03-25-2011 New York City officials see CSOnet demonstration

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Office of the Mayor NEWS RELEASE March 25, 2011 5:00 p.m. New York City officials see CSOnet demonstration Contact: Mikki Dobski, Director of Communications & Special Projects, 235-5855 or 876- 1564, or Jeff Bruce, Director of Business Development, EmNet LLC, 855-1012 or (773) 398-1013 Utilities officials from the nation’s largest city today witnessed the operation of CSOnet, the City of South Bend’s first-in-the-world system to use technology to monitor and control combined sewer overflows. Three top officials from New York City Environmental Protection saw CSOnet in operation, heard firsthand reports about its development and implementation, and visited locations where monitoring data is transmitted from specially equipped manhole covers and where smart valves are controlled by computers to maximize storage capacity in the City’s 500-mile sewer network. The visiting officials with New York City Environmental Protection were:  James J. Roberts, deputy commissioner of the Bureau of Water & Sewer Operations  John G. Petito, assistant commissioner for operations, Bureau of Wastewater Treatment  Christopher M. Hawkins, policy advisor for sustainability Based on research conducted at the University of Notre Dame and Purdue University, the City of South Bend’s CSOnet was developed in conjunction with EmNet, a South Bend- based company that has created the software and hardware to implement the wireless system. Fully deployed in 2010, CSOnet is the first system to monitor and control combined sewer overflows in real time through the use of embedded computer sensors in a decentralized radio network. It also is the world’s largest cyber-physical embedded sensor network. -more-