The AFC SEMPER® RPM featuring "Lift & Shift" capability is an ideal solution for pressure monitoring, transient analysis, fire flow testing, customer pressure concerns, and hydraulic model calibration. This flexible installation method allows the use of a smaller number of units to cover a large area with the advantage allowing utilities to move their RTUs quickly and easily without having to reconfigure the application or retrofit existing assets.
The AFC SEMPER RPM measures water pressure at user programmable rates up to 256 samples per second with an internal pressure transducer. The monitor then computes a combination of the minimum, average and maximum values according to your selection of statistics and recording intervals.
• Lift & Shift – Installation of the monitor is not permanent and the monitor can me moved to other locations as needed.
• Wireless Communication – Monitor reports pressure data via internal cellular modem.
• Bluetooth® Capable – Monitor allows for wireless connectivity.
• Alarm Notification – Email and text notification capable based on user set pressure settings.
• Time Stamp – All measurements are date and time documented.
• GIS Capable – Allows data to remain with a specific hydrant location.
• Long Battery Life – Up to 5-year battery life depending on settings and use.
• Trimble Unity – Data transmitted from the monitor seamlessly integrates with Trimble Unity software.
• Data Sampling – Monitor can be programmed to sample pressures up to 256 samples/sec for a maximum of 8 hours.
• Reduce non-revenue water, proactively prevent main breaks and identify leaks.
• Improve customer service and service response times.
• Monitor and optimize water system supply and operations.
• Real-time situational awareness and analytics relative to system pressure and supply.
• Monitor continuously acquires data at up to 256 samples/sec to ensure a transient wave is captured from beginning to end, therefore eliminating the potential of missing the transient event.
Trimble Unity® Remote Monitoring software, combined with AFC SEMPER pressure monitors, offers municipalities and service providers a single platform based solution to proactively monitor asset performance, optimize utility operations, reduce asset failure and repair costs, improve customer service, and gather critical data for reporting and capital planning. Trimble Unity offers a suite of applications and tools proven to support smart water management, including workflows to map, manage, measure and improve asset performance, reduce operating costs, and improve public health and safety. AFC and Trimble, working together to provide meaningful insights, better results, and smart water management.
It’s been more than two years since Aqua Pennsylvania began using an eye-opening technology, the AMERICAN Flow Control SEMPER Remote Pressure Monitor (RPM), to identify pressure transients and reduce main breaks and non-revenue water. Aqua Pennsylvania provides water to more than 1.4 million residents across the state and maintains more than 4,500 miles of pipeline.
Over the past year, the Water Division of the city of Miami Beach, Florida, has seen its use of AMERICAN Flow Control SEMPER® Remote Pressure Monitors (RPM) grow. The Water Division initially purchased five units in early 2021. Three more AFC SEMPER RPMs were added a few months later and two more units were purchased in March 2022.
In October 2021, the Birmingham Water Works (BWW) in Birmingham, Alabama, discovered a broken 16-inch water main in one of its city centers that supplied water to several businesses and hospitals. The break was found after one hospital reported a low-pressure issue, and the BWW responded quickly to repair the broken water line and restore pressure.
It was just before noon on August 29, 2021, when Hurricane Ida made landfall on the Louisiana coast as a Category 4 hurricane. But for the Lafourche Parish Water District in Lockport, Louisiana, preparations had been underway for days.
In March 2021, the city of Fairfield, California’s Water Division was tasked with commissioning a new 36-inch Cross Town Transmission Line (CTTL). The CTTL will enhance the already robust distribution system and better serve the water needs of the Water Division’s 33,000 customers. This new CTTL, however, will change the dynamics of the city’s current distribution system.
In the summer of 2020, the Lowcountry Regional Water System in Hampton, South Carolina, had a customer located in an industrial park report a low water pressure issue. The company was a commercial laundry that served the hospitality industry and provided linens to hotels around the Hilton Head area.
For any water system, water hammer, also known as pressure transients, pose significant threats, from leaking joints to service connection failures and even pipes that burst. The damages resulting from these events can be costly to repair and leave customers without water.
The Forsyth County, Georgia, Department of Water and Sewer deployed the AMERICAN Flow Control SEMPER® Remote Pressure Monitor (RPM) more than a year ago and has seen numerous advantages. But the AFC SEMPER’s ability to move from one system asset to another, “Lift and Shift,” is among the greatest.
