Xylem Vue’s Real-Time What-If Scenarios application for wastewater utilities

Today, effective urban drainage and wastewater system management involves excellent wastewater and rainwater disposal to minimize discharges of untreated water into the environment. This is a major challenge in the context of increasing urbanization and climate change, in which extreme events are becoming more and more frequent.

Xylem Vue's Real-Time What-If Scenarios application provides a real-time digital twin of the wastewater system to support operational decision-making. The tool integrates and standardizes data from any source, regardless of technology or vendor, using advanced algorithms, before uploading it to the hydraulic model.

This provides the status of any point in the network and enables early decision-making across a wide range of scenarios. Real-Time What-If Scenarios leverage the current or expected state of the network, as well as the weather forecast 24 hours ahead, to warn about flooding and enable operators to build and test what-if scenarios in advance.

The platform suggests near-optimum control scenarios – from both an operational and maintenance perspective – to prevent or minimize the impact of events resulting from CSOs and urban floods, and to guide utilities in both master and new infrastructure planning.

The solution delivers customized results: from monitoring in the control room to predicting network performance and supporting decision-making for future scenarios. It can also be used to draw up planning studies and network performance reports.

Real-Time What-If Scenarios optimizes urban wastewater and drainage system operations, so utilities can provide world-class service to the communities they serve while minimizing potential economic and environmental damage during extreme events.