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experienced engineers, and it’s therefore worrying that almost seven out of ten are considering roles in other sectors, on top of the one-fifth of the workforce who are set to retire in the next two years.”
“In order to tackle these issues, employers, and the industry as a whole, need to think about how they can attract – and retain – engineering skills. In the short term, our report found that engineers are almost as equally motivated by job satisfaction as they are by pay, showing that rate increases alone won’t do the job. Instead, there needs to be a more tailored and invested approach to recruitment and retention. Employers must do more to communicate their employee value proposition and respond to the individual motivators of engineers, if they want to attract and retain staff in the face of significant competition.”
Servicios de Agua y Drenaje de Monterrey (SADM) wins the WEX Global's Innovation Water Circularity Award 2024
reducing water loss, digitally controlling pressures, flows and water consumption and improving decision-making in real time. In this case, two of the Xylem Vue powered by GoAigua platform's digital solutions, Leak Detection and Unified Network Management, were implemented in the Mexican utility.
In partnership with the international water technology company Idrica, the Leak Detection solution was implemented to monitor pressure, flow rates and consumption in the network managed by SADM in Monterrey, as well as to regulate pressure. The Unified Network Management solution was installed to bring together information from the various dataloggers in place, as well as from its supervisory control and data acquisition system (SCADA).
The Xylem Vue powered by GoAigua platform implemented in the water network managed by Servicios de Agua y Drenaje de Monterrey, I.P.D. (SADM) has brought overall water savings of 17%, though the figure is up to 37% in many water sectors, thanks to smart monitoring of water pressure, flow and consumption, to name just a few functions.
This implementation has significantly increased the utility's operational efficiency and management in a context of severe drought which forced the state of Nuevo León to declare a state of emergency in 2022.
April 23, 2024. The Mexican utility Servicios de Agua y Drenaje de Monterrey I.P.D. (SADM) was the winner of the Innovation Water Circularity Award 2024, presented at WEX Global, an international event that promotes the exchange of knowledge and best practices among the world's leading players in the water and energy sectors, which recently held its 19th meeting in Madrid (Spain).
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The focus of this initiative was to fit hydrometric instrumentation to 2864 circuits and 111 macro-sectors, as well as to develop dashboards to display the main operating variables. As a second line of action, the Leak Detection solution was rolled out and configured with the deployment of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence algorithms to optimize pressure.
Water savings of up to 37 % in extreme drought conditions
The implementation of the platform has enabled SADM to monitor, analyze and make decisions on its water network operations in Monterrey, establishing and assigning daytime and nighttime set points for its equipment, which enables it to control user consumption. In addition, it has identified possible anomalies in nighttime water use that point to visible and hidden leaks.
As a result, considerable reductions have been obtained in the average consumption of some of its macro-sectors and circuits in the Monterrey water network. Although it is true that the
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