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The dispatch center is built based on a Business Code;
the objective is to centralize and optimize real-time
information of SWCC dispersed resource base. A
complex mission made possible by Khatib & Alami
(K&A), putting forward innovative models of
work and solutions that revolutionize the way
geospatial systems’ capabilities engage with
SWCC operations. Dashboard, Displays and KPI’s
are built to quantify this ambition. PI of OSIsoft
constitutes the corner stone in the overall
Information System at SWCC and, together
with state-of-the-art Esri’s Geographical
Information System (GIS) platform, it is
facilitating further deployment of IT/OT
applications to support best practice operation,
maintenance and control of the Water Business.
Browse the Past, Visualize the Present and
Plan for the Future
K&A surpassed numerous challenges in building
the system’s architecture, such as: the sites’
infrastructure installation and integration with
different systems, tag data mapping from multiple
plants, design and confirmation of more than 400
PI vision business screens from scratch for plants and
transmission. The new WMS will enable SWCC to be a
prime player in the Water Business by monitoring the real-
time operation, planning and instructing the scheduling of
production and transmission in the near future and reviewing the
performance of past operations. Automatic controls will harness the
WMS capabilities to schedule hourly productions based on fuel prices
or sell water and electricity in the future.
A Future-Proof Water A Trendsetting Utility
Dispatch Center: Building Solution at OSIsoft EMEA
the Foundation of the Users Conference 2017
Evolution of the Water London
Landscape The SWCC’s business case
In light of this, K&A designed premiere was presented at
a full-fledged Riyadh-based the OSIsoft EMEA Users
Dispatch Center for SWCC; Conference 2017 in London
mobilizing a team of designers, jointly by the K&A/SWCC
architects, engineers, IT and team. The paper highlighted
GIS specialists. A 15-meter how SWCC embarked in the
wide main screen and two Digital Transformation, building
4-meter side screens of the a solid PI Infrastructure
latest laser technology were tightly integrated with GIS,
installed for an optimized ERP, SCADA DCS and other
real-time visualization. Six enterprise applications such
operators from SWCC will as the production scheduling
control the screens, managing and dispatch to optimize
live displays of over 400 the overall cost of water
GIS and PI Vision graphics production. It also presents
and diagrams. Displays are the approach adopted by
designed in a hierarchal SWCC and its successful
manner: one overview for each implementation while
plant/pipeline, rolling down embarking on an ambitious
to view water production/ business transformation
transmission efficiency, exercise that coincides
storage level, water quality, with strategic initiatives for
cost and other key monitoring unbundling and privatizing the
parameters. The center is water sector in the Kingdom.
operational since November
2017; K&A is providing K&A's Corporate Development Vice
additional training and handing President, Mr. Karl Reynders
over.
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