1. OWWA Annual Conference
SCADA Reporting
Partnering For Successful Implementation and Continued Development in Ontario
OWWA Annual Conference
Niagara Falls, May 8, 2012

2. Co-Authors & Acknowledgements
Jason Low, Sharmane Propper
Eric Tietz –
Tim Sutherns
Michael O’Meara – York Region
Karen McMillan – Township of Centre Wellington
Mike Linschoten – Region of Halton

3. AGENDA The Need Reporting Tool and Approach York Region’s Experience
Halton Region’s Experience
Centre Wellington’s Experience
Plans

4. NO “R” in SCADA We saw a need in the industry …
Reporting requirements often as an afterthought
Solutions often developed with significant investment in custom programming or complex model set-up
The report “controller”/bottleneck
Succession planning
Eramosa’s opportunity to give back to the industry

5. AGENDA The Need Reporting Tool and Approach York Region’s Experience
Halton Region’s Experience
Centre Wellington’s Experience
Plans

6. Benefits of the Application
Open source and web based
Designed for the municipal water and wastewater industry
Reports are configured rather than programmed
Enables all users to configure, view and share reports
Report distribution via and on a schedule
Low overhead and start-up costs
Very easy to acquire report configuration skills
The User Group Approach

7. e.SCADA.r Partners
User Group Service Population > 4 Million People

8. Anticipated e.SCADA.r Partners This Quarter
Service Population an additional > 2 Million People

9. AGENDA The Need Reporting Tool and Approach York Region’s Experience
Halton Region’s Experience
Centre Wellington’s Experience
Plans

10. York Region

11. York Region 90+ Water Facilities with > 150 km Mains
WPCPs that discharge to Lake Simcoe, Lake Ontario and local rivers
3200 historian tags
35 local collectors (iFix and Fix32)
Centralized Proficy Historian for SCADA data

12. York Region - Issues Complex tools discourage users
Separate SCADA network limits access
Data contention between sources
High number of tags is confusing for end users

13. York Region – Why e.SCADA.r
Faster than OEM portal
Easy to configure/upgrade/migrate
Low overhead
Directly accesses operational data
No client software required
Collaborative support
Code sharing
Genuine interest in product by developer

14. York Region - Benefits Improved User Experience
Increased functionality and data integration
No client application to download or install
Near real time access to data
Customizable
Automated report delivery

15. AGENDA The Need Reporting Tool and Approach York Region’s Experience
Halton Region’s Experience
Centre Wellington’s Experience
Plans

16. Halton Region Primarily Implemented For Water Three Well based systems
Three lake based systems

17. Halton Region - Issues Historically large and cumbersome reports
Ministry of Environment
Council
Budgeting
Research
Different reporting for lake & well based systems
Time consuming

18. Halton Region – Implementation
Burloak WPP commissioning = e.SCADA.r pilot
Comparison trials versus existing Excel reporting program
built trust
improved staff participation
Initial reports were produced in tandem with existing reports and compared daily for accuracy
As confidence built - Ministry of Environment Compliance reports were generated and presented during site inspection

19. Halton Region – Benefits: Before vs. After
Preparatory work for MOE inspection could take weeks
Creating parameters and criteria
Downloading of data for many parameters time consuming and difficult: UV dose/Transmittance/flows/intensity
Review of data very labour intensive prior and during inspection
After
Review of data much faster and in more detail
Regulatory data review graphically
Daily reports can be downloaded, saved as PDF documents and sent to MOE inspector prior to inspection
Time prior to inspection to gather data if requested
Estimated that MOE inspection times cut in half

20. Halton Region - Benefits
63 staff members currently have access and use the reporting program
Less than 20 originally trained
The trainees become the trainers

21. AGENDA The Need Reporting Tool and Approach York Region’s Experience
Halton Region’s Experience
Centre Wellington’s Experience
Plans

22. Centre Wellington Largest Towns are Fergus and Elora
Total Population 26,049
Approximately 407 km2
Numerous Remote Facilities - WAN

23. Centre Wellington Water System Network Layout

24. Centre Wellington - Response to Low Chlorine Residual

25. Centre Wellington Data query Review exact time frame
Any related parameters

26. Detailed data dump for MOE review of issue
Next lowest 1.05

27. Centre Wellington Monthly Summary
Excellent review platform with comments captured

28. AGENDA The Need Reporting Tool and Approach York Region’s Experience
Halton Region’s Experience
Centre Wellington’s Experience
Plans

29. User Group Seminar 1 Ideas
Standard MOE reporting templates/formats
Geospatial links, graphic browsing interface
Overlapping data from different time periods
External data source links
LIMS, Rainfall, CMMS, AM systems, Geospatial
Manual data entry and Calculated data storage

30. Release of Version 1.0 Modularized Design Enterprise Application
BIRT Reporting Engine – Business Intelligence Reporting Tool
Enhanced Web-Based Report Designer Interface

31. Version 1.0 Planned Add-ons
MOE Report Formats
External Data Links
Manual & Calculated Data Entry/Storage
Geospatial Links

32. SCADA Reporting Questions? dennis.mutti@eramosa.com
Partnering For Successful Implementation and Continued Development in Ontario
Questions?