Smarter water management means enabling water utilitiesto better manage their water assets and customers by using insightsfrom the water network the environment and from stakeholders. Inparticular the success of a water enterprise is dependent on havinga fully functioning and productive asset base reducing operationaland maintenance costs minimizing outages and ensuring a high qualityof service to customers.

The IBM? Intelligent Water Family addressesthe following key issues commonly faced by water utilities:

• Manually leveraging massive volumes of data to make informed decisions
• Increasing asset maintenance and work management costs
• Increasing work backlogs
• Inefficiencies in crew utilization and increasing transportationcosts
• Inability to optimize revenue through water loss prevention
• Lack of adequate supporting analysis for rate case developmentand improving pricing models

IBM Work Optimization for Water Utilities is aproduct of the IBM Intelligent Water Family fromthe IBM Smarter Cities? Software Solutions portfoliowhich is a collection of industry solutions software designed foreffective supervision and coordination of operations. IBM Work Optimization for Water Utilities is designedto deliver advanced analytics capabilities that can help water utilitiesgain insight into the consumption patterns of its customers.

Tapping into a utility?s water consumption database and GIS IBM Work Optimization for Water Utilities can analyzeusage patterns within and across customer segments and identify seasonaltrends. With insights on water usage patterns and trends utilitiescan better anticipate future demand including seasonal peaks. Analyzingcurrent historical and seasonal consumption can also help utilitiestarget water conservation efforts in times of water stress. Utilitiescan identify the top residential commercial industrial and agriculturalwater consumers. Utilities can then use incentive programs to encourageusers to monitor and reduce their consumption.

IBM Work Optimization for Water Utilities canhelp provide a common view of operations that transcends individualsystems devices and departments aggregating and integrating datafrom various sources. Once data is reconciled and collated waterutilities personnel can visualize information in an intuitive fashionto quickly identify anomalies trends and patterns. Personnel canview information on a map that shows critical events and monitor keyresources.

IBM Work Optimization for Water Utilities runson top of the IBM Intelligent Operations Centerwhich is a software solution designed for effective supervision andcoordination of operations. IBM Intelligent Operations Center provides the baseplatform for IBM Work Optimization for Water Utilities.

IBM Work Optimization for Water Utilities canbe deployed in two ways either on premise or as a cloud-based offering. IBM Work Optimization for Water Utilities can also beintegrated with other products in the IBM Smarter Cities Software Solutions portfolio.