Tryton + Giswater: the best formula for water management

When two good open source technology platforms are combined, the results can be extraordinarily beneficial for users. This was the main conclusion reached by the more than 50 representatives of water companies, engineering firms and businesses linked to the water cycle who attended the first Giswater Conference held in Mataró.

The event aimed to present the new features introduced in version 2.0 of Giswater, a highly specialised tool for designing and analysing sewage and drinking-water supply networks. However, Giswater does not include any module or functionality aimed at the business activity behind integrated water-cycle management. For this reason, the organisers invited us to explain how easy it is to integrate Tryton into the Giswater environment in order to multiply its potential. It is not the same to have a tool that allows you to design a network as to have another that allows you to run a business based on network design.

Tryton and Giswater share much of their technological structure, since both are based on PostgreSQL databases and programmed in the same language, Python.

Carles Hilario’s presentation focused on the features offered by Tryton for service companies, highlighting aspects such as field-work control, invoicing, commercial-margin calculation and incident management. The presentation attracted the attention of drinking-water concessionary companies, as well as various engineering firms that are also openly embracing free technologies.