AquaStream360

1. Digital Construction & Model Building

• Flexible Model Creation: Construct and modify water network models manually, via schematic images, or directly within a GIS environment.
• Automated Network Construction: Generates hydraulic models from raw structured survey data, uses robust data cleaning modules to prepare and validate integrity and connectivity before constructing the network, ensuring minimum standards for model topographical accuracy.
• Integrated Editing: Supports interactive editing, bulk editing, or automated editing and importation of attributes from any supported file. Crucial for automatically generated networks, which may lack certain attributes or contain default values. Users can seamlessly update network attributes and topology, maintaining synchronization between the digital twin and the physical infrastructure.

2. Hydraulic & Water Quality Simulation

Simulation is one component among several hydraulic capabilities the software offers; however, it represents a multi-capability, extensive functionality within integrated engineering workflows. AquaStream360 provides a multi-engine framework to address diverse analytical requirements:

1. Advanced Custom Simulators:

• A transient simulation engine capable of modeling water hammer, pump trips, valve operations, and surge propagation, including pressure envelopes and potential cavitation.
• A network integrity simulation engine that models the influence of environmental and operational factors, such as soil chemistry, pipe aging, and operating conditions, on network integrity. It assesses pipe stresses, structural performance, failure probabilities, and overall system robustness.

2. Foundational and Extended Simulations:

• Supports all EPANET and WNTR simulations.

• Water Quality Dynamics: Advanced animations of contaminant propagation, persistence, and transport under varying operational conditions, available both graphically and within GIS-integrated maps.
• Incident Tracing: Enables tracing of contaminants throughout the network to evaluate affected points, quantify the impacts, and perform scenario-based investigations, supporting risk assessment and operational planning.

3. Strategic Performance & Resilience

• Scenario Testing: Simulate network modifications, operational interventions, or emergency responses in a risk-free digital environment.
• Climate & Demand Adaptation: Integrate historical or forecasted climate data to assess impacts on water availability, demand patterns, and network performance.
• Criticality Assessment: Identify vulnerable components and assess system robustness to guide capital improvement decisions.
• Failure Modeling: Model extreme events—such as pipe bursts, leaks, or contamination incidents—to develop and refine mitigation strategies.

4. Calibration & Validation

• Calibration Module: Set operating conditions, run scenarios, and automatically evaluate deviations between model predictions and field data, helping identify configurations that closely match actual network performance.
• Continuous Evaluation: Iteratively refine models for improved accuracy, ensuring that all planning and operational decisions are based on a validated representation of the network.

Output, Reporting & Visualization

AquaStream360 provides extensive analytical capabilities for the examination of water distribution networks. Each analysis generates rich, context-sensitive outputs that facilitate the interpretation of complex datasets, providing insights that may not be readily apparent from raw data alone.

• Advanced Visualization: Supports comprehensive 2D and 3D graphics, GIS-integrated visualizations (including 2D and 3D with building overlays), interactive analytical dashboards, structured tables, maps, and dynamic 2D/3D animations. These features enable detailed exploration of network parameters and operational states.
• Advanced Automated Reporting: A dedicated functionality enables the generation of comprehensive, network-wide reports with integrated graphics, structured tables, analytical summaries, and analysis-specific content assembled automatically.
• Module-Specific Reporting: Many analytical modules and scenario-testing tools (including the Calibrator) include dedicated reporting features—separate from graphics—supporting scenario comparisons, automated insights, and tailored outputs for operational or planning purposes.
• Flexible Export Capabilities: The platform provides extensive export compatibility, enabling datasets, models, visualizations, and reports to be saved in multiple standardized file formats, thereby facilitating interoperability with external analytical tools and software environments.

Other Main Complementary Capabilities

These modules operate as standalone applications launched from the AquaStream360 welcome screen.

• Topographical Analysis – An advanced visualization tool that supports DEM-based 3D topographical analysis and automated terrain assessment. Enables display of networks in 3D overlaid on actual topography, contour mapping, and elevation profile generation. Integrates GIS mapping and provides 2D rich graphics and analytical insights for planning and operational assessment. Can access previously loaded networks or import new ones for visualization. This tool focuses on visual representation and analysis; it does not perform hydraulic or structural modeling.
• Python Code Environment – A built-in environment for executing Python scripts for advanced data analysis and visualization. While its automated influence on other modules is still under development, it reliably executes Python code and allows custom computations, data manipulation, and specialized analytical workflows using numerous pre-installed scientific libraries. Users can leverage AquaStream360's high-performance, large-scale graphics to visualize processed datasets.
• Scalable Data Processing & Analytics Tool – A high-performance, general-purpose, spreadsheet-like application for both manual and automated manipulation, processing, or analysis of large tabular datasets. It can be applied to any dataset, including raw network survey data, offering greater flexibility and robustness than the data cleaning functions used during automated network generation by the main application. Supports anomaly detection, predictive analytics, and high-speed, large-scale graphical visualization for millions of rows efficiently. It is also ideal for analyzing simulation outputs if imported. Supports Excel, CSV, and fetching data from PostgreSQL databases.
• Climatic Data Integration – Integrates NASA's global climate datasets for historical and environmental analysis worldwide. Users can access daily weather data for any location dating back over 30 years. Supports climate-informed planning, assessment of weather impacts on system performance, and evaluation of water availability and demand patterns. Offers high-speed, large-scale graphics for visualization and analysis of weather datasets. Includes tools for filtering, analyzing, and applying advanced ML-driven simulations to evaluate the influence of multiple weather parameters on network performance metrics (e.g., water consumption, reservoir levels). Simulations are only executed where reliable correlations exist between climate inputs and performance attributes. This semi-general-purpose capability can analyze the influence of weather on any attribute when relevant data is provided, and its simulations, automations, and reports can operate in context-specific analyses.