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    Network Monitoring - I2o - 10 - 2017

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    The document discusses network monitoring of water distribution networks enabled by low-cost communicating sensors. It challenges assumptions about integrating network monitoring fully into existing control systems. While network monitoring and control systems are becoming more connected, they remain different domains requiring different expertise. The document advocates designing a network monitoring system that only sends back useful data to avoid wasting battery power and overwhelming control rooms. i2O's solution features include daily and alarm-triggered data returns, ingesting multiple data sources, visualizations to identify issues, and integrating with pressure management and SCADA systems. The conclusion is that closer integration is possible but a full merger of network and control is unwise given their differences.

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    The document discusses network monitoring of water distribution networks enabled by low-cost communicating sensors. It challenges assumptions about integrating network monitoring fully into existing control systems. While network monitoring and control systems are becoming more connected, they remain different domains requiring different expertise. The document advocates designing a network monitoring system that only sends back useful data to avoid wasting battery power and overwhelming control rooms. i2O's solution features include daily and alarm-triggered data returns, ingesting multiple data sources, visualizations to identify issues, and integrating with pressure management and SCADA systems. The conclusion is that closer integration is possible but a full merger of network and control is unwise given their differences.

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    The document discusses network monitoring of water distribution networks enabled by low-cost communicating sensors. It challenges assumptions about integrating network monitoring fully into existing control systems. While network monitoring and control systems are becoming more connected, they remain different domains requiring different expertise. The document advocates designing a network monitoring system that only sends back useful data to avoid wasting battery power and overwhelming control rooms. i2O's solution features include daily and alarm-triggered data returns, ingesting multiple data sources, visualizations to identify issues, and integrating with pressure management and SCADA systems. The conclusion is that closer integration is possible but a full merger of network and control is unwise given their differences.

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    Network Monitoring - I2o - 10 - 2017

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    The document discusses network monitoring of water distribution networks enabled by low-cost communicating sensors. It challenges assumptions about integrating network monitoring fully into existing control systems. While network monitoring and control systems are becoming more connected, they remain different domains requiring different expertise. The document advocates designing a network monitoring system that only sends back useful data to avoid wasting battery power and overwhelming control rooms. i2O's solution features include daily and alarm-triggered data returns, ingesting multiple data sources, visualizations to identify issues, and integrating with pressure management and SCADA systems. The conclusion is that closer integration is possible but a full merger of network and control is unwise given their differences.

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    //UPSTREAM//

    IDEAS & THINKING FROM THE i2O TEAM

    NETWORK MONITORING
    Comprehensive monitoring of the distribution network has been made possible by
    low cost battery-powered communicating sensors. This thought piece challenges
    thinking about how network managers and their bosses can get the most out of the
    opportunities this creates.

    A number of things Pervasive Advances in battery Miniatuarisation and Reduced cost of


    have made it communications technology lower power electronic
    possible to monitor thanks to the electronics components
    water distribution popularity of the
    networks: mobile phone

    Progress on these Competition Extended battery life Smaller form factors Competition that
    fronts continues and between NB-IoT and and lower power ensures electronic
    we can expect: Sigfox and Lora to electronics component prices
    improve availability stay low
    of low power
    comms
    This brings the distribution network into closer alignment with the water treatment world and the domain of
    Control:

    Control has for a long time


    Network was Network is becoming
    been
    Manually operated Remotely operated Remotely operated

    Geographically subdivided More centralised Centralised

    Maintained on the basis of time Maintained based on asset Maintained based on asset
    condition condition
    Without power Battery powered Mains powered

    Not connected More connected Always connected

    9am to 5pm unless emergency 24 hour supervised 24 hour supervised

    And so people’s instinctive reaction is to integrate So it is important to use battery power sparingly and
    network monitoring with SCADA, even to create one only when it’s needed. It is not a good idea to use
    monolithic technology for the water industry. But is battery power to support a system that is:
    this the right thing to do?
    • Always on (even having to ‘listen’ for an incoming
    Are Control and the Network really so similar? ‘call’ consumes power)
    • Frequently sending back data (each use of a
    Control and the network are different in terms of the modem consumes power)
    power source for monitoring and controlling devices,
    domains of expertise, and geographic size. It is necessary to design a network monitoring system
    only to send back data when it can be used effectively.
    A battery is like a water bottle in a desert: how long it Mains power on the other hand is like a 24/7 water
    lasts depends on how fast you drink it. supply, and there are no constraints on its use except
    for its cost.

    The processes, tools and people required to deploy


    and maintain treatment works and distribution
    networks are different. They are different knowledge
    domains. They would no doubt benefit from greater
    mutual understanding, but they are sufficiently
    different that people skilled in each should not be
    taking decisions about the other’s domain.

    The network will still require manual activity (even if


    there is less of it) over a wide geographical area. This
    places different requirements on the availability of
    Replacing a battery is costly in terms of the cells and information through mobile devices.
    the visit to site. Using external battery packs has the
    same cell cost, and the added inconvenience of
    housing them in places where space can be restricted.
    Does Control have the capacity to take on more?

    Most Control rooms are already drowning in alarms. Before we add to their burden we would do well to ensure
    that both Control and the Network move along this path in relation to the tsunami of data that is becoming
    available:

    Alarm Visualisation Event detection Diagnosis Automation

    An indicator An aid to spotting Software identifies Software matches Software identifies


    that something or understanding a an event from a data an event to a cause an event and takes
    has breached situation stream which meets appropriate action
    a parameter more complex
    and might need criteria than a
    investigating threshold

    If planes can fly themselves with a pilot only as a supervisor and emergency stand-in then it should be possible
    for water infrastructure to operate in the same way.

    Whither Control?

    Yes, that’s right. There won’t be a control room. A meeting room will be requisitioned ad hoc.
    i2O’s network monitoring solution iNet therefore has these key features:

    1. i2O loggers by default return data daily and on 4. Enables threshold alarms to be set and reviewed
    breach of a threshold alarm which also trigger SMS or
    email alerts (the system is fully configurable for data
    return frequency nonetheless).

    5. Can detect and diagnose PRV condition

    2. Can ingest data from i2O loggers or 3rd party


    loggers

    3. Provides visualisation that aids the process of


    identifying and understanding issues

    6. Can export data to a SCADA system

    7. Integrates seamlessly with our Advanced Pressure


    Management solution oNet

    What should we conclude? The distribution network and Control are similar but not the same. It should be
    possible to integrate them more closely but unwise to merge them. There are still many opportunities for
    improvement in both, and further advances in enabling technology to come.

    31/10/2017

    4 Benham Road, Southampton Science Park, Southampton, SO16 7QJ, United Kingdom
    Phone: +44 (0)23 8011 1420 Email: info@i2owater.com

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