United KingdomEnergy and utilities2025 – ongoingCK Infrastructure
Northumbrian Water Smart Sewers AI control
Northumbrian Water used some 750 sensors and AI to direct wastewater into holding tanks
Problem
Northumbrian Water needed to manage sewer flooding and storm overflows. Operators needed current network conditions to decide when to use available storage.
Approach
Smart Sewers connected sensor readings to a digital twin of the sewer network. AI-driven software monitored conditions and diverted wastewater into holding tanks. CK Infrastructure described the operating system in its 2025 annual report.
Results
Takeaway
The system connected monitoring to physical flow control. The reported potential to prevent overflows remained an estimate.
Categories
- Size
- Large enterprise
- Industry
- Energy and utilities
- Business function
- Production and quality
- Innovation type
- Process innovation
- AI technology
- Predictive analytics and MLOptimization
- Adoption
- Vendor solution
- Goal
- Quality and risk
- Evidence
- Company's own claim
Sources
Source summaries
CK Infrastructure described Northumbrian Water's Smart Sewers system using some 750 sensors and AI-driven flow control. It separately presented overflow prevention as an estimated capability of an AI forecasting trial.
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