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Abstract
The present invention relates to a water management data communications system for a water management facility. The system uses monitoring means to obtain system data, communications means to transmit the system data obtained to a computing server, data control means for enabling access to the system data by users, and system control means to control the operation of the water management facility according to the system data. The present invention facilitates monitoring of all system data for a water management facility and so will greatly enhance fault detection and maintenance and servicing of the sustainable water systems. Additionally, efficiency can be increased and downtime reduced by assessing the system using the system data without having to undertake manual inspection of a facility. The system is adapted so that the system data can be used to provide daily, hourly, up to the minute or second reporting for the water management system. This system data may indicate a specific condition of facility equipment, such as a pump or other failure, and can be can be used to generate alarms or warnings in response to malfunctions of any equipment of the water management facility. <Figure 1>
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The present invention relates to a water management data communications system.
The collection of rainwater and the recycling of wastewater are of vital commercial and environmental importance. Cities, industries and agricultural operations all produce vast quantities of wastewater which can be recycled for subsequent reuse, such as in nonpotable irrigation systems, process water or as potable drinking water.
To facilitate the efficient collection and recycling of water it is generally necessary to implement a water management facility. Such facilities typically comprise various tanks for storing and treating the collected rainwater and different grades of wastewater (black, grey and the like) so that it can be reused as required. For example, a local school or industrial operation would have an appropriate water management facility to manage their own respective waste and rainwater requirements.
However, currently available water management facilities are limited in terms of the data they are able to collect and feedback they are able to provide about the water entering and leaving the facility, such as water levels, quality and the like. Such limitations will clearly render water management facilities less efficient.
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a water management data communications system which goes at least someway towards alleviating the above problem and/or which will provide the public and/or industry with a useful alternative.
It is acknowledged that the term ‘comprise' may, under varying jurisdictions be provided with either an exclusive or inclusive meaning. For the purpose of this specification, and unless otherwise noted explicitly, the term comprise shall have an inclusive meaning - i.e. that it may be taken to mean an inclusion of not only the listed components it directly references, but also other non-specified components. This rationale should also be used when the terms ‘comprised’ and/or ‘comprising’ are used.
Further aspects of the present invention will become apparent from the ensuing description which is aiven bv wav of example only.
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According to the invention, there is provided a water management data communications system for a water management facility comprising at least one of a rainwater collection sub-system and a wastewater sub-system having at least one water tank, characterised in that the data communications system comprises:
monitoring means to obtain system data comprising one or more of: water condition data from water in each tank, pump data from pump equipment of each tank and flow data from flow meters of each tank;
communications means to transmit the system data obtained to a computing server or servers via a network;
data control means for enabling access to the system data by a user interface application running on a user computing device, and system control means which is responsive to the system data to control the operation of the water management facility.
The ability to monitor all system data for a water management facility will greatly enhance 20 fault detection and maintenance and servicing of the sustainable water systems. It will virtually eradicate the requirement for an initial call out to assess problems. Much of the initial testing can be done remotely and in certain instances actions can be implemented via the user interface application and system control means to allow preventative action to be taken to avoid issues that have been presented by the system data. Additionally, efficiency can be increased and downtime reduced by assessing the system using the system data without having to undertake manual inspection of a facility.
In another embodiment of the invention, the wastewater sub-system has one or more of: a grey water tank, a black water tank and a tank for storing water from drainage and surface run off from surfaces {Sustainable Urban Drainage System SUDS).
In another embodiment of the invention, the monitoring means comprises one or more of:
rain sensors, anemometers, barometers, thermometers, water clarity sensors, water tank level meters and pH sensors.
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In another embodiment of the invention, the monitoring means obtains water condition data from filters of the tanks and the system control means is further adapted to control the operation of the filters in response to the water condition data.
In another embodiment of the invention, the system control means is further adapted to determine the efficiency of the filters using the water condition data and the flow data,
In another embodiment of the invention, the system control means is responsive to the system data to remotely operate valves in order to isolate water in the tanks. For example, a valve can be closed should a problem with a filter, such as a disinfection filter, thus preventing potentially harmful water from coming into contact with humans or contaminating a storage tank.
