SmartCapture™
Stormwater storage that adapts in real time
SmartCapture combines stormwater storage with CMAC, using both climate and in-system water level sensing to optimize detention, retention and reuse without adding external control infrastructure.
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Overview
Stormwater storage that adapts in real time
SmartCapture is America’s first packaged smart stormwater storage solution with integrated CMAC (Continuous Monitoring & Adaptive Control), enabling engineers and contractors to minimize stormwater storage requirements, maximize available storage capacity and achieve multiple stormwater management objectives with a single system.
Powered by Opti, the cloud-based module reacts to climate and level data in real time, using proprietary algorithms and smart valves to proactively manage stormwater storage based on both real-time and forecast conditions.
By balancing stormwater capture, storage and release, the module proactively helps to mitigate flooding, optimizes retention and infiltration, and reduces overflow-related pollution, supporting more sustainable water stewardship and resilience to extreme weather events.
By fully integrating storage and stormwater CMAC, it can also eliminate the need for separate, external control structures. This reduces site disruption, simplifies construction and accelerates project schedules. SmartCapture can also increase effective storage performance by dynamically managing when capacity is available, helping site owners get more value from every cubic foot of installed storage.
As the only stormwater detention and retention solution with fully integrated internal stormwater CMAC and both climate and level monitoring, SmartCapture dramatically reduces CAPEX—cutting labor, equipment and materials cost by removing the additional land take and design challenges associated with stand-alone adaptive controls.
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Benefits
Cut costs, land take and design complexity
Only SmartCapture integrates storage and stormwater CMAC into a single packaged system, reducing design complexity, freeing up site space and reducing the labor, equipment and materials costs typically associated with designing, purchasing and installing additional external adaptive controls.
In one typical project, SmartCapture eliminated an entire additional system, avoiding the system unit cost, excavation and installation costs, and removing approximately two weeks of construction time by removing scope from the critical path. By maximizing system efficiency and delivering more usable storage performance in a reduced footprint, SmartCapture resulted in a net capital cost saving on the project of between 20% and 30%.
Get more effective storage—and value—from the same footprint
For municipalities and owners working within fixed footprints and budgets, SmartCapture can increase effective storage availability by proactively managing drawdown and release based on real-world conditions.
This “smarter” use of installed volume can help agencies achieve greater flood mitigation and water quality performance without simply upsizing structures, delivering more bang for the buck and supporting phased, cost-effective capital planning.
Meet multiple stormwater objectives in a single system
By continuously monitoring both climate and in-system water level data, SmartCapture proactively manages detention and retention in real time to achieve multiple performance goals at once.
The system dynamically releases outflow to lower peak discharge and increase peak lag time to downstream infrastructure, reducing system stress and lowering flood risk across the network during storm events.
At the same time, by optimizing storage and extending retention where conditions allow, SmartCapture can improve water quality. Increased hydraulic retention time supports greater sedimentation and pollutant settling, reduces downstream wash-off impacts, and helps limit overflow-related pollution while maintaining configurable control strategies aligned to site-specific objectives and permit requirements.
Turn stormwater into a resource
By maximizing storage efficiency and adapting storage to real-world conditions, SmartCapture enables engineers to incorporate a high-performance rainwater harvesting and reuse capability into a site, reducing the reliance on clean water and helping developers to obtain LEED points on their projects.
Adapt to climate change and build resilience
SmartCapture’s ability to adapt to real-world conditions in real time means that the system can deliver effective performance beyond traditional static design assumptions.
This enables engineers to design detention and retention capacity that meet today’s stormwater management requirements while also building in additional capacity to accommodate higher-intensity storm events or increased average precipitation associated with climate change.
Report on compliance and make better decisions
Easily integrated into SCADA systems, SmartCapture’s CMAC functionality mitigates risk and reduces the asset management burden for owners and municipalities, while its online portal provides real-time monitoring and reporting to support regulatory compliance and improve infrastructure management decisions.
SmartCapture’s online platform provides real-time reporting and data on system conditions and operation, enabling owners to understand system performance, report on regulatory compliance, and make confident, data-driven decisions about future stormwater infrastructure management and investment.
How it works
- Sense: Integrated level sensors, rainfall, and real-time weather forecasts collect and combine real-world data
- Decide: Cloud-based algorithms determine the optimal release/retention strategy to meet specified stormwater management objectives
- Control: Smart actuated valves regulate discharge to maximize storage capacity and efficiency
Features
- Integrated stormwater CMAC module
Reduces procurement, construction and schedule costs by preventing the need for external or separate stormwater CMAC infrastructure.
- Water level sensor
Real-time feedback on storage volume ensures optimization, resiliency, and compliance.
- Climate monitoring
Enables proactive control based on forecast conditions, not just reactive level triggers.
- Easy, flexible system configuration
Modular vault system with customizable heights allows endless flexibility, while over 90 different software configuration settings are available to control discharge rate and timing of flows.
- System mappings to meet real-world requirements
Pre-storm drawdown can free up storage volume; dynamic flow modulation responds in real time to storm conditions; failsafe mode maximizes flow to accommodate extreme storm events.
- Solar power option
Solar panels enable off-grid installation.
Technical information
- Storage vault module material: precast concrete
- Storage vault module dimensions: L 16 ft x W 8 ft x D 2–14 ft *
- Minimum vault cover requirement: 6 in
- Outflow control device: actuated valve integrated into storage vault
- Control panel: L 22 in x W 18 in x D 10 in Standard Panel or L 8.5 in x W 7.25 in x D 10.5 in Monitoring Panel
- Power: 120V AC line or L 32 in x W 62 in x 2 in 24V DC solar panel
* These are the dimensions of a single storage vault module; multiple modules may be combined to achieve the desired total storage volume
About Opti
Our technology partner Opti is the leading provider of digital adaptive stormwater control solutions.
With over 300 deployments to date, Opti empowers customers and partners to address the impacts of climate change, aging infrastructure, urbanization, and water pollution, enabling them to secure the sustainability of our communities and natural resources.
Opti’s cloud-based platform optimizes stormwater asset performance through instant actionable insights to provide economic savings, resilient solutions, and peace of mind.
With their commitment to innovation, they are driving a resilient and brighter future for all.
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