level in each district. IDENTIFICATION AND REPORTING OF LEAKAGE Based on the investigation strategy, generally deviation or remarkable discontinuities, reports of such interceptions are provided. The reports are graphic type or as alarm message transmitted via e- mail or SMS. EVALUATION OF INTERVENTIONS At last it is possible to evaluate the actual effectiveness of any localization and repair intervention and the recovery of dispersed volumes. FAST SpA - Via Talete, 2/ Rubiera (RE) ITALY Tel. (+39) Fax (+39) info@fastautomation.it

5 PLANT VIEW OVERLAND Technological Areas General Management WEB Supervision Maintenance Teams THE SCADA SYSTEM FOR TERRITORY TELEMANAGEMENT Plant View Overland is the SCADA (Supervisory, Control and Data Acquisition) graphic package wholly realized by Fast, specialized for the technological networks remote management. Thanks to Plant View Overland the issues related to on territory distribution of several operational sites, equipped with RTU dedicated to different tasks, linked by the most different transmission and different communication protocols systems, are solved in a transparent and unitary operative platform able to standardize all the information to great benefit of the manager. Plant View Overland is a Company-Oriented SCADA, that means designed for considering the needs of a company submitted to the management of distribution networks of utilities. The different Company departments find a common support to perform at the best their own duties in a synergetic and rewarding context. Regardless of the transmission means used, any information contributes to form a knowledge unitary and shared platform in order that the different company subjects, either if they are operative or managing departments or decentralized locations, can use the information and the system in general, in efficient and effective manner. THE CONTROL TECHNOLOGY GROUP

6 PLANT VIEW OVERLAND The Company Departments to which is devoted the Plant View Overland attention are: Operations Room The persons in charge of the operations room keep the whole company plant site under control using monitors and wide range synoptic panels. Their duty is strongly facilitated by video synoptics reporting overall and detailed situations, where the anomalies onset is clearly reported and diagnosed. All the remote control standard functions are available in an easy and effective manner. Maintenance and 24 hour-repair Service Teams management Mobile devices in use by the maintenance teams were joined by the communication services discharging diagnostic messages about the status of the plants. Any emergencies are promptly reported and dealt with, ensuring a lean and efficient service to the end user. Thanks to the Web connections operable from any PC equipped with Internet Explorer, the maintenance teams have all the information needed to perform their activities in shared mode with the control center. Technological Areas The plant trend database forms a precious knowledge consolidation support for the company technologists. The information can be consulted in a simple and practical manner by the most popular market instruments. The distribution networks higher analysis capability and study forms the fundamental lever to improve the systems technological management and for the industrial asset maintenance. From this derive applications for networks mapping, networks modelling help, energy saving studies, maintenance, asset life cycle extension, etc. Company Management The system stores the operational data on database, whose content is made available to the General Management. Using simple common instruments, the GM obtains important information, in order to estimate the efficiency level and to evaluate economic, managing and administrative factors. This availability becomes a particularly useful instrument for the evaluation of the company assets and for the planning of future investments. FUNCTIONAL FEATURES: Multi-media communication The system transmits with all the communication standard: TCP/IP, ADSL, Wi-Fi, GPRS, GSM, PSTN, Radio, etc. Communication protocols wide availability There is a wide range of communication protocols available for the devices of the most important players in the sector. Fast develops also protocols upon customer s requirement. Web Interoperability Thanks to the Web Client function the information are distributed via Web. On duty staff management The system forecasts an advanced management for on duty staff call, with possibility of sending SMS and/or voice messages. Integrability with existing systems Thanks to the standard OPC use the system integrates itself with other SCADA systems eventually present. Security Users and passwords management protects the system from unauthorised access. Reliability and Availability The system is fault tolerant thanks to the redundancy management with hot-backup. Scaling It is possible to start from a small size architecture and then expand in following steps the system s implementation. Engineering oriented towards the distributed installations The peripherals configuration and their integration uses an advanced model methodology based on an internal automation high level. FAST SpA - Via Talete, 2/ Rubiera (RE) ITALY Tel. (+39) Fax (+39) info@fastautomation.it COMMUNICATION CLOUD

7 OVERLAND ADVANCED MONITORING VIA WEB OF THE WATER NETWORK Overland Advanced is the web-based software package designed to monitor the water network. The system collects the data acquired by the Data Loggers geographically distributed, saves them to a database located in a management center and displays them via web pages. FUNCTIONS Integration into GIS system Management of all plants in the distribution network by dividing it into zones. Monitoring of data, such as pressure input and output, and reporting of all abnormal situations and plant alarms for every system. View the data collected by the RTUs in tabular form or by trends. You can also download the data to your PC for further processing through spreadsheets. The system manages the alarm signaling to the staff responsible by sending /sms or voice calls, in order to allow the quick and decisive action on the system in alarm. This is possibile thanks to Fast Alarm Messenger Server application. THE CONTROL TECHNOLOGY GROUP

8 OVERLAND ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE The hardware and software system includes: The geographic distribution of remote control devices Data Logger dedicated to the acquisition of the necessary data to monitor plant The software modules necessary for the management of remote devices A central database for data recording (the database can be installed on a server of the Client or End User, or managed directly by Fast hosting service) A Web Server portal resides on the site of the user interface application (in this case, the support can be provided by Fast hosting service) The user interface software in WEB mode The WEB interface software allows the user to access data everywhere, just to have an Internet connection, without the need to install additional software on the PC. Alarm Management Assistance & Maintenance Users Data Servers GLOBAL NETWORK FAST SpA - Via Talete, 2/ Rubiera (RE) ITALY Tel. (+39) Fax (+39) info@fastautomation.it

