Large Pennsylvania City Switches to Innovyze Geospatial Technology
Erie, Pennsylvania, Chooses InfoWater for Water Infrastructure Modeling and Management
Broomfield, Colorado USA, July 12, 2011 — Innovyze, a leading global innovator of wet infrastructure modeling and simulation software and technologies, today announced that Erie Water Works, Erie, Pennsylvania, has adopted the company’s industry-leading InfoWater Suite software as its standard water modeling, design, and management solution. The software will serve as the foundation for continued development of a comprehensive GIS-centric solution for the Erie Region’s complex drinking water distribution system.
The selection underscores the value of the company’s geocentric hydraulic infrastructure modeling and design solutions — tools that have made Innovyze a worldwide market leader. Among the reasons cited for the utility’s decision were the software’s many powerful tools, comprehensive functionality, speed, ease of use, flexibility, and seamless ArcGIS (Esri, Redlands, CA) integration.
Erie Water Works, incorporated in 1865, is located in the northwestern corner of the state. It provides drinking water to over one hundred and eighty thousand people from the City of Erie, the Township of Lawrence Park, the Borough of Wesleyville and McKean, and portions of Millcreek, Harborcreek, Summit and McKean Townships. The utility supplies its customers from two raw water intakes directly from Lake Erie.
“Innovyze has provided us with powerful software and top-notch service,” said Craig Palmer, P.E., Engineering Services Manager for Erie Water Works. “We are standardizing on Innovyze engineering GIS-centric technology because the products are very easy to learn and use, integrate seamlessly with our ArcGIS platform, and have the power to model and analyze extremely large and complex water and wastewater networks quickly and reliably. These tools make master planning more efficient, cost-effective, and accurate. That gives us more power to improve the operation, performance and integrity of our existing systems and plan the new facilities we need to accommodate growth.”
InfoWater is a fully GIS-integrated application, built atop ArcGIS using the latest Microsoft .NET and Esri ArcObjects component technologies. The software seamlessly integrates advanced water network modeling and optimization functionality with the latest generation of ArcGIS. It addresses all the operations of a typical water distribution system, but also allows engineers to accurately perform the most difficult hydraulic analyses — including multi-point and extended period fire flow simulations, variable speed pumps, and advanced water quality calculations. Users can then employ a rich array of ArcGIS presentation tools to powerfully showcase the results.
InfoWater delivers world-record performance, scalability, reliability, functionality and flexibility directly within the GIS environment, completely eliminating the need for inefficient, unreliable data synchronization, synching schemes, or middlelink interfaces required by other software. These factors and more translate to increased productivity, reduced costs, greater efficiency, and improved designs.
Erie Water Works also opted to extend the power of InfoWater by purchasing the suite’s add-on modules. These extras enable them to perform valve criticality modeling, pump scheduling optimization, automated demand allocation, on-demand customer contaminant and main break notifications, automated hydraulic design, and Genetic Algorithm-based model calibration.
