THE CHALLENGE
Tekniska verken, the municipal water utility for Linköping, Sweden, is responsible for supplying high-quality drinking water to the city’s 150,000 inhabitants. They faced the below challenges:
- With the city growing, needing to renew water pipes of the right kind and dimension
- Optimising its operations and ensuring uninterrupted service
- Hunting for hidden water leaks
- Answering customers’ questions regarding water supply networks, from status to backup supply
THE SOLUTION
RESULTS
- Network operations and service reliability optimised using a real-time digital twin
- Water losses cut to 8% or half of the national average
- More sustainable use of energy and natural resources
– Sinan Nouri, Modeling and Simulation Engineer, Tekniska verkenThe water model and working software from Schneider Electric are crucial tools…We use the online model, among other things, to predict and assess the risk of pressure or flow variation… [and is] an important tool in our hunt for water leaks.
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