DERCETO® AQUADAPT™ 5.5 Released 1 April 2008

Version 5.5 now available

DERCETO^® AQUADAPT™  5.5 builds on the award winning Aquadapt 4.5 and 5.0 platform with many of the new features requested by our clients.

 Amongst the many new features are:

• Derceto Dashboard – an Intranet enabled bird’s eye view on the performance and savings being generated by Aquadapt with drill-down to incredible levels of detail on items such as individual pump performance
• Diagnostic Advisor - A user friendly guide to help operators direct their attention to the issues that may be impacting on the ability to generate high quality schedules.
• Operations Simulator – building on the on-line simulator of previous versions the new Tactical and Strategic simulators provide operators, engineers and planners the tools to carry out detailed “what-if” analysis with latest data and complete safety.
• Multi-site support - Now even the largest or most complex systems can be handled by Aquadapt, with support for multi-core CPUs for increased solve speed on large problems through to multiple computers working together for widely distributed but loosely coupled systems.
• Physical to Logical modelling tools – work with actual pump curves, valve and storage tank details in the new graphical database view, confident that Aquadapt will convert these ‘on-the-fly’ into the real time data used by the solver.
• Improved Variable Speed Drive modelling – new techniques for modelling complex variable speed drives extract even better savings through explicit performance targeting
• Improved Operator Interface – feedback from our users has lead to subtle changes to the operator view screens to improve readability and streamlined the layout.
• Improved demand forecasting - using Loess Filtering which handles even the fastest changing demand patterns with ease.  Myriad tuning parameters makes this technique configurable to a wide range of client requirements on a zone-by-zone basis.
• Pressure Meters - these instruments in the distribution system are now explicitly handled with new objects in the database. These can be used for pressure control or pump curve recording.

Contact your nearest Derceto office to hear more.

Click on the "more" button below to see screenshots of the new dashboard

The Derceto Dashboard

Demand Summary Screen

See water demand zone by zone for any day, week, month or year.  Great for the UK water industry Table 12 reporting requirements.  Monitor your average demand and compare with typical demands for each zone so you can see demand growth over time.

Pump Station Summary Screen

For each pump station, see which pumps were scheduled to run, see which pumps actually did run and when.  See the expected flow and the actual flow and monitor energy consumption for each tariff period.  Track your most efficient and least efficient pump stations in real-time.

Derceto Solver Performance

Track the performance of Derceto Aquadapt.  Solution time, number of successful solution in the day and database read and write times provide valuable information. Is the system constrained causing loss of solution?  Have solve times gone up?  These can be indicators that it is time to upgrade the solver constraint data to reflect changing conditions thereby giving Aquadapt the best possible starting conditions.

Rank Pump Stations by Efficiency, Energy or Flow

The Dashboard analyses the data in the historical and live databases to present information on pump station performance. Use this real data to track and compare pumping efficiency and direct maintenance and refurbishment to areas where the most cost-effective returns can be achieved.

and then drill down into real pump curve data with actual operating data points plotted on both the pump curve and efficiency curve.