World leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software
solutions for sustaining infrastructure, Bentley Systems has announced the
immediate availability of its WaterCAD, WaterGEMS, and HAMMER V8i (SELECTseries
5) information modelling software for the analysis and design of water
distribution systems.
Key BIM advancements in the software extend information mobility across
water system planning, design and operations, improving collaboration within
and between these phases of the infrastructure lifecycle, and facilitating
better decision making for enhanced project and system performance.
New real-time-based simulation capabilities in the SELECTseries 5
releases of WaterCAD, WaterGEMS, and HAMMER V8i improve
visibility, forecasting, and decision-making support for both modellers and
operators. Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) data can be
automatically imported by system modellers into their hydraulic models for use
as initial conditions. System operators benefit from the ability to publish
model results to the utility’s existing SCADA system control screen, helping
forecast operating conditions.
Gregg Herrin, Bentley Systems director, product management, hydraulics
and hydrology, explains that engineers have for 10 years, used the SCADAconnect
capabilities within WaterCAD and WaterGEMS to leverage valuable field
information by integrating a utility’s SCADA system with the hydraulic models.
With the SELECTseries 5 releases, Bentley Systems has further enhanced
information mobility across engineering and operations. Model results can now
be published to the utility’s existing SCADA system control screen using the
industry-standard OPC communication protocol, enabling system operators to
benefit from optioneering as they evaluate and visualise model predictions
directly in the user interface they employ regularly.
The SELECTseries 5 releases enable WaterCAD, WaterGEMS,
and HAMMER users to view both real-time and historical SCADA data,
and compare data between SCADA and model results. Strong visualisation tools
empower hydraulic modellers to monitor SCADA signals as they change in response
to real-time events to help them see events as they happen and improve decision
making.
Unlike software that aggregates water usage data from multiple water
customers to a single spatial location, the WaterCAD and WaterGEMS V8i (SELECTseries
5) software explicitly models water demands for individual water customers in
their correct physical locations. This provides modellers with better
visibility and control over where demands are allocated, helping them manage
those demands with finer granularity.
Additional capabilities of the SELECTseries 5 releases include: WaterCAD and WaterGEMS users
can run multi-species water quality analyses; HAMMER users can run
multiple scenarios as a batch run, similar to the batch run functionality in
WaterCAD and WaterGEMS; WaterCAD, WaterGEMS, and HAMMER users can
publish hydraulic models (including results) as i-models for use
in Bentley Map Mobile, an app that works on Android, iPad, and iPad mini
tablets; and model from within the latest versions of MicroStation,
AutoCAD (including AutoCAD 2015), and (except WaterCAD) ArcGIS (including
ArcGIS 10.2).
