Innovyze InfoWater VCM Upgraded

By DE Editors

Innovyze has released the new version of its InfoWater Valve Criticality Modeling (VCM) software, providing expanded power and flexibility to identify all vulnerabilities affecting their water distribution system reliability, estimate the extent and potential consequences of infrastructure failure on customer service levels, optimize the allocation of rehabilitation and maintenance resources, and improve knowledge of system operation.

Valve criticality assessment identifies which valves most crucially affect the scale of impact of potential system failures. InfoWater VCM automatically carries out a comprehensive assessment of the hydraulic impact of valve operations on customer service levels, when the valves either are shut or fail to shut during planned or emergency work.

Built on ESRI's ArcGIS, the solution integrates sophisticated analytics, systems dynamics, and optimization functionality directly within the ArcGIS setting. The software also serves as a base platform for advanced modeling, operational, asset management, and capital planning extensions. Among these applications are IWLive (real-time operations and security), InfoWater UDF (unidirectional flushing). CapPlan (risk-based capital planning), InfoWater MSX (multispecies, temperature, and particle transport/deposition modeling). InfoSurge (surge/transient analysis and design), and InfoMaster (analytics-driven asset management).

New functionality includes automated network model element construction from GIS layers; complete analysis and reporting of disconnected elements and affected areas; improved tracing functionality; and enhanced hydraulic performance assessment on total affected demands, no-service demands, low and high pressures, pressure drops and increases, loss in levels of service, high pipe velocities, and flow reversals.

For more information, visit Innovyze.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.