affordably refreshing your water district’s process control
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Today’s Agenda
• Introduction to Ignition & Bedrock Automation
• Benefits of Ignition and Bedrock
• Addressing Issues in the Water/Wastewater Industry
• Use Cases: Clarksville Light & Water Co., and Russellville Water and
Sewer System
• Q&A
About Inductive Automation
• Founded in 2003
• HMI, SCADA, MES, and IIoT software
• Installed in 100+ countries
• Used by 44% of Fortune 100 companies
• Over 1,400 integrators
Learn more at: inductiveautomation.com/about
Ignition in the Water/Wastewater Industry
• Ignition by Inductive Automation® used in
over 150 water districts in the US alone
• Water/wastewater case studies and customer
references available online at:
inductiveautomation.com
Ignition: Industrial Application Platform
One Universal Platform for SCADA, MES & IIoT:
• Unlimited licensing model
• Cross-platform compatibility
• Based on IT-standard technologies
• Scalable server-client architecture
• Web-managed
• Web-launched on desktop or mobile
• Modular configurability
• Rapid development and deployment
Panelists
Dee Brown
Principal,
Brown Engineers LLC
John Lester
General Manager,
Clarksville Light & Water
Co.
Albert Rooyakkers
CEO/Founder,
Bedrock Automation
Who is Bedrock Automation?
• Incorporated October, 2013
• A subsidiary of Maxim Integrated (Nasdaq: MXIM 1983)
• Engineering and management team with + 200 man years of ICS and
semiconductor experience
• 107 global patents filed / 35 Granted to date
• The only modern 21st century, open and secure ICS platform
• Designed from a clean sheet of paper – leverages current technologies
AwardsPlant Engineering – Product of the Year Award
Processing Magazine – Breakthrough Product of the Year Award
Frost & Sullivan – Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award
Control Engineering – Finalist for Engineering Choice Award
New Equipment Digest – Finalist for Innovation Award
W3 Gold Winner – Website Design Award
Bedrock Reduces Cost in All Areas
EngineeringEngineering
Commissioning
Cyber Security
Maintenance Installation
System
Life Cycle Cost Management
The Bedrock Difference
Industry Challenges Solutions
Cost
Maintenance and inventory
Repair cycle and End Of Life
(EOL)
Complex installation
Hardware defined functionality
Extreme reduction in module types
High reliability and non
obsolescence
Easy installation
Software defined functionality
Security
Accelerated cyber attacks
Compromised IP
Compromised infrastructure
Layered and embedded cyber
security
Authenticated and secured IP
Secured infrastructure
Safety Outdated technologies
Fragmented systems
Advanced technologies
Unified systems
Reliability
Bent pins, cable failure
Complicated configurations
Environmental wear and
failures
Fragmented platforms
No I/O pins, reduced failure modes
Simplified system configurations
Extremely rugged – 5 year warranty
Unified platform
Combined Benefits of Ignition & Bedrock
Seamless combination of excellent hardware & software,
featuring:
• Open technologies & standards
• Intrinsic security
• The lowest TCO
Addressing Industry Challenges
• Challenge: Need for modernization and stronger security
• Solution: The most comprehensive security for hardware
and software, and bringing IT technologies to controls
Addressing Industry Challenges
• Challenge: Limited funding/capital
• Solution: Best possible TCO, use opex instead of capex
Addressing Industry Challenges
• Challenge: Need improved control and better information
• Solution: Connect with practically any device or system,
see it in one place, and develop with it.
