SINGAPORE, 20 April 2022 - VIZZIO Technologies, a Singapore-based technology company specialized in creating and virtualizing digital realities using AI, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) agreement with ZWEEC Analytics at Singapore International Water Week 2022 to utilise Vizzio’s capabilities in creating Digital Twin and ZWEEC’s water technology solutions for the purpose of water quality management. Both companies agree to jointly work on projects in Singapore and overseas for the domain of utilities.
Vizzio will implement a nationwide real-time interactive 3D platform to model a digital twin of Singapore covering 300 square kilometres of facilities and an underground network of pipes. Thereafter, using video streams of ZWEEC’s bio-sensing fishes, Vizzio’s AI platform creates virtual 3D replicas of the fishes to clone their movement and produce a digital visualisation of their animated path, collecting these data and perform deep learning of the behaviour to create a meaningful report of the water quality and safety.
The national 3D BIO-SENSING 3D digital twins use AI processes to combine real-time data from the network combined with external data such as historical water demand profiles and forecast weather data to simulate the amount of water required in each part of the network to optimise pumping schedules to meet these demands. This leads to energy savings of around 10 percent or more. It also enables system engineers to design network extensions and simulate future demand and to balance multivariate decisions around CAPEX, OPEX, energy use, headroom, resilience, asset life, etc. This is a true digital twin and is being used by several utilities to manage networks.
VIZZIO also integrated a robust, physically based digital twins for water and wastewater treatment plants. In the case of wastewater, we have built a database of modules that replicate the physical, chemical, biological, and hydrologic processes for over 800 input parameters and 300 treatment processes. These modules can be combined to build any configuration of plant and to model any range of scenarios, even in the absence of any client data. This means our platform can also be used to simulate the performance of new plants even before they are built. Once data is present, it can be used to further optimize the performance of the digital twin, and the use of machine learning or AI can drive this even further. As a result, we have the flexibility of a physical-based digital twin with the constant updating of a data twin.
Available as a city-scale 3D modelling and visualisation solution with primary and secondary monitoring nodes it combines unparalleled detection capabilities with track and trace of contaminations in an economically feasible solution. Profiling incidents in toxic/ non-toxic categories allow for the development of optimized response protocols. The combined solution has a wide range of applications including the monitoring of water quality at treatment plants and in industrial applications, monitoring of drinking water quality in distribution networks and monitoring the water quality of rivers and lakes.
“Combined into the new AquaTEC concept, the integrated DIGITAL TWIN solution offers an intelligent early warning system that captures any relevant change in the water quality while providing real time information on the toxicity status of water quality incidents. Our 3D digital twin of ZWEEC’s island-wide BIO-SENSING monitoring stations layered over a network of underground pipes covering an area of more than 300 square kilometres uses advanced AI deep learning algorithms and 3D Computer Vision to spot patterns in collected imagery, video and data and can make decisions or provide alerts based on these patterns.
The partnership also includes a close commercial collaboration between the companies, optimizing commercial synergies and making use of the complementary geographical presence and client bases in Asia Pacific and Europe. An important focus market for the combined product offering will be China, where ZWEEC has already established a direct local presence and client base”, said Jon Lee, CEO & Founder, VIZZIO Technologies.