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Advanced Water & Wastewater Case Study
Company Overview After an investigation by Boca
The City of Boca Raton, Raton’s utility services, they
Florida has always been at the determined that by utilizing OPC
forefront of advanced drinking enabled products, multi-vendor
water and wastewater products could be integrated
treatment plants. Residents smoothly to provide a better
rely on the largest operational overall system solution. It was
membrane softening process decided that the Canary Labs
“I was really impressed with the facility in the world located at OPC compliant Trend Historian
ease of use and easy setup the Utility Services complex and trending tools were the best
procedures. The performance and for their high quality drinking solution for their needs based on
file management of the Trend water. The wastewater plant a thorough examination of
Historian helped us keep is also state of the art with available products from OSISoft’s
hardware costs down. The Canary the treatment capacity to PI and other SQL based
technical support team also meet demands expected solutions.
provided first class service and beyond the year 2020.
help when I needed it.” Canary Labs provided the ideal
Richard Horta, Senior Analyst of Background solution combining the necessary
Process Control The utility service was scalability, while delivering
struggling with historical data unmatched trending flexibility.
Configuration Overview collection system. The data Unlike other solutions on the
- 19,067 Tags Per Second they needed was not available market, it was clear Canary Labs
- Trend Historian when plant management was delivered an end-user focused,
- TrendWeb trying to find the root cause of enterprise class solution.
- TrendLink a problem. This also
- TrendCalc hampered their ability to look System Configuration
for ways to improve a The Canary Historian is currently
Canary Labs Integration process. This was a result of archiving 19,067 tags (10,788
- 4GE IFix Scada Nodes the limited capabilities and from the water plant and 8,279
- Trend Link Embedded in iFix reliability of the historical data from the wastewater plant) at a
- 8 Allen Bradley PLCʼs collection of the existing one second update rate. The
- 33 Bristol Babcock DCUʼs control system. system is running on a Windows
- 266 Radio RTUʼs Server 2003 R2 x64 Edition and
is utilizing approximately 3% of
the CPU resources while
collecting 132 megabytes per
day. The historian is connected
via OPC to 4 GE iFix Scada Nodes
(2 for the water plant and 2 for
wastewater). The Canary Labs
ActiveX TrendLink Viewer is
embedded within 15 iFix View
nodes on the system. There are
also 8 Allen Bradley PLC’s and 33
Bristol Babcock DCU’s connected
in addition to 266 Radio RTU’s.
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Results
The City of Boca Raton has surpassed internally
set productivity gains, reducing waste while
ensuring complete compliance with EPA
regulations. The utility service team of system
operators, process engineers, and management;
have complete visibility into their operations,
ensuring they are protecting the significant
investment made in the city’s state of the art
treatment facility.
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