Water Systems Technology

The following article was published in the winter edition of the California Water Journal from the California Rural Water Association. Roughly 20% of the electricity in California is used to pump [...]

Remote monitoring and control capabilities are critical to operators as many offices are now shut down in response to Shelter-In-Place Orders “I am very thankful to have the XiO System in place [...]

SCADA–Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition–has been the workhorse of large factories.  When SCADA is applied to Rural Water Systems, the limits of Old SCADA show.  The need for [...]

From the time that SCADA systems became popular in the 1960s, the fundamental architecture has remained largely the same. Similar to the evolution of the automobile – from Henry Ford’s [...]

                 –Including how a pot grower got nabbed stealing water! As I started writing this story, the embers were still hot.  More than 8,000 homes or buildings had been burned.  [...]

A historian is an electronic record of data logged over time.  For Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, it typically describes the database that contains most or all values [...]

Large water systems employ Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) to monitor and control the flow of water through the system. Because SCADA is so expensive and complex to install, [...]

This seemingly simple question leads to a discussion that concludes, “Because it is a surprisingly complex problem with some devilish details” Electrical Time-of-Use Electricity is generally in [...]

California is in its fourth year of drought. As a water operator, you know that, and you have your coping strategy. Today, we’d like to share some of the strategies that our customers are using [...]