Hitachi Aqua-Tech Engineering Leverages GlobalLogic’s Digital Expertise to Transform Water Management Industries

Facing limitations of their legacy architecture, Hitachi Aqua-Tech Engineering sought GlobalLogic’s help to modernize its Water Remote Monitoring product. Our partnership produced MIZU LINK, an intelligent cloud platform that enhanced user experience, scalability, and promoted global water sustainability.

Opportunity

Hitachi Aqua-Tech Engineering (HAQT), a premier provider of comprehensive water management solutions, faced challenges with its existing Water Remote Monitoring (WRM) product. Legacy architecture and technology stack prevented HAQT from scaling its business and expanding its managed services, particularly for multi-client support. GlobalLogic was engaged to modernize this application, aiming to deliver seamless and efficient water and energy management experience for HAQT’s clients.

Value Created

GlobalLogic was selected as a strategic partner due to its expertise in executing such modernization projects and its existing relationship within the Hitachi ecosystem. GlobalLogic’s engagement began with a comprehensive advisory phase and a structured development process that significantly addressed HAQT’s challenges and directly contributed to HAQT’s market offerings.

• Comprehensive Feasibility Analysis & Design: GlobalLogic performed a comprehensive technical feasibility analysis that incorporated architectural considerations, ensuring a robust and well-planned development process. This identified the most critical areas for improvement that contributed to the overall success of the newly developed product.
  
• User Experience (UI/UX) Enhancement: GlobalLogic developed an improved UI/UX, with better visual designs and an interactive, clickable interface. This helped HAQT visualize and refine their requirements, bridging the gap between initial ideas and the tangible product.
• Technology Modernization: The project redesigned the application screens using ReactJS and integrated new APIs to interface with stored procedures. 
• Consultancy and Strategic Planning: GlobalLogic provided crucial advisory services and consultancy on architecture and cloud solutions, guiding HAQT through the modernization process. This structured approach reduced the overall effort of the HAQT team by 50% during development and user acceptance testing (UAT) by improving understanding, planning, and reducing rework.

What is MIZU LINK?

MIZU LINK is an integrated enterprise customer portal that offers a comprehensive solution for monitoring, managing, and optimizing water and energy systems. Through a single, user-friendly interface, it seamlessly connects with cutting-edge solutions such as:

• Water Remote Monitoring (WRM), 
• Water Quality Vigilance and Automatic Smart Chemical Dosing
• Energy Management Systems (EMS) 
• Smart Flow Monitoring with Leak Detection.

MIZU LINK provides a complete overview of operations, enabling data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement. Key features of the platform include real-time tracking of water parameters, proactive maintenance notifications, and advanced analytics, all contributing to optimal performance and regulatory compliance.

By delivering intelligent monitoring and optimization, MIZU LINK plays a crucial role in fostering a smarter, cleaner and more resource-efficient future for water management. This is particularly significant given the global challenges of 1.7 billion people lacking basic sanitation and 80% of wastewater being discharged untreated. The initiative actively supports the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Goal 6: “Clean Water and Sanitation”.

Impact

The collaboration between HAQT and GlobalLogic resulted in the successful launch of MIZU LINK: an intelligent cloud platform that has delivered substantial impact across multiple dimensions:

• Enhanced User Experience: MIZU LINK provides a seamless and efficient water and energy management experience through a single, user-friendly interface. Customers benefit from real-time data, customizable dashboards, and custom alerts, enabling data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement.
• Operational Efficiency & Cost Reduction: The MIZU LINK platform identifies opportunities to reduce resource consumption and ensures optimal operational efficiency. Moving to a cloud-based, subscription model like AWS is expected to reduce maintenance and hardware costs.
• Scalability & Business Expansion: MIZU LINK is a SaaS-based solution with multi-tenancy, allowing HAQT to accommodate more clients and process increasing IoT telemetry data. This digital transformation has led to significant achievements in managed services expansion overseas for HAQT, who is currently customizing the solution for multiple clients.
• Revolutionizing Water Treatment: HAQT’s vision for MIZU LINK is to revolutionize the water treatment industry by providing a cutting-edge monitoring solution that leverages IoT technology. HAQT aims to lead the industry in improving water and environmental management with advanced digital technologies. The solution helps to:
  ◦ Minimize water wastage, chemical usage and energy consumption.
  ◦ Reduce water consumption and associated costs.
  ◦ Improve system efficiency and reduce carbon footprint.

Structured planning and stakeholder alignment during the development project led to over a 50% reduction in effort.