Water Park Flow Software Application
Water - Electricity - Sustainability
In order to reduce the usage and achieve sustainability, you first must be able to track the usage.
The Water Park Flow software application is a water, energy and sustainability operations platform built for water parks. It answers three questions every morning: is the park staying inside the law, is it operating efficiently, and is anything wrong. The the software application also looks ahead using AI predictive analytics to warn the water park owners, engineers, and maintenance crews before a trend becomes a major problem.
Water Park Flow Live Demo
You can try the live Water Park Flow software application demo to see how all of the features work. This live demo shows data from two fictional water parks. It demonstrates how the software application can monitor, track, analyze operations, and make data driven predictions.
Water Park Flow Software Application Details
The Water Park Flow software application receives the data automatically from the water park machines over the network. It acts as a centralized server that seamlessly captures real-time water levels, flow rates, and electrical usage via industrial LAN protocols. The weather forecast data is automatically updated every morning and reports can be sent using a set schedule or generated on demand.
Owners, engineers and maintenance crews all have individual logins with user level privileges.
Dashboard and Status Board
• One dashboard for every park in the company, each with a status board for Compliance, Efficiency and Problems, a green, amber or red level and a plain reason for each.
• Full park cards with the day's weather from the forecast, water and electricity against the model, the scorecard grade, a 14 day water chart and the open alerts.
• Month to date water, electricity, cost, carbon, recycled water and guests for every park and for the whole company, each against the same period last year.
• Sustainability Scorecard: an A to E grade per park on recycled water rate, water per guest, energy per guest, carbon per guest, permit compliance, water quality and equipment condition, with the trend on each.
• Path to Net Zero: the straight path from each park's baseline year to its target year against what it has actually emitted, with the gap, the reduction since baseline and the cut needed each year.
• Looking Ahead: the predictive analysis, listing what is going to become a problem before it does.
Water and Energy Tracking
• Per ride and whole park tracking of fresh water, electricity, utility cost and carbon.
• A physical model that works out what each ride should have used from the weather, attendance, pump sizes and operating hours, so every reading is checked against what the day justified.
• Evaporation, splash out, backwash, rain gain and recycled water rate for every ride.
• Pump energy from rated power, load factor, variable speed drives and idle share, with peak demand and demand charges.
• Daily weather from Open Meteo with a year of history, or a synthetic climate model for offline use.
• Utility rates per park with tiers, demand limits and sewer charges, in the park's own currency and units.
Alerts and Predictive Analysis
• Thirty six alert types covering leaks, pump wear, filter pressure, overnight running, suspect readings, permit and daily limit projections, demand limits, equipment age, water chemistry, test frequency, checklists, inspections, work orders, assets, backwash, chemical stock and spare parts.
• Advance warnings before a limit is crossed, not after.
• Looking Ahead watch items from twelve analysis rules: water and electricity climbing toward the problem line, pump vibration and bearing temperature heading for the alarm zone, filters loading faster or not coming clean, chemistry drifting toward a limit, chemical stock running out before a delivery can land, the permit crossing date, hot spells in the forecast, a growing work order backlog, assets reaching end of life, inspections bunching up and daily checks being missed.
• Each watch item carries the evidence figures, when it matters, a confidence level and what to do.
• A pump that is heading for the alarm line with no spare on the shelf and a lead time longer than the days left becomes an Act Now item.
• One click from any alert to a work order.
Compliance
• Municipal water permit tracking with daily and monthly limits, month to date use, the projected month end and the date the limit would be crossed.
• Water chemistry standards profile per park: CDC Model Aquatic Health Code, British Columbia Pool Regulation, Ontario Regulation 565, Nova Scotia Aquatic Guidelines or custom, with every limit editable.
• Water quality log for free and combined chlorine, bromine, pH, alkalinity, calcium hardness, cyanuric acid and water temperature per pool, checked against the profile as you save, with excursions, actions taken and test coverage.
