vDMAs need a specialist vDMA software
Baseform is the vDMA expert software. Can you afford to trust your vDMAs to second-best?
The day when a set of network sectors is hydraulically isolated, fitted with flowmeters and connected to SCADA or telemetry is a substantial milestone for a utility. Perhaps even with individually metered large consumers, that is if AMI is not already in place.
Partitioning a network is always an uphill battle, from minimizing the service impacts, to securing the funding, to procuring the meters, through construction and implementation. But the hard work is rewarded: we're finally able to register incoming and outgoing flows, perform component analysis on a continuous basis, and enable a data-driven NRW control strategy.
Or is it? Unfortunately, network monitoring projects often stop here, one step short of actually delivering the end result that matters. For effective demand prediction and event management, which is the key enabler of reliable component analysis, the standard supervisory software that comes with these installations falls short – it is not designed to keep up with sector boundaries that change, with variable combinations of incoming and outgoing flowmeters, not to mention unable to integrate the ever-evolving billing or AMI; and with simplistic alarms that cannot offer the reliability and depth that AI-driven event management affords in quantifying real losses and enabling bottom-up water balance.
In other words, running a DMA or vDMA system without a dedicated software that can actually extract value from the data will render ineffective the monitoring and network investment made. Yes, it is possible to follow a small set of DMAs with a spreadsheet, but it will require constant human attention, precisely what the utility cannot afford to spare. It will easily fall behind, and the purpose will have been defeated. Baseform includes the most advanced DMA management capabilities available on the market, deployable within days. Talk to any of our clients and find out why they keep renewing their Baseform subscriptions. You wil find that it pays for itself very quickly.
When you need to continuously survey dozens of sectors and meters, and reliably accrue water balance data for prioritizing your O&M resources and control losses, such factors become crucial.
Baseform is the vDMA expert software. Can you afford to trust your vDMAs to second-best?
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