Yorkshire Water, an England-based water supplier, has selected Samotics, a predictive maintenance company, as its sole supplier of electrical signature analysis (ESA) until at least 2025.
Yorkshire Water selected Samotics for the £10M contract as part of Yorkshire Water’s Dynamic Maintenance program. In January 2022, two tenders were issued for two different condition-based monitoring (CBM) technologies: vibration and thermography, and ESA.
ESA enables the remote capture of high-quality performance and efficiency data. By analyzing the current and voltage signals via sensors in motor control cabinets, it bypasses the need to install sensors on, or even near, submerged and hard-to-reach assets.
After a competitive bid process, Yorkshire Water selected Samotics’s SAM4 as its ESA technology of choice. Samotics will monitor assets across the full sewage network, which is made up of over 1,000 stations, delivering services to 5.2 million customers and 140,000 businesses. The initial contract win is for 36 months, with the potential to extend by an additional 24 months.
The ESA tender focused on optimizing Yorkshire Water’s sewage network across Yorkshire and the Humber. In addition to sewage network optimization, the tender sought to protect and optimize high-risk, large energy-consuming assets with long lead times that are notoriously difficult and expensive to monitor with conventional means.
To meet these requirements, Samotics will utilize among others its automated clogging detection tool, which detects early signs of clogging to prevent pollution incidents and damage to pumps.
