title: Application of the SCADA system in wastewater treatment plants.
abstract: The implementation of the SCADA system has a positive impact on the operations, maintenance, process improvement and savings for the City of Houston's Wastewater Operations branch. This paper will discuss the system's evolvement, the external/internal architecture, and the human-machine-interface graphical design. Finally, it will demonstrate the system's successes in monitoring the City's sewage and sludge collection/distribution systems, wet-weather facilities and wastewater treatment plants, complying with the USEPA requirements on the discharge, and effectively reducing the operations and maintenance costs.
authors.affiliation: City of Houston, Public Works and Engineering Department, TX 77087, USA. bdieu@pwe.ci.houston.tx.us
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Dieu
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003199:Computer Systems; D004203:Disinfection; D012984:Software; D014865:Waste Disposal, Fluid / Q000295:instrumentation*