Instrumentation And Digital Transformation
Whether you call it Digital Transformation, Water 4.0, or Smart Water, the water industry as a whole is changing drastically in the way that it operates. If you ask a dozen people what these buzzwords mean, you will naturally get a dozen answers. It is because the Digital Transformation of the water industry is different for different people and for different operational and management aspects of what is done to produce water, distribute it to customers, collect it, treat it, and put it back to the environment.
From an operational point of view, we have to know what is going on within the water & wastewater system, and we have used instrumentation to tell us what the situation is for years. So, what is new? Why should we digitally transform? What does it mean? It is a fact that the water industry has been monitoring its assets for years. It is a fact we monitor what the customer uses for billing purposes, but it is also a fact that the vas