In 1902, the Swiss municipality of Titterten built a pipeline to a local spring for drinking water. Now the water commission is looking for easier ways to monitor the effects of climate change and pipe leakage on the water supply.
THE CHALLENGE
The municipality of Titterten in the canton of Basel-Landschaft uses a spring in the countryside to supply the village with water. However, the aging pipeline and recent increases in dry spells began to present challenges to the water commission.
The spring is in a wooded area with rough terrain and no electricity, making on-site manual readings necessary but difficult. The water commission needed a way to measure the water flow and transmit that information independent of the public electricity network.
THE SOLUTION
Endress+Hauser’s Proline Promag W 800 flowmeter uses two batteries to provide an off-grid, redundant power supply. The sensor records the flow value every 15 minutes and sends the data daily to the Netilion digital service via a secure LTE connection.
Netilion Value allows data analysis and transfers the information monthly
to the process control system via CSV export. Netilion Health monitors the
status of the devices and alerts maintenance to any issues.
RESULTS
With the Promag W 800 and Netilion’s IIoT ecosystem, the municipality can check the spring discharge remotely, evaluate the data and find leaks before they get worse. It can also analyse how much the recent droughts are lowering the water volume. All of these advantages contribute to the stability of Titterten’s
water supply.
– Beat Schweizer, President of the water commission, Titterten, SwitzerlandThanks to the digital solution from Endress+Hauser, we can monitor the spring discharge without having to be on site. Retrieving the data in Netilion makes it easier to operate the water network.
