Digital technology: optimise water treatment processes

Given widespread water scarcity in Europe and increasing legislative pressure to reduce water consumption and waste, optimising existing water and waste water treatment processes is now critical. Here we explore why our Hubgrade Essential and Hubgrade Assist packages can provide you with the data and insights to make informed decisions, optimise your processes and pre-empt potential issues. 

Remote monitoring and improved efficiency

 Real-time monitoring is the cornerstone of both Hubgrade Essential and Assist, enabling plant operators to monitor key performance indicators remotely via a custom dashboard, reducing the need for onsite inspections. With customisation capability, it is possible to monitor a wide variety of parameters and inputs, such as volumes of critical substances, water purity levels and chemical dosing. 

What’s more, alarms can be set to provide notifications via email or SMS, should the technology detect any anomalies. This important feature has been utilised by one of our  medical diagnostics customers in Scotland, they customised the alarm system to distinguish between high urgency incidents and those that do not require immediate attention. This reduced the number of call outs for the engineering team but also ensured that no system errors were overlooked. 

Hubgrade can also be utilised to improve asset efficiency through automatic reporting on system trends. These reports serve as a useful tool to identify areas where resources, such as chemicals or electricity, are not being used effectively or efficiently helping to identify potential for improvements. 

Compliance and reporting

For industries where proof of compliance is a necessity – such as pharmaceuticals – Hubgrade is able to streamline the process by automating data collection. This enables customers to communicate that they are meeting standards to their stakeholders for a variety of benchmarks such as water consumption and purity with ease.   

Predictive maintenance

Both Hubgrade Essential and Assist can actively analyse data from sensors and equipment in order to predict potential failures and maintenance needs. This minimises downtime and allows customers to plan and prepare for the necessary investment. This forecasting feature also enables the streamlining of resource management. 

Access to expertise

By upgrading from Hubgrade Essential to Hubgrade Assist, customers can also access Remote Live Assistance. This enables you to speak directly with experts at Veolia Water Technologies, who can apply specialist knowledge and experience to resolve issues and suggest alternative processes or procedures that will maximise efficiency. 

For example, remote access to our experts proved incredibly valuable for Halton General Hospital in the UK, when an unexpected change to the water supply was detected by Hubgrade. The issue was dealt with by a member of the Veolia team who talked to the onsite plant manager through the correct procedure, minimising downtime to just 30 minutes and preventing the need to call out an engineer.

Finally, drawing on the benefits of digital technology such as Hubgrade, combined with specialist consultation can offer a wide range of efficiency and environmental benefits - and so much more.

To find out more contact our expert today.