In Belgium’s Flanders region, 600,000 smart meters look at homes and every drop of water passing through business. When a meter is disturbed, three liters wander around for three straight days – it immediately triggers the warning. The next day a letter goes down to the customer’s mailbox, and warns them about the hidden leak.
Such automatic intervention operates through an event -driven architecture (EDA), which is the basis Smart Water Platform. In the basic part of this, the EDA connects scattered devices and applications to a hybrid environment-which includes online premises system, cloud platform and age devices-when something unusual occurs, prevents various systems to communicate immediately. Unlike traditional systems that check the problems in the schedule, the EDA responds when an incident is encountered, whether it be a leaking pipe, a customer’s immediate application, or a sign of a major failure of the system.
Since businesses face increasing pressure from China’s demands to China’s obstacles to provide an immediate response, the real -time response is becoming necessary.
What does this mean in practical terms that companies can catch upset before a crisis and responds can be automatically – as well as their actions on a scale without interruption. And since businesses face increasing pressure from China’s demands to China’s obstacles to provide an immediate response to everything, such a real -time response is becoming necessary.
Pushing toward the EDA is both technical evolution and strategic need.
Legacy beach processing or application/response models often cause expensive delays in a world where market conditions change in minutes. In addition, as a balloon of data volume, traditional processing methods can go under stress.
Pushing toward the EDA is both technical evolution and strategic need.
Meanwhile, customer experience expectations are moving beyond which strict, point -to -point contact and aging middleware can help. Hybrid and multi -cloud architecture make the integration more complicated. According to the requirements of today’s business land, the simple API polling is not enough to provide the experiences of misconduct.
The EDA resolved these challenges with numerous abilities: The event’s brokers and mesh deliver reliably messages in integrated systems. Event streaming enables continuous processing of high volume data flow. And Advanced event processing indicates complex samples and almost immediately triggers the response. Perhaps the most important thing is that the EDA loosely enclosed architecture provides dynamic, high -volume data, the flexibility and flexibility for the ecosystem.
In industries, these capabilities are providing solid value. For example, retailers are turning to the EDA to run smart inventory management and smooth Omni channel experiences. Manufacturers can monitor production lines and maintain the supply of supply chain. In the field of financial services, companies can immediately detect fraud. In health care, providers can manage important equipment with active surveillance and rapid response.
In the case of Persian, both regulatory mandate and strategic vision have driven the adoption of the EDA. “We knew that the smartwater meter was coming to legislation. We have to digitally digitize by 2030,” Frees’s CIO describes the Angi Tapil. But the regulatory deadline has already accelerated projects: the company collected 25 years of data spread over water quality, network performance, and customer conversation-with a growing stream of operational data-and a way to make this wide amount of information.
Therefore, when the company decided to develop a new data strategy for a multi -utility cooperation project, it realized that it needed a new architectural approach. Frees runs a smart water platform in partnership with two other water companies, each has its own platforms and scenes, so, a comprehensive and careful selection of shared technology was important to meet the additional complexity of these three companies. “We need to bring all our data together, we need to ensure that it is of high quality, and make sure the business relys on it,” says Tapil. “We needed to be able to maximize automation of unpredictable data processing, functions and follow -up activities, and automatic re -processing.”
Frees’ smart water system integrates digital water meters, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system, and other data sources to process events at thousands of equipment locations in its water network.
One of the most advanced use of the platform is its water balance application, which enables 3D monitoring of water flow throughout the company’s entire infrastructure. It captures the goods entering this network (including water manufacture and quality), tracks consumption samples, and oversees what comes out for residential consumers, other water companies, or large industrial consumers.
“There are a lot of streaming data coming here … you should be able to calculate or calculate the interval, so that with verified data and enriched data, we can really monitor the network and calculate the flow to the regional or district level.” Angi Tapel, Chief Information Officer, Frees
The system must be created to make complex calculations in a short order. Explaining the Topal, “For master data management, once a high flower device is developed, you need events in your SCADA system. This is the main thing where you have many events that make master data or make changes, 2.2 million data such as a day.” “There are a lot of streaming data coming here … you should be able to calculate or calculate the interval, so that with verified data and enriched data, we can really monitor the network and calculate the flow to the regional or district level.”
To support this level of integration and automation, the Fresh relies on SAPS/4 Hanna (the next generation of SAP), in which the SAP Advance event is running on the Mash SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). Topal notes, “We use mixed integration for SAP very easily, and even in non -SAP environment.” “Since the event mesh has a lot of standard connectors and they know many protocols, it can detect events like data and/or MQT, which is used to a great extent within operational technology. These integration capabilities, out of the box, help us to help them faster.”
From the point of view of the Persian event, business results are both measuring and meaningful. Only leak detection capacity pushes for consumers’ value while contributing to Persian wider Stability goals.
For example, see the scenario of the previously described “Permanent consumption”: average 75 75 % of households who receive potential issues (often, running toilets or unseen leaks) that solve their problem within two weeks. It protects valuable resources simultaneously and helps consumers avoid unnecessary costs.
Beyond these instant benefits, the EDA provides long -term strategic benefits. The architecture creates an integration foundation that can easily add new data sources and support emerging technologies. This improves operational flexibility to continue the system, even when individual components go offline or upgrade. It also strengthens regulatory compliance through automatic reporting and monitoring. For example, the application of Persian water balance allows the utility to accurately calculate its international leakage index (ILI) and report these measurements to the relevant regulatory authorities.
The EDA also plays an important role in the era of AI: it feeds the AI system rich, real -time data that they need to make informed decisions on a scale.
Since the event -driven systems are ready to work with AI agents, this combination means how businesses run.
Fres is already looking for what is next. Adjusting rates on the basis of the concept-supplement conditions using the event-driven vision for dynamic water prices. “For example, where there is a flow of water and we can produce a lot of cheap water, we can give stimulation to the farmers.” “We can say, ‘Hey, if you take water from 12am to 4:00 am, we can give it to you at a low price, because our energy costs to generate water are low. You can maintain it as a buffer, because we know that in the coming weeks, there will be no more rain.”
Companies that now develop these abilities – before they need them.
This kind of adaptive business model represents the future that the EDA makes. Companies that now develop these abilities – before they need them.
“Due to an event -driven architecture in a few years, it makes it easier to meet your business’s internal and external demands,” says Opel. “If you wait till the time of demand, you still have to start building your technology layer. By expecting it, and definitely after choosing an expansionist architecture in this section, we can meet business demands in a more firm way we were before.”
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