The Public Utility Board of Singapore (PUB) has contracted to implement Envirosuite’s software, the EVS Water Plant Optimiser, marking Envirosuite’s first global application of its software for the drinking water sector.
PUB is the national water agency under the Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment that manages Singapore’s water supply, water catchment, and used water in an integrated way. Singapore uses 430 million gallons of water every day, and PUB ensures that this water is captured, safe to use, and adequately supplied.
A current operational challenge for water utilities globally is managing the fluctuation of incoming water quality. Utilities often rely on manual, slow, expensive, and unreliable processes such as periodical jar testing that do not synchronize with real-time water flows, resulting in imperfect chemical dosing that leads to further consequential issues and costs.
Envirosuite won PUB’s Global Innovation Challenge (GIC) in June 2021 for coagulant dosage in water treatment processes, as part of their water management ecosystem and from a field of 104 applicants. Since then, Envirosuite has been working closely with PUB to map out the implementation for this project.
The EVS Water Optimiser will be used to help PUB determine the required coagulant dosage in water treatment processes that will make the process faster, more connected, and automated. The contract will yield a material increase in the annualized recurring revenue (ARR) of the high-margin EVS Water business.
In addition to PUB’s adoption of EVS Water, the board has already introduced EVS Omnis to manage and predict odor control at two reclamation sites. The EVS Omnis solution is paired with a network of ambient odor sensors to manage and predict the odor issues, optimize operational planning periods, feed into odor control recommendations and optimize the use of chemicals and electricity.
