TCS Digital Software & Solutions Group Brings Intelligent Water Management to Smart Cities

TCS Digital Software & Solutions Group
Brings Intelligent Water Management to Smart Cities

TCS IUX Urban Exchange’s Intelligent Water
Solution Empowers Cities and Utilities to Take Control of Water Loss Management
and Build a Smart City Platform

HONG KONG, April
21, 2016: Tata Consultancy
Services (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting and
business solutions organization, today announced the release of a new TCS
Intelligent Urban Exchange (IUX) application for Intelligent Water. The new
urban analytics application offers pre-built ‘use cases’ to cost-effectively reduce Non Revenue
Water (NRW) loss and ensure delivery of safe, reliable water. The application leverages IUX’s scalable analytics platform
to allow cities and
partners to easily integrate and localize, in order to accelerate the
deployment of smart city solutions and enable a future-ready infrastructure for
cross domain urban solutions.

Water management is an
urgent, increasing concern globally. U.S. utilities reportedly lose $8.7
billion annually due to water loss, while one third of global utilities report
that 40 percent of clean water is lost due to leaks.

IUX for Intelligent
Water is poised to address critical city infrastructure needs through its
ability to quickly analyze and address mounting concerns surrounding water
utilities, and reduce NRW loss with real time network awareness, performance
insight and recommendations for proactive actions. The Intelligent Water
application is built on top of the IUX platform and its powerful decision
engine, which allows partners to develop custom applications along with
prebuilt use cases to address unique localization
requirements, support brownfield development, and target the high growth smart water market.  

“Cities
will look to adopt solutions to help them address the most critical issues in
water loss and infrastructure to ensure scenarios like Flint Michigan don’t
happen again,“ said Ruthbea Yesner Clarke, IDC Research Director, Smart Cities
Strategies. “There is a real urgency for targeted analytics offerings that are
geared towards proactively addressing critical issues like lead detection, pipe
failure and water management systems as part of a Smart Cities initiatives.”

Leveraging
an IoT-grade cloud analytics platform, the IUX Intelligent Water application
collects and analyzes data from multiple sources and exchanges real time
intelligence and alerts across city departments. IUX’s advanced analytics
engine and extensive API library also provide a flexible and modular approach
to city Big Data, in which partners and third party developers can deploy custom
analytics models, add devices to quickly develop their own mashups of
intelligent urban applications and launch their own urban exchange cloud. The
combination of these features provides real-time insights for advanced
situational awareness and decision making to actively manage and reduce water
loss, lower operational and Capex costs, and deliver safe water.

“We
are excited to extend the IUX solution’s platform and use cases with
Intelligent Water Management to help governments, utilities and technology partners
protect city water and oversee utilization as part of a total smart urban
planning initiative,” said Seeta Hariharan,
General Manager and Group Head of TCS’ DS&S group. “Smart water networks
can save up to 70 percent of quality monitoring costs, and far more in avoided
catastrophe. There is a very large opportunity for water utilities to quickly
and cost effectively get on board with Smart Cities initiatives that integrate
across city domains and drive adoption of smart water technologies.”

Beyond IUX for
Intelligent Water Management, the TCS IUX domain-specific applications include:

·         IUX for Intelligent Transportation: helps city transport administrators and
bus operators improve ridership, service levels and fleet utilization. It
includes real-time insight and trend analysis of passenger demand and service
parameters, such as wait times, queue build-up, ridership, and revenue
realization across various routes and schedules to create adaptive planning for
more effective public transportation services. 

·         IUX for Intelligent Energy: a forthcoming module that helps cities
manage and control city and residential energy efficiency, improve renewable
integration with real time consumption monitoring, and reduce the carbon
footprint using carbon analytics. The solution interfaces with smart grids
using sensors, meters, digital controls, and analytics tools to automate and
improve the reliability and economics of energy distribution throughout a city.