Addressing Industry Challenges
• Challenge: Need to move away from proprietary solutions; flexibility
and choice in technology suppliers
• Solution: Use an open solution that runs on almost any OS and built
for flexibility and scalability in the future
Two Use Cases
• Clarksville Light & Water Co. in Clarksville, AR
• Russellville Water & Sewer System in Russellville, AR
About Clarksville Light & Water
Separate Utility Board –
• By decision of City Council in 1947
• Autonomy from elected officials
• To operate it like the business ... that it is
• Council still has “regulatory” oversight
• Assigning board members
• Approve issuing debt
• Approving rates
• Not-for-profit rates
FY 2016 Capex Included Major Tech Upgrades
CLW Fiber Network
• 16+ miles, 288 strands, excess capacity
• Most of the expense was labor not material
• Made economic sense to build with excess capacity
• Redundant rings, designed for reliability
• Self-healing features
• Connected to CLW facilities
• 4 Electric Subs &
• 1 SWPA grid tie sub (Wireless)
• Main Office
• Operations Center
• West Water Tower
• Water Treatment
• Pollution control
• Also have wireless communications to Water Tower
100% AR ProjectEngineers
ContractorsSub-Contractors
Bedrock Panel Fabrication
Panel Fabrication
Grid-Tie Substation to SWPA
Four Distribution Substations
Future Projects
Future Projects:
1. Remote Telemetry Units for Sewer and Water
• Bedrock Controls and Ethernet Radios back to Ignition
2. Sewer Plant Controls
3. Distributed Generation
Success Factors
1. Client Vision for the Future – Know where they want to go
2. Great Trust Relationship
3. The Right Technology
• Ignition across all three utility departments
• Bedrock cyber secure controllers
Clarksville Light & Water
Engineering Excellence Award from American
Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC)
Location: Clarksville, AR Engineer: Brown Engineers,LLC, Little Rock, AR Owner: Clarksville Light & Water, Clarksville, AR
Outstanding Benefits for Clarksville Light & Water
Fiber loop sized for local utilities, fire, police, schools, hospitals, + hi-speed internet for ALL
Secure, remote access/control functionality
ONE SCADA HMI for water, sewer & electric
Advances city’s hi-tech business development
PLC’s 100% OK after 2-MILLION VOLT tests
Military-grade, cybersecure PLC’s are EMP resistant & impervious to malware hacks
ULTRA-fast, efficient, reliable, and durable
Projected savings over $400,000 per year
Cybersecure Electric SCADA Controls
Russellville Water & Sewer/City Corp.
• Serves nearly 30,000 residents
• Upgraded to Ignition HMI/SCADA (completed in mid-2015)
• Replaced aging PLCs with Bedrock controllers (completed in late
2015)
Russellville Water & Sewer/City Corp.
Now using Ignition in:
• Water treatment plant and
water distribution system
• Sewer treatment plant and
sewer collection
• Alarming and reporting
• Mobile tracking and reporting of
sanitary sewer overflows
(SSOs)
Russellville Water & Sewer/City Corp.
Mobile tracking and reporting of sanitary sewer
overflows (SSOs)
• Review data in real-time
• Submit reports in a matter of minutes!
Russellville Water & Sewer/City Corp.
What Russellville staff are saying about the SSO Mobile Tracking App:
• “Field guys love it … even the guys that haven’t used computers before.”
• “What used to take an hour or more can be submitted in about 5 minutes”
• “I know our flow estimates are more accurate now”
Russellville Water & Sewer/City Corp.
Now using Bedrock controller with
many advantages over PLCs:
• Backplane is electromagnetic
instead of pin-based
• Galvanic isolation layer
• Deterministic I/O update rate
• Military-grade, real-time OS
• Scalable for advanced control
functions
Russellville Water & Sewer/City Corp.
Cost Savings:
• More tags without paying more
• Easy switchover
• Reduced installation & maintenance costs
• And more
Russellville Water & Sewer/City Corp.
Results and Future Plans:
• System running without fail
since installation
• Planning to replace all
controllers with Bedrock
What Can We Summarize About These Two Case Studies?
Affordable Technology That’s Available Today
• Ignition: never been beaten in a price comparison; feature-rich.
• Bedrock controllers offer best-in-class in terms of ease of use, reliability,
warranty, and added peace-of-mind with cybersecurity.
• The combination of Ignition and Bedrock offer unprecedented
capabilities; two companies working together to deliver the solutions that
the industry needs.
Working to Help Water Districts
Inductive + Bedrock
• More data = well-informed decisions
• Improving security = greater peace of mind
• Better control of operations = identify and fix problems faster
• Working together on a roadmap to intrinsic, adaptive cyber security
Software and hardware solutions within your financial reach.
Questions & Comments
Jim Meisler x227
Vannessa Garcia x231
Vivian Mudge x253
IA Account Executives
Myron Hoertling x224
Shane Miller x218
Ramin Rofagha x251
Maria Chinappi x264
Dan Domerofski x273
Lester Ares x214
800-266-7798 x247
Melanie Moniz
IA Director of Sales:
Bedrock Automation
bedrockautomation.com
781.821.0280
Brown Engineers
brownengineers.net
501.448.0100
Clarksville Light & Water Co.
clarksvillelightwater.com
479.754.3148