Black & Veatch Water Europe and EMAGIN have teamed-up to support UK water companies with next generation of asset analytics, artificial intelligence and advanced operational intelligence, allied to hands-on asset management and engineering expertise.
Based in Ontario, Canada, EMAGIN’s artificial intelligence driven platform HARVI enables utility operators to intelligently manage their infrastructure in real time and with predictive capabilities, supporting proactive real-time decision making.
The companies have signed a memorandum of understanding for a two-year strategic partnership.
The partnership is aimed at delivering the unparalleled asset performance water companies need to ensure quality and service are undiminished in the face of falling revenues and intense regulatory scrutiny.
Mark Kaney, Asset Management Director, Black & Veatch Europe, commented:
“More and more, clients are looking to digitally-enabled real-time decision making, artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning to ensure predictive performance insights, and resilience across their assets.”
“By forming this partnership with EMAGIN we are combining our cultures, along with the different approaches to learning and innovation of a technology company and an engineering company to meet the challenges facing the water industry both today and in the future.”
EMAGIN’s AI-powered technology provides customers with the intelligence to maximise productivity and savings to better serve customers, by enabling them to learn from past patterns, predict events and optimise operations.
The platform’s capabilities empower utilities to act in real-time, with predictive knowledge to control critical processes.
Black & Veatch, has helped to design, construct and maintain assets for virtually all the UK’s water companies, making them well-placed to understand how cutting-edge AI technologies, like those offered by EMAGIN, will deliver significant benefits and offer clients speed to value.
“We believe new technologies are the key to helping water companies weather a perfect storm of increasing demand, falling revenues and climate change. Combining forces with Black & Veatch will allow us to demonstrate this and provide AI technology informed by expert engineering and asset management experience on a global scale,” commented Thouheed Abdul Gaffoor, EMAGIN’s Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder.
Black & Veatch is currently delivering asset management programmes for Thames Water, Dwr Cymru/Welsh Water, Bristol Water and Yorkshire Water supporting all aspects of the utilities’ operations. ECO-X is Black & Veatch’s own cloud-based digital ecosystem that enables integration with partners to provide digitally enabled asset management solutions across the asset lifecycle
EMAGIN has deployed its innovative HARVI AI technology in the UK with United Utilities and Scottish Water; providing a suite of real-time and predictive capabilities, ranging from optimised pumping, burst event detection, minimisation of discolouration events and total expenditure savings.
The self-learning and cost-effective intelligence platform with unparalleled integration time in the sector is helping water and wastewater facilities reduce total expenditure, enhance reliability and prepare for emergencies.
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