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How to monitor an entire water network from one screen

Posted by Janice Colmer on Sep 9, 2026, 7:39:36 AM

New case study explores a city's need for real-time visibility of its critical infrastructure—all through remote monitoring.

When you’re responsible for critical infrastructure spread across a city, knowing what’s happening at every site can be a major challenge.

For Kuala Lumpur’s River of Life project, operators needed real-time visibility into 25 remote pumping and treatment sites—without relying on routine site visits to discover problems.

See how their engineering team made a distributed infrastructure easier to manage.

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The $1.3 billion River of Life revitalization program in Kuala Lumpur was a massive undertaking to reconnect the city to its waterways. With 25 water treatment plants and pump stations across 781 hectares, operators would have to perform roughly 1,300 yearly site visits for just baseline maintenance awareness. Not only was this an inefficient use of manhours; it was also extremely costly. Online monitoring was a nonnegotiable requirement.

To deploy the new water treatment remote control and monitoring system, the Malaysian government contracted Solution A&C Technology, an Opto 22 OptoPartner for over 30 years. Solution A&C Technology knew the control system would need to be flexible, cost effective, and future proof, all across a single platform.

In this new case study, learn how Solution A&C Technology was able to connect the 25 remote sites of the River of Life and provide the required online monitoring, significantly reducing the costs of routine site visits. 

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Topics: Case studies, Water & wastewater, groov EPIC, digital transformation

Written by Janice Colmer

Janice has worked at Opto 22 for over 20 years and is part of the marketing team that strives to share new and relevant content with the industrial automation industry. She enjoys books, camping, country music, and spending time with family and friends.
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