City of Bethlehem Selects Bentley to Automate Hydraulic Modeling and SCADA Data Exchange.EXTON, Pa. -- Bentley Systems Bentley Systems, Incorporated, provides software for the "Design, construction and operation of the world's infrastructure". The company’s software serves the building, plant, civil, and geospatial vertical markets in the areas of architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) , Incorporated, today announced that the City of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Bethlehem is a city in Lehigh and Northampton Counties in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 71,329, making it the eighth largest municipality in Pennsylvania. , is managing its water distribution network with SCADAConnect, from Bentley's Haestad Methods product line. SCADAConnect automates real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. and historical data exchange between the city's hydraulic model and its Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (application) Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition - (SCADA) Systems are used in industry to monitor and control plant status and provide logging facilities. SCADA systems are highly configurable, and usually interface to the plant via PLCs. (SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) A process control application that collects data from sensors and machines on the shop floor or in remote locations and sends them to a central computer for management and control. ) system. Municipal engineers and modelers get fast access to the data they need to more effectively monitor their water and wastewater network's daily performance. "SCADAConnect is useful for helping us acquire live SCADA data and perform modeling exercises for the city's water distribution network," said Carl F. Newswanger, water utility engineer for the City of Bethlehem. "Since deploying SCADAConnect, we have been able to use it, along with our WaterGEMS hydraulic network model, to better manage the city's daily water supply." WaterGEMS, from Bentley's Haestad Methods product line, is an advanced engineering software program for managing water distribution modeling and geospatial Geospatial is a term widely used to describe the combination of spatial software and analytical methods with terrestrial or geographic datasets. The term is often used in conjunction with geographic information systems and geomatics. applications. Prior to using SCADAConnect, direct access to the city's SCADA data was limited - requiring a time-consuming, potentially error-prone manual transfer of data between departments. With SCADAConnect, the data query and transfer process has been reduced to a single mouse click. SCADAConnect works with most major commercial SCADA systems and can be fully customized to meet the requirements of individual users. For more information on SCADAConnect, call +1 800 727 6555 in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. or Canada or +1 203 755 1666 worldwide, E-mail info@haestad.com or info.haestad@bentley.com, or visit www.haestad.com/software/scadaconnect. About the City of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania The City of Bethlehem supplies water to approximately 110,000 residents in and around Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, providing an average of 17.5 million gallons of water every day to its customers. For more information, visit www.bethlehem-pa.gov/. About Bentley's Haestad Methods product line Bentley's Haestad Methods line of engineering software products for water, wastewater, and stormwater management includes WaterGEMS, WaterCAD, WaterSAFE, HAMMER, Darwin Calibrator calibrator an instrument for dilating a tubular structure or for determining the caliber of such a structure. , Darwin Designer, SewerCAD, SewerGEMS, StormCAD, StormGEMS, SwmmGEMS, CivilStorm, PondPack, GISConnect, SCADAConnect, FlexUnits, PumpMaster, FlowMaster, CulvertMaster, and HEC-Pack. About Bentley Bentley Systems, Incorporated, provides software for the lifecycle of the world's infrastructure. The company's comprehensive portfolio for the building, plant, civil, and geospatial vertical markets spans architecture, engineering, construction (AEC AEC US Atomic Energy Commission Noun 1. AEC - a former executive agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States Atomic Energy Commission ) and operations. With 2003 revenues reaching $260 million, Bentley is the leading provider of AEC software to the Engineering News-Record Engineering News-Record (widely known as ENR) is a weekly magazine that provides news, analysis, data and opinion for the construction industry worldwide. It has been published since 1874. It is owned by The McGraw-Hill Companies. Design 500 and major owner-operators. To receive Bentley press releases as they are issued, visit www.bentley.com/bentleywire/. For more information, visit www.bentley.com. Bentley, the "B" logo, Haestad Methods, WaterGEMS, WaterCAD, WaterSAFE, HAMMER, Darwin Calibrator, Darwin Designer, SewerCAD, SewerGEMS, StormCAD, StormGEMS, SwmmGEMS, CivilStorm, PondPack, GISConnect, SCADAConnect, FlexUnits, PumpMaster, FlowMaster, CulvertMaster, and HEC-Pack are either registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated, or one of its direct or indirect wholly-owned subsidiaries. Other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners. |
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