‘THE CHALLENGE WITH WATER AND INFRA IS TO CREATE MAXIMUM SAFETY, AVAILABILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY’

Roel de Backer, Cluster Director

Smart IT solutions for water boards, drinking water companies and authorities

Water and infrastructure fulfil a basic human need. They have a great social importance and at the same time are very vulnerable. Think about climate change, water pollution or traffic problems. Installations and systems must offer maximum safety, availability, sustainability and reliability of (drinking) water, roads, bridges, tunnels and locks. To achieve this it is vital that all links in the chain are completely integrated and can cooperate: water boards, drinking water companies, local authorities and the Department of Waterways and Public Works, but also traffic information services, smart cars and operating and control systems of civil infrastructure.

ICT Group provides smart IT solutions that can read and operate installations and systems remotely. With the aid of the internet of things and big data these can predict when a system will fail or need maintenance. In this way we make management information immediately available, and offer proactive support to decision making.

However, the growth of technology also means increased security risks, and if these risks are not mitigated, the continuity of the business and thus the organisation is in danger. Within Cyber security, we ensure optimum IT security for both hardware and software.

Benefits

Design and conservation

Manageable Plants
Manageable plants by standardisation and migration of systems
Reduced operational costs
Reduction of operational costs by centralized management and control
Central main stations
Central main stations in association with data storage and reporting

Climate change and collaboration

Optimum use of the water system
Optimum use of the water system by extensive chain integration
Increased efficiency
Increase of revenue by using innovative process technology
Standardisation and migration away from outdated systems
Efficient use of energy by using SMART grid and decision support system

Expertise

Water Boards
Our focus in the water board market lies on efficient and effective automation for level management and the water purification companies. This results in more effective monitoring of and an improvement in regional water quality. In addition, water purification costs are reduced.
Drinking water companies
In the drinking water company market, Industrial Automation concentrates on implementing and improving production process automation. The key information for these processes is generally stored in Data Historians. This software acts as the basis for the KPI dashboards, which we primarily implement in order to support process improvement.

Department of Waterways and Public Works
For the Department of Waterways and Public Works and for provinces, our focus is on effective automation and system integration for bridges, sluices, locks, and tunnels. This often involves the migration of outdated systems, implementation of the new standard, more efficient maintenance and administration, and the remote management of infrastructural facilities. We provide our clients with expertise when it comes to the implementation of management & control, operational processes, security (3B), system integration, testing, verification, and validation. We provide these services via dedicated development teams that work in an integrated and coordinated fashion, and all our services and projects are implemented on the basis of requirements management.
Industrial water production
ICT is also active in the industrial water production sector where the water has to comply with specific requirements and must also be purified locally.