Water system operators have challenging roles, especially since they work daily with our most critical and valuable resource. Operators must efficiently maintain all system components (source, treatment, storage, and distribution), while complying with all regulations and sustaining relationships with customers, government officials and organization decision makers.
They must also protect critical systems from natural disaster and security threats — all in a day’s work. As part of this, operators need reliable and secure communications technology to get timely and accurate data from numerous input/output (I/O) points scattered throughout a large and often diverse topographical area.
In a time when many water utilities
