IBM Smarter Cities Challenge City of Tucson Award Recipient for 2013 November 14, 2012

Background Available Water Supplies  Groundwater  Stored Colorado River Water Rocky Mountains Renewable Water Supplies Finite Water Supplies Colorado River  Colorado River Allocation  Recycled Water  “Other” Water Supplies Tucson Water Supply Santa Cruz River Reclaimed Water In Channel Recharge Alan Forrest Director, Tucson Water

Tucson Potable Water Lines (2” - 96”) Tucson Water Potable Water System Tucson City Limits System ~107,000 AF 120,000,000 KWH miles of water mains ~ 800,000 Customers 225,000 Metered Services 212 Production Wells ~65 Water Storage Facilities ~100 Boosters 22,000 Fire Hydrants 80,000 Valves Background Extensive & Complex System Covering a Large Area with a Relatively Low Population Density Miles

System Demands Average Day: 15.6 MGD System 165 miles of piping 4 Production facilities 6 storage reservoirs 8 booster stations Landscape irrigation on: 18 Golf Courses 65 Schools 50 Parks 726 Residential 137 Commercial 3 Others Tucson Miles Background Extensive & Complex System Covering a Large Area with a Relatively Low Population Density Tucson Water Potable and Reclaimed Water Systems Potable Water Lines Tucson City Limits Reclaimed Water

Coordinating technology improvements in water metering and SCADA upgrades for better customer service. Utilize Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) technology to increase efficiency in measuring water use Further conservation by giving easy access for customers to daily water demand information Implement SCADA upgrades to enhance water operations and energy efficiencies Tucson Water Challenges Sandy Elder TW Deputy Director

Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) Tucson Water (TW) has ~225,000 water meters. ~50,000 meters have drive-by automatic meter reading (AMR) hardware. AMR offers flexible upgrades from drive- meter to a fixed network AMI system. All manually read (walk-by) meters will be converted to AMR over a ten-year capital improvement project. TW intends to prepare an AMI Strategic Plan that presents the costs and benefits of various approaches to reading water meters and establishes the business case for implementation of recommendations.

Monitor your water use in “real time” Project Details Driving Forces for Implementing Water Utility AMI Water loss reduction and revenue recovery (leak detection and auditing) Improvement of customer service issues (ability to respond to calls and complaints) Promote water conservation – comparative use plots among neighbors – innovative incentive programs to encourage changing time of appliance or irrigation to reduce peak water and energy consumption Reading frequency versus perceived cost of water and wastewater bills Cost reduction in traditionally labor intense areas (manual meter reading) Improved meter asset management

New AMI systems must interface with existing utility systems, including CIS applications New AMI systems must peacefully coexist with multiple meter data collection technologies with diverse reading requirements AMI systems produce high volumes of data for both billing and analytic purposes Data Challenges

Project Details What is SCADA? Booster Pump Water System RTU’s Radio Tower City IT Infrastructure Master Station Computer Water Operator SCADA: Computer system that monitors and controls processes of physical assets at multiple sites over large distances. Processes include water pressures, flows, reservoir levels and energy use Water Main

Project Details Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Systems Used to operate system assets of over 350 sites from production, transmission, storage, pumping, and distribution to services. Produces 12 Gigabytes of data yearly. (approx) Data used for regulatory compliance, cost analysis, system planning

Project Details Why upgrade SCADA? System installed 1984 Last upgrade in 2001 Technology has changed Installed software/hardware at End-of-Life Required functionality greater than installed system capabilities

Project Details SCADA Opportunities Connecting customer demand data with water process control data Scheduling water pumping to match customer demand to save energy by conducting a mass balance over time – Central to forecasting demands to determine system operations or react to current conditions Identify occurrences of leaks and breaks by comparing withdrawals with monitored system inflows Tracking system changes in: – Pump characteristic and efficiency curves over time for: Re-calibrating pump curves and Predicting pump/motor failure or impending need for repairs to maintain efficiencies and lower energy consumption/cost.

Concept Issues and Questions 1.Customer acceptance – Use 2.Scalability – Magnitude/complexity of system 3.Data management – System architecture 4.Bandwidth – How much is enough? 5.Data storage – Archiving 6.Data mining application development platform for developers 7.Partnering with local electric utilities

IBM can help Tucson Water improve customer service, reduce costs, and maximize the use of data to create the smart and efficient water delivery system. As a grant recipient, Tucson will receive pro bono consulting expertise valued at $400,000. What IBM can do for Tucson Water

Questions? IBM Smarter Cities Challenge City of Tucson Award Recipient for 2013 November 14, 2012