Schneider Electric

Wastewater networks are increasingly challenged by ageing infrastructure, climate-driven rainfall variability, and operational risks such as equipment failure, vandalism, and traffic damage.

These challenges contribute to unconsented spills, regulatory penalties, and environmental harm. 

Current pumping station designs and operational approaches still contain single points of failure, limited real-time network responsiveness, and insufficient predictive capability to proactively manage performance degradation. In parallel, the sector lacks flexible, deployable solutions to rapidly respond to asset failures or to test and embed new engineering standards at scale. 

How might we scale, optimise, and operationalise Mobile Smart SPS solutions to: 

• Eliminate or significantly reduce unconsented spills across wastewater network 

• Embed resilient, future-proof design standards across both new and existing assets 

• Leverage real-time data, predictive analytics, and digital twins to shift from reactive to proactive network management 

• Maximise the value of mobility, enabling rapid incident response, asset resilience, and workforce capability uplift 

• Deliver measurable environmental, regulatory, and financial benefits at a network-wide level 

Participants will collaborate through a mix of creative workshop activities, structured exploration sessions and real-world case presentations and discussions to; 

• Identify priority areas of focus  

• Co-create ideas  

• Discuss and vote on the strongest idea to take forward and develop into a solution  

• Build a prototype that will be tested at the festival on an end user / customer / stakeholder 

This daily dash will aim to:

• To build a shared understanding of problems faced by UK water companies in relation to temporary pumping solutions. 

• To understand where technology can deliver change in short term and provide a “Realtime” option for water management. 

• To have clear design standardisation for a deployable, scalable soluion. 

• To hear from stakeholders to understand the barriers to digital change, cyber, operational technology and risk

Possible outcomes include: 

• A deployable, scalable solution model for Mobile Smart SPS across water utilities 

• Clear operational and commercial case (cost vs. spill reduction vs. regulatory risk) 

• Defined roles, ownership, and integration with existing network control strategies 

• A roadmap for standardisation, training, and adoption across teams and partners 

Operational Technology, Wastewater Operations, Suppliers, Procurement, Health and Safety, Other Industries . . .

Any questions:  contact: David McDermott: david.mcdermott@nwl.co.uk