Case Study: Miami‑Dade Water and Sewer Department achieves near‑real‑time insights and predictive maintenance with Microsoft Azure

How Miami-Dade Water gets smarter with the Internet of Things

Miami‑Dade Water and Sewer, which serves nearly 3 million residents across more than 6,000 miles of pipe and 1,000+ pump stations, was struggling with aging infrastructure and an EPA mandate to improve operations. Their SCADA system produced massive volumes of historical data, but staff were limited to spreadsheets and basic SQL reports that took days or months to analyze a single pump station, preventing a holistic view needed for proactive maintenance and planning.

WASD implemented an IoT analytics platform on Microsoft Azure—using Azure IoT solution accelerators, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, and Power BI—loading 15+ billion rows of historical SCADA data and ingesting over 4 million rows daily so engineers can query 22 years of data across 1,000+ stations in seconds. The result is near‑real‑time visualizations and predictive insights that enable proactive maintenance, better planning, cost savings for taxpayers, and a scalable solution other agencies can adopt.

Miami Dade Water and Sewer Department

Andrew Wong

IT Manager