OCTOBER 2007

Serck Controls Australia is currently undertaking installation and commissioning of Grampian Wimmera Mallee Water (GWM Water) Corporation’s upgraded SCADA system, which will be one of the first to utilise Telstra’s 3G high speed Next G network. Commissioning is well underway in Stage 1, with over half of the new sites already cutover and operational, with the remaining sites due to be completed by December 2007.

The scope of this project was to install a new centralised redundant SCX SCADA facility (CSF), using a new Next G Wireless IPWAN for communications, install SCADA facilities at a number of new urban water and pipeline asset sites and to upgrade the SCADA hardware at the required existing sites so that it forms part of the new SCADA system.

GWM Water previously had a combination of independent systems resulting from the merger of previous Wimmera Mallee Water and Grampians Water Authorities in 2004. As such the unified SCADA system will eventually consist of approximately 400 sites comprising of 60 Headworks sites, 40 Northern Mallee Pipeline sites, 250 urban sites and approximately 50 Wimmera Mallee Pipeline (WMP) sites.

In summary, these systems needed to be connected and seamlessly integrated into the one SCADA system operating across the region.