In development and validation
VITTA delivers the efficiency.
VITTA IA helps sustain it.
VITTA IA is the artificial intelligence assistant that Juan Azcue is developing to keep the energy efficiency of pumping installations at its highest level, throughout their working life.
A high-efficiency pump is the starting point. Preserving that efficiency over the years depends on everything around it: the borehole, the water, the rising main, the cable and the power supply. VITTA IA analyses the whole, not just the machine.
It is applied to VITTA pumps and to installations with equipment from any other manufacturer.
12,000+
repairs carried out and documented by Juan Azcue: the experience VITTA IA is trained on.
Two phases, with equal weight
PHASE 1
In validation
The analyser
The snapshot of the installation: its past, its present and its future, analysed as a whole.
PHASE 2
In development
Monitoring
The film: the snapshot is updated in real time and every alarm arrives interpreted and quantified.
Why VITTA IA exists
A borehole is not a static installation
Levels vary. The pipe ages, becomes encrusted and its head losses increase. The hydraulics wear. With each change, the pump's duty point shifts and the installation loses efficiency with no breakdown and no alarm going off: quite simply, every cubic metre costs a little more.
The same borehole, described with its real depths: casing by sections, static and dynamic water levels, submergence and exact position of the pump set. When any of those values changes, the efficiency of the whole installation changes.
01
Conditions change
Levels, head losses, cable condition, wear of the hydraulics.
02
The duty point shifts
The pump leaves the zone in which it delivers its best efficiency.
03
The cost per cubic metre rises
Efficiency is lost little by little, and it is paid for on every bill.
Extreme conditions
Aggressive water, contaminated aquifers, entrained sand or suspended solids: in these conditions the loss of efficiency accelerates. This is where keeping watch over the installation is most valuable.
The sequence
- DATA
- ANALYSIS
- INTERPRETATION
- DIAGNOSIS
- SCENARIOS
- DECISION
The final decision always lies with the customer or the technician.
The knowledge behind VITTA IA
12,000+
repairs carried out and documented by Juan Azcue
An artificial intelligence trained on real experience
Each documented repair records what was replaced or repaired in the machine, and why. Over decades, that history has been building up what no catalogue curve tells you: how and why borehole pumps really fail.
VITTA IA is trained on that base. It is what allows it to recognise failure patterns, project how a deficiency will evolve and interpret the consequences of an alarm with workshop judgement, not just with statistics.
- Failure patterns
- Projections
- Consequences of alarms
How VITTA IA is organised
Two phases, two moments in the installation
The first phase establishes the state of the installation. The second follows its evolution. They are independent in time, but not in method: the second always starts from the first.
| PHASE 1 The analyser | PHASE 2 Monitoring | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | The snapshot of the installation | The film of the installation |
| When | At any time, even without monitoring | Continuously, with the installation connected |
| What it works with | Field data, documentation and the history of the borehole | Real-time signals from the borehole, building on the initial analysis |
| What it delivers | Diagnosis, quantified improvement proposals, projections and scenarios | Projections adjusted with real measurements, and alarms interpreted and quantified |
| Status | In validation | In development |
PHASE 1
In validation
The analyser
The snapshot of the installation: its past, its present and its future.
The first step of VITTA IA is an exhaustive analysis of the installation, supported by artificial intelligence and by the technical judgement of Juan Azcue. It does not analyse the pump in isolation: it analyses the whole, because each element of the installation influences the performance of all the others.
Past
The history of the borehole
The history of the borehole is reconstructed, including that of previous pumps of any make: workshop repairs, parts replaced and how often, installation and pull-out operations. Failure patterns are sought and cross-checked against water quality, power supply quality and the electromechanical installation.
Present
The still picture
Borehole, water, pump and motor, rising main, position of the pump set, duty point, electrical installation and energy cost. Everything that can be calculated is calculated from what has been declared, and each result states where it comes from. If a piece of data is missing, that is stated; it is not made up.
