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FlowWorks Creates Big Buzz at WEFTEC 2011

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WEFTEC 2011, Los Angeles

Attendees at the 2011 Water Environment Federation’s Annual Technical Exhibition and Conference, WEFTEC, repeatedly asked a key question as they stopped by the FlowWorks booth: How do I sign up?

“Hundreds of people stopped by the booth,” said FlowWorks President Timothy Hicks. “People are definitely getting the message that FlowWorks is the better way to manage data.”

Held October 15-19 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California, WEFTEC is the largest meeting of its kind in North America, bringing together thousands of water quality professionals from around the world to share and explore the best water quality education and training available.

FlowWorks booth was a highlight. Representatives from the nation’s biggest engineering companies, a dozen major west cost municipalities, most of the world’s flow metering firms, as well as the members of the media and investment bankers, were among those who crowded around the booth’s two demonstration screens.

“FACE and the new graphic editor were extremely well received,” Hicks noted. “I think folks were so receptive because they’re starting to understand that a platform like FlowWorks can truly bring data and people together.  After two years of speaking and educating, they are seeing a way to keep their data secure, and access and work with it at the same time.  Fortunately, they’re thinking of us.”

In other words, people are finally understanding how to deal with the vast amount of environmental monitoring data that’s piling up, and that FlowWorks offers a management approach that is far more cost-effective, efficient, and comprehensive than traditional SCADA.

The new tools have been a smash hit so far:

  • Graphic Editing QA/QC Tools—Users can now edit any and all data, on a single, secure web platform, from anywhere.
  • FlowWorks Advanced Calculation Engine (FACE)—A major upgrade to the FlowWorks data platform places Excel-quality calculation tools for real-time data directly into user’s hands.

The updates vastly expand FlowWorks data management, analysis and reporting capabilities.

The message for flow monitoring professionals of the world: FlowWorks has arrived—and 2012 looks like it is going to be a very busy year.

For more information on FlowWorks, including the new Graphic Editing QA/QC Tools or FACE, please click the links.

FlowWorks Graphic Editing QA/QC Tools

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FlowWorks graphic data editing and QA/QC tools make it possible to edit any and all data, on a single secure web platform, from anywhere. Designed by power users from the FlowWorks community, the editing tools combine the game-changing FACE (FlowWorks Advanced Calculation Engine) with an intuitive interface designed to make short work of data editing. Using the tools, analysts and data managers can select data directly on graphs and tables to delete or modify it including applying offsets, interpolation and much more. A complete history of all edits is stored in the permanent record so reviewing data across multiple hardware platforms has never been easier.

The new FlowWorks Graphic Editing QA/QC tools make it easy to:

  • Quickly select data channels to edit
  • Select data points directly by drawing boxes on time-series graphs or scatter-graphs, using date range selection tools, or through direct entry of dates and times
  • Raw data is always protected from editing – editing tools make it easy to save edited data to new records
  • Find and replace missing data
  • Apply corrections to ranges of data, or to individual data points
  • Make quick work of simple operations such as nulling invalid data, applying constants and linearly varying ramps, and data substitution.
  • Automatically create and edit QA/QC flags
  • View and make direct edits in the tabular data display
  • Add notes to document your edits, which can be displayed on the graphical interface

One-stop data editing – all part of the power of FlowWorks.

FACE: FlowWorks Advanced Calculation Engine

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The one-stop data management platform has arrived. A major new upgrade to the FlowWorks data platform places the power of the FlowWorks Advanced Calculation Engine (FACE) directly into user’s hands.

FACE gives FlowWorks a set of real-time data manipulation tools allowing users to create and define new data channels out of incoming channels using advanced math, statistics and logic equations. Now users can create, edit, delete and combine data channels with powerful mathematical functions for sophisticated real-time analysis. All part of the power of FlowWorks.

Included in FACE:

  • All the standard mathematical functions needed to combine and manipulate values across all sites and channels
  • Tools to define lookup tables for weirs, flumes, pipe cross-sectional areas and other physical constraints and map them to data channels
  • Conditional logic statements (IF…THEN…ELSE) to branch your calculations to other levels of complexity as needed
  • Tools to create rolling averages and sums, and set up sophisticated alarm rules based on those values to monitor specific events across multiple stations
  • Functions to create true time-weighted averages of irregularly spaced data
  • Tools to turn irregularly spaced time-series data into clean, continuous datasets of 5-minute, hourly, daily, or any other calculated interval
  • Advanced rainfall conversion functions to turn ANY rainfall data type (cumulative, event-based, time-interval) directly into 5-minute, hourly, daily, or other rainfall interval desired.
  • Tools to move data forward or backward in time to compare it with previously collected datasets
  • The ability to define constants, apply linearly varying offsets, and much more

FACE: Think of it as an Excel-quality calculation tool for real-time data analysis.