| Available on |
  
|
Use case
Not being able to provide water to its customers is a major concern for any water utility. Therefore, managing tanks is critical to the network's overall management.
With Qatium you can monitor tank levels, assess tank autonomy, and set warning thresholds to proactively manage your tanks.
Data requirements
Depending on the data you have available for your network, you will be able to test different scenarios and/or get better insights. Double-check below if your network meets the data requirements to manage your tanks with Qatium.
The more information you have available, the better!
Minimum data requirements
With this data, Qatium distills all available tank information.
- Basic assets (supply source(s), pipes, tanks, pumps, control valves if any)
Essential for deeper insights
Additionally to the minimum requirements, and as a best practice for deeper insights, we recommend your network to have the following data:
-
Hydrants and Customer points
To improve network accuracy with customer consumption
-
Zones
To understand how the DMAs are supplied
-
SCADA and Pressure & Flow sensors
To set level warnings to proactively prevent service disruptions
-
AMI
To optimize storage and needs based on consumption patterns and/or trends
Tools
To manage your tanks in Qatium you can use the following tools:
- Tank information
- Tank autonomy panel
If the Tank autonomy plugin is not available on your subscription, you can buy it from the Marketplace or upgrade your plan.
How to manage your tanks in Qatium
Visualize tank details and tank autonomy
Hover over or click on the tank 
Open the Tank autonomy panel 
Setting tank level warnings
You can set leading indicators of issues in your tanks, and access detailed information about the current situation. Operators can use warnings to devise a plan of action for preventive countermeasures against any service disruption.
To configure warnings, set thresholds (minimum and maximum values) for your tanks in your GIS files or EPANET according to the following specifications:
GIS files
EPANET
Qatium will analyze and process your live data to find relevant events and display warnings when your tanks’ autonomy trespasses your thresholds.
FAQs & Troubleshooting
I can’t access the pressure, flow and/or tank autonomy panels
I can't access the pressure, flow and/or tank autonomy panels
If you are running scenarios and you can’t access these panels, it’s most likely because something went wrong during the simulation. Qatium simulates the behavior of each network using the EPANET toolkit, which can raise some errors while it is calculating and/or finishing the simulation process without returning the results for all the hours shown in the timeline.
In the hours when there are results, they will be shown on the map, in the asset details, and in the pressure, flow, and tank autonomy panels. But if for a selected time step there are no available results, these panels will be disabled and hidden.
Remember that in the Synoptic view, only relevant panels will be available.
E.g.: the Demand spike panel won’t be available as junctions are not visible from the Synoptic view.