Future
Projections and scenarios
Each deficiency detected is projected over the short, medium and long term, drawing on how similar cases have evolved in Juan Azcue's repair history, together with what it will cost if it is not corrected. Each corrective action is quantified, its payback is calculated and it is compared with the others in scenarios.
An installation may also come out of the analysis at optimum efficiency. In that case what VITTA IA provides is knowing it with data, and establishing the baseline against which all subsequent reviews will be measured.
Fourteen sections, a single file per borehole
What the analyser covers
00
Opening the file
Owner, borehole and type of analysis: initial diagnosis, review or comparison.
01
General borehole data
Real geometry by sections, historical pumping test and current levels.
02
Water analysis
Each parameter, translated into consequences for the machine.
03
Pump and motor
The curve as the yardstick; motor power and cooling.
04
Rising main
Head losses, weight to be lifted and reverse rotation on shutdown.
05
Pump position
Submergence, NPSH available and the most restrictive passage.
06
Duty point
Where the pump is working today compared with what its curve promises.
07
Electrical installation
From the control panel to the shaft: supply, starting, cable and voltage drop.
08
Condition curves
Separates wear from configuration: whether or not the pump has to be pulled out.
09
Energy cost
Consumption, cost per cubic metre and improvements ranked by payback.
10
Repair history
Frequency of breakdowns and parts that recur.
11
Pull-out history
What was replaced and what was extended at each pull-out.
12
Closing the file
The technician validates, discards or leaves pending each proposal.
C
Review with the customer
The customer decides, and the reason is recorded.
Everything is interconnected
No section is read in isolation. The water explains the wear, the wear explains the repairs and the repairs explain the cost.
How the technician sees it
Analyser screenshots
The still picture · the past and the present
Two analyser screens: what has been happening to the machine up to now, and how the machine is working right now.
Flow-head, efficiency and absorbed power, with the measured point set against the catalogue point.
Which part has been worked on at each workshop visit. What is replaced as routine says nothing; in red, what recurs through wear or failure.
The future · the projection of the installation
With the past and the present on the table, the analyser projects how the installation will evolve: where the duty point is heading, what efficiency will remain and how much each cubic metre will cost if no action is taken.
The system curve rises when the dynamic water level drops and the pump curve falls if there is wear. No point is placed by hand, and each scenario has its level, its flow rate, its efficiency and its specific cost alongside.
It works even when data is missing
The more there is, the better the analysis will be. What cannot be calculated is declared, rather than estimated.
What is cheap to check comes first
Hypotheses are ranked by what it costs to check them, not by how likely they seem.
Nothing reaches the customer without validation
The technician validates, qualifies or discards each proposal, and what is discarded is recorded with its reason.
The customer decides
They accept, decline or put each recommendation on hold. Their reason is also recorded: that is how the system learns.
PHASE 2
In development
Monitoring
The film of the installation: real time and interpreted alarms.
With the installation connected, the initial snapshot starts to move. VITTA IA checks in real time how each reading in the analysis evolves: levels, consumption, water quality and power supply quality.
Each signal from the borehole, with its evolution. At the top, the space where VITTA IA interprets what is happening and records its alerts and recommendations.
The projection sets the horizon. The real measurement adjusts it.
The projections from the first phase are continuously updated and corrected with what is happening in the borehole.
More certainty about when it is worth acting
The decision no longer rests on a forecast alone, but on the measured evolution of the installation.
It builds on what already exists
It integrates with the customer's monitoring, without requiring their system to be replaced, and proposes additional instrumentation only when it adds demonstrable value.
What it tracks continuously
- Static and dynamic water levels
- Flow rate
- Pressure
- Consumption
- Motor temperature
- Voltage and current
- Supply quality
- Conductivity and water quality
- Cost per m³
Phase 2 · Intelligent alarm management
It does not display data.
It interprets it.
