Stormwater
Water Infrastructure
Portfolio Update
Nathan Gerdts
Senior Product Manager
Samer Muhandes
Senior Product Manager
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Integrated Water Platform
Water Roadmap – AU 2025
Esri Integrations with Hydraulic Models
InfoWorks ICM, InfoWorks WS Pro and InfoAsset Manager Recent updates:
Version 2026.2 allows users to log into their ArcGIS account directly
and access data from many new sources (AGOL, Enterprise GDBs, web
map services, etc.)
Future efforts:
Basemaps and living atlas data available to all customers. Simplified
Esri map controls included all customers.
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Civil 3D data exchange for BIM-based design
InfoWorks WS Pro New Civil 3D plugin will support bi-directional data exchange
between hydraulic model and BIM pressure pipe networks
InfoWorks ICM Civil 3D plugin available from Autodesk downloads
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Future
Preliminary
Design 3D Design
Hydraulic
Review
Design
Delivery
Live Data Adapter links data to multiple WS Pro capabilities
SCADA and Telemetry Integration
SCADA / Historian
Text files
Info360
Live Data Configuration ✓ Connect ✓ Test ✓ Preview ✓ Data conversion ✓ Data aggregation
API
Comparison Charts & Summaries
Time varying demands & controls
Demand Area Analysis
Demand Forecasting
Leakage Locator
Live Modeling & Alerts
Roughness Calibration
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InfoWorks WS Pro: automated model builder
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Future
✓ Build or update model ✓ Fix connectivity ✓ Test & Validate
regularly ✓ Derive demands &
leakage ✓ Verify with telemetry
Master Model Copy
Auto-build Copy
SCADA / Telemetry
Demands Controls,
Curves, etc. GIS Data
Model Builder
IWLive
Verify, Review, Merge
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Automate repeatable workflows with ease
Task Sequencer Roadmap
Update and Build Models
SCADA / Telemetry
Demands
GIS Data
Task Sequencer
Design New Systems
Review projects & enforce data standards
Model Calibration
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• InfoWorks databases can now store libraries of
scripts within the collaborative database and testing
space.
• Exchange script methods are being enabled to run
from the interface, allowing full access to engine
and database.
• We are leveraging AI to lower the barrier to entry for
hydraulic modelers to generate complex scripts.
Extending scripting support with AI assistant
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Future
InfoWorks & Info360 (Recently released)
Project Administration
Streamline user management and
access to your cloud projects.
• Access from anywhere
• Manage project access and user roles
• Allow read-only access for non modelers
• Invite people inside and outside your organization to
collaborate on projects Team Hub Project Database
Team Admin
manages license
access and
creates hubs
Allow multiple Hubs
to be created for
each team. Hubs are
Region specific.
Project Admin
manages projects,
memberships,
and role-based
permissions
InfoWorks ICM &
WS Pro data and
results. Permissions-
based on Project
roles. Viewers access
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Collaborative Model Management
Engineer
Consultant A
Consultant B
Admin
Master Model
Sub System 1
Sub System 2
Project ABC
Sub system 1_a
Sub system 2_a
Scenario a
Scenario b
Scenario a
Scenario b
Master Database
Sub System 1
Scenario a
Scenario b
Project Database
Master database lets you manage many models in one place
Direct Cloud Collaboration
Read Only
Edit rights
Collaborative Model Management
Subsequent host edits
Consultant edits
Merge changes since common root version
Sub System 1
Scenario a
Scenario b
Project Database
Master Model
Sub System 1
Sub System 2
Project ABC
Sub system 1_a
Sub system 2_a
Scenario a
Scenario b
Scenario a
Scenario b
Master Database
Full version history
Collaborative Model Management
Automate review and compliance standards across models
SQL Query Engineering Validation
Inference
Ruby Script Data Flags Custom Fields
Master Model
Sub System 1
Sub System 2
Project ABC
Sub system 1_a
Sub system 2_a
Scenario a
Scenario b
Scenario a
Scenario b
Master Database
Water Distribution Insights
Water Roadmap – AU 2025
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Turn any simulation into configurable deep parallel analysis
• Fire flow
• Critical Link Analysis
• Transient Surge Events
• Sensitivity Studies
• Alternate Designs
Accelerate computing through parallel on-prem or cloud
Cloud computing gives all WS Pro modelers direct access to over 500 cloud simulation
engines on-demand.
Configurable Analytics across thousands of simulations
Extract performance statistics from each simulation and summarize in query reports
and load the map.
All results are backed up in the cloud and available for in-depth review.
WS Pro Cloud GMR Runs
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Future
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IWLive Operational Modeling
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Features • Automate system forecasts & alerts • Replicate and respond to incidents
• Pipe Burst • Isolation • Water quality trace • Fire flow • Pump shutdown
Benefits • Decrease risk during incidents • Improve operational efficiency • Operator Training
Connecting simulations with operations
Web-based Operational Testing
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20% Field operations support
(real time, or in coming
weeks)
• Respond to a pipe break
• Field maintenance planning
(e.g. isolate pipe,
exercise valve, etc.)
