There are  number of ways to ...

There are  number of ways to do this.  First, many utilities ingest their water quality data directly into SCADA and then either make the data available through SCADA or output the data to some kind of middleware so that water quality access, analysis and reporting is separated from command and control.  Often,  is not attractive to the operations staff who use SCADA for Command and control to have many water quality staff working integrally in SCADA.  The SCADA folks are also often overwhelmed with work and water quality connections are low on their list of priorities.  In these cases, there many solution that can be used for capture, display and quality control charting for water quality data.  However, to understand the real quality of the data for drinking water or manufacturing use, there is a need for more robust evaluation and alarming based on multiple parameters in the water/data stream.  Very few effective event detection systems exist within the Water industry.  Our sister company WaterSuite has capabilities to meet these needs.  We can capture any data stream that can be sent to the cloud; We can develop complex rules for event detection that is then integrated into the software.

Of equal concern, the quality of on-line sensor data has repeatedly been demonstrated to be a very challenging undertaking.  Most on-line water quality data are not sufficiently reliable to be used for decision making and certainly not for compliance reporting.  We have worked some of this out with a few clients so we can help with developing a quality control and maintenance program that will improve the uses of on-line water quality data.