WaterCAD CONNECT Edition V10

WaterCAD & WaterGEMS is a comprehensive and easy to use water distribution modeling solution featuring interoperability across stand-alone, ArcGIS, AutoCAD, and MicroStation environments. From fire flow and water quality simulations, to criticality and energy cost analysis, to advanced Genetic Algorithm optimization, WaterGEMS comes equipped with everything you need in a flexible multi-platform environment.

CONNECT Edition provides a unified, common environment that advances productivity, team collaboration, and project performance. Key new capabilities of the CONNECT Edition releases allow users to:

- Access tools quickly through a modernized ribbon-based user interface with built-in search to find commands more easily, consistent with MicroStation CONNECT Edition and Microsoft products that many users are already familiar with.
- Create and manage customized reports that automatically combine graphs, data tables, color-coded and annotated plan views, and more into a single report.
- Run historical simulations using actual operation of pump and valve controls based on SCADA system records.
- Additional capability in SCADAConnect Simulator.
- Model turbines for energy and revenue generation.
- Include service laterals, for automatic customer load assignment during hydraulic analysis.
- Collaborate on water system design and operation as a team using Bentley CONNECT Cloud Services.
- Create AVI movies of model animations to share with others.

WaterGEMS includes state-of-the-art genetic algorithm optimization and model building modules:

Model calibration - Darwin Calibrator evaluates millions of possible solutions to let users quickly find a calibration hypothesis that best matches measured flows, pressures, and on/off status. Darwin Calibrator also enables engineers to leverage flow and pressure data to find locations for detailed sonic leak detection.

Optimized design - Darwin Designer evaluates thousands of alternatives that meet users' hydraulic requirements, recommending those that minimize capital investment.

Pump scheduling - Darwin Scheduler enables the optimization of pump operations to meet hydraulic constraints for pressure, velocity, number of pump starts, and tank levels.

Pipe assessment - Pipe Renewal Planner helps modelers optimize the replacement and rehabilitation of water mains by ranking the worst-performing pipes.

SCADA integration - SCADAConnect lets users automatically acquire supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) data in their WaterGEMS model.

Network simplification - Skelebrator automates network simplification while maintaining connectivity and hydraulic equivalence, reallocating assigned demands to your specification.