Kisters Wins Contract With South Florida Water Management District for WISKI 7 Platform

Kisters North America Inc., with its WISKI water resources information system, is providing a solution to meet the requirements of the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD). The SFWMD is the largest of Florida’s five regional water management districts, encompassing an 18,000-sq-mile area from the Kissimmee region north of Lake Okeechobee southward throughout the Everglades and the Florida Keys.

With more than 1,800 miles of canals and levees, 25 major pumping stations, 2,200 large and small water control structures monitored and controlled over a network of microwave and radio-frequency communications systems at 1,200 instrumented locations, the SFWMD has turned to Kisters to provide real-time and historical hydro-meteorological data and data processing and evaluation tools. Kisters’ water management solution, WISKI 7--a hydrological database solution--is well-suited to the demands of this large water management district, the company said.

One of the SFWMD’s goals was to find a contractor with whom it could develop a strong partnership during both the initial project implementation and later operational phases, which would include integration with other District systems. The SFWMD chose Kisters, in part, for its reputation for successful long term collaboration and partnerships, according to the company. More than 300 customers worldwide have chosen Kisters as partner for water resource data management.

WISKI is Kisters’ water resources information system, which has provided a water resource management solution for clients throughout Europe, Australia, East Asia and North America. WISKI is used for managing networks of hydrometric stations such as surface water or groundwater sites, gauging stations, rainfall and snowfall sites, sea and lake sites or water quality sites. WISKI can receive and calculate real-time data and have it ready for display in seconds, the company said. The time series management architecture is designed for handling large volumes of data, whether it is telemetered or manually entered into the system.

Source: Kisters