Thursday, December 10, 2009

EPIC Engineering & Consulting Group to Provide Advanced Data Analysis System Services to South Florida Water Management District

ORLANDO --- EPIC Engineering & Consulting Group, LLC, recently won a major contract to provide advanced data analysis system (ADAS) implementation services to the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD). EPIC is a member of the KISTERS North America team that was selected for this project.

“We are developing components to integrate the South Florida Water Management District’s Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system and other key District data sources with KISTERS’ data analysis software,” Chittaluru explained.

The ADAS will be a new component of the overall Water Management System envisioned by SFWMD to provide real-time and historical hydro-meteorological data and data processing and evaluation tools to the District’s SCADA& Hydro Data Management Department. The data will as also be centrally accessible for the District’s various departments, cooperating agencies, and the public. The ADAS will address the increasing demands for more real-time data, remove the inefficiencies associated with legacy systems, and support the projected expansion of environmental restoration projects.

Prasad Chittaluru, chief executive officer at EPIC Engineering & Consulting, LLC, said the firm is working with KISTERS North America, the U.S. division of the industry-leading German software provider that specializes in large-scale data management for water, air quality, and energy regulatory agencies.

The South Florida Water Management District manages and protects water resources that serve more than 7.5 million residents in the South Florida region, and serves as the lead agency restoring America's Everglades.

“This effort is a critical one for the SFWMD's future and we are proud to play a key role in developing the District’s data management program,” said Chittaluru.

EPIC Engineering & Consulting Group is a client company of the University of Central Florida’s Business Incubation Program located at Central Florida Research Park in southeast Orlando.
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For more information about this release contact:
Prasad Chittaluru, Ph.D., P.E. BCEE, GISP, EPIC Engineering & Consulting Group, LLC; 407-415-6522; Prasad@epicgroupllc.com

Carol Ann Dykes, Site Manager, UCF Business Incubation Program, 407-882-0211, cdykes@mail.ucf.edu

Larry Vershel or Beth Payan, Larry Vershel Communications, 407-644-4142 or LvershelCo@aol.com

About EPIC Engineering & Consulting Group, LLC:
EPIC Engineering & Consulting Group, LLC (EPIC) is a Central Florida-based Engineering and IT Consulting firm. EPIC provides solutions that enable their clients to do more with less. Some of the most critical issues faced by government agencies, nonprofits and businesses are improving operational efficiency and customer service while still accommodating growth, demonstrating environmental stewardship and meeting regulatory requirements. Whether providing an efficient facility plan and design, an innovative program management plan, an effective project controls solution, a leading-edge web/GIS application or a targeted data management system, an efficient facility plan/design or an innovative program management plan, EPIC's solutions save their clients time and money.

About the UCF Business Incubation Program:
Since its founding in 1999, the UCF Business Incubation Program has helped more than 130 emerging companies (including nearly 80 current clients) create over $500 million in annual revenue and more than 1600 new jobs with an average salary of $59,000. With six facilities across the Greater Orlando community, the Incubation Program is a collaboration in economic development between the University of Central Florida, Orange County, the City of Orlando, Seminole County, the City of Winter Springs, Lake County, the City of Leesburg and the Florida High Tech Corridor Council. For more information, please visit www.incubator.ucf.edu.