Water & wastewater software

Proficy offers a comprehensive suite of software tailored for the water and wastewater industry, helping improve quality, productivity, reliability, and sustainability. Key tools include iFIX and CIMPLICITY for real-time monitoring and control; CSense for root cause analysis, performance prediction and process optimization; Historian for high-speed, secure data collection and analysis; Operations Hub for centralized visualization across systems and facilities; and Sustainability Insights for integrating operational and sustainability data.

Water and wastewater treatment facilities face growing demands to improve efficiency, meet regulatory standards, and ensure reliable service. Modern software solutions play a critical role in optimizing operations through the following capabilities:

A. Real-Time Monitoring and Control
Software platforms offer centralized, real-time visibility into plant operations. Operators can monitor equipment, processes, and system performance, enabling early detection of issues and faster response to changing conditions.

B. Data-Driven Decision Making
By collecting and analyzing operational data, these systems help identify trends, inefficiencies, and areas for improvement. This supports smarter planning, better resource allocation, and long-term performance optimization.

C. Enhanced Efficiency and Reliability
Automation and intelligent control systems streamline routine tasks, reduce manual errors, and ensure consistent process quality. This leads to more reliable operations and minimizes unplanned downtime.

D. Regulatory Compliance and Reporting
Software tools play a critical role in streamlining compliance efforts by automatically tracking key performance metrics, generating regulatory reports, and maintaining comprehensive documentation. This not only simplifies adherence to environmental regulations but also ensures organizations are audit-ready at all times. At the heart of effective compliance and reporting lies historical data, making a robust data historian like Proficy Historian essential. Its ability to efficiently collect, store, and retrieve time-series data empowers teams to demonstrate compliance with confidence and precision.

E. Energy and Resource Optimization
Advanced analytics help identify opportunities to reduce energy consumption, optimize chemical usage, and minimize waste, supporting both sustainability and cost-effectiveness.

F. Scalability and Flexibility
Modern solutions are designed to scale with facility growth and adapt to evolving operational needs, reducing the need for costly infrastructure overhauls.

EPA Reporting: The software streamlines compliance with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations by enabling accurate data collection, validation, and automated report generation. It ensures timely and consistent submissions aligned with EPA standards.

Water Quality Monitoring: Proficy provides tools to track key water quality indicators, helping utilities maintain compliance with local and federal water quality standards. It can alert operators to deviations from acceptable thresholds, enabling proactive response and corrective actions.

Audit Readiness: The platform maintains a secure, traceable record of environmental data and compliance activities, supporting audit readiness and transparency.

Performance Insights: By analyzing trends and usage patterns, the software helps identify areas for operational improvement, which can contribute to sustained compliance and reduced environmental impact.

Yes, Velotic’s Proficy software portfolio is designed with robust integration capabilities to connect seamlessly with existing operational technology infrastructure in water and wastewater utilities. Key integration features include:

Broad Connectivity: Proficy supports integration with a wide range of control systems, including SCADA, PLCs, DCS, RTUs, PMUs, and SOE recorders. This ensures compatibility with both legacy and modern equipment.

Flexible Architecture: The platform offers deployment flexibility, from single-machine setups and remote substations to complex, distributed networks across multiple facilities and geographies.

Cloud and On-Premise Options: Proficy solutions are available in both cloud-based and on-premise configurations, allowing utilities to choose the model that best fits their IT and operational requirements.

Velotic plays a role in addressing non-revenue water (NRW) in the water utility sector through several approaches:

Data-driven insights: Velotic's software solutions, like the Proficy suite, utilize data and analytics to help water utilities identify areas for optimization, which includes reducing energy usage and operational inefficiencies that can contribute to NRW.

Predictive analytics: They offer analytics for water and wastewater engineers that can help predict performance, diagnose issues, and ultimately aid in reducing overall system losses, potentially including those related to NRW.

Proactive risk identification: Through partnerships and software proofs-of-concept, Velotic is developing solutions for detecting potential failures and hidden leaks in drinking water pipeline systems.