• Regulatory compliance register for health inspections, ride permits and annual inspections (ASTM F770, CSA Z267), drain cover certification, backflow tests, generator tests, electrical and fire inspections, chemical storage, insurance and operator certification, with overdue and due soon alerts.
• Daily safety checklists: pre opening ride checks, closing round, plant room round, structural walk, safety equipment, generator test, wave machine and splash pad checks, kept with the person and the date. A failed item opens a work order.
Maintenance
• Work orders with priority, status, assignment, parts and labour cost, downtime and resolution.
• Asset register for pumps, drives, valves, panels, generators, lighting, HVAC, safety equipment, ride equipment and structures, with condition, warranty, expected life and inspection intervals.
• Spare parts register with minimums, lead times, unit cost, storage location, the assets each part fits, deliveries, use, stock takes and write offs. Parts used on a work order come off stock and add their cost to the job.
• Filters and backwash log with differential pressure, water to waste and pressure based backwash alerts.
• Chemical inventory with deliveries, daily use, stock takes, days of stock and reorder alerts.
• Condition readings from pumps (vibration, bearing and motor temperature) and indoor humidity, with alarm zone alerts.
Reports
• Generated on demand in the browser or emailed on a schedule.
• Written summaries, the Looking Ahead watch items and the Path to Net Zero chart inside the executive reports.
• Every report carries its formulas and assumptions on the last page.
• Thirteen PDF report types for engineers and executives:
• Monthly Sustainability Summary
• Season Outlook
• One Page Board Summary
• Capital Proposal
• Ride Water and Energy Profile
• Compliance Log
• Evaporation Analysis
• Forecast Accuracy
• Annual Impact
• Water Quality Log
• Maintenance Summary
• Asset Register and Lifecycle
• Regulatory Compliance Status
Retrofit Scenarios
• Ten common upgrades (variable speed drives, pool covers, LED lighting, heat recovery, regenerative filters and more) with capex, savings and payback, and the effect on the path to net zero.
Data Intake
• Automated directly from the water park machines tracking source, accepting JSON in any shape or CSV with field mapping so any machine format can be connected.
• Manual entry forms for meter readings, tests and checks.
• CSV upload.
Platform
• Multi park and multi company with four roles: system admin, account admin, park manager and demo viewer.
• Park, ride, location, rate and permit settings editable in the app, with photo uploads for parks and rides.
• Light and dark themes, phone friendly layout and an audit trail of every change.
• Plain PHP and MySQL, installs on ordinary web hosting with a browser installer and a single daily scheduled job. No special server needed.
• Demo parks with realistic history so every feature can be seen working on day one.
How A Water Park Can Achieve Net Zero Carbon
How is it possible that a water park that always needs water and electricity can achieve net zero carbon by a target year?
Net zero means net zero carbon, not zero water and electricity usage. The parks will always pump water and run rides. The target is that the carbon those activities put into the air, net of what the park removes or avoids, reaches zero. A water park gets there in three layers.
First, use less: Variable speed drives and pump scheduling, backwashing on pressure instead of the calendar, pool covers overnight, heat recovery, LED lighting, and stopping the leaks and the overnight running that the app already hunts for. That is the part Water Park Flow measures day by day, and it typically takes 20 to 40 percent off.
Second, change where the energy comes from: Put solar on the roofs and car parks, buy renewable electricity or certificates from the utility, and replace gas water heating with heat pumps so the remaining energy is electric. As the grid itself gets cleaner every year, the same kilowatt hour carries less carbon.
Third, offset what is left: The last slice, usually a few percent, is covered by buying verified carbon removals. In the software application, the carbon figure is electricity times the grid factor for the location plus water times a supply factor, so it already falls as the park uses less and as the grid factor comes down. The dashed line is the plan the water park has committed to, a straight slope from the baseline to the target year, and the chart's job is to show whether the actual line is keeping up with it.
Whether a given water park hits its target year depends on how well the water park operates efficiently. The software application analyzes and tracks the operation details every month. This shows how far off or on the the path they are and the retrofit scenarios show what each project would do to the sustainability line.
