Massive Low-Pressure Sewer System Project  Benefits from Real-Time Trends and Analysis

By Joseph Harmes

The alert pinging smart phones, tablets and computers at South East Water in Australia’s Mornington Peninsula seem facile, even boring, to anyone but a proactive utility: a customer’s grinder pump was activating beyond normal cycles. The company called and requested a leak analysis. The homeowner had been unaware his toilet is running continuously and a simple fix lowered his utility bill and preserved water in an environmentally sensitive region where rain harvesting is not uncommon.