Velotic’s Proficy Csense industrial analytics software plays a key role in enhancing energy efficiency and reducing operational costs in water and wastewater facilities. Its core contributions include:

Process Optimization: CSense continuously analyzes data from various operational systems (e.g., PLC, DCS, SCADA, Historian, MES, ERP, LIMS) to identify inefficiencies and recommend optimal plant settings.

Reduced Variability: By minimizing process variability, the software helps stabilize operations, leading to more consistent output and reduced waste.

Energy and Resource Efficiency: CSense enables utilities to optimize key performance metrics such as throughput, yield, recovery, quality, waste, energy (W.A.G.E.S), emissions, and downtime resulting in measurable cost savings.

Proven Results: Customers across industries have reported up to 10% or more improvement in operational performance and energy usage.

Flexible Deployment: The software can be deployed either on-premises or in the cloud, offering scalability and adaptability to different IT environments.

Data Analytics:

Proficy Csense leverages the latest advancements in industrial analytics, the software enables the development of optimized, sustainable plant operations from offline data analysis to real-time, closed-loop setpoint optimization and advanced process control. By integrating data from a wide range of regulated operational systems, including PLCs, DCS, SCADA, Historians, MES, ERP, and LIMS. It empowers process engineers and operators to continuously refine plant performance. This results in reduced process variability and enhanced outcomes across key metrics such as throughput, yield, recovery, quality, waste, energy (W.A.G.E.S), emissions, and downtime.

Visualization:

Proficy HMI/SCADA Gain precise, real-time control and visibility over every aspect of your operations with Proficy HMI/SCADA, powered by industry-leading iFIX and CIMPLICITY software. This high-performance technology enables operators to instantly identify critical information and take informed action to enhance efficiency and reduce operational costs. By modernizing your existing HMI/SCADA system, you unlock advanced visualization capabilities, access to real-time data wherever and whenever it's needed, and seamless integration across systems, leveraging the power of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) to connect insights and drive smarter decision-making.

Proficy Operations Hub delivers powerful HMI visualization alongside seamless integration of IT and OT data, enabling a unified, real-time view of operations. With intuitive management dashboards, interactive map views, and advanced historical analysis tools, it empowers users to monitor, analyze, and optimize performance across the enterprise.

Reporting:

Proficy Historian consolidates data from across operational technology (OT) systems into a centralized, high-speed repository, streamlining access for visualization, analysis, and reporting. It enables users to generate timely, data-driven insights using integrated reporting tools and supports the creation of customizable reports tailored to regulatory compliance, performance monitoring, and operational optimization. By simplifying data management and enhancing visibility, Proficy Historian empowers utilities to make faster, more informed decisions.

Yes, Velotic’s software is highly scalable, making it suitable for water and wastewater utilities of all sizes. From small municipalities to large regional systems with complex infrastructures.

Key Highlights:

Scalable SCADA: Supports systems ranging from just a few data points to over 500,000, with robust enterprise server capabilities.

Flexible Architecture: Built on a true client/server model, offering multiple client access options including traditional, RDP, and web-based interfaces.

Integrated Proficy Portfolio: Provides unified solutions that span both infrastructure and manufacturing operations.

Enterprise-Grade Historian: Capable of managing up to 100 million tags and thousands of data sources, ideal for large-scale, distributed environments.

Water utilities can enhance early fault detection by leveraging IIoT and advanced analytics platforms like Proficy Csense:

Real-Time Data Collection: Deploy IIoT sensors on critical assets such as pumps, valves, and pipelines to continuously monitor operational parameters.

Intelligent Data Analysis: Use AI and machine learning algorithms to analyze sensor data, identifying anomalies and patterns that indicate potential issues.

Predictive Maintenance: Detect early warning signs such as abnormal vibrations or temperature fluctuations that may signal wear, corrosion, or impending failure.

Actionable Insights: Visualize key metrics and alerts through intuitive dashboards, enabling maintenance teams to make fast, informed decisions.

Operational Efficiency: Minimize unplanned downtime and reduce repair costs by addressing issues proactively, before they escalate.