Uncovering a major challenge for major cities
As cities grow, evolve, and face challenges with population increases, aging infrastructure, sustainability, and safety and security measures, it becomes immediately evident that technology has an important role. Cities worldwide are eager to embrace innovation in developing and implementing initiatives for everything from traffic, energy, and water management to healthcare and security.
Technology has the power to transform the monitoring and management of water infrastructure and deliver a better, more sustainable future for cities across the world.
– Roland Ducote, Technology Director, Arrow Electronics
Coming together to fuel change
The first Cities Summit of the Americas, held in Denver, Colorado, earlier this year, was a testament to the interest in cities to seek out new ways to improve and advance, sharing knowledge and solutions to create better, safer places for citizens to live.
The event brought together leaders and innovators from across the Americas, giving organizations like Arrow a vital opportunity to showcase how technology can help address critical issues facing cities today.
Our Intelligent Solutions business showcased the possibilities of using AI to enable real-time visibility and water and wastewater infrastructure control. With the knowledge that water management systems in many major cities are reaching breaking point and that utility companies often have few tools available to provide insights into the condition of their infrastructure, this is an essential solution to share.
Transforming cities through innovations in smart water and wastewater management
Water management challenges often leave cities in a difficult situation with recurrent equipment outages that pose potentially harmful health and environmental hazards that can rapidly escalate in terms of damage and compromise the city’s and its citizens’ safety.
Many people don’t realize that by the time clean water reaches our homes, it has undergone a complex journey involving monitoring, purification, and transportation. The result is clean water, but behind the scenes, the infrastructure supporting water networks is susceptible to a range of costly challenges. Hence, Arrow showcased the solution it brings to market with Zotera™, a comprehensive water and wastewater pump station solution combining IIoT and Industry 4.0 technologies at the edge for real-time monitoring and management of infrastructure, assets, and facilities.
Applying new technologies and data-driven insight techniques allows water management plants to alleviate much of the financial and resource pressure. Using AI for preventive and predictive maintenance capabilities helps cities detect anomalies early and take corrective action before issues escalate. Cities can gather, store, and analyze AI data to help plan maintenance ahead of time and prevent leakages, burst pipes, and costly, more severe damage and disruption.
Clean water is critical to our survival. Solutions like this contribute to safeguarding the health of citizens and save cities a lot of time and money by achieving more competent and efficient operations.
If you want to learn more about the solution and how Arrow can help you design, build, and deploy AI-enabled Smart Water and Wastewater Management Solution.
