Sustainability Report 2021
SUMMARY
Presentation
Message from
Management
The Águas do
Brasil Group
Integrity and
Transparency
Fostering
Universal Access
to Sanitation
Water Security
Efficient
and Climate
Change
Water
Cycle
Our Utility
Companies
About this
Report
GRI
Summary
Corporate
Information
InovÁguas
In 2021, the Group intensified the internal cultural change
to promote advances in digital transformation innovation.
Through the exchange of experiences, training, and the
benchmarking process, the Group evaluated the possibilities
for generating value based on new practices. This is how
InovÁguas emerged, a program that encompasses work fronts
to develop the strategy and actions related to the topic to
accelerate the Strategic Planning programs in all areas.
The introduction of awareness and presentation of concepts
focused on developing digital transformation and innovation
culture started with workshops aimed at corporate leaders
and utility companies. In this first year of the project, the
Group worked on the perspective of cultural change and the
establishment of strategic drivers. With the creation of an
integrated management system regarding the topic, InovÁguas
will continue to develop in 2022, considering the possibilities
of the open innovation ecosystem and contributing to the
survival of the business in the face of new market and regulatory
scenarios and social and environmental needs.
Modernization in reading and billing
Automation
To provide operational safety and efficiency, over the last few years,
the Group has been adopting several actions in the automation area,
following the industry 4.0 trends. Besides the innovative initiatives
adopted in the commercial and environmental areas, there is a
strategic focus on operational automation to offer high reliability,
safety, and productivity standards.
The communication standards, instrumentation, and automation
equipment suppliers, among other items, are gathered in the
organization's portfolio. All Operations Control Centers are visually
standardized, with standardized screens and structuring of the
back end and database, allowing the supervisory systems to be the
largest data supplier to the operations sector.
The solutions are connected to the maintenance area, facilitating
the monitoring and control of the units and collecting information
from the motors through sensors that analyze the vibration of
the equipment and its temperature. They also interact with loss
management by monitoring network volumes and pressures and
favor the reduction in energy consumption with various control
loops deployed in the distribution system.
The Nova LIS Project, which started in February 2021, aims to implement a new market solution for
reading water meters and invoicing in the field, replacing the current solution and enabling better
performance by utility companies. The project foresees the replacement of the handheld data
collectors with a solution with online communication, which allows reading data and occurrences
via smartphone. One of the differentials of the tool, developed in partnership with the supplier
EOS, is the improvement in the management of teams in the field and agility in the analysis and
billing management processes. Nova Friburgo was chosen as the project pilot.
Automation of WTPs
The project for automation
of the water treatment
plants was featured in the
Panorama da Participação
Privada no Saneamento
(Overview of Private
Participation in Sanitation),
published by the Abcon/
Sindcon system in 2021. The
automation aims to monitor
the quality of treated and
filtered water and allow
the automatic dosing of
chemical products at the
plants. The initiative also
includes, in Nova Friburgo,
remote operation with
automatic shutdown of
the entire WTP in case the
quality parameters reach
defined critical values.
With the instruments, the
measurement of quality
data occurs every 5 minutes,
allowing the operators to
dedicate the time of bench
analyses (which used to
be done every 2 hours)
to more important water
treatment actions.
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