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Seattle Public Utilities Joins FlowWorks

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FlowWorks is proud to announce a new partnership with Seattle Public Utilities and ADS Environmental Services to provide the city’s new flow-monitoring services. As part of the new combined sewer overflow (CSO) program, we will work closely with the city and ADS to oversee flow monitoring and data management.

SPU chose FlowWorks because of our proven ability to gather data into one place so CSO events can be analyzed quickly, understood and communicated to all users. Operating in near-real time, SPU’s new FlowWorks service easily loads two years of 5-minute data from the server in under 6 seconds. Already the city is enjoying better collaboration, faster problem solving and quicker response times.

Other highlights our service brings to the new partnership include:

• Secure, internet-based platform
• Used for gathering, analyzing and managing water, sewer, rainfall and other remote data Hardware neutral
• Accepts data from any flow meter or manufacturer’s data system, as well as SCADA, Historic and manual data
• Includes powerful graphing engine, storage for all forms of meta data, event alarms and analysis capabilities for I&I and rainfall IDF

ADS develops and provides technology-based flow measurement products and services for the water, wastewater and hydroelectric industries. The firm is a veteran of working with SPU and has provided excellent flow servicing, engineering, and a high degree of data integrity to the utility for the past five years. When the contract came up for re-bid, SPU leadership recognized the need to add a robust data-delivery and work order management system to the program—FlowWorks was a natural choice. Already the team of FlowWorks and ADS has proven to be exactly what SPU was looking for and together we help to build on past success with SPU.

FlowWorks continually proves to be the platform of choice for municipalities, utilities and industrial clients seeking to manage, analyze and understand large quantities of remote data quickly, and securely communicate the results to a broad audience.

For more information, please visit our website at www.flowworks.com or to learn more about ADS visit www.adsenv.com.

Image Viewer

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This video shows you how to view images with the FlowWorks Image Viewer.

Image Viewer

This set of instruction will show the user how to look at images that are recorded by stations that have video cameras attached to them.

Start by going to:‘My Network’, ‘Reporting’, ‘Image Viewer’.

Image Viewer Tool

Begin by selecting the site you want to view.

Site Selection

You will be presented by a drop down list of cameras associated to the station. In this example there is only one camera so we will leave it selected.

Camera Selection

Next select the desired date range. For this example select the weekend of May 23-24, 2009. You can also choose to add times to the search criteria.

Date Range Selections

Click on ‘View Image.’.

View Images Button

The user will be presented with a set of thumbnails showing the images from the site.

Image Thumbnails

In this case there are only three images. If you have more than 20 images you can navigate through them using the page navigation function.

Page Navigation

If you want to see an image in more detail click on it and it and a pop up window appears. For this example, click on the first photo and you will see a black bear going through a gate. To close the photo pop-up click on ‘Close Window’.

Enlarged Image View

If you want to down load a set of images. Click on a the link and a zip file will be produced containing all the images within the search criteria.

Downloading Images

Save it to your computer and you can work on the images as any other image.

Saving Downloaded Images

If you want to edit the criteria or start a different search, simply click ‘Edit this search’ or ‘Start a new search’ so you can select a different station or a different date range.

New Image Search

Metadata (Online Forms)

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FlowWorks has a power metadata forms manager which allows you to store and retrieve metadata in FlowWorks using online forms. The use of this system is included as part of your subscription, however a one-time initial fee is charged to create the form. To make use of the system you must supply us with either a hardcopy of an existing form, or a list of fields and validation rules that you want to use. Check out the video below for a tour of an example form: