Case Study: Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati achieves sovereign control over IoT sensor data with Flowfinity Streams

Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati manages 1,600+ sensor channels with Flowfinity Wireless

The Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati (MSD) faced significant challenges managing over 1,600 channels of raw sensor data from hundreds of remote monitoring sites. Existing off-the-shelf data warehousing solutions were too rigid, forcing MSD to adapt its unique wastewater utility workflows to vendor-defined structures instead of having control over its own data. To gain this sovereignty, they turned to Flowfinity and implemented the Flowfinity Streams database.

Flowfinity provided a flexible, vendor-agnostic solution. Flowfinity Streams enabled MSD to automatically ingest, structure, and validate high volumes of IoT sensor data while integrating key metadata for context. This resulted in streamlined data ingestion, significantly improved data accuracy, and a dramatic reduction in time spent on validation. The solution gave MSD complete control over its database structure and custom workflows, freeing it from proprietary constraints and supporting critical EPA compliance and infrastructure planning.

Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati (msd)

Rob Schneider

Engineering Technical Supervisor, City of Cincinnati MSD