American Water, the nation’s largest publicly traded water and wastewater utility company, and IOSight, Ltd., announced a partnership to design and implement a smart water management system in American Water New Jersey water and wastewater treatment facilities. The two companies mutually won an $800,000 award from the Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation, which will partially fund the $2 million, 2-year project.The proposed SWMS will develop and integrate a comprehensive data management, data analysis and reporting system covering the major processes performed in the plant, which will let local plant operators leverage the system reports and analytics to create an improved, streamlined and more efficient
