Calibration of Water Distribution Systems: A New GIS Approach
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GIS is becoming an essential tool for utility companies, especially water companies, which have found an excellent way to manage and assess their assets. This paper presents an ArcView extension called AvEPA, which is a customized application oriented to the task of water network modeling. AvEPA is capable of simulating, analyzing and retrieving the actual network status under certain conditions using an integration of the widely used EPANET engine. In addition to this, a new functionality has been developed to allow the final user to calibrate the network model by means of a genetic algorithm module that works seamlessly along with the extension. The final result is a fully calibrated water network model derived from the GIS database and ready to be used in decision making issues.
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