Deployment of Real-Time Analytics and Modeling at the City of Flint, Michigan Water System
Citation:
Janke, R. Deployment of Real-Time Analytics and Modeling at the City of Flint, Michigan Water System. U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development, Washington, DC, EPA/600/S-18/353, 2018.
Impact/Purpose:
This technical brief summarizes the deployment of the prototype RTX real-time analytics (RTX:LINK) and data integration framework technologies to the City of Flint, Michigan. It presents a high-level summary of the network hydraulic model calibration and accuracy assessment conducted and describes the benefits to the City once the technologies are fully deployed and adopted by the City.
Description:
Maintaining an updated and accurate water distribution system network model can be difficult for any water system. This technical brief demonstrates that RTX and RTX:LINK technologies, application that provides a simple, secure, read-only access to key operational data streams, can enable more efficient model calibration and accuracy assessment and make it easier for water utilities to update their network model as their operations change or are updated.