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Water & Wastewater

Protecting and managing the world’s most critical natural resource

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Efficiently treat water

As the world population grows, water treatment plants have no choice but to keep up. This means efficiently delivering clean drinking water and processing wastewater while cutting costs and energy use. Real-time operational visibility, along with remote monitoring and control of equipment and systems, is key to optimizing service, availability and expenses. Belden’s complete connection solutions can help water and wastewater treatment plants capture and analyze the data they need to implement these initiatives, improve operations and secure critical infrastructure.

Our Capabilities
Network Resilience
Network Convergence
Edge Computing

Modern urban wastewater treatment plant.

Our Capabilities

The decisions made about water today will impact its availability far into the future. Water and wastewater treatment plants must find efficient and responsible ways to deal with challenges and take operational productivity to the next level. By capturing information about critical operations—from water quality to process efficiency—your plant can better understand where it needs to improve to provide better, more efficient service. Belden can help you make the most of your existing infrastructure so you can optimize your resources and prepare for the future.

Industry 4.0 Modern Factory: Project Engineer Talks to Female Operator who Controls Facility Production Line, Uses Computer with Screens Showing AI, Machine Learning Enhanced Assembly Process

Network Resilience

Make sure your network continues to operate amid disruption to maintain clean, safe water supply

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Network Convergence

Bring systems into a unified network for efficient and reliable operations, monitoring and control

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Edge Computing

Process sensitive data onsite to ensure security and empower employees to act on insights faster

How a Las Vegas Water Reclamation Facility Updated Its Network Infrastructure

With advanced redundancy, this network can be back up and running in less than 200 milliseconds.

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA skyline over the strip at dusk.

Industrial Cybersecurity U.S. Water Utility Breach and ICS Cyber Security Lessons Learned Industrial control systems (ICS) are the workhorses of our physical world, and becoming more internet-connected, more virtualized in many cases, and more remotely accessible by the day. Gartner Research indicates 5.5 million devices were added per day in 2016, a pace that leads to an estimated 21+ billion internet-connected “things” running our world by 2020.

Katherine Brocklehurst 02.22.2017

Industrial Cybersecurity PLC Security for Water/Wastewater Systems You have likely never worried about the possibility of a high school geek doing some programming that affects your home water quality. Well, neither had I until I learned that some municipal networks have no security between the network their schools use and the one that runs their water/wastewater facility.

Industrial Networking Team 03.19.2014