In another embodiment of the invention, system control means is adapted to control the operation of pump equipment of the tanks in response to the system data.
In another embodiment of the invention, the user interface application accesses the system data from a remote user computing device.
In another embodiment of the invention, the user interface application accesses the system data from a local user computing device.
In another embodiment of the invention, the user interface application is adapted to use the system data to generate information on the water management facility, such as flows, pump running times, water quality, alarms, water pressure, maintenance updates and trending of all inputs.
In another embodiment of the invention, the water management facility is a sub-system of an overall building management system and a plurality of water management facilities are coupled to the water management data communications system.
Ideally, the network is the Internet.
The invention will be more clearly understood from the following description of some embodiments thereof, given by way of example only, with reference to the accompanying
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Figure 1 is a block schematic of a water management data communications system configured according to the present invention.
Referring to Figure 1, there is provided a water management data communications system, indicated generally by the reference numeral 1, for at least one water management facility 2 comprising at least one of a rainwater collection sub-system having a rainwater tank 4d, and a wastewater collection sub-system, which in the instance shown comprises a grey water tank 4a, a black water tank 4b and a tank 4c for storing water from drainage and surface run off from surfaces (shown in Fig. 1 as SUDS tanks). Hereinafter the tanks 4a, 4b, 4c and 4d will be referred to collectively as the tanks 4 and are used to receive, or collect and contain the water type referred to. It will be understood that the term greywater is wastewater generated from domestic activities such as laundry, dishwashing, and bathing which can be recycled on-site for uses such as landscape irrigation and constructed wetlands. The term blackwater is a term used to describe wastewater containing fecal matter and urine.
It will be understood that the present invention is suitable for use with any arrangement of the above tanks 4 and subsystems. For example, the invention may be adapted for use just with a rainwater subsystem or just with a wastewater subsystem, or indeed only certain collection tanks within the wastewater subsystem. For example, the invention may be adapted for use with a greywater tank and/or a blackwater tank and/or a SUDS tank. It may also be adapted for use with both rainwater and wastewater subsystems.
Accordingly, reference in Fig. 1 showing both a rainwater subsystem and a wastewater subsystem comprising a grey water tank, a black water tank and/or a SUDS tank should in no way be seen as limiting. It will also be understood that the tanks 4 will each have various water inlets and discharge outlets and filters.
The water management facility 2 is effectively a sub-system of an overall building management system 5 and a plurality of such water management facilities 2a, 2b may be coupled to the water management data communications system 1. Internal communications between the water management facilities 2, 2a, 2b can be made using infra red, BUS protocols, Ethernet, radio, hard wired or AS interface technologies.
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The water management data communications system 1 comprises monitoring means to obtain system data, including water condition data from water in each tank, pump data from pump equipment of each tank 4 and flow data from flow meters of each tank 4. The monitoring means may comprise one or more of: rain sensors, anemometers, barometers, thermometers, water clarity sensors, water tank level meters and pH sensors or other means for monitoring a parameter of the water management facility.
Communications means, indicated generally by the reference numeral 6, is used to transmit the system data to computing servers) 7a, 7b (hereinafter referred to as computing servers 7 coupled to the water management facility 2 via networks 8. It will be understood that the computing server(s) 7 may be a local computing server 7a or a remote server 7b communicatively coupled to any given water management facility 2, as is shown in Fig. 1. The communications means 6 may be any one or a combination of DSL, GPRS, WiFi, VPN, Ethernet and the like. Coupled to the computing server(s) 7b is a data store shown as a database 9 for storing the system data.
Data control means running on the computing servers) 7 enables access to the system data by a user interface application running on a user computing device(s) 13 coupled to the computing servers) 7. The user interface application may access the system data from remote or local user computing device(s) 13. The user interface application is further adapted to use the system data to generate information on the water management facility, such as flows, pump running times, water quality, alarms, water pressure, maintenance updates and trending of all inputs. This can be relayed back to the central servers (7) either in house, online or at a clients remote data centre for historical logging and trending. In this way daily, hourly, up to the minute or second reporting can be implemented for the water management system 2. This data can also be transmitted via call media. Data sent by the data control means will be in a generic format allowing all common SCADA (system Control and Data Acquisition) packages to interpret the data via OPC server software. In addition, a web interface 12 can be provided to allow a user to log in and view the data being gathered remotely. If required and accepted the data from other users' systems can also be viewed and downloaded.
