Carson City, Nevada - A "Smart City" Success Story

In order to achieve its goals, the people of the Carson City Public Works Department created an infrastructure revolving around the capabilities of its people and the best available smart city technology from Schneider Electric.

Leveraging virtualization, mobile devices and smart phones to increase the efficiency of its operators and management, the smart city solution at Carson City increases situational awareness and allows the public works department to achieve a high level of operational readiness.

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Wonderware Historian and your HMI - the perfect fit

The problem

Many industrial facilities use human machine interface (HMI) applications to display real-time process data and control modern industrial processes. Capturing and storing process data is often done on a spotty basis.

When problems come up, and they always do, a complete process history is often not available. Without a complete process history everyone is less effective and the ability to improve processes is difficult. In an ever more competitive world being slow to improve is not a good strategy.

The solution

Today, process data historians provide a proven way to capture and store data coming from HMI systems and closing gaps in the process history archive. There are many reporting and analysis tools available to access process data stored in historians. Historian data can help industrial companies:

• Troubleshoot problems faster
• More easily spot improvement opportunities
• Cost effectively manage regulatory requirements

More information

Invest a few minutes, register, download and read our new “How HMI Users can Benefit from a Process Historian” whitepaper. It will help you understand how the Wonderware Historian helps complete the puzzle.

The benefits of SmartGlance to Coca Cola

The following benefits were achevied at Coca Cola Swaziland after the Wonderware solution was installed:

1. The Wonderware solution provides more visibility into energy usage and cost per plant and subsection
2. It has enabled Coca Cola Swaziland to implement a system that facilitates smarter energy usage
3. It allowed Coca Cola Swaziland to have a tighter grip on epartmental budgets and targets
4. It gave Cocal Cola Swaziland the ability to control high energy operations to take place during low-cost periods

 More information

For more information on the products used in this success story, you can visit the following links:

1. Corporate Energy Management from Wonderware
2. Wonderware SmartGlance
3. PDF version of the Coca Cola Swaziland success story

Coca-Cola Swaziland keeps operators informed

This project facilitated the first time measurement of metrics and when the first results were made available they came as a shock:  The Swaziland Electricity Company validated the results and found out that Coca Cola Swazialand achieved a discrepancy of less than 1%.

Once this was established, the organization completely bought into the system.

Corporate Energy Management at Coca-Cola Swaziland

System integrator Systems Anywhere Coastal was selected by Coca-Cola Swaziland for the implementation with Wonderware as the main software for the energy management project. In particular:

1. Wonderware System Platform
2. Wonderware Information Server
3. Wonderware InTouch HMI
4. Wonderware Historian
5. Wonderware Historian Client
6. Wonderware SmartGlance
7. Wonderware Corporate Energy Management (CEM)

I'd like to focus on CEM in this post as this is one of the key software products in the energy management implementation.

Coca-Cola Swaziland Optimizes Energy Usage

Coca-Cola Swaziland uses Wonderware Solutions to Optimize Energy Usage and Reduce Costs

Recognizing the need for effective energy management, Coca-Cola Swaziland (Conco Ltd.) decided to find out what it could do as an organization because the solution is more than switching off pieces of equipment when it’s not in use.

There are many variables considered in energy management and electricity is not the only cost. There is air, steam, water and fuel.

Watch the Carson City Success Story Video

Watch the Carson City success story and discover the benefits of the Software Solutions for Smart Cities from Wonderware.

Carson City, the capital of the state of Nevada -- Named after the frontiersman, Kit Carson, who rode through the Eagle Valley in 1840 in his quest to map the west. 

 

Carson City sits in the center of one of the most scenic and historic areas in the country and is known for its fresh air, beautifully rugged natural surroundings and its proximity to the casinos of Reno and skiing in Lake Tahoe. 

 

The Carson City Public Works Department is responsible for taking care of the City's water, wastewater, transportation, landfill, fleet, environmental and renewable power systems. 

Carson City: The positive effects are evident

The positive effects of the Smart City solution on the way work is done in Carson City are quickly evident: The overall solution allowed Carson City to achieve a 15% reduction in man-hours. 

Smart City Key Installation Elements

 

Key Installation Elements of the Smart City solution at Carson City

1. Windows Server run on VMware vSphere with multiple hosts utilizing vMotion, HA, Fault Tolerance, and other features
2. Uses wireless and fiber optic communications infrastructure to the various PLCs that make up the hardware at Carson City: Quantum, Momentum, GE/Fanuc, Allen Bradley PLCs and drive.
3. Uses System Platform on VMware vSphere 5, mobile control with iPads and SmartGlance, analysis on mobile devices for managers and key operators

Virtualization helps the Smart City Solution

 

Carson City has achieved its goals through a complete set of innovative tools, capabilities and solutions.

“The virtual machines that we've implemented here in Carson City have allowed us to reduce the burden of administration and overhead costs while significantly increasing our reliability and disaster recovery processes." 

James Jacklett, Electrical/Signal Supervisor

Traffic light monitoring at Carson City

 

The Smart City solution at Carson City also involves traffic light and transportation system monitoring. It involves 70 Signalized intersections in 3 different counties.

“The City maintains all of the traffic lights in Carson City and Douglas County. Integration with Wonderware has enabled real time status, alarm notification, and historization of the state of communications for the transportation system; which provides us with better monitoring and operational readiness.” 

James Jacklett, Electrical/Signal Supervisor

Solar Power at Carson City

 

The Smart City solution built on Wonderware software helps operate and maintain the solar plants at Carson City.

“This solution also includes the management of the Public Works solar plants that provide up to 748,000 KWH of clean power each year” 

Brandon Mathiesen, Water Production Supervisor

SmartGlance and Situational Awareness

Carson City is able to view its InTouch HMI screens from anywhere using the iPad and mobile phones giving its operators situational awareness at all times.

Because everything is stored in its Wonderware Historian, Carson City enables its senior staff to get instant access to key performance indicators and critical process information right on their mobile devices. Situational awareness is greater than ever. All of this is done through the help of Wonderware SmartGlance.

The iPad for Water and Wastewater Plants

Leveraging virtualization, iPads, and smart phones to increase the efficiency of its operators and management, Carson City is able to increase situational awareness and achieve a high level of operational readiness.

 

It seems common place now but it's very impressive how far we've gone. Today's Smart City solution allows Carson City operators to monitor and control every aspect of the water and waste water plants while on the move.

 

Smart City solution delivers clean water

 

The scope of the Wonderware solution at Carson City is fairly large. Let's focus on the water and wastewater system in this post.

 

Carson City, Nevada - A Smart City Success Story

 

 

In order to achieve its goals, the men and women of the Carson City Public Works Department created an infrastructure revolving around the capabilities of its people and the best available smart city technology from Invensys.

"The Carson City Public Works Department is responsible for taking care of the City's water, wastewater, transportation, landfill, fleet, environmental and renewable power systems. With a staff of over 120 people we are often called on to assist the public in many different ways and many of our duties go on around the clock." 

Darren Schulz, Deputy Public Works Director

Leveraging virtualization, iPads, and smart phones to improve the efficiency of its operators and management, Carson City has increased situational awareness and achieved a high level of operational readiness.