Innovyze Releases InfoWater Generation V8.5,
Defining New Era of Leadership in Analytics-Centric Asset Management
Latest Release Equips Communities with Groundbreaking Valve Criticality Assessment Power
Broomfield, Colorado USA, October 25, 2011 — In its ongoing quest to equip the global water industry with the world’s most powerful and comprehensive GIS-centric infrastructure modeling and management solutions, Innovyze, a leading global innovator of business analytics software and technologies for wet infrastructure, today announced the worldwide availability of the V8.5 Generation of InfoWater for ArcGIS (ESRI, Redlands, CA). InfoWater has long been renowned for its legendary power, speed, and comprehensive toolsets and extensions. With this release, Innovyze has further refined the superb water supply and distribution modeling and analysis features that have helped make the software a leading choice among the world’s top water utilities.
Built atop ArcGIS, InfoWater seamlessly integrates sophisticated analytics, systems dynamics and optimization functionality directly within the ArcGIS setting. From fire flow and water quality simulations, valve criticality and energy cost analysis to pressure zone management and advanced Genetic Algorithm and Particle Swarm optimization, the InfoWater product suite comes equipped with everything water utility owner-operators need to best plan, design, operate, secure and sustain their distribution systems. The software also serves as a base platform for advanced modeling, operational, and capital planning extensions. Among these critical applications are IWLive (real-time operations and security), InfoWater UDF (unidirectional flushing); CapPlan (risk-based capital planning); InfoWater MSX (multi-species, temperature, and particle transport/deposition modeling); InfoSurge (surge/transient analysis); and Sustainability (carbon footprint calculation).
Users will discover a variety of improvements in network analysis and valve criticality assessment throughout InfoWater V8.5. For example, when a network simulation terminates prematurely at any specific time during an extended period simulation (EPS), users can now view all the temporal results up to that point. GIS layers (feature classes) representing isolation valves can now be directly utilized for identifying the ones that most critically affect the scale or impact of any potential distribution system outage. An improved algorithm then automatically pinpoints all critical valves as well as all pipes with flow reversal caused by valve operation. Since flow reversal is an indicator of sediment resuspension and subsequent water quality complaints, the new functionality allows utility operational and field staff to run a simulation on a mobile device before operating any valve to understand its resulting impact. By determining critical valves in this way, water utility owner-operators can effectively prioritize expenditures on solutions like maintenance, replacement, SCADA, motorization, and control, and optimal placement of new valves. Users can also create countless “what if” scenarios that quickly model the effect a proposed design or operational change could have on the entire system and its customers. The result is better, more accurate valve criticality assessments completed more quickly, with improved efficiencies, operations and customer satisfaction at every step.
These enhancements propel the InfoWater family of solutions into the next generation, carrying on Innovyze’s time-honored practice of continually adding critical value to its software and bringing unsurpassed modeling and design capabilities into the mainstream. The suite has the robustness and feature set needed to handle the most demanding analyses. Yet it’s intuitive enough for a new user to master without a drawn-out learning curve, making it the ultimate GIS-centric decision support tool for water supply and distribution systems. Like all Innovyze products, it’s backed by unparalleled high-touch technical support. For an even faster return on investment, organizations may opt to call on Innovyze Implementation Services to accelerate deployment, integration and implementation of best modeling practices.
