AI Powered EDM Spills Management

Water utilities companies need to report on untreated sewer spills from their assets to their respective environment agencies. Reporting spills is a very significant business performance indicator with financial and reputational repercussions. The reporting of spills is achieved through EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) loggers which monitors untreated sewer spills from pumping stations, CSOs and wastewater treatment plants. These EDM loggers are not completely reliable and subject to failures and routing maintenance.

Cognizant’s AI powered Spills management solution brings Microsoft Azure’s data management and AI capabilities and leverage services such as Azure Data factory, Azure Databricks, Azure ML Studio to improve spills reporting and drive operational efficiencies using AI. This is a complete end-to-end spills management solution which includes capabilities such as data collection, validation, monitoring, investigation, reporting and predicting spills. The solution’s rule engine identifies outliers, flat lines, single spill events and other anomalies by utilizing underlying analogue signal data for Digital devices and removes data anomalies. The AI engine leverages weather data and real time sensor data to predicts the spills before it occurs.

Some of the key features of the solution are:

• Built for various configuration of sites: Single device/Multi device
• Works well with both Analog and Digital device data
• Provides comprehensive prebuilt rules for spills validation which are configurable through UI by business team
• Leverages AI to predict and validate spills
• Comes with real time monitoring feature that helps identify potential issues with the site and create events for investigations
• Provides an operational interface for business teams to investigate potential issues with sites and schedule engineer visits
• Delivers output and reports in intuitive user friendly dashboards

Benefits it delivers:

• Improved and AI powered end to end solution breaks the silos and erroneous reporting of spills
• Reduce overall TCO of spills management operations
• Reduction in regulatory spills count by proactively managing and monitoring them
• Reduction in ODI penalties to regulators and agencies
• Prevent reputational damage
• Reduced pollution incidents resulting in improved water quality and environment

Cognizant’s AI powered Spills management solution is delivered with a three phases approach:

• Proof of concept (Duration: 3 Weeks)– Identify quick win sites, take offline data for 2 sites and deliver measurable improvements in spills count
• MVP (Duration: 6-8 weeks)- Deploy the core features of the solution in client’s environment for 10 sites
• Industrialize ( Duration: Depends on number of sites)- Roll out all solution features in client’s environment for all applicable sites

We begin with a discovery workshop that will walkthrough what is made possible by implementing Cognizant's AI Powered Spills management Solution with the Microsoft Cloud. This facilitated workshop will be of no cost for our clients and will help identify the most impactful opportunities to address, technology and process readiness, and carve out scope and plan for the PoC.

The estimated offer price is based on the assumed duration of 3 weeks for the PoC. Price and duration will be customized based on client requirements identified during the discovery workshop.