SAIC Water-Network Digital Twin (Scubic AI Platform)

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In September 2025 Sanepar signed a €3M, five-year contract with Portugal's Scubic for a cloud AI/digital-twin platform reading pumping-station data live across Curitiba's Integrated Water Supply System (SAIC), the reservoir network serving the city and its metro region. An earlier test on roughly 300,000 people's supply cut pumping energy use about 20%; the contract now scales toward SAIC's 3-million-person area.

Live 📅 since 2025 🤖 Uses AI

Outcome🔄 Ongoing

Evidence🏛️ Official

Run bySanepar (Companhia de Saneamento do Paraná), platform by Scubic (Portugal)

Scale🗺️ Regional

Cost€3M / ≈R$18.6M (5-year, 4-month contract, signed Sept 2025)

📊 Impact

An earlier small-scale test of the platform, covering roughly 300,000 of SAIC's users, cut water-pumping electricity consumption by about 20% (Sanepar/Scubic, self-reported).

🎓 Lesson

SAIC is a single integrated system, not a Curitiba-only network — it supplies the city together with several Região Metropolitana de Curitiba municipalities off the same reservoirs and mains, so this is a regional deployment centered on Curitiba, not a citywide one.

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Sources

↗ Jornal É (press, mirroring the state government announcement)Directly fetched. Confirms Sept 25 2025 contract date, €3M/R$18.6M value, 5-year-4-month duration, Scubic as vendor, ~300,000-person pilot with ~20% energy savings, and the 3-million-person SAIC full-scale target.

↗ Sanepar (operator, official news page)Direct fetch returned 403 (site blocks automated fetch); existence and matching content confirmed via WebSearch snippet quoting the same contract figures and SAIC population numbers as the Jornal É mirror. Treated as the authoritative operator source per protocol (operator/city source suffices where independent fetch is blocked).

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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “SAIC Water-Network Digital Twin (Scubic AI Platform)” — Curitiba, Brazil. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/curitiba-saic-digital-twin/ (last verified 2026-08-05). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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