How can students help out a high-technology company? The answer might surprise you. As a small company with few full-time employees, RTC4Water knows that it is not always easy to find the time to mentor and train someone still in school. But once or twice a year, students from different universities or high schools help the company in important ways - whether it is to help them improve their software or complete some other significant task. The company has seen first-hand how students can help them become more efficient in their day-to-day efforts. This article will take a look at…

Today is the 5-year anniversary of RTC4Water and what a 5 years it has been! The company started with 3 employees and only a few contracts to supply an early Global Predictive Controller (GPC) to the Luxembourgish market. Today we are installing intelligent controllers that will, by 2024, control the water distribution networks of at least 70% of all communes in Luxembourg! Last week we launched a software update (version 4.1) of the GPC, which now has its own OPC-UA server - meaning that multiple GPCs can now securely communicate and share data with a central server and/or with each other!…

The benefits of a fully autonomous, real-time control software used to optimize flow in mixed sewer networks – with the primary benefit being a reduction in combined sewer overflow events – are well understood and accepted1,2,3. But what cost efficiencies could be gained if, during the design phase of a wastewater treatment plant, engineers incorporated the use of this type of optimization software into their overall performance planning? What cost savings could be realized by reducing basin size, pumping or pipe capacity requirements while still achieving the same performance levels imposed by regulatory standards?   A Real-World Study Using Proven…