2012
IMAACA 2012 Proceeding
Integrated management and optimization of the sanitation cycle by the combined use of expert systems and supervisory systems in real time operation
Authors: Marcelo De Souza, Alexandre Acácio De Andrade, Sergio Luiz Pereira
Abstract
The society?s acknowledgement of the importance of Earth?s water resources has been significantly enhanced over the last decades, in the 1990s and 2000s. The populational growth and the environmental degradation make the efficient management of water resources even more vital for humanity. This article presents a new systematic proposal comprising the use of automation technology in order to allow significant efficiency gains in harnessing, treatment, reservation, distribution, collection and management of water resources and thus to contribute towards a sustainable development. The proposed system is nominated Automated Management Integrated System of Intelligent Sanitation (Sistema Integrado da Gestão Automatizada de Saneamento Inteligente - SIGASI). Consists of a hardware and software architecture that integrate the Expert Systems (Artificial Intelligence) and the Supervisory Systems, in actual operation time. The system was virtually validated with tests based on parameters of an actual Water Pumping Station (WPS). The test methodology, the virtual treatment station simulation system and the automation system, the hardware and software architecture and the gains obtained in the tests are also shown in this article.
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