Drinking Water Network SCADA

🤖 AI-generated summary of the sources below · 🔎 Last verified 2026-08-06

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Flow meters, pressure transmitters and RTU/PLC panels report from the Amdavad Municipal Corporation's drinking-water network into a SCADA system covering the treatment plants and 148 water distribution stations, with a dashboard, a mobile app, and automatic alerts to the responsible engineers when a parameter drifts outside its set range. The corporation states the purpose plainly — find leaks and hold pressure in the pipes, rather than dispatch crews on complaints. The wastewater network is a different story: a World Bank-supported market engagement notice from January 2026 records that only some sewage and terminal pumping stations transmit to the central wastewater SCADA and that the pumps there are manually operated.

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Outcome🔄 Ongoing

Evidence🏛️ Official

Run byAmdavad Municipal Corporation water department; system integrator Chetas Control Systems Pvt Ltd, Pune, under SCADL

Scale🏙️ City-wide

📊 Impact

The corporation reports roughly ₹60 million (₹6 crore) saved annually on electricity and chemical inputs and 23 million litres a day of water recovered that had previously been wasted. Both are the operator's own figures, relayed by trade press; the atlas found no independent audit of either.

🎓 Lesson

One city, two networks, two different rungs of the same ladder: the drinking-water side senses continuously and alerts a named engineer, the sewage side is read by people who then turn valves by hand. 'The city has SCADA' is never a complete answer — the useful question is which network, and whether anything downstream moves without a human.

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Sources

↗ Smart City Ahmedabad Development Limited, Pan City Projects (operator)Verbatim: 'Installation of flow & Pressor Sensors in distribution network to monitor of leakages through online dashboard and mobile app ... Provide alert in case of deviation to set parameters and automatic direct reporting to all concerned Engineers and officials of AMC.'

↗ Smart Utilities (India Infrastructure trade press), 'SCADA Control: ULB initiatives for water network management', 30 June 2021Carries the scope, the integrator and the savings. Verbatim: 'The Ahmedabad Smart City has installed a SCADA system for real-time monitoring of three water treatment plants and 148 water distribution stations'; 'The project has been implemented by Chetas Control Systems Private Limited, Pune'; 'The solution has helped the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation save approximately Rs 60 million annually. Besides, it has helped in utilising 23 million litres per day (mld) of water that was earlier being wasted.' CAUTION: other write-ups give four treatment plants plus four french wells and about 3,192 flow meters; only the 148 distribution stations are consistent across sources, so only that figure is used.

↗ World Bank, early market engagement — AI-based autonomous SCADA system, Ahmedabad (5 January 2026)The honest counterweight, and the current-status check. States that 'data of some of the STPs and SPS is being transmitted at Central Wastewater SCADA' and that the pumps 'are manually operated', and that AMC intends to 'upgrade the Wastewater SCADA system and hook up all STPs, SPS and TSPS along with Sewer network' under the Gujarat Resilient Cities Partnership: Ahmedabad City Resilience Project.

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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Drinking Water Network SCADA” — Ahmedabad, India. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/ahmedabad-water-scada/ (last verified 2026-08-06). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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