Functional mapzones - Giswater/giswater_dbmodel GitHub Wiki

The elements of drinking water network establish hierarchy and also work between each other. That can give many opportunities to the organization from a functional and system analysis point of view.

• Storage tanks. Modifies the residence time of the water in the system. They act as graph delimiter for [I-SECTOR] [S-SECTOR].
• Supply and storage tanks. Establishes a pressure or primary supply level for one or more customer sectors and modifies its residence time of water in the system. They act as graph delimiter for [I-SECTOR] [S-SECTOR].
• Queue tanks. Establishes a secondary supply level for a sector of customers and modifies the residence time of the network water. In fact, they are not graph delimiter because they are by themselves end-point of system.
• Supply and queue tanks. Queue tanks, establishes primary and secondary supply level at the same time for two or more customer sectors and modifies the residence time of water in the network. They may act as graph delimiter for [S-SECTOR].
• Flow meters and network meters. Determines the differential flow in the first case and integral flow in the second case, by a specific synchrony. They act as graph delimiter for [DMA].
• Pressure reducing, sustaining and breaker valves. Modifies the pressure and supply level downwards. It is generally associated with customer sectors but not exclusively. They act as graph delimiter for [PRESSZONE].
• Head pump. Modifies upwards the pressure and supply level to a sector of clients. It has a small storage (pilot whale) that usually should not be considered, since the storage time is usually lower than the measurement frequency of the flow meters. They act as graph delimiter for [PRESSZONE].
• Pumping station. Water transfer between two storage points with increase of elevation. They act as graph delimiter for [PRESSZONE].
• Quality measurement elements. Quality measurement elements like chlormeter. They act as graph delimiter for [DQA].
• Quality regulator. Quality regulator like chlorinator. They act as graph delimiter for [DQA].
• Shut-off valves. Is an actuated valve designed to stop the flow upon the detection of a dangerous event or some other operation. This provides protection against possible harm to people, equipment or the environment. They act as graph delimiters for all the different mapzones in function of they are open or closed.
• Unique customers. Customers with a very high or unique consumption in their behavior. They should be treated as specific nodes.

As a result, five diferent types of zonifications are avaliable. When system works, in case of insert a new feature, it's necessary to know how the default values of mapzones are managed in order to propose the correct value on dialog after clicking on the map and before inserting data into the system.

On the other hand, the Mapzones algorithm can be executed after completing the configuration process. Amazing functionalities. Check it!!!

#Enjoy it!!!