Customer Success Story: Cork County Council
Company Size
1,000+
Region
- Europe
Country
- Ireland
Product
- ICONICS’ GENESIS64™
- AnalytiX®
Tech Stack
- Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2
- SharePoint® 2010
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Environmental Impact Reduction
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Connectivity Platforms
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Cities & Municipalities
- Utilities
Applicable Functions
- Facility Management
- Logistics & Transportation
Use Cases
- Energy Management System
- Water Utility Management
Services
- Software Design & Engineering Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
Cork County Council is the governing body for the largest county in Ireland, covering an area of 2,880 square miles, which is 11% of the Irish State. The council is responsible for treating and supplying water to approximately 40,000 non-domestic customers and 100,000 homes across the county. Due to its size, Cork County is divided into four zones– North, South, East, and West Cork. The average daily volume of water produced in Cork County is estimated to be well over 150,000 yd3 /day with the total length of water in the Public Water Supply Schemes estimated to be 3,500 miles long. The council was tasked with reducing energy consumption by 30% by 2020 as per a directive from the European Union (EU).
The Challenge
Cork County Council, the largest county in Ireland, was tasked with reducing energy consumption by 30% by 2020 as per a directive from the European Union (EU). The council treats and supplies water to approximately 40,000 non-domestic customers and 100,000 homes across the county. Due to its size, Cork County is divided into four zones– North, South, East, and West Cork–which makes data aggregation challenging. The council was using manual data entry with Excel to produce the leakage figures required by the Department of the Environment. However, with four zones to maintain, this method made it too difficult to efficiently calculate leakage figures. Furthermore, the average daily volume of water produced in Cork County is estimated to be well over 150,000 yd3 /day with the total length of water in the Public Water Supply Schemes estimated to be 3,500 miles long. The number of yards from which to retrieve that data continues to increase – approximately 391 DMAs with up to 3 yards per DMA. With such a vast supply network, the Council could not meet the new EU directives on energy consumption by continuing to use traditional manual data collection methods.
The Solution
Cork County Council partnered with Cully Automation Ltd. to install a number of Plant SCADA systems to control and monitor local stations. ICONICS’ GENESIS64™ and AnalytiX® products were deployed to convert the existing graphics that had been deployed on earlier GENESIS32™ projects, and connect directly to the SCADA data. The full integration was a seamless process, providing a true County-wide visualization solution leveraging Bing™ maps. From this single SharePoint® 2010 view, the Council can access charts and reports on the status of any meter from any District Metering Area (DMA) in the county. ICONICS products enabled the system to daily send data from each remote meter, to be read in the Historian and used for calculating the water usage for each DMA. By using a simple, intuitive point-and-click interface, an asset tree of DMAs was able to be quickly created and calculations added. By leveraging the latest Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 technologies including StreamInsight the collected data was then integrated together to produce an up-to-date and accurate DMA water usage figure.
Operational Impact
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