WATER MANAGEMENT & TREATMENT
environmental and process waters, and are
designed to perform reliably in harsh
environments even under constant exposure to
rain, humidity, dust, frost, and sun,” the company
said. “Stations can be easily connected to the
Outotec technical platform for data collection,
processing, visualisation, and device management.”
Outotec Pretium Water Advisor has been
commercialised with the help of funding from the
European Institute of Innovation and Technology, a
body of the European Union, under Horizon 2020,
the EU Framework Programme for Research and
Innovation.
sensemetrics Inc, the Industrial IoT (IIoT)
company transforming sensor data into real-time
business intelligence to enable productivity and
safety solutions, recentlys entered into a
Outotec ® Pretium Water Advisor is a dynamic
and predictive water balance solution that
provides a real-time overview of a mine’s water
balance and quality
partnership agreement with DHI A/S under
sensemetrics’ Alliance Member Program.
Under the agreement, DHI will integrate with
the sensemetrics platform to automate data
collection into its MIKE Mine software. MIKE Mine
is DHI’s state-of-the-art operational software for
water management at mine sites. Together, this
approach creates a Digital Twin with all virtual
components for a “Cyber-Physical” mine water
management system. It also provides a
continuous value-cycle between the physical
system and the cyber equivalent, allowing
outcomes of future management actions to be
tested, optimised and automated. This maximises
opportunities while ensuring effective and safe
decisions are made continuously in a highly
dynamic and changing environment, minimising
the requirement for human intervention.
“We have been successfully working with
sensemetrics on multiple applications for mines in
North and South America. The speed and ease of
access to real-time data from sensemetrics
platform was a primary driver in our decision to
enter into a strategic partnership with the
company,” said Stefan Szylkarski, Vice President
at DHI. “Our Digital Twin technologies combined
with sensemetrics’ end-to-end IIoT cloud platform
enables us to offer a proven, real-time, cloud-
based cyber-physical management system for
mine water operations. MIKE Mine effectively
reduces water management costs and water
related risks and improves the overall efficiency of
the operation through the automation of
reconciliation between planned and actual
operating conditions.”
DHI will immediately integrate the sensemetrics
platform through several of its modelling and
management products including FEFLOW, MIKE
Operations and the flagship MIKE Mine.
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