Project Goal

Acquedotto Pugliese SpA manages the complete water cycle in the Region Puglia, southern Italy. In order to optimize an integrated water service, modern sensorial, and IT and telecommunication technologies offer the best tools to realize a decision support system that allows the operators to react to any change in the work condition.

Acquedotto Pugliese is currently adopting an information system for supervising and monitoring of main inbound water flow. It will shortly allow to manage more than 600 purifying plants, tanks taps, divisors, power lifts. Here the flow measurements (pressure, tank level, chemical parameters) are captured by more than 2500 probes using a SCADA remote access platform.

During the development of the system, a critical role has been player by the integration in a web portal of SCADA end GIS worlds, focusing on ESRI ArcGIS platform, in order to identify remotely controlled plants and historical data. The water network has been modelled and visualized by GIS platform.

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Business Problem Solved

Knowing exactly the process you’re going to manage is essential, in order to distribute such an important resource as drinkable water. This can lead to a dramatic reduction in water loss and to an optimal way to face emergency situation during periods of drought. Moreover, the most important characteristic of Acquedotto Pugliese water network is the interconnection. This implies the need for a precise control of a wide geographic area where all items are spread.

Technology Implemented

In order to ensure maximum flexibility to the primary water supply monitoring and supervising information system, the integration is realized at the portal level, using the SCADA platform onlty to access and gather data from plants, and ArcGIS platform as cartographic base to access historical data. This approach allows the two platforms to integrate one with each other. The proposed techniquelets the two system interact through a URL based data exchange. A couple of example will follow.
The use of GIS to represent the network uses two different models: an outline and a cartographic one. The latter is traditional, while the former requires some specification: it shows the main board of all the aqueduct patterns actually managed. Its formulation is not cartographic, but strictly functional, so the use of ArcGIS is somehow forced. The main reason is that outlining the network starting from the cartography via the available add-on module is not a viable option, since we needed to export it in a URL.

Development Team Biography

The team consists of people skilled both in Information and Hydraulic Technologies.

Dott. Sebastiano Lopez – Project Manager – s.lopez@aqp.it
Ing. Gianluigi Fiori – Project Manager – g.fiori@aqp.it
Ing. Marcello Miraglia – Senior Analist – m.miraglia@aqp.it
Dott. Luigia Troiano – Senior Analyst - l.troiano@aqp.it
Dott. Vito Bitetto – Senior Analyst - v.bitetto@aqp.it
Ing. Valeria Carnimeo – Analyst - v.carnimeo@aqp.it
Ing. Francesca Buzzerio - Analyst - f.buzzerio@aqp.it