9 FAST ALARM MESSENGER SERVER ALARM Operators and maintenance men TO WHOM Voice calls FAST ALARM MESSENGER SERVER HOW SMS ALARM REPORTING BY SENDING MESSAGES Messenger Server is the software package designed and developed by Fast for reporting promptly the occurrence of an alarm condition to one or more operators. The program provides: a configuration section where it is possible to set, for each signal coming from the field, the parameters and logics according to which the datum must activate an alarm (available also a scripting language for complex logics); an application section which elaborates in real time the data coming from the field and, if the conditions are met for an alarm activation, it proceeds to deliver the signalling to the operators involved. The message fundamental typologies managed are: Voice calls SMS sending sending The signals activating the alarm/event come from external control devices both local (like PLC, terminals, computerized systems) and remote (like RTU, remotely controlled measurements instruments) and they are acquired through the use of communication drivers based on the OPC protocol. This world standard allows to connect and use systems of different manufacturers in a transparent and open manner. THE CONTROL TECHNOLOGY GROUP

10 FAST ALARM MESSENGER SERVER The message delivery to the operator can be configurated considering an availability calendar and subdividing the alarms/events into a belonging group. In this way the reporting management is optimized granting an immediate and effective answer, even maintaining the messages transmission centralization also in wide dimensions plants and/or geographically distributed. <STAZIONE><DATA/ORA><DESCRIZIONE ALLARME> Based on the alarm seriousness it is possible to request the operator to confirm the message reception. In case the operator has no way to do so, the system will provide to send the signalling to another operator, until when a designated person will take care it interrupting the calls sequence. If the system is attended it is possible to produce a video document (.doc,.pdf) and to ring the PC speaker together with the alarm. All the communications are stored on database in order to produce detailed reports which can be visualized also through WEB pages. Functional features: Acquisition of alarm/alert signals coming from remote plants through SMS, data call, or anything else Acquisition of field signals reading through OPC industrial protocol Complex logics creation (by programming language) to determine an alarm activation Reporting by different messages typologies (voice calls, SMS, ) also at the same time Transparent managing of several communication devices with the chance to limit the resources for alarm group Involved operators configuration with different priority levels and based on availability calendar Possibility to request the operator (based on the type of message and its importance) an answer to communicate the signalling handling WEB reporting FAST SpA - Via Talete, 2/ Rubiera (RE) ITALY Tel. (+39) Fax (+39) info@fastautomation.it

11 MAINTENANCE FOR MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL Maintenance is the software package for the maintenance managing of instruments, machines and equipment installed in a large territory. It focuses on the activities of the main critical equipment to program properly the preventive maintenance operations. The package allows to: define the layout of the installations geographically distributed, such as plant s datasheet; for each plant s datasheet, define the parts or components which require preventive maintenance; acquire from field the information regarding the equipment activity to update the maintenance program; get an overview of the entire park installed under the maintenance aspect; historicize the maintenance operations performed; visualize informative documents (layouts, manuals) regarding the specific parts. THE CONTROL TECHNOLOGY GROUP

12 MAINTENANCE Configuration Tool it allows to represent schematically the plant and, for each critical component, to plan the preventive maintenance operations needed for the plant s good functioning. Plant Manager it allows to keep under control the plant status, the maintenance operations already performed, the maintenance operations to be performed. FAST SpA - Via Talete, 2/ Rubiera (RE) ITALY Tel. (+39) Fax (+39) info@fastautomation.it

13 COMMUNICATION LAYER HMI SCADA Applications GLOBAL NETWORK Communication Layer Communication lines Telephone line, SMS, GPRS, TCP/IP, Radio Other vendor databases System database FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATIONS AND DATABASES Communication Layer is an advanced communication driver characterized by a wide configurability and a highest interoperability. Using standard communication interfaces it manages the communication both to the field, by connecting a wide range of RTU, both to the supervision center, by interfacing to different SCADA systems and to multiple SQL databases. Communication Layer works with the abstract concepts of RTU and CommDevice: its functionality is indipendent from the hardware model of remote devices or from the type of communication equipment used in the supervision and remote control system. The features are: continuous-time connectivity ( always on line ) or discrete-time ( dial-up ) of the supervision software from and to the remote devices acquisition of remote plant's status and trends of the variables that measure its functioning acquisition of alarm events sent spontaneously or historicized by the device sending remote commands or modifying device operating parameters acquisition data from other vendor databases THE CONTROL TECHNOLOGY GROUP

14 COMMUNICATION LAYER The peculiar combinations of RTU (especially their data protocol) and CommDevice in the system help to determine the specific "Communication Layer", i.e. all the moods and tenses with which communication occurs between the control center and the periphery: Continuous connection started from the center Continuous connection started from the periphery Dial-up connection started from center on operator request Dial-up connection started from center on cyclic scheduling ( ronda ) Dial-up connection started from periphery FAST SpA - Via Talete, 2/ Rubiera (RE) ITALY Tel. (+39) Fax (+39) info@fastautomation.it