2 water utilities using data integration to build resilience
Water utilities in the Netherlands and United States are integrating operational and network data to improve visibility, reduce water loss, and manage infrastructure more effectively. Using Xylem Vue, utilities combine sensor, meter, and system data into a single analytics platform to support real-time decision-making, cut emissions, and strengthen network resilience.
Water utilities are responsible for managing and monitoring multiple assets and related processes across a wide variety of technologies, which often aren’t designed to work together. This limits their ability to run, organize and interconnect data. Now, water utility pacesetters are turning to innovative digital solutions to integrate their data into a single holistic platform – and gain unprecedented visibility into their systems.
Meet two Xylem customers who are using Xylem Vue, an integrated, vendor-agnostic software and analytics platform. Xylem Vue is delivering new insights to utilities to help them optimize decision-making, increase efficiency and cost savings, and improve network resilience.
1. Brabant Water
In the Netherlands, Brabant Water is using Xylem Vue to gain a holistic view of its 19,000-kilometer water supply network, which serves almost 2.6 million residents and companies. The utility is working with Idrica to implement a “digital twin” that visualizes real-time data of the status of its network and the water flowing through it, providing valuable information that would have otherwise been buried underground.
2. Buffalo Sewer Authority
In Buffalo, New York, Buffalo Sewer Authority (BSA) faced the challenge of reducing nearly two billion gallons of annual combined sewer overflows (CSOs) impacting its receiving waterways. With limited funds and aging infrastructure, BSA embraced innovative technology and implemented a real-time decision support system (RT-DSS) in partnership with Xylem.
The Xylem Vue integrated software and data analytics platform is optimizing existing infrastructure and transforming Buffalo's massive gravity sewer system into a managed conveyance and storage system. Since BSA began the project, 3 billion gallons of overflow volume have been captured.
Building resilient water utilities through integrated intelligence
As water systems face growing pressure from aging infrastructure, climate impacts, and resource constraints, integrated data is becoming essential. By helping utilities connect assets, analytics, and operations through a single platform, Xylem supports more resilient water systems that can adapt, respond, and perform reliably over time.