Also provided is system control means which is responsive to the system data to control the operation of the water management facility 2. The system control means is thus effective to control the functioning of equipment in the water management facility based
IE 10 0 4 8 9 on the system data received. The system control means is thus a combination of software and hardware which is operative to control and trigger the functioning of the water management facility 2. For example, the monitoring means may obtain water condition data from filters of the tanks 4 and the system control means may then control the operation of the filters in certain tanks 4 in response to the water condition data. Additionally, the system control means may be further adapted to determine the efficiency of the filters using the water condition data and the flow data. By monitoring the flows the volumes of rainwater, grey water, black water and mains water used may be computed, as can indications of the efficiency of filters, collection systems and warnings of leakage from either pipe work or systems.
The system control means is also responsive to the system data to remotely operate valves in order to isolate water in the tanks. For example, a valve can be closed should a problem with a filter, such as a disinfection (e.g. UV or RO) filter, thus preventing potentially harmful water from coming into contact with humans or contaminating a storage tank. The system control means is also adapted to control the operation of pump equipment in the tanks 4 in response to the system data. The system control means will be able to receive internal and external system data from the tanks 4 and relay such information back to the computing servers) 7. This system data may include various equipment alarms to indicate a specific condition of the equipment, such as a pump or other failure, which pump is running if in a multiple pump arrangement, hours run on each pump and pump speeds for variable speed pumps. It will be understood that these alarms or warnings can be generated in response to malfunctions of any equipment ofthe water management facility
2. The system control means would also utilise the system data to remotely manage the pumps and equipment of the rainwater and wastewater collection systems so that they can be primed prior to peak period or run to top up buffer/header tanks at night to minimize the electrical cost for running the system 2. Also by knowing run times on each pump the duty pump can be changed remotely to spread the pumping workload across the pump set, thus prolonging pump life and minimising pump maintenance costs. As part of this the mode of the pumping system can be changed to allow multiple pumps to run or inhibit pump switching.
Use of VSDs (Variable Speed Drives) being controlled via a USS (Universal Simple Serial
Interface) network allows all data contained within the drive to be taken to PLC, i.e. voltage, current, speed torque. One advantage of controlling the pump speed is that pump efficiency
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Rain gauges can also be installed in the tanks 4 and configured to measure the efficiency of the filters of the rainwater and wastewater collection systems. Such gauges can be used for permanent or periodical monitoring. Water quality can be measured, including clarity pH, temperature, and chemical content in a dosing plant is incorporated; UV light strength if UV disinfection is incorporated. By remotely monitoring these factors this will act as an early warning system. Output from pressure transducers can also be monitored and controlled remotely so that water feed pressures can be determined and altered to the systems requirements. The monitoring means is thus adapted for obtaining analytical data taken from the instruments, that is, the various sensors, meters of the monitoring means of the system
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Also shown is human machine interface 14 which is an interactive computer application that provides a point at which a user or a user department or organisation interacts with the water management facility 2 and through which to and receives instructions from a terminal user.
The water management data communications system 1 will be formed from modular software and hardware blocks. The advantage of this is that the system 1 can be scaled accordingly. Thus a client who initially installs a rainwater harvesting system 3 may later decide to incorporate a grey water system 4a or a blackwater system 4b. In this way the client may retrofit the additional modular units needed to facilitate capture of all additional system data so that system control means may be fully responsive to all aspects of the water management facility and reap the benefits via the one remote water management data communications system 1.
The water levels of the tanks 4 can thus be monitored to determine the amount of water available to the various processes and thus this can be used to optimise combined systems which utilise the different water sources, rainwater, greywater, black water and indeed mains water. For instance if a process has a requirement for a known volume of water, provision can be made to supplement the storage facility with which ever source will best meet the demand. This will also maximise the storage capacity of combined systems.
