Ontario Clean Water Agency
OCWA improves efficiency and controls costs with AVEVA Historian
The Ontario Clean Water Agency (OCWA) relies on AVEVA Historian to gain efficiency, scalability and standardization while keeping costs under control. Covering a vast service area with a wide variety of customers, OCWA must comply with strict water and wastewater quality regulations while ensuring service continuity and adapting to future technological change. The AVEVA solution enables the agency to do more work with fewer staff and in less time, deliver high levels of regulatory compliance and increase operational visibility through advanced reporting capabilities that translate into a better level of service for its customers.
FAQ
How does AVEVA System Platform unify the supervision of a water network?
AVEVA System Platform acts as an industrial operating system that consolidates data from a water network's pumping stations, reservoirs, valves and quality sensors into a single environment. Its object-oriented architecture makes it possible to model each site using reusable standards, which speeds up deployment and ensures consistency. Operators supervise the entire network from a single control center, with a real-time view of flows, pressures and alarms.
What role does AVEVA Historian play in optimizing a water network?
AVEVA Historian archives high-resolution real-time data from a water network: flows, pressures, levels and energy consumption. This industrial database makes it possible to analyze seasonal trends, identify leaks by comparing water balances and plan infrastructure renewals. For an operator, it is an essential tool for managing industrial performance, regulatory compliance and continuous improvement of service quality.
How does AVEVA InTouch HMI improve alarm management in the water sector?
AVEVA InTouch HMI offers a graphical interface designed according to situational awareness principles: only real anomalies generate alarms, prioritized by criticality. This approach reduces operator alarm fatigue and ensures an immediate reaction to critical incidents (pipe bursts, quality degradation, pump failures). In the control room, contextualized visualization speeds up diagnosis and improves coordination between operations, maintenance and quality.
What operational gains does industrial supervision bring to a water utility?
Well-deployed AVEVA industrial supervision reduces the energy consumption of pumping stations, identifies leaks early, optimizes reservoir levels and automates regulatory reporting. Operators become more productive thanks to centralization, maintenance costs fall and the quality of service delivered to users improves. For a water utility, these gains translate into better industrial performance and a smaller environmental footprint.
How can regulatory compliance be ensured in drinking water distribution?
AVEVA Historian and System Platform automate the collection, archiving and formatting of regulatory data (water quality, abstracted flows, physicochemical parameters). Reports for health authorities are generated automatically, with full traceability of measurements. This digital traceability replaces error-prone paper logs and allows water operators to demonstrate compliance with national and European standards, while making audits easier.