BACKGROUND

Cradled within a glorious range of mountains, Kelowna, British Columbia is a sanctuary filled with pristine lakes, pine forests, abundant gardens, orchards and vineyards, sandy beaches, and superb amenities.

Stretching from north to south for approximately 135 km (84 miles) is the beautiful Okanagan Lake. The lake sustains several diverse communities, with long, warm summers and short, mild winters. The city of Kelowna is the largest community along Okanagan and is located midway through the valley. It has a rapidly growing population and is the primary transportation, business, and service hub of the valley.

SUMMARY

The City of Kelowna is leveraging many of SmartCover’s unique features, including the off-grid aspect of satellite communications, to address a wide range of innovative and preventative wastewater applications such as overflow prevention, optimization of high frequency cleaning, and ongoing I&I studies. In addition, other departments in the city were able to take advantage of SmartCover technology for H₂S monitoring, leachate at the solid waste facility, and stream level monitoring. An added benefit for all city users has been the ability to access the same cloud-based system user dashboard to view reports that have analytics across applications. There is also the ability to retain archived data from previously-deployed sites in order to easily view comparisons with historic data for performance evaluation. The extensive use of their collection system data is what makes Kelowna a true smart city.

Interested in finding out how our SmartCover solutions can work for you? Reach out to sales@smartcoversystems.com or call (855) 291-1980.