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EPACAD – AutoCAD to EPANet

EPACAD - AutoCAD to EPANet

A colleague wanted to convert an EPANet file to an AutoCAD drawing. After having a few issues with the DXF2EPAutility he found anothe program for this task – EPACAD. EPACAD, by the ITAresearch group over at the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, is a free software which can converts an AUTOCAD file into an EPANET one. EPACAD is able to [...]

Water pressure at my home connection

Water pressure at my home connection

A few weeks ago I had a conversation with an American colleague regarding the maximum water pressure at home connections. He was amazed to hear that the water pressure at my house is about 9 bars. To show him I was not mistaken I connected a pressure gauge in my garden and took a few [...]

BackSense – contamination source detection software

BackSense  - contamination source detection software

BackSense is new methodology to identify the possible sources location and time frame of a contamination that may cause the trigger of a set of water quality sensors that are part of an Early Contamination Warning System (ECWS). The basic idea of BackSense it to identify all the networks nodes that can “reach” a specific [...]