All operation details manuals are storable on the system database 9 and accessed via the user interface application. As a result the operator/maintenance contractor of the sustainable
IE 1 Ο Ο 4 8 9 water systems will be aware when exactly maintenance checks have been performed, by who and the results of which as well the schedule for future maintenance.
From a security perspective an on-site control box for the water management data communications system 1 can be developed without any interface details, that is just a blank box, which will prevent tampering by non-trained personnel. With regard to remote access via the user interface application, password protection can be enabled to restrict access to authorized fully trained personnel only. At the plant maintenance staff can plug a user computing device, such as a PC, laptop, or any other suitable computing device, such as
Blackberry, mobile phone, iPad and the like, directly into the control box and this will effectively couple the computing device to the complete suite of functionality of the water management data communications system 1.
The user interface application can be configured as an educational tool. Trending outputs, such as temperature, water clarity, water usage, pump usage etc would provide valuable data for studies of engineering and science and bring the system into the public domain. Multiple institutions, corporations, building worldwide can log into the system and details of the rainfall temperatures can be transferred and reviewed by persons on either side of the country or the world.
Further features of the water management data communications system 1 include that the system is 100% configurable, all software is bespoke for individual client needs, it is programmed in house; it is expandable, facilitates remote programming through GPRS or other data network, provides safe storage of data, the system is configurable to different supplier packages and can tie in with existing and new plant in numerous ways.
Aspects of the present invention have been described by way of example only and it should be appreciated that additions and/or modifications may be made thereto without departing from the scope thereof as defined in the appended claims.
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1. A water management data communications system for a water management facility comprising at least one of a rainwater collection sub-system and a wastewater sub5 system having at least one water tank, characterised in that the data communications system comprises: monitoring means to obtain system data comprising one or more of: water condition data from water in each tank, pump data from pump equipment of 10 each tank and flow data from flow meters of each tank; communications means to transmit the system data obtained to a computing server via a network; 15 data control means for enabling access to the system data by a user interface application running on a user computing device, and system control means which is responsive to the system data to control the operation of the water management facility.
2. A water management data communications system as claimed in Claim 1, wherein the wastewater sub-system has one or more of: a grey water tank, a black water tank and a tank for storing water from drainage and surface run off from surfaces (Sustainable Urban Drainage System SUDS).
3. A water management data communications system as claimed in Claim 1 or Claim 2, wherein the monitoring means comprises one or more of: rain sensors, IE 1 Ο Ο 4 8 9 anemometers, barometers, thermometers, water clarity sensors, water tank level meters and pH sensors.
4. A water management data communications system as claimed in any one of the 5. Preceding claims, in which the monitoring means obtains water condition data from filters of the tanks and the system control means is further adapted to control the operation ofthe filters in response to the water condition data,
5. A water management data communications system as claimed in Claim 4, wherein 10 the system control means is further adapted to determine the efficiency of the filters using the water condition data and the flow data.
6. A water management data communications system as claimed in any one of the preceding claims, wherein the system control means is responsive to the system 15 data to remotely operate valves in order to isolate water in the tanks.
7. A water management data communications system as claimed in any preceding claim, wherein the system control means is adapted to control the operation of pumps ofthe tanks in response fo the system data.
8. A water management data communications system as claimed in any preceding claim, wherein the user interface application accesses the system data from a remote user computing device. 25
9. A water management data communications system as claimed in Claim 1 to 7, wherein the user interface application accesses the system data from a local user computing device. IE 10 04 89
10. A water management data communications system as claimed in any one of the preceding claims, wherein the user interface application is adapted to use the 5 system data to generate information on the water management facility, such as flows, pump running times, water quality, alarms, water pressure, maintenance updates and trending of all inputs.
11. A water management data communications system as claimed in any one of the 10 preceding claims, whereby the water management facility is a sub-system of an overall building management system and a plurality of water management facilities are coupled to the water management data communications system,
12. A water management data communications system substantially as herein described
13. 15 with reference to and as shown in accompanying drawings.
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