South West Water: Turning Wastewater Data into Real-Time Operational Optimisation Showcase

Timestamps: 00:00:00 - 00:06:27 Spring intro 00:06:29 - 00:12:14 Water Company intro 00:12:15 - 00:21:12 Context setting and project overview 00:21:14 - 00:22:15 Project roadmap 00:22:16 - 00:55:12 Technical overview 00:56:25 - 01:02:33 Next steps 01:02:35 - 01:11:54 Lessons learned and ROI 01:11:55 - 01:31:44 Q&A Would you like to discover how real-time biological monitoring can optimise treatment performance? Fluctuating loads, tightening compliance requirements, rising energy costs, and risks to reputation have led to an increasing pressure to optimise the performance of wastewater treatment. Yet many treatment processes still rely on lagging indicators and retrospective analysis to make critical operational decisions. Inneauvate Limited’s Shepherd V3 probe aims to address this by generating real-time biological monitoring. Inneauvate Limited have recently partnered with South West Water to trial using this technology. The objective is to address some of the challenges South West Water faces around limited visibility of short-term load variability and shock events, a poor understanding of how microbial communities respond to dynamic conditions and difficulty converting complex biological data into actionable process control insights. The enhanced monitoring aims to capture influent variability, track biological system response, and integrate this intelligence into real-time optimisation strategies. Join Spring, Inneauvate and South West Water for this webinar recording that shares how Inneauvate’s trial deployed enhanced monitoring to capture influent variability, track biological system response, and integrate this intelligence into real-time optimisation strategies. You’ll gain insight into how this approach can: Improve process stability and resilience under variable loading Reduce compliance risk by identifying biological stress early Optimise aeration, energy and chemical dosing based on actual biological demand Support proactive rather than reactive operational control Provide a stronger evidence base for investment and performance decisions For water companies, this represents an opportunity to unlock measurable efficiency gains, reduce operational risk, and build more adaptive, data-driven treatment assets. For the wider industry, it demonstrates a scalable pathway toward smarter biological process control - supporting net zero ambitions, AMP performance targets, and more resilient infrastructure. If you are responsible for operational performance, innovation strategy, asset optimisation, or regulatory compliance, this session will provide practical insight into how real-time biological intelligence can be implemented and scaled.