Water Infrastructure Capabilities
Parasyn's water practice centres on OT infrastructure that water utilities and councils depend on to run and report on their networks day to day, and on the design review and testing discipline that catches problems before a system goes live rather than after. Our thought-leadership piece, The Five Pillars of an Intelligent Water Grid, sets out the full architecture: unified data, AI-ready (including data dimensioning), condition-based asset intelligence, centralised control, and resilience by design. The OT engineering behind all of it draws on the same SCADA, PLC and RTU capability Parasyn applies across every critical-infrastructure sector. Some examples follow.
- SCADA Server & Lifecycle Support: upgrades, refreshes and ongoing lifecycle partnerships for utility SCADA infrastructure.
- Historian Consolidation: unifying multiple plant historians into a single enterprise platform without losing decades of history.
- Telemetry & Radio Networks: replacement and modernisation of wayside and remote telemetry radio systems.
- Electrical Design and Panel Construction.
- Verification & Commissioning Discipline: design review and staged testing that surfaces defects before equipment is on site or a system goes live, not after.
- Process & Energy Optimisation: low-capex control tuning and other strategies that cuts plant energy and chemical costs.
- Compliance Reporting: automated compliance reporting (e.g. SWIMS and floodplain monitoring reporting for Queensland and NSW water authorities).
Track Record
Following, we present samples of work for Greater Western Water, Yarra Valley Water, Cairns Regional Council, Central Highlands Regional Council and Trility, several of them multi-decade, ongoing lifecycle relationships rather than one-off projects.
That work carries a consistent thread: rigorous design review and testing that catches problems at the design desk or in pre-production testing, not after go-live.
A Six-Week Server Refresh That Became a 21-Month Lifecycle Partnership
SCADA server upgrade and ongoing lifecycle support.
Read the case study →Two Historians Unified, Eighteen Years of History Preserved
Consolidated historian upgrade across the network.
Read the case study →SCADA Upgrade Catches Critical Failover Defect Before It Reaches Production
Sunbury AVEVA plant SCADA upgrade.
Read the case study →Small Package, Right Time
Melton PST renewal, controls testing completed to original schedule.
Read the case study →Two Decades of Deliberate SCADA Stewardship
Ongoing lifecycle partnership since 2003.
Read the case study →Leachate Pump Station SCADA Renewal
SCADA renewal protecting environmental controls.
Read the case study →Data Historian & Reporting Solution
Unified reporting platform across 60,000 km².
Read the case study →Cutting Energy Costs Without Capex
Control tuning at the Altona Treatment Plant cut annual energy costs by roughly 13%, using visibility the SCADA and historian platform already provided.
Read the case study →Compliance & Reporting
Beyond SCADA and historians, Parasyn builds the reporting layer water authorities are assessed against: automating SWIMS compliance reporting for Queensland water utilities, and standardising floodplain capacity monitoring across 1,400 NSW sites for the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment.
Why Partner with Parasyn
Our approach to helping our customers succeed can take many pathways. Data about the business and data about the system must come together to ensure OT provides consistent operations, and the business can operate its functions with the least amount of friction, ultimately operating the business where OT is the kiosk.
“Visualisations aside, it all starts with good data design. No amount of good visualisation can compensate for a poor foundation. The establishment of data design and governance ensures the organisation can get tangible results not with shiny things, but with new insights beyond what operators have so consistently provided for a generation.”