• Re-zoning through valves
• Fire flow assessment
• Pipe flushing plan
• Contamination Trace
Operations planning
(~24-hour forecast)
• Improve water quality
• Pressure management
• Reduce pump energy consumption
• Achieve source allocation targets
(WTP vs groundwater vs wholesale
purchasing)
Facility maintenance
(2-3 weeks out)
• Close tank, isolate transmission
main, offline pump station, etc.
Water Main
Asset ID:
Diameter:
Material:
Zone:
Base Criticality
Isolated customers:
Critical customers:
Low Pressure customers:
High pressure customers:
Induced suspension risk:
Simulate Isolation
Simulate Flushing
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Future
Advancing Sewer and Storm Modeling
Uniting the planning and design disciplines
InfoWorks ICM: Design Logic
Customers need a fast way to design medium and
large sewer and stormwater systems, keeping
hydraulics and hydrology central to the process.
Balancing pipe slope vs pipe diameter based on differing design storms can
be a significantly iterative process if done manually. Selecting a few
parameters and creating an IDF (Intensity, Duration, and Frequency) Curve,
coupled with a predefined library of specific pipes, can help you create an
initial design in a fraction of the time.
Design Criteria
IDF Curve Part List/ Library
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Future
Topographic barrier to flow, 2 m high
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0 m
2 m
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Reasonably well captured with many small, traditional, elements
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1.9 m
0.0 m
1.0 m 0.2 m
Reasonably well captured with many small, traditional, elements
Large elements give poor representation due to level averaging/samplingReasonably well captured with many small, traditional, elements
0.4 m
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Sub-grid can capture the ground levels within the element, but the flow exchange happens at the level of the face
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0 m 0 m
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Pre-collision Assist Story
#AU2025
Hydraulic Models Today
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Hydraulic Models Today
• Core outputs: flows, velocities, water
levels, flood volumes.
• Based on first principles: conservation
of mass, energy and momentum.
• Advantages: reality-driven, robust under
interventions.
• Limitation: computationally expensive,
especially for multiple scenarios.
#AU2025
What is a Surrogate Model?
What is a Surrogate Model?
• A surrogate model is a simplified, data-driven
model trained to approximate the behaviour of a
complex, physics-based model.
• It uses input–output pairs from detailed
simulations (or real data) to learn the relationship
between conditions and outcomes.
• Once trained, it provides fast predictions without
needing to run the full hydrodynamic solver each
time.
• Surrogates are sometimes called emulators, or
approximation models.
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The North Star vision for Surrogate Models
• Live data injected into ICM high-fidelity model
• ICM will use the live data to inform the
boundary condition and calibrate
• ICM will trigger thousands of simulations for
training purposes
• Trained on the most accurate ground truth to
absorb the complexity of these models at
training
• Surrogate predicts problems based on new
rainfall patterns
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Will AI replace high- fidelity modelling?
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Is it reliable? is it safe? Will AI replace high- fidelity modelling?
• AI excels at pattern recognition, but fails when new
interventions (pumps, diversions, developments) are
introduced (unless conditioned on new ground truth).
• All models have uncertainty; the engineer’s expertise
remains central.
• AI should accelerate workflows, not replace them.
• AI is the assistant. The hydraulic model is the expert
• Some predict that it will be possible to use Physics-
Informed Neural Networks which combine physics with AI
for better accuracy when the physical aspect of the
catchment is altered.
#AU2025
Democratizing catchment specific machine learning
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Democratizing catchment specific surrogate
modelling (ML Flow Prediction)
Identify locations
of interest (e.g.,
CSO locations)
Run simulations in
ICM to generate
training data for a
specific
catchment.
Train surrogate
model on variety of
conditions and
rainfall patterns.
Deploy surrogate
for rapid flow
predictions.
Retrain when new
interventions are
introduced in the
catchment
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Autodesk Water Infrastructure
Question and Answer
PM section Slide 1 Slide 2
Platform & Water Dist Slide 4 Slide 6 Slide 7 Slide 8: SCADA and Telemetry Integration Slide 9 Slide 10 Slide 11 Slide 12 Slide 13: Collaborative Model Management Slide 14: Collaborative Model Management Slide 15: Collaborative Model Management Slide 16 Slide 17 Slide 18 Slide 19 Slide 20
SSF Slide 26 Slide 27 Slide 28 Slide 29 Slide 30 Slide 31 Slide 32 Slide 33 Slide 34 Slide 35 Slide 36 Slide 38 Slide 39 Slide 40 Slide 41 Slide 42 Slide 43