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Boosting Sustainability and Resource Efficiency in the Water Sector

Control Center + DataAnalytics + Telemetry solution for Water & Wastewater infrastructures

Boosting Sustainability and Resource Efficiency in the Water Sector

Control Center + DataAnalytics + Telemetry solution for Water & Wastewater infrastructures

Water

EPAL (Empresa Portuguesa das Águas Livres, S.A.) + Águas do Vale do Tejo

Lisbon Portugal

188 EPAL and Águas do Vale do Tejo water infrastructures

7 main Districts (Lisbon, Portalegre, Castelo Branco, Guarda, Santarém, Coimbra and Évora),

Portugal

Siemens Xcelerator

Sustainability

Award Winner

Customer

Largest, most advance Water & Wastewater utility in Portugal
Serves 34% portuguese population (3,5 million)
Covers 33% mainland Portugal (87 municipalities)

Situation

No unified Control Center + Telemetry solution to centrally manage main Water & Wastewater infrastructures in an optimum integrated way considering own Renewable plants
Diversity of installed base (equipment and protocols) and disaggregated information led to low operation efficiency and increased costs, due to challenges to analyze and compare operational data in real time

Objectives

Digitalize Water + Energy data, create dashboards and Data Analytics (from main infrastructures / Renewable plants / Substations), allowing Benchmarking
Optimize operational management, maximizing use of Renewables (reduces Greenhouse Gases emissions)
Energy neutrality (by maximizing use of own Renewable energy production)
Increase Sustainability (monitor and reduce Greenhouse Gases emissions)
Increase Resilience (during Grid energy shortage)
Industrial-grade Telemetry solution (redundant communications)
Bridge IT + OT via OPC UA (IIoT/Edge gateway for multi-protocol field-device aggregation)

Unified Control Center for Water, Energy and Greenhouse Gases emissions (CCEE)

Control Center SW development (new Dashboard modules + UI)
BI Dashborads + Data Analytics modules development and co-creation
Tech Consulting (IT, UX/UI and Energy)
IT system development

Main EPAL Infrastructures (Water / Renewables / Substation)

188 IIoT RTU Gateways (SIMATIC S7-15xx + ET200SP) - interface to Water stations, Renewables plants and Substations
145 Pressure + 21 Level sensors (SITRANS)
189 Industrial ethernet Switchs + Routers (RUGGEDCOM)
189 Power quality meters (SENTRON) + 645 Energy meters (SICAM)
188 cabinets with HMI Touchpanels (SIMATIC) + Power supplies (SITOP) + UPS

Project Planning, Engineering, Installation, Commissioning, Training

"This is a very important project in terms of resilience, macroeconomics and national competitiveness, because it prevents that the country (Portugal) is subject to the whims of the global energy markets which, in turn, are subject to political issues and wars in various regions. These are factors that, naturally, Portugal cannot control and, consequently, suffers the consequences." "...we did this to maximize resilience – so many things can happen, such as floods, fires, and other events. This way, our grid is completely protected and insulated from extreme phenomena/events. As well as to minimize all environmental impacts associated with a surface grid. In short, more euros, more safety, less CO2."

EPAL's CEO, José Sardinha (Ing.)

Consolidation of all data on Water processes and Energy consumption in one unifed digital platform, covering the whole infrastructure including renewable plants and substations
Digitalization of overall water and energy data into common smart analytics dashboards to improve and optimize operations
Optimization of operational management, maximizing use of Renewables (reduces Greenhouse Gases emissions)
Energy neutrality (by maximizing use of own Renewable energy production)
Increase Sustainability (monitor and reduce Greenhouse Gases emissions)
Increase Resilience (during Grid energy shortage)
Industrial-grade Telemetry solution (redundant communications)
Bridge IT + OT via OPC UA (IIoT/Edge gateway for multi-protocol field-device aggregation)
Energy neutrality (by maximizing use of own Renewable energy production)