InfoWater SLM (Sensor Location Manager) is the ultimate solution to help you identify the most effective sensor locations for monitoring water quality compliance and water supply protection. InfoWater SLM provides a fully automated approach to generate solutions for the location and placement of monitoring stations according to different objectives and multiple scenarios, and evaluate and compare their trade-offs. It has the power to help you save lives, shorten response time, mitigate a range of risks, effectively manage disasters, improve customer satisfaction, and operate more cost-efficiently.

Built atop ArcGIS, InfoWater SLM seamlessly integrates advanced water network modeling and statistical analysis with the latest generation of ESRI GIS technology. The groundbreaking application provides water utilities with a powerful operational tool to strategically select critical locations and placements of monitoring stations. These capabilities can be used for both regulatory compliance (e.g., EPA's Initial Distribution System Evaluation for Stage 2 DBPR) and detection monitoring. SLM uses a hierarchical selection process (weighting factors) coupled with a stepwise approach for monitoring site location based on water distribution network characteristics (e.g., eliminate unavailable or inaccessible locations, junctions of two pipes of different diameter or material, dead ends, crosses and tees, locations on transmission pipes); hydraulic and water quality results (e.g., based on flow, velocity, pressure, demand, hydraulic slope, residence time, residual concentration); and proximity to critical facilities (e.g., supply sources, schools, hospitals, recreational facilities, goverment sites, military installations, fire stations, shelters) and population density. InfoWater SLM also facilitates quick review of recommended monitoring sites location and spatial distribution, allowing engineering judgment to be applied as the final criteria.

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