Eau de Paris is the municipal authority in charge of
the production and distribution of water in Paris and management of the city’s
unique network of water pipelines and aqueduct structures. The water processed
by Eau de Paris comes from 102 collection points situated to the west and south
of Paris, with the furthest being more than 90 miles away, as well as from the
Seine and Marne rivers. The ground water is treated in four plants, with two
plants processing water from the rivers. The Eau de Paris central supervision
station processes 20,000 variables of information from 120 local technical stations
all over the city as well as from the Paris environs.
In 1995, Eau de Paris installed Wonderware InTouch to
provide advanced visualization and monitoring of its vast network of water
distribution pipelines. With Wonderware InTouch, Eau de Paris is able to easily
and quickly create standardized, reusable visualization applications and deploy
them across its entire enterprise. With unequaled device integration and
connectivity to virtually every device and system within the city’s water
system network, operators, administrators and management can more effectively
assess data and increase productivity.
More recently, Eau de Paris decided to take advantage of the
latest Wonderware InTouch upgrade and the changes included advanced video
capabilities. The idea was to use detailed, large-dimension block diagrams of
the installations that were created with AutoCAD and already in use by Eau de
Paris. These AutoCAD diagrams were easily integrated with the Wonderware
InTouch HMI, turning them into a powerful supervisory tool. The information
displayed from InTouch on a large video wall includes the values of useful
parameters for the control functionality, as well as other sources such as
surveillance videos.
“InTouch provides our staff with ‘Hypervisory’
capabilities by animating the large blocks of diagrams from the HMI, and
projects them onto our innovative operator management video wall. The displayed
information provides details to effectively manage the city’s extensive water
system.”
– Frank
Montiel, Head of the Regulation - CTM project in the Information Systems
Department, Eau de ParisFor more information, read the complete success story. Or, reference our collection of Wonderware Water & Wastewater Industry success stories.
