Siemens Helps Safeguard U.K.'s Drinking Water
Siemens Water Technologies is supplying 50 HydraClam online distribution water quality monitoring devices, along with a 12-month service contract, to United Utilities in northwest England, according to a company press release.
The technology will play a key role in the utility's proactive water management program, allowing it to monitor water supply quality and distribution network maintenance to support United Utilities Operation and Maintenance Strategies. Once installed, this will be the first large-scale adoption of the remote communication-enabled monitors anywhere in the world.
With this water quality monitoring device, the utility can now measure turbidity, pressure, conductivity, and temperature remotely, as often as required. The results are then transmitted by GPRS to a Web-based viewing dashboard.
The HydraClam unit, jointly developed with Salamander Limited, is used for targeted, real-time monitoring within identified problem areas or as a fixed-place monitor and is the only product of its type available in the marketplace today. Made of lightweight corrosion-resistant aluminum, the device can easily be fitted underground to certain European hydrants or truncated to the main for hydrants in other countries