Operational decision support for water systems

Conventional decision-making processes often revolve around established guidelines, sometimes supported with computer simulations or black box optimisation models. RTC-Tools helps decision-makers find operational strategies that maximise financial profits and minimise expenditure. In the first step, decision-makers state and prioritise their operational objectives. Using a computer model of the water system, RTC-Tools then computes the best possible schedules in terms of those priorities for controlling pumps and turbines, sluices and weirs. The computed schedules are presented to the decision-maker in a graphical user interface such as Delft-FEWS.