Traditional monitoring systems warn you: an alarm goes off. The hard part is knowing what it means. For each alarm, VITTA IA analyses why it has occurred, drawing on the experience of more than 12,000 documented repairs, what may happen if the situation progresses and what should be done, with the cost of each option on the table.
The questions it answers
- What is happening
- Why
- What consequences it may have
- How it is evolving
- When it is worth acting
- How much it costs
A traditional system
Alarm · motor temperature
Borehole 2 · [ demo data ]
The warning arrives. What caused it, what may happen and what should be done is left to whoever receives it.
VITTA IA, faced with the same alarm
[ Demo data ]
Measured fact
The motor temperature is above its usual value, with the flow rate stable.
Possible causes
Cross-checked against the repair history and ranked by what it costs to check them: a drop in the dynamic water level reducing cooling · a shifted duty point overloading the motor · deterioration of the insulation. Each with its check.
If the situation progresses
Projection of the evolution and of the risk of failure if no action is taken.
When to pull out
The ideal moment for the pull-out, compared with the next shutdown already planned.
Cost of waiting
Extra cost of delaying the pull-out: energy, risk and repair. [ data pending ]
Every signal, with its question
Overconsumption
Why is the installation consuming more to pump the same?
Temperature
What is preventing the motor from cooling as it should?
Voltage
Does the problem come from the supply or from the installation itself?
Current
Overload, wear or a shifted duty point?
Level
Is it a one-off drop or a drift in the aquifer?
Flow rate
Has it been lost in the borehole, in the pump or in the rising main?
Pressure
What has changed in the discharge or in the network?
Water quality
How does a change in conductivity or entrained solids affect the machine?
And always, the same sum at the end: how the kWh per cubic metre vary and what that means in euros. Valid, quantified information, to make the right decision at the right time.
From measurement to decision
The projection sets the horizon.
The real measurement adjusts it.
Each monitoring reading corrects the forecast left by the initial analysis. So the question stops being whether it is worth acting and becomes when it is worth doing so.
The real measurement corrects the projection
[ Demo data ]
The analyser's projection sets the horizon. Each real measurement corrects it, and with it the moment at which it is worth acting is adjusted.
Quantified scenarios
Every technical finding, translated into euros
Everything is quantified. Each finding is translated into a unit the customer understands without technical training, the cost per cubic metre pumped, and each action is presented with its investment and its payback. VITTA IA does not decide: it organises the information, assesses it and puts it on the table.
Act now
With the investment involved and the saving it generates from day one.
| INVESTMENT | [ pending ] |
|---|---|
| ANNUAL SAVING | [ pending ] |
| PAYBACK | [ pending ] |
Wait for the next pull-out
Making use of a mobilisation already planned and avoiding duplicated crane and travel costs.
| INVESTMENT | [ pending ] |
|---|---|
| EXTRA COST MEANWHILE | [ pending ] |
| COSTS AVOIDED | [ pending ] |
Do nothing
With an explicit figure for what it costs each year to maintain the current situation.
| INVESTMENT | €0 |
|---|---|
| ANNUAL EXTRA COST | [ pending ] |
| RISK OF FAILURE | [ pending ] |
Scope and development status
Brand independence
The system analyses the installation, not the manufacturer of the equipment. It is applied to VITTA pumps and equally to equipment from any other manufacturer.
Integration with what exists
It does not require the customer's control systems to be replaced. It builds on the data already being recorded.
Status
Advanced functional specification
The data capture and diagnostic architecture is largely defined. The next stage is the internal pilot, before commercial roll-out.
Recognition
Revoluciona Award
VITTA IA has received the Revoluciona Award, in its 5th edition, from BBVA and the University of Valencia.
The aim
It is not about watching over an installation. It is about supporting the customer throughout the service life of their equipment.
VITTA IA is in development and validation. If you are interested in taking part in the pilot programme with one of your boreholes, let's talk.