Increasing efficiency and better provision of clean water need in City of Batam

City of Batam is unique as the administrative area includes three main islands and several smaller islands. This geographical condition has an impact on the limited clean water that can be used for daily consumption of drinking and cleaning. Through their state-owned water company, the City of Batam, make use of advanced technology to ensure that the municipality could fulfill their citizens need for water consumption. By combining the city’s Geographical Information System (GIS) and an informatics system that they design called Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), the municipality successfully delivers better provision of the water needs to the City of Batam’s inhabitants. This system allows the municipality to control and detect problems real time. Pressing challenges that they faced previously such as leakage, high energy consumption and cost efficiency are slowly solved with this system inplace.

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