Data Management

GIS Data Management

WaterGEMS for GIS provides the ultimate data management solution. Full GIS integration allows for unlimited custom querying capabilities. All data can be stored within a single geodatabase, eliminating inefficient and error-prone data replication. All modeling data is in native GIS geodatabase format and can be edited using GIS tools and functions.

WaterGEMS' Unified Data Model ends the tedious and error-prone task of data replication by leveraging your existing data sources and providing full data compatibility between Haestad software packages. The open database architecture gives you full control over how your data is stored and accessed, and the unitized nature of the data model allows you to dictate the storage, working, calculation, and display units - WaterGEMS performs the necessary conversions transparently.

Scenario Control Center^TM
The WaterGEMS for GIS model is far more than just a numerical engine. WaterGEMS' for GIS tree-based Scenario Control Center™ makes every aspect of modeling more powerful from simulating proposed construction to evaluating improved pumping strategies, to assessing water quality standards.
An indispensable decision-support tool, the Scenario Control Center™ enables you to evaluate an unlimited number of scenarios in your distribution system.
Run multiple scenarios simultaneously and compare modeling results both graphically and in tables.

FlexTables^TM
FlexTables provide tabular views of your network data for quick reference and easy modification. You choose what variables to display, the order in which they appear, their labels, and even the units and display precision. Customize any table completely, or create your own.
Target critical values quickly with enhanced querying support.

Active Topology Alternatives
Haestad Methods' Scenario Manager has gotten even better. The Active Topology Alternative (ATATM), the latest addition to the Haestad Methods' Scenario Manager, brings master planning to a new level.

With ATA, you can now conveniently model the growth of the system over time, simulating multiple planning horizons within the same file. You can even simulate disruptions to critical system components on the fly.

Submodel Management
Establish more efficient workflow with larger systems by constructing functional submodels and then merging them to create a complete hydraulically contiguous model. You can even import another model, or portions thereof, into your network.

Skeletonization
Reduce the size of your model by combining similar adjacent pipes and coalescing nodal demands.

Sharing Engineering Specifications
Pipe material types, minor loss types, liquids, and water quality constituents can be customized and shared across projects and offices using the Engineering Libraries.
 

Enterprise Integration

Leverage Existing Data
Save time on data entry and minimize mistakes by importing demand data and water usage patterns from any source.
Establish persistent bi-directional links between your model and any GIS, SCADA, or other data management tools in any location and in any format. No need to worry about converting units or data types. WaterCAD handles this for you.

Build models from scratch using sophisticated polyline-to-pipe conversion tools that automatically convert existing CAD lines, polylines, and block entities, creating intelligent hydraulic elements.

Then, "clean" your data with powerful spatial tolerance queries and drawing review tools that search for pipe-split candidates and topological errors caused by poor digitizing.

Use the Reflective Data Model to extend the data coverage in real-time by adding custom fields, attributes, and objects (GEMSLinks™).
 

Reporting & Results Presentation

GeoGrapher™
• Generate fully customizable graphs of time-variable data such as tank levels, pump speeds, and pipe flowrates, and compare results from multiple scenarios on the same graph.
• Construct system head curves to demonstrate the changes in hydraulic grade as flowrates change, and build rating curves for fire hydrants and other nodes to show how pressures are impacted as demands change.
• Include multiple elements, such as pumps or tanks, on the same graph—a fantastic technique for spotting operational bottlenecks in your distribution system.

Reporting
Create detailed reports for any element or group of elements and generate system-wide summaries and project inventories.

Customize tables to present data in the order and format you choose and manipulate each table to suit your needs, making use of the built-in filtering, sorting, and editing tools.

Quick Attribute Selector
Results presentation is now even easier. The Quick Attribute Selector organizes the available attributes into groups of related information types, allowing you to easily find the desired variable for inclusion in presentations.

Color-Coding
Color-code the system according to any characteristic, including pipe diameter, flowrate, velocity, node elevation, hydraulic grade, pressure, etc.

Dynamic Data Labeling
Annotate your network with input data, calculated results, user-defined attributes, or any combination thereof. Watch the annotations update dynamically as you change data, switch scenarios, progress through timesteps, or run an animation.

TIN-Based Contouring
Produce stunning presentations and quickly identify weak points in your network such as low pressures, by generating a contour map for any attribute. You can even enhance pressure contours by including spot elevations to estimate pressures for future developments or areas that have not been directly modeled.

The contour labeling in WaterCAD for AutoCAD has been greatly enhanced so that labels can be applied to the ends or interior of contour lines and can be modified on the fly using AutoCAD commands.

Animation
Visualize system bottlenecks quickly and create spectacular presentations with VCR-style controls for step-by-step visualization or dynamic animation. Watch colorcoding, annotation, contouring, profiling, and tabular data update automatically.

Profiling
Select a sequence of pipes to profile for elevation, hydraulic grade, pressure, constituent concentration, etc. Use profiling to select possible locations for pump installations or to get a feeling for the "lay of the land."