Counting totally matters – using GRUNDFOS BACMON for network monitoring

Abstract

Water scarcity, ageing infrastructures, and emergence of new pollutants are all different factors resulting in the maintenance of water quality being one of the main challenges societies face in the 21st century. Degradation of water quality translates directly into threats to human health, limited food production, reduced ecosystem functions and into environmental and socio-economic challenges in general (UNESCO, 2015). Besides maintaining a good drinking water quality, a wish for better resource utilization has led to concepts like “Water Fit for Purpose” (Carpentier & Cole, 2018) and an increased focus on water reuse possibilities (Sgroi et al., 2018; Olivier, 2018). Altogether, these challenges put larger and larger demands to how we collect, treat, distribute, use, dispose, clean, and discharge water. Grundfos has over the years moved a lot of water with pumps. However, the emerging challenges has led us – and our colleagues in the business – to supplement the pump itself with surveillance, demand driven distribution to reduce leakages, and a range of dosing and disinfection products to not only move the water but also treat it. Lastly, digitalization of equipment has given opportunities to optimize and operate entire systems in a much more structured and coherent way. Chapter 9