Recently I had the fortunate experience of visiting the Japan Sewage Works Exhibition ’17 at the Big Sight, Tokyo with our Japanese distributors, Emori Infotec (https://www.i-emori.co.jp/product/), to meet our Japanese customers and learn how they are using Innovyze software such as InfoWorks ICM and ICMLive in Japan.
The exhibition was a fantastic opportunity to meet our customers who are using ICMLive. I had the opportunity to meet MetaWater (http://www.metawater.co.jp/eng/) who have been undertaking pilot studies as part of the Breakthrough by Dynamic Approach in Sewage High (B-DASH) Technology project (http://www.nilim.go.jp/lab/ecg/english/b_dash.htm) to use ICMLive to provide a monitoring system, forecast sewer water levels, to support flood preparation and improved operation of the sewer system.
The pilot project was carried out in Fukui, the capital city of Fukui prefecture on the west coast of Japan, with a population of approximately 265,000. Fukui has a warm and temperate climate with on average 2400mm of rainfall per year. The rainfall events appear to come from nowhere (‘guerrilla’ rainfall) with very short, intense rainfall.
High Resolution Rainfall Radar data for the study area was collected via Furuno Radar and automatically harvested and imported into ICMLive. The observed radar has a spatial resolution of 50m and a temporal resolution of 1 minute. Forecasted rainfall had a spatial resolution of 250m and a temporal resolution of 5 minutes. The rainfall radar data is also output to a website as in Figure 1.
Figure 1: Public Website for the pilot study (created by MetaWater) showing the forecast rainfall radar data for Fukui, Japan.
Over the years there has been one question from my InfoNet clients that has consistently popped up; “How do I import an InfoWorks ICM Model into InfoNet?”. I must have been asked this a squillion times, and the answer has always been the same.
can be accessed within the Model Explorer after selecting a pipe, valve, or pump. These controls can be used to change the status for pumps, valves, and pipes based on changes in time, pressure/head at nodes, pipe flows, etc. For most models, these simple controls are flexible enough to satisfy rules the user wants input into the simulation.
(InfoWater > Edit > Rule-Based Control…). These controls can include If-Then-Else statements based on a wide range of system parameters and can be prioritized as well. Note also that if the user wants to user these Rule-Based controls within a simulation, they must check the ‘Enable Rule Control’ option in the Simulation Options window. 
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whether that be a powerful physical workstation, a virtualised Application Server located at a data centre or Cloud based Products/Services from the likes of Amazon, Microsoft, Google and others. The software will be installed in the usual way and then pointed to the location of the Workgroup database and Licence Server. In the case of a full-scale deployment on a Cloud Platform, the Workgroup Database and Shared Results Store would also be hosted on the same virtual platform in order to keep data transfer times to a minimum.
