Suez Launches Urban Drainage System

Suez announced it is launching Aquadvanced Urban Drainage, a digital system that allows local authorities to monitor their sewer and storm water networks in real time. The system will help mitigate the risk of flooding and control the quality of discharges into the natural environment.

The tool allows local authorities to choose the solution that best meets their needs—monitoring an environment (e.g., rivers, the sea, sewerage networks), anticipating flooding events and pollution for the natural environment, or managing the complete sewerage system.

Aquadvanced Urban Drainage provides a global, real-time vision of the complete system based on data from sensors installed both in the network and in the environment on a short-term weather forecasts. By centralizing and analyzing this data, the software solution can anticipate the hydraulic performance of the network (e.g., saturated storage capacities, volumes to be treated, etc.) or of the natural ecosystem (e.g., risk of pollution or overflowing watercourses). For certain sewerage systems, the tool can also calculate the best control strategy and automatically and remotely monitor the system’s facilities.

Deploying this system can cut the volumes of storm water that flow into the rivers or sea by up to 45%. Aquadvanced Urban Drainage has been introduced into eight European cities. 

Source: Suez